Guests

Blake Shepard is a voice actor and animator. After working on several animated shorts for Anime Network he is currently working on an independent animated series for 2010. Some of his voice rolls in anime include: Kazuki Shikimori in Maburaho, Gilgamesh as Tatsuya/Terumichi Madoka, Air Gear as Agito/Akito Wanijima, and Moeyo Ken (TV) as Ryuunosuke Sakamoto. Madlax as Maurice Lopez, Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu as Fuwa, Full Metal Panic!

【MEMBERS】
Vo. Ryouga
Gt. K
Gt. Ray
Ba. KIFUMI
Dr. TOMO
Beginning activities in 2007 as “D&L”, the band gave two live performances in America and in the spring of last year re-invented themselves as “born”. With exquisite melodies that are entwined with a hard sound, born’s music is let loose during their wild lives which are creating waves on the indies scene.

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Buranden has taken Japan by storm. His upbeat, melodic and driving songs shattered expectations at the Kansai Music Conference in Osaka this September, and continued to dazzle audiences at subsequent performances in Sendai and Tokyo. He is a bilingual singer-songwriter with a classically-trained, smooth but powerful voice who crafts moving, yet energizing tracks. Touching on the East and the West, his music unites them to create electronically charged Pop.

Carrie Savage is super excited to be able to come back to Oni-con for another year! Carrie has voiced many anime characters: from California she has voiced such characters as "Fuko" in I, My, Me! Strawberry Eggs, "Rakka" in Haibane Renmei, “Hakufu” in Ikki Tousen, “Nancy Makuhari” in R.O.D.

Since 2001, Christopher Bevins has recorded, directed, produced, acted in and/or written scripts for over 60 anime series, movies and specials. His directing credits include BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad (with Taliesin Jaffe), Witchblade, El Cazador de la Bruja, Samurai 7, Speed Grapher, Burst Angel, Spiral and Dragon Ball GT, as well as episodes of Gunslinger Girl, Case Closed and Big Windup!

Clarine Harp was first cast by FUNimation Entertainment in 2003 to give life to the character of Tweedledee in Kiddy Grade. Since then, Clarine’s talents have been featured in a broad range of roles: Burst Angel (Sei), Akira Kurosawa's Samurai 7 (Sanae), Speed Grapher (Ginza), Negima (Kaede), Shin chan (Miss Katz), Witchblade (Asagi), Jyu-Oh-Sei (Chen) and Claymore (Undine). Clarine can also be heard in Trinity Blood, Beck, Romeo x Juliet, Kaze no Stigma, Yu Yu Hakusho, Spiral, Fullmetal Alchemist, Case Closed, Evangelion 1.0, Hell Girl, Aquarion, Desert Punk, Origin - Spirits of the Past, Mushi-Shi, Suzuka, Ouran High School Host Club, Ghost Hunt, Peach Girl, Sgt. Frog, One Piece, Save Me! Lollipop, Baki the Grappler and The Galaxy Railways.

Echostream’s music is a dark and brooding film for your ears. Mixing electronica textures and guitar-driven riffs, the band works hard to occupy two worlds at once: angst and beauty. Fueled by Ryoko’s haunting voice, the destructive guitars and angry beats create a cacophony of sound that pushes ever onward. The overall result suspends you at one place in time: your most personal, tragic, memory.

Echostream has racked up a lot of credit around the eastern half of the nation.

Elize has been involved with music for several years and has a knack for picking up just about anything and learning how to play it, from piano, to harp, to flutes and singing she knows how to make music that's pleasing to the ears! She's been involved in working with several people in the music industry, studio work and sound engineering. She began cosplaying a few years back and since then never really gave up the hobby, attending conventions, winning several contests and after a while decided to turn to performing instead of competing!

Reveur has been involved with music as well from a young age, training hard for performances and never leaving anyone disappointed! She's also a long time costumer, participating in many of the same contests as Elize, going to neck to neck to win but eventually decided it would be best if they both worked together to perform songs as a duo!

They'll be releasing a demo CD this year at Onicon, after so much demand from last year, so look forward to some great things from this amazing duo!

Jerry Jewell has been voicing characters for Funimation since 2001.
He can be heard as:
Kyo Sohma (Fruits Basket), Jimmy Kudo (Case Closed), Taira (Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad),
Barry the chopper (Full Metal Alchemist), Happiness Bunny (Shin-Chan), Rin Tsuchimi (Shuffle),
Zellman Clock (Black Blood Brothers), Tony Frost (Blue Gender), Suzaku (Yu Yu Hakusho),
Jin (Yu Yu Hakusho), Akito Hayama (Kodocha), Vino/Claire (Baccano)
His voice can also be heard in Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball GT, Black Cat, One Piece, Tsubasa, Trinity Blood and a lot of other things that he may or may not remember or admit.