Guests of Honor

Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Garrland, Texas, JOHNNY YONG BOSCH is a successful television actor, anime voice actor, and musician. He is best known for portraying Adam Park, in the once highly popular series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Johnny has also made subsequent appearance in some of the later Power Ranger series, including Power Rangers: Zeo, Power Rangers: Turbo, Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers and Power Rangers: In Space.

Some time after Power Rangers, the Shaolin Kung Fu practicing Johnny met and married his current wife Amy Bosch and in 2000 he entered the world of anime voiceovers. His first voiceover was his most famous thus far, Vash the Stampede in the acclaimed anime series Trigun. From there, Johnny went on to do numerous other main roles in anime while continuing in his alternative rock band called "Eyeshine". Some of his other anime roles include (but are not limited to) Renton Thurston in Eureka 7, Maiku Kamishiro in Please Twins, Haruto Sakaki in Witch Hunter Robin, Kiba in Wolf's Rain, and most recently Ichigo Kurosaki in the immensely popular anime Bleach, and at the same time doing the voice of Leloush Vi Brittania of another anime Code Geass: Leloush of the Rebellion. He was also the voice of Kuhn in the second dot. hack series of games, Dot. Hack G.U. (biography from TV.com)


MAJA is an American lyricist who shares our love and fascination for things like Japanese animation, video games, and the Japanese language. His style has been described as "a breath of fresh air." He rhymes in three different languages: Spanish, Japanese, and English, a fusion he calls Janglish Speak. He is a lover of languages, and writes in whatever language inspires him at that time. His influences range from classic acts like Jay-Z to abstract and avant-garde artists like Utada Hikaru and Bjork. His web site is at URL http://www.newschoolhiphop.com


MEREDITH PLACKO Meredith Placko is a model and actress with a passion for costuming. She has been attending and entertaining guests at conventions for nearly 10 years now. Having gone to school for Fashion Design, Meredith enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience at conventions across the country. She has a myriad of costumes ranging in genres from anime/manga, comic books, video games, tv/film to her own colorful creations. You can see more of her works at http://notthegeeknextdoor.com.


EYESHINE is a four piece, "edge rock" band originating in West Hills, California. We should probably add something cool in this bio about "how promising we sound" but we'd be lying. Maybe you should just come check us out and let us know what you think. If we suck, please don't throw tomatoes - we prefer a bag of Peanut M&M's, Skittles or Money (unmarked). Hopefully you'll like us and want to be our BFF. Members include Johnny, Maurice, Eddie, and Tori.
www.eyeshine.net
www.myspace.com/eyeshine

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