OFFICIAL GUESTS

Directors

Shinichi "Nabeshin" Watanabe

Nabeshin is a maverick anime director, producer and voice actor in the Japanese anime scene. Known for his unmistakable afro hair and bright-red jacket, he is famous for frequent cameo appearances as himself in his own anime. Nabeshin made his debut as a director with Hare Tokidoki Buta (U.S. title: Tokyo Pig) in 1997 and is perhaps most famous for Excel Saga (1999 - 2000), which is still known to this day as a legendary over-the-top adaptation of the original manga. Other titles he directed include Lupin III: The Columbus Files (1999), Puni Puni Poemy (2001), Tenchi Muyo! GXP (2002), Nerima Daikon Brothers (2006) and The Wallflower (2006 - 2007)

Voice Actors

Christopher Ayres

Christopher Ayres has been working professionally in theatre, television and film since the age of 6. His work has been seen Regionally, Nationally and on Broadway. He currently works as a Voice Actor for ADV Films and FUNimation Entertainment, and has recently started working as an ADR Director for ADV Films. His first project for the studio is the hit anime musical comedy The Nerima Daikon Brothers. Chris is also one of the Anime industry voice actors who sings on Voices for Peace. He is very proud to be a part of the "Voices For..." organization. Chris also works as a professional fight director and has enjoyed bringing his workshop "Mock Combat for Cosplay" to many conventions. You can learn more about Chris by visiting his website www.christopherayres-va.com.

Greg Ayres

Greg Ayres has spent the last year rockin' his way through two new anime series. As the loud-mouthed Hideki in Nerima Daikon Brothers, and Koyuki, singing in the the band in Beck:Mongolian Chop Squad. He is also thrill to be able to add the role of Kaoru Hitachiin in Ouran High School Host club, and Abe In FUNimation's upcoming Big Windup to his list of new favorite roles. Other recent works include JR. in Xenosaga , Roan in Ragnorok The Animation, Yamazaki in Welcome to the NHK , Nowy, in Glass Fleet, and Yukinojoh Tohyama in The Wallflower.

The once "Fanboy" turned VA started working in anime a little over five years ago, and within the first two years managed to snag two of his favorite roles in anime. He was thrilled to voice the role of his favorite character Son Goku in Saiyuki. Just one year later voiced Kaworu Nagisa in the Director's Cut of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Other roles include Chrono in Chrono Crusade, Negi Springfield in Negima, Heihachi in Samurai 7, Jr. in Xenosaga:The Animation, Satoshi Hiwatari in DNAngel, Pope Alessandro XVIII in Trinity Blood, Tsuyoshi in Kodocha, Leo in Ghost Stories , Tsujido in Speed Grapher, and Gau Ban in Shadow Skill.He can also be heard in other anime titles such as Super Gals, Spiral, Macross, Mythical Detective Loki, Burst Angel , Gravion, Godanner, Pretear, Full Metal Panic, E's Otherwise and a whole lot more.

When he's not in a booth with headphones on, you can usually find him sporting headphones of another variety behind "the decks". A veteran nightclub DJ of many years, Greg has really enjoyed the opportunity of doing something else that he truly loves. From packed rooms at anime conventions, to the legendary stage of *The Knitting Factory (NYC)*, Greg never misses an opportunity to share his love of music with anyone who will listen.

Clarine Harp

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), Trinity Blood (Mary Spencer), Beck (Kayo),
Shin chan (Miss Katz), Witchblade (Asagi), Jyu-Oh-Sei (Chen) and
Claymore (Undine). Clarine can also be heard in Yu Yu Hakusho, Spiral,
Fullmetal Alchemist, Case Closed, Hell Girl, Aquarion, Desert Punk,
Origin - Spirits of the Past, Mushi-Shi, Suzuka, The Galaxy Railways,
Ghost Hunt, Peach Girl, One Piece, Save Me! Lollipop, Baki the
Grappler and Ouran High School Host Club.

Out of the booth, Clarine spends her time producing DVDs for
FUNimation, tending to her horde of rabbits and proudly spreading the
gospel of sock knitting. She is also the inspiration behind the
character Aubrey, a regular cast member on the popular web comic,
Something Positive.

Kyle Hebert

Kyle Hebert is a Los Angeles-based animation and video game voice
actor heard on Naruto (Kiba), Bleach (Aizen, Ganju), and Gurren Lagann
(Kamina).  His latest big role is Ryu on Street Fighter IV.  He is
best known as the Narrator and teen Gohan from Dragonball Z.  Other
notable roles include Ouran High School Host Club (Kazukiyo Soga),
Fullmetal Alchemist (Vato Falman), and Devil May Cry 4 (Bael, Dagon).
Kyle cohosts a podcast dedicated to news on all things geeky called
The Big Bald Broadcast.  Download episodes and keep posted on his
latest projects at www.kylehebert.com.

Brittney Karbowski

Brittney Karbowski started voice acting after being discovered playing "Janet" in a stage production of "The Rocky Horror Show." A founder at A.D.Vision films used her as an extra in an Anime called "Gantz," and the roles flooded in from there! She now has been featured in over 40 cartoons and live action voice over projects. Her characters range from 7 year old girls, to teenage heroines, to even fat old ladies and little boys! She records currently with A.D.Vision Films, Funimation Entertainment and Okratron5000.

Carli Mosier

Carli Mosier is thrilled to be making her first appearance at Anime Detour. Carli began developing her love for acting at the age of 6 and went on to graduate from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas, one of the first public schools of its kind in the nation. In 2004 she began working at ADV and has appeared in such shows as Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok, as Tsubasa Maijima, and Godannar, as Kei. More recently, Carli has been cast in such ADV titles as UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, where she played Princess Pharm, Moeyo Ken TV, as Sayoko Yamazaki, and as Febronia and various voices in Xenosaga: The Animation. Carli is probably best known for her performance as the sexy Detective Yukika in Nerima Daikon Brothers. You can also see her as the proper-and quite often chaotic-Student Council President Yuri Kurosu in Magikano. Soon, you'll be able to see Carli as Rina, the Green Pearl Princess, in Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch, recorded at Amusement Park media. Carli has also lent her vocal talents as a singer to the upcoming Voices for Tolerance album. She's also happy to announce she's recently done some work for Funimation in Evangelion and One Piece!

Carrie Savage

Carrie Savage is so happy to be able to come to Anime Detour again for 2009!! 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. the TV, “Maromi” in Paranoia Agent, “Shima” in Stellvia, "Nina" in Ultra Maniac and others such as Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, Marmalade Boy, Gankutsuo, Dear.S, GunXSword, Ergo Proxy, Girl’s Bravo, Texhnolyze, Melody of Oblivion, Tsukihime, Sakura Wars the Movie, Dangaizer 3, Aguarian Age the Movie, and Ghost Talker's Day Dream. Her Texas characters include “Mokona” in Tsubasa Chronicles, and XXX Holic, “Rihoko” in Witchblade, “Miu” in Kenichi, “Asta” in Trinity Blood, “Penny” in Shin Chan , “Solty” in Solty Rei, “Haruka” in Rumbling Hearts, “Kaede” in Shuffle, “Yuffa” in Ragnarok, and other shows such as School Rumble, Sasami, Moon Phase, Mushishi, Samarai 7, Full Metal Alchemist, Suzuka, Hell Girl, Origin “Spirits of the Past”, Ouran High School Host Club, Black Blood Brothers, Negima!, Aquarion, Xenosaga, Btx, Beet the Vandel Buster, and more that are still… “a secret” ! She has also had a fun time voicing characters in video games such as Final Fantasy 7, Suikoden 5, Tales of Legendia, Romancing Saga, The Dynasty Warriors Series, Culdcept, Rumble Roses II, and more including some that can‘t be mentioned just yet (He he he!) . She even got to be the voice of 2 “My Little Pony” toys; Baby “Skywishes” and a singing T-pot! Carrie has script adapted for such shows as School Rumble, and Shuffle, and was also lucky enough to get to direct episodes 1-4 of Shuffle, as well as just a little occasional directing on various other shows.

Carrie has a heavy background in Theater and is a very small time film actress. She also loves traveling around the world helping struggling children and adults in 3rd world countries such as Africa and the Philippines, and actually recently returned from a long awaited mission trip to Uganda, so come to her “Around the World” panels to see pictures and hear stories!

Carrie is loves Detour and is so looking forward to coming and seeing everyone again this year!! P.S. Let’s have a great charity auction again this year, we’re working on some totally rare, one of a kind items that no one else will ever, ever have a chance at again, as well as all your favorites, and some items for new shows, so save your money! I know times are tough, but that just means charity is needed more than ever, right?

Jan Scott-Frazier

an worked in the anime industry in Japan for 14 years in a variety of roles. After a weird and tumultuous animation education in Japan she went to work at Artland,. She helped open an animation studio in Bangkok, KAB, which won the Best New Company of the year award from the Thai government. She went on to open a variety of studios for other companies, training the staff in cel work or animation, in China, Vietnam, and South Korea. In all of that she worked on a lot of titles, such as Shurato (OVA) and Bubblegum Crash (OVA), Moldiver, Genocyber and SWAT Kats, Panzer Dragoon OVA. Susie-chan & Marvy (TV), games Grandstream Saga, Madou Monogatari, and Kyoushin Senki and many others. (Blah blah blah look at her website for the big list)
  She founded her own production company, TAO Corporation Ltd., in Bangkok, Thailand in 1991. then, in 1994, moved into consulting work, freelancing for the people who made Animo, (a computer assisted (2D) animation production system). In that same year Jan co-founded GENESIS Digital Publishing Company with Izumi Matsumoto (Kimagure Orange Road) where they created Comic ON, a CD-ROM manga compendium in which Jan made her manga debut with her original digital graphic novel Transcendence.    In 1995 she went to work for Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, Blood) as the president of Production I.G. USA and a producer and technical director on the Japanese side.
　In 2000, Jan moved back to the USA to work at Celsys USA on the development of the next generation of the RETAS digital production system and consulted on animation projects for Nissan, 4 Hero and others. She also worked on the translations of the manga Scryed, Psychic Academy, Here is Greenwood, Pink Sniper and the film Dead Leaves.  Most recently she produced two albums for charity for Voices For - Voices for Peace and Voices for Tolerance, which feature popular talented voice actors as vocalists with a great band and artwork by great artists. you can find more info about Voices For here. 

Media & Industry

Charlene Ingram

After first learning to operate a sewing machine when she was in the fourth grade, Charlene turned her artistic attention to cosplay in 1998. Soon, she found her place in this creative and groundbreaking hobby, going on to make well over a hundred costumes for herself and friends. Ever after so many years in the hobby, she finds anime, manga and games quite inspiring and still loves sitting down to create something new.

More so than being a cosplayer, Ms. Ingram has used her talents to work professionally as a seamstress in Las Vegas. Her works have been featured at such world famous resorts as the Aladdin, the Venetian and Tropicana as well as on the Travel Channel. She and her friends have won many major awards for their works, including "Best in Show" at both Comicon International and World-Con. Her website, www.tristencitrine.com, features tutorials and advice for cosplayers as well as a myriad of colorful pictures. She was able to take her creative hobby and turn it into a wildly successful business, acting as a co-owner and founder of CosWorx, North America's number one cosplay wig store.

When not in costume, Charlene works in the anime industry as a Brand Manager for FUNimation Entertainment helping to bring the love of Japanese animation to fans across North America. Some of the many titles she works on include Dragonaut -THE RESONANCE- , RIN ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~, Eden of the East, and Hetalia Axis Powers. She is also the writer of the "Always Be Cosplaying!" posts seen on the FUNimation blog.

Kristofer "Phade" McCormic

Kristofer "Phade" McCormic is the creator of www.AnimeMusicVideos.org, the site considered to be THE place to go when you want to know anything and everything about Anime Music Videos (AMVs). With his new family, he is stepping down as the website "go-to guy." He will be returning to Anime Detour this year bringing a whole new exciting batch of AMVs for your viewing pleasure.

Artists & Writers

Robert DeJesus

Robert DeJesus is a writer, story creator, illustrator, storyboard artist and character designer for Studio Capsule. Robert is no stranger to the anime and manga community. An Indiana born, self-taught artist, who got his first art career break when he sent an eight page short story to comic publisher, Antarctic Press in February of 1990. He has drawn manga inspired art for well over 19 years and has been published nearly all over the world. He has worked for many companies like Playstation Magazine, Marvel, Hasbro, and recently with Harper Collins Publishing.

Emily DeJesus

Emily DeJesus is a writer, editor, story creator and manager of Studio Capsule. Robert and Emily met at a convention called Anime Central and haven't been apart since that day. Emily has always enjoyed manga and anime, but never thought it could be her job. Emily has worked with Robert for over 7 years now. She helps write the web comic "How to Loathe Drawing in the Manga Style" and has just finished writing her first children's book. She enjoys the business side of working for Studio Capsule very much and is grateful that she has an opportunity to work in the manga/comics business.

Haruka

Known as a multi-talented "technician" in the industry, Haruka's screenplays are characterized by straightforward yet detailed, subtle story lines with well-built worldview. Her screenplay contributions include Milmo de Pon!, Nerima Daikon Brothers (directed by Shinichi "Nabeshin" Watanabe), Wallflower (also directed by Nabeshin) and Wallflower the Audio Drama.