Yū Asakawa is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan. She also provides the voice samples for Crypton Future Media's Vocaloid character, Megurine Luka. Asakawa is currently a freelance voice actress and was previously attached to Arts Vision.
Brock, known as Takeshi (タケシ) in Japan, is a fictional character in the Pokémon franchise owned by Nintendo. In the Pokémon video games, he is the Gym Leader of Pewter City in the Kanto region and mainly uses Rock-type Pokémon. In the anime series, Ash first battles him and then invites Brock to accompany him on his journey so that Brock can become a Pokémon breeder. He exited the series at some point, replaced by Tracey Sketchit, due to worries that people may find him to be a racial stereotype due to his thin eyes. However, when the company noticed that no one complained, they reintroduced him. He has generally been well-received, with fans of the anime happy whenever he is brought back into the series.
Madeleine Joan Blaustein, also known as Kendra Bancroft, was an American voice actress and comic writer who was known for her voice acting work for 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video and NYAV Post, for her reprising role as the character Meowth from the Pokémon anime series and for comics written for Milestone Comics, in which she introduced one of superhero comics' first transgender female characters. She was the first intersex and transgender voice artist for many of her respective agencies.
Hitomi Nabatame is a Japanese actress and singer who is affiliated with Ken Production. She sang the opening themes for Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu under the name "Miran Himemiya and Chocolate Rockers".
Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew is a 2005 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and produced by OLM, Inc. It is the eighth installment of the Pokémon film series. The film stars the voices of Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Ōtani Yūji Ueda, Kaori, Fushigi Yamada, Megumi Hayashibara, Shin-ichiro Miki, Inuko Inuyama, Daisuke Namikawa, Satomi Kōrogi, Takeshi Aono, Noriko Hidaka, Kōichi Yamadera, Kumiko Okae, Momoko Kikuchi, and Becky. It was released in theaters in Japan on July 16, 2005, followed by the Japanese DVD and VHS releases on December 22, 2005.
Ikki Tousen, also known as Battle Vixens in North America, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūji Shiozaki. Loosely based on the classic 14th century Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the series revolves around an all-out turf war in the Kantō region of Japan where fighters known as Tōshi from seven schools battle for supremacy. The story centers on Hakufu Sonsaku, a fighter who transfers to Nanyo Academy, one of the seven schools involved in the turf war.
Edmund Paul Lewis, better known as Ted Lewis, is an American voice actor who does work for 4K Media Inc, Central Park Media, TAJ Productions, DuArt Film and Video and NYAV Post. He primarily works as an anime dub voice actor, and is best known as the voices of King Dedede and Escargoon from Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Ryo Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, and Jack Atlas from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. In 2018, Lewis won two Behind the Voice Actors Awards, both for 'Best Vocal Ensemble in an Anime Feature Film/Special', though one was a People's Choice award.
Rachael Lillis was an American voice actress. She was best known for her performances as Misty, Jessie, and Jigglypuff in the first eight seasons of the English dub of the TV series Pokémon. In addition to voice roles in other animation works, she also provided voices for many video games.
Jessica Calvello is an American voice actress and production assistant primarily known for her anime voiceover work and also known for her non-anime voice work on a number of animated shorts. Some of her more well known roles are Excel in Excel Saga, Nanael in Queen's Blade, Kanako Miyamae in Maria Holic, Zoe Hange in Attack on Titan and Honey Kisaragi in New Cutey Honey, in which she was personally cast by the creator of the Cutey Honey franchise, Go Nagai, a role that Calvello describes as her most cherished and honored accomplishment.
Michael McConnohie is an American voice actor, writer and director who has provided many voice roles in movies, anime, and video games. He and fellow actress Melodee Spevack run a production company called VoxWorks. For twenty-plus years he has been the voice of the Lich King, Uther the Lightbringer and Kel'Thuzad in the World of Warcraft iterations. Other notable career roles include the Narrator on both Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Hunter x Hunter, The Necromancer in Diablo II, Azulongmon, Cherrymon and Seppikmon in Digimon, Gork in Masked Rider, Keiichi Ikari in Paranoia Agent, Rolf Emerson in Robotech, Manzou the Saw in Samurai Champloo, Cosmos and Tracks in Transformers, Hot Shot / Ironhide in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, D in Vampire Hunter D, Chief Inquisitor Margulis in Xenosaga and Charles zi Britannia in Code Geass.
Carol Jacobanis is an American voice actress. She is mostly known her voice roles in the English dubs for Japanese anime. Her work has been for New York–based recording studios such as Headline Studios, Central Park Media, TAJ Productions, 4Kids Entertainment, NYAV Post and DuArt Film and Video. She has also appeared in live-action television and film projects.
Hunter MacKenzie Austin is an American voice actress. In teen life, she was a magazine journalist of Tiger Beat, Glamour and LA Weekly.
Keith Burgess is an American voice actor. He voiced Akuma in Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation and Street Fighter Alpha: Generations. He also loaned his voice in the two anime movies Evangelion: Death and Rebirth, The End of Evangelion and Karas: The Prophecy. He was a staff member for Manga Entertainment Inc. He has played Street Fighter IV, when he appeared at FanimeCon 2009, challenging Reuben Langdon at the game.
Justin M. Gross is an American voice actor. Gross is best known as the voice of Arthas Menethil in Warcraft III, Ryu Hayabusa in the Ninja Gaiden games, and Steve Rogers/Captain America in the Ultimate Avengers series. He has also voiced thousands of media projects such as television and radio commercials, show narrations, promos, websites and B2B videos. Gross currently resides in Grass Valley, California, where he works primarily from his home studio. He graduated from Sonoma State University.
Megan Taylor Harvey is an American voice actress who is known for providing voices for English dubs of anime for New Generation Pictures and NYAV Post.
Jessica Straus is an American voice actress who works in animation, video games and anime. She has provided voices for several video games, most notably as Juri in Super Street Fighter IV, Pi in .hack//GU//Rebirth and Hiroko Hagakure from Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. In anime, she is known as the voice of Taruto from Magical Meow Meow Taruto, Blue from Wolf's Rain, Junko Miyaji from FLCL, Deunan Knute from the Appleseed movie, Mokaku from the Battle Vixens series and Gidget from Eureka Seven.
Michele Knotz is an American voice actress who works for New York City-based studios, including TAJ Productions, Headline Sound, and Central Park Media.
Media Factory, formerly known as Media Factory, Inc., was a Japanese publisher and brand company of Kadokawa Future Publishing.
Michael B. Pollock is an American voice actor and former radio personality, best known for being the voice of Doctor Eggman and Gerald Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise since 2003. He has voiced numerous characters in various anime English dubs, video games, and other animated works as a freelancer.
