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Welcome to Anime USA!
We have some exciting news! AUSA 2007 will be at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA and scheduled dates are November 16-18th. Register NOW!!!!!!!!
For those that are interested in acquiring hotel rooms, here is a link to the hotel's site.
Here is a link to our website.
Here are some pics from last year thanks to
Tristen Citrine
Tristen Citrine has been a highly active (and highly orange) Cosplayer for over seven years with no sign of slowing down. She comes from a strong creative background having worked professionally in the costuming departments for several Las Vegas productions as well as a slew of special events and fashion shows. Presently, she is an owner of the wonderfully successful Cosplay themed business, CosWorx, where she puts her talents to use by helping cosplayers find the perfect wigs and accessories for their costumes. She anxiously awaits seeing everyone's lovely costumes at AnimeUSA and getting to interact with cosplayers be it in panels or just walking around the convention.
Her website can be seen here :
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Tainted Reality is the premiere source of Japanese rock (J-Rock) entertainment in the United States. They own and operate their own internet radio network dedicated to J-Rock programming, produce 2 radio shows (Tainted Reality & Tainted Reality Talkshow), manage and organize tours for prominent J-Rock bands (BLOOD, Candy Spooky Theater), produce DVD's (Darkest Labyrinth Vol.1) and CD's (Darkest Labyrinth), and have conducted interviews with some of the biggest rock artists of Japan (Yoshiki of X Japan, Die of Dir en grey, Miyavi, Versailles).
Tainted Reality's Myspace
BACK-ON
BACK-ON's combination of metal riffs, hip-hop poses, emo angst and electronic atmospherics has seen them cause a stir of sorts in the Tokyo club scene since the five-piece first started gigging in 2002. It's a sound not dissimilar to big-selling contemporaries such as RIZE, whose member Jesse gave BACK-ON their name.
BACK-ON was originally comprised of MC TEEDA, vocalist MC KENJI03 (read as Kenji Three), guitarist SHU, bassist GORI and MACCHIN on drums (later replaced by ICCHAN). KENJI03 and GORI have been friends since childhood having attended the same primary school in Tokyo's Adachi Ward, a district that by Japanese standards is rife with crime and high-density, public-housing apartment blocks. Though Adachi isn't Compton - ghetto it most certainly ain't - this less than glamorous background is a big part of BACK-ON's identity, giving the band something approaching a genuine street edge compared to Japan's other bling-oriented rock-rap acts. BACK-ON debuted with the mini-album Adachi Tribe in October 2004. The band also contributed tracks to underground hip-hop compilations and, by the end of the year, was attracting 200 fans to club shows in Tokyo's Shibuya district. The following year BACK-ON kept the momentum going with constant touring - by the end of 2005 the band had clocked up more than 100 shows in a year - including gigs with like-minded bands such as RIZE and Screaming Soul Hill, and recording their debut major release, Baby Rock, for Avex Trax's rock-oriented subsidiary imprint label, Cutting Edge.
But it was BACK-ON's next release, the 2006 single Chain, that truly launched the band, the song receiving a boost by being chosen as the opening theme song to TV Tokyo's animate Air Gear, a series that has also been licensed in the U.S by ADV. Typically, the track featured TEEDA's rapping and a chorus sung by KENJI03. Another mini-album New World followed in November. BACK-ON kept the anime connection going in 2007 by providing the opening theme, Hikari Sasuhou, to the direct-to-video title Murder Princess and contributing the songs, A Day Dreaming and Blaze Line, to Eye Shield 21.
Help out BACK-ON and join their American Street Team
Kristine Sa
A young singer/songwriter with a sultry voice of gold, Kristine Sa immigrated to Toronto, Canada at the age of 6. Watching her older sister rise to fame as a singer in the local music industry, she harbored dreams of her own but kept them to herself. Secretly writing songs and recording them in her basement, she hid her growing talent for years. At the age of 16, she was referred by a friend to Nemesis Records, who instantly signed her. For 2 years Kristine flew back and forth between Toronto and New York on the weekends to record with Nemesis while going to high school full time. Through internet promotions and word-of-mouth, Kristine's buzz quickly grew within the Asian community, and when her debut album "I Never Knew" was released in February 2002, sales exploded and CDs were sold to fans all over the US and as far away as The UK, Taiwan, Japan and Australia. Kristine Sa has since continued to build her worldwide following with her unique brand of pop, releasing 3 full-length English language albums and a Japanese language pop remix project for Jellybean Records. On that project, entitled AnimeToonz3, Kristine sings remixes of Anime's biggest theme songs including Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Seed and Ranma 1/2. Kristine's recently released 3rd full length album "Hopeless Romantic" incorporates eastern instrumentation together with western sounds and pop sensibility to create a soundscape unlike any other. With the album singles "Don't Come Home" and "Consequence" already receiving airplay on major radio stations across the country and her new music video for "Consequence" showcasing Kristine's style, beautiful voice, poetic lyrics and catchy melodies, "Hopeless Romantic" is sure to define Kristine Sa as a worldwide pop phenomenon.
Patrick Seitz
Patrick Seitz is a Los Angeles voiceover actor, script adapter and ADR director who has been fortunate enough to work on over 80 anime and video game titles during the last few years.
Usually called upon to portray the enigmatic, the ethically ambiguous, the anguished, and occasionally the downright evil, Patrick's more prominent roles include Isshin Kurosaki in Bleach, George in Paradise Kiss, Hazel in Saiyuki Reload Gunlock, Dhaos in Tales of Phantasia, Raul in Ergo Proxy, Koshiro in Koi Kaze, Charles Beams in Eureka 7, Lee Linho in R.O.D. the TV, and Luke Valentine in Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate.
His voice also appears in Fate/Stay Night, Speed Grapher, GunXSword, Beck, Trinity Blood, Kamichu!, and Hare+Guu, to name a few.
On the video game side of the ledger, you can hear him in the likes of Valkyrie Profile 2, Time Crisis 4, Ace Combat Zero and Romancing Saga.
In addition to the voiceover work, Patrick adapted and directed the English dubs of Girls Bravo, Kamichu!, and Tales of Phantasia, and adapted about two-thirds of The Melody of Oblivion.
Patrick has a BA in Creative Writing and an MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts, both of which he received at the University of California, Riverside. Before falling down the voiceover rabbit hole, he spent two very Welcome Back, Kotteresque years teaching English at his old high school.
Brett Weaver
Brett Weaver, a voice actor from Texas who has had the pleasure of working in the industry for almost 20 years. His most notable anime roles are Nabeshin in Nerima Daikon Brothers and Excel Saga , Roy Fokker in Macross (Robotech), Go in GoDannar, Carrot in Sorcerer Hunters, Prince Jeffrey (and his father) in Slayers, Kiyoharu Gowa in Gasaraki, and Damaramu in Dragon Half.
E.K. Weaver
E. K. Weaver will also be joining us as a guest this year. She was the lovely creator and artist for the illustrated back cover of our program book last year. E.K. has incredible talent as an established artist and graphic designer. She is most known as the creator of Big Big Truck Productions and her artwork can be seen at many conventions illustrating a variety of program books, badges, and flier.
Applegeeks
Applegeeks is a bi-weekly webcomic about four college students, a Mac-obsessed robot, an imaginary squirrel, and the often crazy, always strange lives that they lead. The creative team is comprised of Ananth Panagariya (writer) and Mohammad "Hawk" Haque (artist). Applegeeks has been on the web for 3+ years, and Hawk and Ananth hope to be here for years to come.
