Hidetaka Tenjin – Guest of Honor

Hidetaka Tenjin – Guest of Honor

Hidetaka Tenjin works primarily as an illustrator, designer and concept artist and has provided illustrations for model kits ranging from Hasegawa’s MACROSS line to BANDAI SPIRITS’ GUNDAM and STAR WARS lines. In the field of anime, some of his most notable...
Broken By The Scream – Guest of Honor

Broken By The Scream – Guest of Honor

Broken By The Scream are screaming metal idols. With songs that exquisitely intertwine authentic death voices and clean vocals, they continue to put their all into performing not only in Japan but all over the world, including America, Europe, and Asia, creating large...
SANA – Guest of Honor

SANA – Guest of Honor

SANA TAKIZAWA was born in a beautiful four-season country and sought sounds from words and landscapes that resonated with the heart. His music, originally created for himself, eventually began to resonate with the world. During overseas performances, he played the...
Kaho Shibuya – Guest of Honor

Kaho Shibuya – Guest of Honor

Content Creator, Anisong DJ, Singer, and Published Author Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Kaho has been making waves on the cosplay and convention scene. She has hosted her own radio show, has released multiple music singles, and is an accomplished author as well....
Ezra Weisz – Toastmaster / Guest of Honor

Ezra Weisz – Toastmaster / Guest of Honor

Welcome to ALA 19 I am so glad you made it. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ezra Weisz and I am your Toastmaster. I am so excited to be spending the entire convention with you. You are probably reading this little introduction in your hotel room or...
Andrew Alandy – Program Host

Andrew Alandy – Program Host

Andrew J. Alandy is a host, actor, competitive gamer, and singer hailing from Los Angeles, CA. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Andrew has delivered his talent to multiple events covering various events and fandoms. He has hosted at various...
Utahime Cosplay – Program Host

Utahime Cosplay – Program Host

Utahime is a host, professional cosplayer, and TTRPG performer. She has been a featured guest, host, and cosplay competition judge at numerous comic book and anime conventions across the country. Utahime’s cosplays have been featured in various media outlets...
Victor Frost – Program Host

Victor Frost – Program Host

Victor Frost has worked as a professional audio engineer for the last fifteen years with organizations big and small. Being a performer at heart, he has lectured at geeky conventions all over the United States on a wide variety of subjects but, most frequently, on the...
Emma Fyffe – Program Host

Emma Fyffe – Program Host

A Judge for Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards 2024, Emma Fyffe is a gaming, entertainment, and pop-culture pundit and host, seen on broadcasts across the internet. Previous credits include hosting ‘The Download’ on VENN, ‘Um, Actually’ on...
Chris Tergliafera – Guest of Honor

Chris Tergliafera – Guest of Honor

Chris Tergliafera moved out to Los Angeles three days after graduating from the University of North Carolina and immediately found himself on a desk in TV Development at USA Network. After a few years of answering phones and being told daily he should be doing voice...
Caitlin Glass – Guest of Honor

Caitlin Glass – Guest of Honor

A voice actress and ADR director, best known for the role of Winry Rockbell in the Fullmetal Alchemist franchise, Caitlin has been working in the anime industry since 2004. Caitlin was the ADR director for the English dub of the fan-favorite, Ouran High School Host...
Tara Sands – Guest of Honor

Tara Sands – Guest of Honor

Tara Jayne Sands can be heard as over 50 characters in the original English Pokemon tv series including Bulbasaur, Richie, Jasmine, Oddish, Yamper and Tori. Some other roles include Biscuit in HunterXHunter, Mokuba in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Kari in Digimon Adventure Tri, Anna in...
Kari Wahlgren – Guest of Honor

Kari Wahlgren – Guest of Honor

Kari Wahlgren’s first role was the Vespa-riding Haruko in FLCL. Since then, Wahlgren has voiced numerous anime characters including Fuu in SAMURAI CHAMPLOO, Saber in FATE STAY/NIGHT, Celty in DURARARA, Kagami in LUCKY STAR, Anemone in EUREKA SEVEN, Tayuya in NARUTO,...
Zack Davisson – Featured Guest

Zack Davisson – Featured Guest

Zack Davisson is an award-winning translator, writer, and folklorist. He is the author of Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan, Yurei: the Japanese Ghost, Amabie: Past and Present, and Yokai Stories, and translator of Shigeru Mizuki’s multiple Eisner...
Ariem Cosplay – Featured Guest

Ariem Cosplay – Featured Guest

Ariem is a Cosplayer, Seamstress, Fabricator, Content Creator, MUA, and Designer based in Los Angeles. Starting in 2013 Ariem learned to be extremely resourceful and budget conscious in the face of a mostly unattainable goal to cosplay at the time. Ariem vigorously...
Amber May – Featured Guest

Amber May – Featured Guest

“Amber “FoxyVox” May is an African American Voiceover Artist who is known for her work in animation, video games, announcements, and interactive children’s toys. She is a native of Richmond,Virginia, who now resides in Los Angeles,CA. Amber grew up in...
Akakioga Cosplay – Featured Guest

Akakioga Cosplay – Featured Guest

Akakioga is an internationally recognized cosplayer with a passion for creating costumes from all different forms of media. With a love of working with her hands, she has become a self taught powerhouse that truly enjoys everything craftsmanship! Whether it be sewing,...
Austin Lee Matthews – Featured Guest

Austin Lee Matthews – Featured Guest

Austin Lee Matthews is a non-binary, California-based voice actor, director, artist, musician, writer and everyone’s best friend. A warm-hearted, life-long entertainer who lives to make you smile. With an extremely versatile, multi-octave vocal range, Austin has...
Mark Allen, Jr. – Featured Guest

Mark Allen, Jr. – Featured Guest

Mark Allen Jr. is an American actor and director who specializes in voice over. He has been a professional in the industry since 2007. He can be heard as Ukyo Saionji in DR. STONE, Wataru Kuon in BLUELOCK, Seiichi Hiiragi in The Fruit of Evolution, Yota Narukami in...
Kayleigh McKee – Featured Guest

Kayleigh McKee – Featured Guest

Kayleigh is a decorated Voice Actress, Worldbuilder, and Artist from a cornfield in Illinois. She is best known for playing the fan favorite character Yuta Okkotsu in the hit anime movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0, as Pina in Netflix’s highly successful BEASTARS, and as...
Lizzie Freeman – Featured Guest

Lizzie Freeman – Featured Guest

Lizzie Freeman is an LA based voice actress who was born in Oklahoma. A cat and coffee enthusiast and lover of all things cute, she began her career in 2012 working on indie titles like “Dust: An Elysian Tail” and online animations. After making the move...
Lemar Harris – Featured Guest

Lemar Harris – Featured Guest

Lemar Harris, the multi-talented force known as LemarTheConGuy, has left an indelible mark on the entertainment and convention scenes. His creative prowess shines through his development of interactive panels at premier events such as Anime Los Angeles, Anime Expo,...
Christopher Niosi “Kirbopher” – Featured Guest

Christopher Niosi “Kirbopher” – Featured Guest

Chris Niosi (known on the internet as “Kirbopher”) is a Creator, Animation Artist, Writer and Voiceover Actor living in Los Angeles. You might know him as the voice behind Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100), Shaiapouf (Hunter X Hunter), Karna (Faye...
Midnight Pursona (Kalika Evans) – Featured Guest

Midnight Pursona (Kalika Evans) – Featured Guest

Midnight Pursona is an award-winning competitive cosplayer out of Las Vegas, NV. For 12+ years, Midnight has been bringing entertainment and joy through her masquerede skits and TikTok videos. She enjoys creating unique make-up looks and creating designs and costumes...
Evil Ted (Ted Smith) – Featured Guest

Evil Ted (Ted Smith) – Featured Guest

Evil Ted worked in the movie industry doing visual effects, prop, and model making for 30 years. He worked on films and television shows such as Fifth Element, Guyver, Titanic, Hunger Games, Xena Warrior Princess, and Criminal Minds. He’s known around the world for...
Artemis Ai – Masquerade Judge

Artemis Ai – Masquerade Judge

Artemis Ai is a transgender cosplayer of Master-level from Salt Lake City, Utah. He started cosplay with his best friend in middle school; today, as Nostalgic Ai Cosplay, they still cosplay together, as a married couple as well as best friends. His crafting fortes...
Cowbutt Crunchies Cosplay – Masquerade Judges

Cowbutt Crunchies Cosplay – Masquerade Judges

Cowbutt Crunchies Cosplay is an internationally acclaimed LGBTQ+ couple who specializes in couture cosplay, education, and incredible pop culture design. Always pushing the envelope of creativity, their experimental mixed media builds feature a wide mastery of unique...
Edward Bosco – Featured Guest

Edward Bosco – Featured Guest

Edward is originally from Chicago, IL and his first professional voice over job came in 2010 when he provided the voice for Eddie in the Xbox Live Arcade game Sequence. Since that time he has lent his voice to the Alastor in the pilot of Hazbin Hotel, Striker in...