Guests

Masters of Ceremonies!

His voice can also be heard in Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball GT, Black Cat, One Piece, Tsubasa, Trinity Blood and a lot of other things that he may or may not remember or admit.

Jerry is very honored to have had the opportunity to work with a very talented and dedicated group of people at FUNimation, that take the quality of what they do very seriously.

When Jerry isn't working for FUNimation, he may be found on the road with his band, Peach Truck Republic.

Guests of Honor!

Jonathan Klein is the Vice-President and co-owner of New Generation Pictures, Inc., based in Beverly Hills. His company produces the English language versions of some of the most popular anime and videogames in the United States and Japan.  New Generation Pictures has worked on hundreds of different projects, for both U.S. and international release, including such popular anime as; Hellsing, Gun x Sword, Kamichu, R.O.D the TV, Ikki Tousen, NieA Under 7, 3x3 Eyes and many other titles.  In addition, Jonathan has been the director of the English language versions of such anime titles as Ergo-Proxy, Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze, Melody of Oblivion and Satoshi Kon’s Paranoia Agent.  His company has recently continued work on dubbing the fan-favorite Hellsing Ultimate for Funimation.

Besides anime, Jonathan has also produced and/or directed many video game projects for Square Enix, Capcom, Namco & other companies including; Street Fighter IV & Super Street Fighter IV, Marvel & Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Street Fighter x Tekken, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy: The Crystal Bearers, Final Fantasy; Chocobo’s Dungeon, Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, Rune Factory 3, Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny, Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Infinite Undiscovery, The Last Remnant, Time Crisis 4, Dawn of Mana, Valkyrie Profile 2, and Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume. Jonathan has also been working with Marvel Comics & Zen Studios on series of videogames based on characters such as The Fantastic Four, Captain America, Hulk, Ghost Rider, Moon Knight, Thor, X-Men & The Avengers. Beyond working as producer and director, Jonathan's responsibilities also include scriptwriting, script adaptation and even working behind the microphone as a voice actor. Jonathan has voice acted in such anime & videogames as Final Fantasy IV, Star Ocean IV, Rune Factory 3, Ergo Proxy, Rumiko Takahashi Anthology, Kamichu, Girls Bravo, Gun x Sword, Burst Angel, Galaxy Railways and Beck.  More recently, his company has expanded their offices into Shanghai, China where they also do work for international clients on movies, videogames, anime and commercial projects.

In addition to Jonathan’s work in Anime & Videogames he is the co-founder of Anime Charity Auctions, an organization dedicated to help raise money for worthwhile charitable causes.  Anime Charity Auctions donates rare and unusual autographed items from anime and videogames to be auctioned off at various anime & science fiction conventions.  All the proceeds raised from the auction are donated to the not-for-profit charity that the convention sponsors.   Jonathan will be co-sponsoring and hosting the charity auction event for Anime Vegas this year.

For more information on New Generation Pictures, please visit www.newgenerationpictures.com

Justin Cook began his career in anime with FUNimation in 2000 as an ADR engineer for Dragon Ball Z.  He has since progressed through the ranks to attain his current position as Line Producer and ADR Director for Dragon Ball, Yu Yu Hakusho, Fruits Basket, and Kiddy Grade.

Justin’s success as a director, in part, is due to his understanding of voice acting - What it feels like to be in the booth.  Among others, he has to his credit Raditz in the top-selling video game DBZ: Budokai, Super Buu and Dende from Dragon Ball Z, Yusuke and Puu in Yu Yu Hakusho, Hatsaharu from Fruits Basket, and Cesirio in Kiddy Grade.

Musical Performers!

To Be Announced!

Programming Guests!

Panda Cubed is a convention panel group out of Phoenix. We travel to different conventions and try to have fun, inform and entertain. We don't take ourselves that seriously so never should you. We're just a group of fans who like to do panels. Visit us at www.pandacubed.com for more information about the fun things we do!