Anime Boston 2018 Unveils 6th Round of North American Guests


Source: Anime Boston
Summary:

Anime Boston announced that voice actors J. Michael Tatum and Brandon McInnis will attend this year’s convention as guests.

Tatum has been active in the industry since 2005. He’s played numerous fan-favorite characters through his career, including Ouran High School Host Club‘s Kyoya Otori, Black Butler‘s Sebastian, and Steins;Gate‘s Rintarou Okabe.

McInnis has been cast in numerous major roles in video games and anime, including The Lord of the Rings Online‘s Frodo Baggins, Heroic Legend of Arslan‘s Merland, and Nanbaka‘s Samon Gokū.


Anime Boston announced that voice actors J. Michael Tatum and Brandon McInnis will attend this year’s convention as guests.

Tatum has been active in the industry since 2005. He’s played numerous fan-favorite characters through his career, including Ouran High School Host Club‘s Kyoya Otori, Black Butler‘s Sebastian, and Steins;Gate‘s Rintarou Okabe.

McInnis has been cast in numerous major roles in video games and anime, including The Lord of the Rings Online‘s Frodo Baggins, Heroic Legend of Arslan‘s Merland, and Nanbaka‘s Samon Gokū.

Anime Boston 2018 announces its sixth round of North American guests

Voice Actors J. Michael Tatum and Brandon McInnis  to appear at the Northeast’s largest anime convention

Boston – Anime Boston, the largest anime convention in New England, announced its sixth round of North American guests of honor today.  Voice Actors J. Michael Tatum and Brandon McInnis will be appearing at Anime Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Mass, on March 30 through April 1, 2018.

J. Michael Tatum was nurtured on anime classics including Star Blazers, et al. This reclusive fanboy-turned-voice actor/writer/ADR director/flake extraordinaire spent more years than he cares to remember in what might charitably be called free-fall before landing, mostly by accident, smack dab on the industry of his dreams. To this day, some believe the small crater made by the impact remains the source of his power.

Discovered by Funimation warhorse Christopher Bevins, who cast him as Rikichi in 2005’s Samurai 7, Tatum’s inexplicable luck has held long enough to see his flag hoisted on a slew of dream roles, most notably Kyoya Otori in Ouran High School Host Club, suave, demonic Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler, France in the Hetalia franchise, Tomoe from Kamisama Kiss, and the equal parts maniacal/vulnerable Okarin Rintarou from Steins;Gate. More Recently, Tatum can be heard in the epic My Hero Academia as Teyna Iida.

Brandon McInnis is a voice, stage, and film actor who has worked as a translator and interpreter in Japan.

Credits include Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings Online, Keita Amano in Gamers!, Samon Gokū in NANBAKA, Horatio Kojas in Knight’s & Magic, Corteo in 91 Days, Sōnosuke Izayoi in Danganronpa 3, Dr. Love in ēlDLIVE, Patrick Phelps in Black Butler, Ryūji in Shōnen Maid, Ken Sudō in Classroom of the Elite, Merlane in Heroic Legend of Arslan, Hideyori Toyotomi in Samurai Warriors, Atsushi Toushirō in Touken Ranbu, Alain Lernier in Joker Game, Erlang Shen in SMITE, Bartholomew in CONfessionals, and more.

Previously announced guests include FLOW, Asaka, Greg Ayres, Monica Rial, Hideyuki Tomioka, Katsuyuki Sumizawa, Hirokatsu Kihara, Michihiko Suwa, Kaoru Wada, Kaiji Tang, Josh Grelle, Amanda C. Miller, Jez Roth, Rachel Robinson, and Christopher Bevins.

About Anime Boston: With nearly 26,000 attendees in 2017, Anime Boston is an annual three-day Japanese animation convention held in Boston, Mass. Anime Boston 2018 is scheduled for Friday, March 30 through Sunday, April 1 at the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel. More information about Anime Boston can be found at http://www.animeboston.com.

About New England Anime Society, Inc.: The New England Anime Society was founded in 2001. Based in Massachusetts, The New England Anime Society, Inc. is the parent organization of Anime Boston and is dedicated to furthering public education and understanding of the Japanese language and culture through visual and written media. More information about The New England Anime Society is available at http://www.neanime.org.

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