As I posted last year, I attend RealmsCon, Corpus Christi's premier anime (but really at this point it's more of a pop culture with strong anime overtones) convention on a fairly regular basis. Now in the last few years, the guest list for RealmsCon has usually been one big name guest and a bunch of unknown or lesser known guests following in his or her wake. For example, the big guest last year was Crispin Freeman, a well-known voice actor in the anime/video game scene. After that were a few voice actors whose only roles of note were some obscure animes and Wizards 101.
But this year...
I don't know if the convention organizers got a huge budget increase but...Holy Crap, look at this list!
1. Jonathan Joss - Best known as the voice of John Redcorn from King of the Hill. He was also the Indian who was hanged in the remake of True Grit. This'll be his third year at RealmsCon.
2. Quinton Flynn - A renown voice actor most know for voicing Raiden from the Metal Gear Series and Axel from the Kingdom Hearts games.
3. Vic Mignogna - Another voice actor with a huge list of credits. He is best known for playing the voice of Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist. However, I know him best as the voice of Broly from Dragonball Z.
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| Also, I met him at RealmsCon 2009 and he signed my copy of Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 |
4. Verne Troyer - Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies. 'Nuff said.
5. Rikki Simons - Artist and Colorist. Most known from his work on Invader Zim, not only as an artist but as the voice for GIR the robot, who, I argue, is the most popular character on the show mainly for being insane. Merchandise with GIR's image is still being sold in Hot Topic to this day.
6. Richard Horvitz - Voice Actor extraordinaire and a very prominent part of my childhood. He is the voice for Zim in Invader Zim, Billy from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Daggett from Angry Beavers and Alpha 5 from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi, indeed!
And now my favorite bit of dialogue from Invader Zim featuring both Richard Horvitz and Rikki Simons:
Now we move onto what I call The Crow Corner:
7. James O'Barr - Creator of The Crow comic book and, in my opinion, a staple of RealmsCon guests as he has appeared at every RealmsCon I attended and even autographed my copy of the The Crow.
8. Rochelle Davis - She played Sarah the little skateboarding girl in The Crow.
9. Jon Polito - Played Gideon, the pawn shop owner in The Crow. I know him also from The Big Lebowski, The Rocketeer and Miller's Crossing.
10. Tony Todd - Played Grange, Top Dollar's right-hand man. He is most known for playing the Candyman from the Candyman movies and recently played The Fallen from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and the Coroner from the Final Destination movies.
11. Ernie Hudson - Sgt. Albrecht in The Crow but I know most people know him better as Winston Zeddemore from Ghostbusters. I swear, I screamed in joy "OH MY GOD!" when I saw his name on the guest list.
Moving out of The Crow Corner, we come to our last but not least guest.
12. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa a.k.a. Shang Motherfuckin' Tsung from Mortal Kombat! A very prominent movie from my childhood. I did the most fangirly squee when I saw he would be coming to RealmsCon.
RealmsCon can't come fast enough.
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