Mandy Bonhomme
Best known for: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Kujibiki Unbalance/Genshiken and Comic Party
Mandy Bonhomme is an American actor and voice actor based in New York who has worked on various anime series. Best known as Juri Arisugawa in Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV & Movie), she also voiced Keiko Sonoda, Shadow Girl A and F plus additional voices in it. Other anime includes Kujibiki Unbalance/Genshiken (Komaki), Comic Party (Shiho, Multi, Miho, and Asahi Sakurai), The World of Narue (Yuki), Boogiepop Phantom (Rie Takai, Atsuko Abe), His & Her Circumstances (Yurika), Gravitation (TV Reporter), The Slayers-Next (Mimi & Nene), Pokemon (Sue), Ping Pong Club (Tachibana), Jewel BEM Hunter Lime (Mizuki) and more. Non-anime includes the machinima This Spartan Life (Amber). She's also done audiobooks, commercial print ads, ESL audio v.o., and improv theater. You can follow her on Twitter- @BonBiniBonhomme
Roland Kelts
Best known for: Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the US andAccess
Roland Kelts is a half-Japanese American writer, editor and lecturer who divides his time between New York and Tokyo. He is the author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the US and the forthcoming novel, Access. He has presented on contemporary Japanese culture worldwide and has taught at numerous universities in Japan and the US, including New York University and the University of Tokyo. His fiction and nonfiction appear in such publications as Zoetrope: All Story, Psychology Today, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Vogue Japan, Adbusters magazine, The Millions, The Japan Times, Animation Magazine, CNNgo, Bookforum, and The Village Voice. He is the Editor in Chief of the Anime Masterpieces screening and discussion program, the commentator for National Public Radio's series, "Pacific Rim Diary", and the author of a monthly column for The Daily Yomiuri newspaper. His latest project is the English edition of the Japanese literary culture magazine, Monkey Business, and his blog is:http://japanamerica.blogspot.com/