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Anne Yatco is a Filipino American voice actor (and former forensic scientist). She is most well-known as the English voice of Raiden Shogun in Genshin Impact, Nobara Kugisaki in Jujutsu Kaisen, and Sabine in Miraculous Ladybug. Anime credits include Pompo the Cinephile, Vampire in the Garden, The Prince of Tennis, Platinum End, Blue Period, Sakugan, To Your Eternity, Beastars, Violet Evergarden: the Movie, The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter, Godzilla Singular Point, Devilman Crybaby, and I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years. Video game credits include Fire Emblem Heroes, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Shadowverse, Smite, Paladins, Naraka Bladepoint, Epic Seven, Onmyoji Arena, Guardian Tales, Wasteland 3, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Anne is also a Twitch Partner, and regularly streams Genshin Impact and other games.

Derek Stephen Prince, aka Steve, has been an actor his whole life (44 years to be exact) and in the voiceover industry 27 years. His career spans across such shows as Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers In Space, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Power Rangers Time Force & Power Rangers Wild Force; Digimon: Seasons 1-4 & 6-7 playing such favorites as Digimon Emperor, Veemon, Beelzamon, Impmon, Piedmon and Jeremy, to name a few; Love, Hina where he played Keitaro; Naruto/Boruto, where he played Shino Aburame; Iggy the Boston Terrier on Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures: Stardust Crusaders; Guts the pug in Kill La Kill; and Ranjiro Kiyama in BeyBlade Burst Turbo. Video games include the Kingdom Hearts series as Vexen; Odin Sphere as Oswald; Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu in Danganrompa V2; Kokichi Ouma in Danganrompa V3; Detective Harper in Blade Runner: Redemption; and Abul Barrrel in CatheRINe – Full Body. Steve was in the original cartoon series of Lilo & Stitch as Loki the shaved ice vendor; Little, Big, Awesome for Amazon; NFL Rush Zone – Guardians Unleashed as Jackson; the film Jungle Shuffle with Rob Schneider and Drake Bell as Louca the toucan; and Scary Movie 3 where he played the alien that pees with his finger, alongside Tom Kenny who was the other alien. You can currently see him as Uryu Ishida in Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War, reprising his role from 15 years ago, as well as Kibao, in Sword Art Online: Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night & Scherzo of Deep Night.

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Kazha is a rock band founded by a Japanese Singer-songwriter Kazuha Oda and a Guitarist Hideki Matsushige. Kazuha is a classically trained singer who worked in various genres of music from Classic to Heavy Metal. She worked with wide variety of Grammy Award-winning recording artists and producers including Bob James and Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell.

After the release of Kazha’s first album in 2010, they made their first U.S.A. debut performing at San Francisco’s Asian Heritage Celebration sharing the stage with hip-hop group Far East Movement. Since then, they have toured more than 35 states made special guest appearances at numerous festivals and Anime/Comic Conventions.

Kazha has also performed at world famous venues such as Whiskey A Go Go, sharing stage with musicians such as Gilby Clarke, George Lynch, Tracii Guns, LA Guns, Y&T, and Trapt. In 2015, Kazha gradually started to move their base of operations to Memphis, TN. Since then, they have been featured on local broadcasts such as WREG News Channel 3, ABC 24 News, and WMC Action News 5.

October 2018, Kazha released their self-titled third album “Kazha”. Kazha represents a new future of music: a fusion of cultures and musical view points that create their sound, combining the softness of a falling feather and the heaviness of a hurricane.

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You can use the following codes to save!

• Use Discount Code “save30” to save 30% on your badge purchase until November 12th.
• Use Discount Code “save15” between November 13th -February 11th to save 15% on your badge.

Badge rates at the door:

3day: $55

Friday: $30

Saturday: $43

Sunday: $20

Children 10 and under are free with purchase of a pass.

Please note: 3-day pass will be available for sale at the door Friday-Saturday.