Interviews

Spike Spencer Interview
We met Spike Spencer for the first time at Ft. Lauderdale's Anime Supercon. It was an interesting impromptu interview and one of our first interviews ever for the site. At the time, I only knew him as the voice of Shinji from Evangelion and heard a lot of negative comments on his behalf. Since the time of the interview and during, I learned a lot about his body of work and really grew to respect him as an anime voice actor. Pardon the quality on this video. This was one of our first videos, but it really did capture some decent moments as well as some insight into Spike's personality.
 

Anime3000.com interviewed Maile Flanagan, the raspy-voiced lead character in Naruto. We actually conducted the interview when the show still aired on Cartoon Network. It was a simpler time for anime fans, the calm before the double-whammy of losing One Piece and Toonami. Now that anime is making its triumphant return to Adult Swim, it’s safe to promote the stars of dubbed Japanese animation again. She talks about her first audition, getting the lead in anime’s most popular series and winning an Emmy for her voice work.

Go Sukashi!'s John Soares and Justin Spurlock
“Do you think evil is going to take a break long enough to put food on its table and pay its rent!?!”

Go Sukashi is the one of those shows that you didn’t know you wanted to watch. Based on a character created by otaku legend Shoko Nakagawa and produced by Doug TenNapel of Earthworm Jim fame, it’s a potent mixture of tokusatsu sentai action with Adult Swim-style non-sequitors.

Already providing more joy than the latter has in years, Sukashi follows the journey of a man on a mission. The mission: to fight the insidious invisible Rectanguloids and make Earth by, as the theme song helpfully points out, “getting his power from outer space." The problem? Sukashi lives in peaceful suburbia and no one else can see the demons that haunt him so.

Only working in the comics industry for less than a decade, comic artist Kriss Sison has made several significant strides. Besides freelance work, the Manila-born artist has landed work with titles such as The Last Hope (Seven Seas Entertainment) and TINK (YEHEY!). In 2008, Sison won the bronze award in the Second International Manga awards for his work in Ninja Girl KO! (Mangaholix). Sison gives Anime3000 a small glimpse into his background and his artistic perspective.

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A3K TV April Stewart Interview
In 2008, Anime 3000 attended the Anime Supercon in South Florida. It's a medium sized convention that usually holds two to five thousand attendees. It was at this convention that we interviewed April Stewart, voice actor and thespian. She's most known for voicing over 80% of the female characters on the Comedy Central hit, South Park. Some of her credits include, Liane Cartman, Sharon Marsh, Mrs. McCormick, Shelly Marsh, The Mayor, Principal Victoria, Wendy Testaberger and various other characters. We will be releasing several videos over the next couple of weeks featuring various professionals in anime and cartoons.
 

VAMPS Interview
With the approach of the upcoming VAMPS Live USA Tour 2009, Anime3000 managed to catch up with one of Japan’s top-selling rock bands. VAMPs is the brainchild of former L'Arc~en~Ciel frontman, HYDE and Oblivion Dust guitarist, K.A.Z. After playing their first nationwide tour of Japan in 2008, the group is now playing in front of an American audience. The band announced their American tour in April 2009. It will cover ten U.S. cities from July 11 - August 1.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of American voice actors in the anime industry. Some are swept underneath the rug, confined to the realm of voice acting—or so choose to be—while others climb the ladder, moving on and achieving success in Hollywood or on Broadway. One talented voice actor has seen it all. Despite the fact that his voice acting career has covered roles in anime, video games, and American cartoons, Lex Lang wasn’t always the tenor of these characters. In this exclusive Anime3000 interview, Lang comes clean about his bottle water company, his band, and the time he was shocked—literally—during his first voice acting experience.