Spotlight Guests

Updated Dec 26, 2025 @ 3:27 pm

Meet our Spotlight Guests for Animé LA 21!

We’re excited to bring a special line up of guests to Animé Los Angeles 21 Each day! Be sure to check our program guide for their various programming items and autograph sessions.

Thursday Spotlight Guests

Emily Sun

Emily Sun is a Chinese-American voice actress based in LA. She is most well-known as Clara in Honkai: Star Rail and Seo Jiwoo in Solo Leveling:ARISE. Her notable clients include: miHoYo/HoYoverse, Crunchyroll, Netflix, Disney+, Cygames, Netmarble, Paramount+, Sony, and more.

David Cui Cui

David Cui Cui is an Asian American voice actor of Chinese descent. Cui Cui has portrayed Akira Tadokoro in LIVE A LIVE, Vedrfolnir in Genshin Impact, Mr. Nothing in Arknights, and has provided voices for anime titles like Kingdom, The First Slam Dunk, as well as voicing Zaitsu in 100 Meters. He also provides character voices for audio dramas, live-action dubbing, and provides the narration for College Board’s SAT videos.

Darius Johnson

Born in Philly, studied in Georgia, ignited in D.C., and now he brings his comedic creativity to Los Angeles, Darius Marquis Johnson has an unbelievable drive for his art. Johnson has had the pleasure of lending his talent to such projects as Rurouni Kenshin, Oddtaxi, Mashle: Magic And Muscles, Sakamoto Days, Lulu Is a Rhinoceris, Nickelodeon’s Monster High, and much more! He’s even danced his way onto ESPN and SportsCenter as the Savannah Bananas First ever Dancing Base Coach!

Friday Spotlight Guests

Cat Protano

Cat Protano is a voice actor known for their work in Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Monster Hunter, Winx Club, Monster High, Panty and Stocking, Pokemon, Yugioh and more! They love playing games as much as they love acting in them and are always excited to share that passion.

Corey Wilder

Corey Wilder is a non-binary African American Voice Actor who has voiced in animes, animations, and video games.They have voiced characters such as Zanka Nijiku in Gachiakuta, Polyurethane in Panty and Stocking, Streber and Robert in Spooky Month, and so many more! They are a lover of video games and animations so if you love that as well they’d be more than willing to geek out with you!

Daniel Walton

Whether it’s Anime, Video Games, or Animation being part and voicing in my and others favorite franchises is why meeting fans are always so special. Fan theories? Head cannons? What ifs? Always on the docket when meeting Daniel Walton.

Courtney Lin

Courtney Lin is a voice actor based in Los Angeles, CA with notable roles such as Draculaura (Monster High), Princess Peach (MK World), and Panty (Panty & Stocking). She is a co-Founder of The School of Voiceover and the Official_1UPtv podcast on YouTube, featuring guests who work in entertainment.

Kieran Walton

Kieran Walton is an actor who can he found both on camera and in voiceover for film and television. His notable work includes Lane Aim in ‘Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’ and Brief in ‘New Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt’.

Saturday Spotlight Guests

Ben Diskin

Ben Diskin is one of the most in-demand voice actors today, appearing in high profile games, animation,and anime.His anime credits include “Naruto: Shippuden” as Sai, “The Seven Deadly Sins” as Ban, “Jojo’s BizarreAdventure: Battle Tendency” as Joseph Joestar, “Bleach” as Szayelaporro Grantz, “K” as Yata, “Kill la Kill”as Takarada, “Stitch!” and “Stitch & Ai” as Stitch, “Digimon Fusion” as Shoutmon & Cutemon, “Blood+” asKai, “Digimon Adventure: 2020” as Agumon, “Sword art Online” as Death Gun, “Aggretsuko” as Haida,”Hunter x Hunter” as Knuckle Bine, “Erased” as Satoru Fujinuma, “Blood Lad” as Wolf, “BNA: Brand NewAnimal” as Shirou Ogami, “Beastars” as Jack, “Avatar: The Last Airbender” as Hahn, “Demon Slayer” asTemple Demon, “Kuroko’s Basketball” as Aomine, and “MASHLE: Magic and Muscles” as Dot, just toname a few

Jonathon Ha

Jonathon Ha is a Korean American voice actor based in Los Angeles whose voice can be heard across many different projects, from video games, animation, anime, commercials, and more. He is proud of his culture and hopes to push the boundaries and help pave the way for future Asian American actors alike through his work.

Hunter McCoy

Hunter McCoy (they/he) is an actor for anime, video games and more! They’re best known for their work as Deuce Spade in “Twisted Wonderland: The Animation”, and Polyester in “New Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt”.

Paul Castro Jr.

Paul Castro Jr. was born in Brooklyn, raised on the Jersey Shore, and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a voice actor, he is most known for voicing Freminet in Genshin Impact, Opal in Honkai: Star Rail, Riddle Rosehearts in Twisted Wonderland, Vegeta (mini) in Dragon Ball DAIMA, and Hikaru in The Summer Hikaru Died.

Justice Slocum

Justice Slocum is an African American voice actor that works primarily in video games. His most notable roles are Shinjiro Aragaki in Persona 3 Reload, The Boy in Angel’s Egg, Jack Trevor in Trails Through Daybreak I & II, Saxon in Dark Deity 2, Bernard in Epic Seven, and Alonzo in the indie animated pilot The Three Tomes.

Sunday Spotlight Guests

Katiana Sarkissian

Katiana Sarkissian is an actress of Armenian, Lebanese, and Jordanian descent.
Originally raised on the East Coast, she moved to Los Angeles to study Theatre and Business Administration at the University of Southern California before jumping into voice-over work full-time for games and animation.

Katiana is best known for her roles as Mavuika the Pyro Archon in Genshin Impact, Seliose in Honkai Star Rail, Asuna Shiroki in Digimon Story: Time Stranger, Hati in Fire Emblem Shadows, Mori in Goddess of Victory: Nikke and more!

Nic Olsen

Nic Olsen is a long time actor who aspires to telling stories that are empowering and transformative. He encourages everyone to pursue their dreams with relentless determination, and never give up.

Kendell Byrd

Kendell is a originally from the Chicagoland area and now based in Los Angeles where she works as a voice actor and is on the writing team at Netflix Animation. You can hear Kendell in video games and animation projects such as Honkai: Star Rail (Rappa), Yu-Gi-Oh: Go Rush (Meowdestar), Infinity Nikki (Giroda), Octopath Traveler 0, Spider Man-2, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, Yaiba: Samurai Legends, Beyblade X, Genshin Impact, Barbie Mysteries, and more! She is also on the Queer Vox Board of directors. Kendell’s goal is to use her passion for voiceover and writing to tell more stories of people of color and other underrepresented groups!

Blythe Melin

Blythe Melin started his career remotely in 2018 while living overseas in Japan, and then dove full-time into voice acting after moving to L.A. in 2022. Having grown up in a military family for much of his life, many of his experiences are channeled into characters he voices. You can hear him in roles such as Lygus (Honkai Starrail), Rerir (Genshin Impact), Zuwijo (Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!!), and Colonel Ruffs (Brawl Stars)

Madeline Dorroh

Madeline Dorroh is a voice actor best known for their roles in anime (Medalist, Love Live! Nijigasaki, Ranking of Kings, Spirit Chronicles) and video games (Cookie Run: Kingdom, NIKKE, Fire Emblem Heroes, Project Wingman, Trails Through Daybreak).