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Laurie Orr has started a GoFundMe page to help with medical care for her sister, veteran voice actress Rachael Lillis, who is battling cancer. Among Lillis’s numerous roles, she’s voiced Jessie and Misty in Pokémon, Utena Tenjou in Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Martina in Slayers …Read more »
Two people with ties to the otaku world have put up GoFundMe pages to help with medical expenses. The first is for VA Sean Letourneau, whose acting credits include Set (Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts), Cyrus Rivermoore (Reign of the Seven Spellblades), and …Read more »
Last week actor Billy Kametz, who plays Naofumi in The Rising of the Shield Hero and Josuke in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, announced that he has been diagnosed with Stage IV Colon Cancer. Since then his event agent A. Jinnie McManus has set …Read more »
Last year a fire broke out at the home of mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake, killing his wife and causing horrible damage. Miyatake survived, and a GoFundMe page has been set up to help him out. The fundraiser is being put on by Tenjin Hidetaka, Adrian …Read more »
Jan Scott-Frazier has an impressive résumé in the world of anime. She was the first non-Japanese person in the production department of an anime studio, she founded the production company TAO Corporation Ltd., and she was once the president of Production I.G. USA. Unfortunately, she’s …Read more »
The Kirby Morrow Memorial Scholarship Fund has been planned in honor of actor Kirby Morrow, who recently passed away at only 47. His brother, Casey Morrow, has teamed up with the Calgary Foundation in Alberta, Canada for this, and the scholarship is aimed at people …Read more »
Sad news is coming out of the anime world as we learn voice actress Rachael Lillis passed away over the weekend from breast cancer. Lillis was a prolific voice talent who might be best known for playing both protagonist Misty and antagonist Jessie in Pokémon. …Read more »
There is sad news as Anime News Network reports that Mark Merlino, the cofounder of Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, has passed away. ANN is basing this on reports on social media, including from Merlino’s organization Prancing Skiltaire Parties. The GoFundMe page that was set up to cover …Read more »
There is sad news as we learn of the passing of voice actor Billy Kametz, who had been fighting stage IV colon cancer. He was 35-years-old. A Jinnie McManus, the organizer for Kametz’s GoFundMe page, broke the news to fans, writing in part: “Know that …Read more »
After it was announced that voice over actor Billy Kametz has been diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, he received an outpouring of support from fans. Now Shigenori Soejima, the original character designer for the Persona game series, is showing how much he cares by …Read more »
Kirby Morrow’s talents were many. To anime fans he’s well-known for playing everyone from Miroku in Inuyasha to Goku in the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z to Teru Mikami in Death Note. But you could have just as easily caught him as Cole in …Read more »
Photo via Wikipedia In the next step in the sad saga of the Kyoto Animation arson, Shinji Aoba, the suspect in the attack, will be evaluated to assess his mental state. Aoba has confessed to the crime, which resulted in 36 deaths and nearly the …Read more »
Anime didn’t get a whole lot of love at this year’s Academy Awards, but the ceremony did feature the appearance of a certain Battle Angel. At least, if you craned your neck upward. A plane flown over the Dolby Theater, which hosted the event, carried …Read more »
The beloved Kyoto Animation studio — which is behind such anime as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Clannad, and K-ON! — was attacked by arson on July 18, killing 35 employees. Since then many fans and concerned people have been coming out of the woodwork to help, and we have a few …Read more »
The story of the arson attack on Kyoto Animation’s 1st Studio building has rocked the anime community and Japan as a whole. The tragic event left 33 dead and 35 injured, and according to KyoAni president Hideaki Hatta, the amount of monetary damage was also …Read more »
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