• Always Love Lorn

  • Amber

  • Bryce Papenbrook

  • Bryson Baugus

  • Callicake Cosplay

  • Clifford Chapin

  • Jason Douglas

  • Jessie James Grelle

  • Johnny Yong Bosch

  • Kristen McGuire

  • Maddy Kate Cosplay

  • Porkcutlett

  • Ryan Bartley

  • Trina Nishimura

Always Love Lorn

Hello, I’m AlwaysLoveLorn. You might remember me from such panels as ‘A Taste of Anime’ and ‘The True Meaning of Christmas’. For over a decade my ADHD and love of lists have helped me in creating over a hundred panels and attending conventions in six different states. These panels range from Anime to Zombie with sprinkles of History, Folklore, Movies, Games, and more. I am excited to be returning to Yama-Con again as a guest panelist with a few never before presented panels.

Amber

Amber (formerly Ask Cosplay-Senpai) is the Costume Design instructor at the Portland Fashion Institute. They have worked on costumes and props seen at Disneyland, Epic Universe, and on Broadway, as well as building animatronics on display at the Portland Aquarium. For over a decade, they’ve been a part of the Yama-Con lineup, and they are thrilled to return for a 13th year. Now found online @Amber, they’re bringing the same passion for teaching and fabrication to a new era. Want to learn something cool about that thing you like? Got questions about how to make something for your cosplay? Check out Amber’s panels for insights from a true industry pro and community veteran!

Bryce Papenbrook

Bryce Papenbrook has been a professional voice-over artist since the age of eight. He was introduced to the voice acting scene by his father, Bob Papenbrook, and has continued the trade in his footsteps. Bryce has performed in numerous video games, cartoons, and television shows.

In anime, some notable roles include Eren Yeager in Attack on Titan & Attack on Titan Jr High, Kirito in Sword Art Online, Inosuke Hashibira in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Rin Okumura in Blue Exorcist, Shirou Emiya in Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, Rokuro Enmado in Twin Star Exorcists, Meliodas, Zeldris & Love Helm in The Seven Deadly Sins, Fujita in Dorohedoro, Daisuke Dojima in Revisions, Nahoya “Smiley” Kawata in Tokyo Revengers, Liebe in Black Clover, Kibi & Lycaon in Beastars, Akechi Touma in The Disastrous Life of Saiki K: Reawakened, Kimura in Teasing Master Takagi-san, Ordinary Cell in Cells at Work!, Red in Pokémon Origins, Yo Shindo in My Hero Academia, Shigehiro Ogiwara in Kuroko’s Basketball, Masaomi Kida & Turquoise Biker in Durarara!! & Durarara!! X2, Caesar Zeppeli in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Staz Charlie Blood in Blood Lad, Chooki & Lydendor in Tenkai Knights, Basile Hardy and Jude Sharp in Inazuma Eleven: Ares, Takashi in Dino Girl Gauko, Kagura Karachi in Boruto, Makoto Naegi & Nagito Komaeda in Danganronpa: The Animation, Gugu in To Your Eternity, Alan Stuart in My Next Life as a Villainess, Kennosuke Tokisada Ouma in Kuromukuro, Cheshire in Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, Ghost Shroud in Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Kaito in Ajin: Demi-Human, Eugene Sevenstark in Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans, Clay Sizemore in Soul Eater Not!, Calm Craftman in Aldnoah.Zero, Wataru Asahina in Brothers Conflict, Kaname Isaki in A Lull in the Sea, Suoh in Children of the Whales. Past leading roles include Shugo in.hack//Sign Legend of the Twilight, Jack in MAR, Hanabusa Aido in Vampire Knight, and Isami Fujiwara in Noein.

In animation, Bryce is fan favorite Adrien aka Cat Noir & Felix in Miraculous Ladybug, Dennis in Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed, Lemmee in YooHoo to the Rescue,

Bryce has worked extensively in video games. Notable roles include Law in Tales of Arise, Silver in Team Sonic Racing, Hunter Voice Option 3 in Monster Hunter Rise, Wol in Mobius Final Fantasy, Tao, Machina Kunagiri in Final Fantasy Type-0, Makoto Naegi & Nagito Komaeda in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Super Danganronpa 2 & Danganronpa 3, Theodore in Persona Q & Persona 3: Dancing in the Moonlight, Jack Russell in Radiata Stories, Kanata Kujo in Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky, Numerous roles in Call of Duty: Ghosts, Adol Christin in Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, Ys X: Nordics, Tiz Arrior in Bravely Default, Bast in Horizon Zero Dawn, Player (Male) in God Eater 3, Inky in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures Game, Black Ranger in the Power Rangers Megaforce Game, Sultan in Disney Princess Palace Pets, Lest in Rune Factory 4, Henry, Raven, Karel & Oscar in Fire Emblem Heroes, Kamui in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Issachar in Shin Megami Tensei IV, Asbel Lhant in Tales of Graces F, Zidane Tribal in Final Fantasy Dissidia NT, and Guan Ping in Dynasty Warriors. He also voiced Frankie from the Jumpstart Learning App.

Bryson Baugus

Bryson Baugus is a voice actor, singer, and stage actor based out of Dallas, Texas. He is known
for voicing many roles in anime and video games such as Shoyo Hinata (Haikyu!!), Nagi
Seishiro (BLUELOCK), Falco Grice (Attack on Titan), Gepard Landau (Honkai: Star Rail), Bell
Cranel (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?), Akihiko Nirei (Wind Breaker),
Pegasus Seiya (Saint Seiya), Sherbet Cookie (Cookie Run Kingdom), Takumi Aldini (Food
Wars), and many others. For his full list of roles, check out BrysonBaugus.com!

If you would like to keep up with what’s going on with Bryson, give him a Follow on
Twitter/Instagram/TikTok (@baugusbryson)

Callicake Cosplay

Callicake Cosplay Callicake returns! This cosplayer and convention panelist loves bringing imagination to life through cosplay, performance, tabletop games, and over-analyzing every piece of media she encounters. Passionate about sharing knowledge and bringing people along for the ride, she’s excited to bring her tips, tricks, and insights to Yamacon! Join her panels to explore the building blocks of storytelling, the joys of character creation, and the magic of cosplay.

Clifford Chapin

Clifford Chapin is a voice actor best known for his work in animation and video games. At a young age, Clifford began studying all the ins and outs of filmmaking, which led to him beginning his freelance career at sixteen years old. While in college, Clifford discovered his true passion was for voice-over, changing his focus from being behind the camera to being behind the mic. Now, Clifford has voiced hundreds of characters across animation, including Katsuki Bakugo in My Hero Academia, Himmel the Hero in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Connie Springer in Attack on Titan, and Cabba in Dragon Ball Super. For video games, you can hear Clifford as Billy Kid in Zenless Zone Zero, Proton in Pokémon Masters EX, Ronan in Fire Emblem Heroes, and Kukulkan in Smite, among many others.

Jason Douglas

You may know Jason best as ‘Beerus the Destroyer’ and ‘King Cold’ from the DRAGON BALL franchise, ‘Krieg the Psycho’ in the BORDERLANDS 2 & 3 games, or even loyal Alexandrian ‘Tobin’ on THE WALKING DEAD. In fact, he’s performed in hundreds of iconic titles spanning film, television, games, and anime. He also plays the grizzled, veteran demon hunter ‘Kishibe’ in CHAINSAW MAN, gentle spiritual guide ‘Heiter’ in FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY’S END, and sly detective ‘Iwanome’ in DEAD MOUNT DEATH PLAY.  Other recent fan-favorite roles include ‘Gildarts Clive’ in FAIRY TAIL, ‘Aokiji Kuzan’ in ONE PIECE, and ‘Miche’ in ATTACK ON TITAN. 

His prolific on-screen career includes recurring guest-star appearances on AMC’s Preacher, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad. Other television work: Cruel Summer, Breaking Bad, Revolution, The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice, The Lost Room, and From Dusk Til Dawn: The Series. Feature films include Sin City, A Scanner Darkly, Machete, Secondhand Lions, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and the Coen Brothers’ Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men. 

Jason’s 25+ year career in anime began with legendary studios ADV Films and FUNimation, and continues into the modern era with Crunchyroll, Sentai Filmworks, Diskotek Media, and more. Notable voice roles include: Excel Saga (Il Palazzo), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Major Miles), Fist of the North Star (Raoh), Black Butler 2 (Claude Faustus), RWBY (Jacques Schnee), Grimoire of Zero/Dawn of the Witch (Mercenary), Case Study of Vanitas (Ruthven), Dr. Stone (Kokuyo), Himouto! Umaru-chan (Bomber), After the Rain (Masami), Deadman Wonderland (Azuma), Psycho Pass (Tomomi Masaoka), Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (Leon), Elfen Lied (Bandoh), Excel Saga (Il Palazzo), Original Dirty Pair (Chief Gooley), Rune Soldier (Louie), Azumanga Daioh (Chiyo-Dad), Gravion (Sandman), and Saiyuki (Homura). 

Socials & Links:

Linktree: linktr.ee/MrJasonDouglas 

 X/Twitter @MrJasonDouglas 

 Facebook JasonDouglasFans 

 Instagram MrJasonDouglas 

 IMDb   imdb.me/jasondouglas 

Jessie James Grelle

Jessie James Grelle has been a part of the Anime VO community since 2004. She began her journey in Houston, Texas at ADV Films, and would go on to work for FUNimation, Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, and more. In her 20 years of VO work, she has been involved in over 400 individual titles across anime, pre-lay animation, and videogames.  

Jessie’s most notable roles include Armin Arlert in Attack on Titan, Izo in One Piece, Grand Priest in Dragon Ball Super, Yuri Katsuki in Yuri on Ice, Tokoyami Fumikage in My Hero Academia, Kenichi in Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple, Tyrian Callows in RWBY, William Vangeance in Black Clover, Demigra in Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Issei Hyodo in High School DxD, Kinro in Dr. Stone, Byakuya Togami in Danganranpa the Anime, Ginoza in Psycho Pass, Ritsuka in Given, Snapper in Viral Hit, and Prince Zen in Snow White with the Red Hair and many, many more! 

When she is not behind the mic, Jessie streams on Twitch as her VTuber persona, Mim! You can watch her streams at twitch.tv/mimcubus!  

Johnny Yong Bosch

Johnny Yong Bosch got his start fighting giant bugs as Adam Park, the Black Ranger on “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.” It is a role that he would play for three and a half seasons on TV, two motion pictures and two special guest appearances in future “Power Rangers” seasons.
After “Power Rangers,” Bosch became involved in voice-over work for various titles. His first major voice acting role was Vash the Stampede in “Trigun.” He later went on to play the voices of Kaneda in “Akira”; Renton in “Eureka Seven”; Albert in
“The Count of Monte Cristo”; Kiba in “Wolf’s Rain”; Itsuki in
“The Melancholy of Haurhi Suzumiya”; Ichigo Kurosaki in
“Bleach”; Lelouch Lamperouge in “Code Geass”; Izaya in
“Durarara”; Guren in “Tenkai Knights”; Yukio in “Blue Exorcist”;
Sasori in “Naruto”; Nobita in “Doraemon”; Artemis in “Sailor Moon”; Nagate in the Netflix original “Knights of Sidonia”; Nate in “Yokai Watch,” and many more.
His voice can also be heard in numerous video games, providing voices for Nero in “Devil May Cry 4”; Kuhn in “.hack// G.U.”; Adachi/Narukami in “Persona 4”; Almaz in “Disgaea 3”;
Emil in “Tales of Symphonia”; Guy in “Tales of the Abyss”;
Firion in “Dissidia Final Fantasy”; Bumblebee in “Transformers:
War for Cybertron”; Yang in “Street Fighter IV”; Zero in “Marvel vs. Capcom 3”; Yukimura in “Sengoku Basara”; Torian Cadera in “Star Wars: The Old Republic”; and Kung Jin in “Mortal Kombat X.”
Bosch is also the frontman for the bandEyeshine, the winners of Ford Motor Company’s worldwide band search and produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Don Was (Rolling Stones, Elton John, John Mayer, etc.). They’ve played Warped Tour and Ernie Ball’s Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival, as well as having their music chosen for promotional use in the Call of Duty Endowment project. Eyeshine is also known for recording the song “Love Psalm” with Mary Elizabeth and Akira Yamaoka for the game “Silent Hill: Book of Memories.”

Kristen McGuire

Kristen McGuire is a professional voice actor, artist, ADR director and script adapter with over 400 credits across anime and video games.

She is most well known for her work as the playable character Ye Shunguang in Zenless Zone Zero, Biscuit and Rouge in NIKKE: Goddess of Victory, Kachina in the Natlan region of Genshin Impact, Gemma in Monster Hunter Wilds, Sarah Connor in Terminator 2D: No Fate,
Penny and Tatsugiri in Pokémon Horizons, Milim Nava in the anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Akane Kurokawa in Oshi No Ko, Young Vash in TRIGUN STAMPEDE. Isabel Magnolia in Attack on Titan, Ruri in Dr. Stone, Tatami Nakagame in My Hero Academia, Yu in Fire Force, Senko in The Helpful Fox Senko-san, Hinano Kurahashi in Assassination Classroom, Mukuro in Date A Live, Vueko in Made in Abyss, Alice Lendrott in Duke of Death and His Maid and many more!

Kristen is also an award-winning anime artist. She draws all of her own autograph prints and offers anime-style caricatures of attendees at conventions.

Maddy Kate Cosplay

Maddy Kate, has been a hobby cosplayer in the Portland. Oregon area for 12 years, and grew to become a professional full-time cosplayer for 7 years and counting. Along with her years of experience, she has honed the potential of an artist, panelist, lip-sync champion, cosplay guest and much more for conventions and brands across the country; alongside her talented twin brother Porkcutlett (aka, Adrian). Due to her platform, and enthusiasm for the like-minded peers in her community, she has inspired generations of cosplayers from her Tiktok videos of over 1 million subscribers since 2014. In her daily life she is a hard working Funeral Services graduate. Catch her panels and watch her prate in her interests and topics ranging from Identical Twins, Mortuary, insects, Black Butler, Arcane, and much more! She is dying to meet you all.

Porkcutlett

Yama-Con welcomes Porkcutlett this year! Porkcutlett, aka Adrian, is a PNW cosplayer from Oregon who has been in the community for over 10 years. He brings his love for panels, cosplay, and vendor artwork to every con he goes to. Adrian’s an award winning Cosplay Lipsync performer along with his twin sister MaddyKateCosplays, bringing the lipsync scene to Yamacon in 2025! In his daily life, he is a licensed Tattoo Artist and is currently taking classes at Portland Fashion Institute to further his craft for cosplay and fasion. Need to talk about tattoos, cosplay, gaming, or even CRYPTIDS? Go and say hi!

Ryan Bartley

Ryan Bartley is best known in the anime world for her roles in Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer:, Re:Zero ? Starting Life in Another World, isekai quartet, HunterXHunter and more. In gaming she voices Sage in Sonic Frontiers, Monster Hunter Wilds and many more! She is also the voice of Pompompurin in Hello Kitty and Allister & Alcremie in Pokémon.

Trina Nishimura

Brandishing her voice just as Mikasa wields her blade; Trina Nishimura has sliced her way through the voice over world over the past few years. 

 

From meager beginnings as the little hungry girl Namiko in Desert Punk, to her much anticipated and lauded appearance as Mikasa Ackerman in Attack on Titan; Nishimura’s agile voice has brought her critical acclaim, awards, and unprecedented fan support. To date, she has voiced over 200 different characters in aps, movies, television shows, and video games. 

 

Fans will recall Trina’s many dutiful portrayals in such works as Attack on Titan and Attack on Titan Junior High (Mikasa Ackerman), My Hero Acedamia (Jiro Kyoka), Steins;Gate (Kurisu Makise), Soul Eater (Mizune), Monster Hunter (Navirou), Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Lan Fan), Trigun: Badlands Rumble (Milly Thompson), Solo Leveling (Park Heejin), Fairy Tale (Sherry), Evangelion 2.22 and 3.33 (Mari), Fire Emblem franchise (Erie), Black Butler (Ranmao), Love Live! Sunshine!! (Sarah Kazuno), Smite (Several Lead Characters) and the ever popular Pop Team epic (Popuko) to name a few. 

 

Some other exciting pieces of her work include Luna in Cashern Sins, Francesca Lucchini in Strike Witches, Sohara in Heaven’s Lost Property, Aiko Kudo in Baka and Test, Sakuya in ..hack//Quantum, Sen in Ben-To, Mamitas in Space Dandy, Chain in Blood Blockade Battlefront. 

 

Trina is that rare breed of performer who not only embodies her characters, but also embraces her fans…taking time to make appearances around the world. 

 

Though her voice and talents have taken her, and her characters to every corner of the globe….her heart will always belong to Texas.