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Johnny Yong Bosch
Johnny Yong Bosch at Power Morphicon 2007
Born
John Jay Bosch

1975 or 1976 (age 47–48)
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Other namesKevin Hatcher
Occupation(s)Actor, martial artist, voice actor, musician
Years active1994–present
Children2
Musical career
GenresRock
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar
Years active2004-present
Websiteeyeshine.net

Johnny Yong Bosch is an American actor, martial artist, voice actor and musician. His first major role was portraying Adam Park, the second Black Power Ranger in the Power Rangers franchise, which led to roles in some martial arts television and feature films. He provides the English voices for a number of anime productions and video games, including Vash the Stampede in Trigun, Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, Renton Thurston in Eureka Seven, Itsuki Koizumi in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Izaya Orihara in Durarara!!, Yukio Okumura in Blue Exorcist, and Noby in Doraemon. He is the front man of the band Eyeshine.[1] Bosch is located in Los Angeles and does most of his voice-over work at Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Animaze, New Generation Pictures, Studiopolis, and on some occasions travels to Dallas to record shows for Funimation.

Biography

Bosch was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Garland, Texas.[2][3] His father was a soldier in the Army and met his mother while stationed in South Korea. He was interested in martial arts at an early age, inspired by martial arts movies and Bruce Lee.[3][2] He taught myself martial arts at first,[3] mimicking moves from Lee as well as Jackie Chan.[4] He said he was picked on a lot when he was young and became a bully, but made a change for the better after studying kung fu. In addition to training in martial arts, in which he won several competitions, he also played soccer.[3][4]

Power Rangers

Bosch auditioned for the Power Rangers show in Dallas when he was informed by his martial arts instructor.[2] In 1994, he landed the role of Adam Park, the new Black Power Ranger, in the second season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Bosch said that when he got the part, he changed his middle name to Yong, which was his mother's given name, at the request of Saban who thought his original name needed to be more Asian.[4] For the feature film Power Rangers: The Movie,[2] he did all of his stunts after his stuntman had broken his leg.[4] He also noted that among all the different animal characters the Rangers got to be associated, his was associated to a frog.[5][6] In Power Rangers Zeo, Bosch's character became a Green Ranger. His final regular stint in the franchise was in Power Rangers Turbo, where his character passes his Green Turbo Ranger powers to a new member.[2] He played Park in the second feature film Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie.[4][2] In looking back at his acting for the show, Bosch said that "Power Rangers was a lot of fun but it was a kid’s show and very cheesy because of it, which made getting work after that really hard. Plus, I didn’t know squat about acting then."[2] His best friends on the set included Jason Frank, Jason Narvy and Nakia Burrise.[4] At the request of Power Rangers director Koichi Sakamoto, he had a guest appearance in the episode "Once A Ranger" 'in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive in 2007 for the franchise's 15th anniversary; where he mentioned he got to go to New Zealand.[5] He and Narvy also starred in the film Wicked Game, also known as Extreme Heist, which was directed by Sakamoto and features several other Power Rangers alumni.[7][8]

Voice acting

Bosch voiced Vash the Stampede in Trigun as his first job and for various Japanese anime and video games. In 2006, he worked once again with Koichi Sakamoto on the film Broken Path. In 2007, Bosch co-starred alongside Ray Park in a comic-book style action film, Hellbinders. Bosch also voiced "Izaya Orihara" in Durarara in 2011. Among video games, Bosch liked voicing Nero in Devil May Cry 4 as he got to visit Japan to do the motion capture.[2]

He voiced Final Fantasy game's character Firion in Dissidia: Final Fantasy, and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, Yang in Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Zero of Mega Man X fame in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Tohru Adachi and the protagonist Yu Narukami in the Persona 4 games and anime adaptation, and host of AnimeTV, which started its second season on Revision3 In 2015, he voiced character Kung Jin, in the new Mortal Kombat X.

Eyeshine

Bosch got involved in music by teaching himself how to play guitar. In his band Eyeshine, he provides vocals, songwriting, and guitar. He describes the type of music he plays as "Edge Rock. We’re somewhere on the edge of sounding like Grunge, Alt. Rock, Punk and Pop."[2] His musical inspirations include The Beatles, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Oasis, Led Zeppelin and also movie soundtracks.[5]

The band released an instrumental album called Sonosis. Bosch dscribed the album as "something you could just listen to and could move you to feel something" and that "the titles were a reflection of the emotions we felt as we wrote the songs".[5]

Personal life

Bosch is half Korean. He the second oldest of four children in his family.[4] He has mentioned being a Christian in some of his interviews.[4][2][6] He is married,[2] and has a daughter named Novi and a son named Jetson.[9]


Filmography

Live-action roles

List of acting performances in film and television
Year Title Role Notes Source
1994–96 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Adam Park seasons 2–3 [2]
1995 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Adam Park [2][10]
1996 Power Rangers Zeo Adam Park [10]
1997 Power Rangers Turbo Adam Park [10]
1997 Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie Adam Park [2][10]
2001 Wicked Game
(Extreme Heist)		 Billy Ray Leung [10][8][11]
2007–present Anime TV Host Video podcast [12][13][14][15][16]
2012 Death Grip Torch direct-to-video release [17][18][19]
2014 Love Like Bullets [20]
Supah Ninjas Master Shin [5]
2007 Power Rangers Operation Overdrive Adam Park Eps. "Once A Ranger", 2 episodes [5]


Voice roles

Anime

List of voice performances in anime
Year Title Role Notes Source
5 Centimeters Per Second Takaki Tohno [21]
Bleach Ichigo Kurosaki [22]
Blood Lad Braz D. Blood [23]
Boys Be... Tsuyoshi Ueno Ep. 4, as Kevin Hatcher [24]
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion series Lelouch Vi Britannia [25][26]
Expelled from Paradise Frontier Setter [27]
2013 Fate/zero Ryunosuke Uryu [28][29]
Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club Makoto Tachibana [30][31]
Gurren Lagann Rossiu Adai [32]
K Saruhiko Fushimi [33]
2007–10 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Itsuki Koizumi 2 seasons [34][35]
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Orga Itsuka [36]
Sailor Moon Artemis Viz dub [37]
Sailor Moon Crystal Artemis [38]
Toradora! Yusaku Kitamura [39]
2000 Trigun Vash the Stampede [2][10][40]
2011 Trigun: Badlands Rumble Vash the Stampede [41]
2012 Blue Exorcist Yukio Okumura Also film [29][42]
2012 Persona 4: The Animation Yu Narukami [29]
2008 Lucky Star Daisuke Ono [29]
2006 Eureka Seven Renton Thurston [29]
2012 Sengoku Basara: The Last Party Sanada Yukimura [29]
2003 Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card Eriol Hiragizawa [29]
Gate Keepers Reiji Kageyama [10][40]
2001 Akira Shotaro Kaneda Pioneer dub [10]
2011 The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Itsuki Koizumi [43]
2014 Doraemon Noby [44]
2015 Magi: The Kingdom of Magic Titus Alexius [45]
Durarara!! series Izaya Orihara Also x2 [46][47]
2015 Yo-kai Watch Nathan Adams [48]
Wolf's Rain Kiba [5]
Naruto/Naruto Shippuden Sasori, others [5]
[[Naruto Shippuden Sasori, others [5]
Last Exile Claus Valca [5]


Animation

List of voice performances in animation
Year Title Role Notes Source
DC Super Friends Robin [49]
2008 Three Delivery Sid [29]

Video games

List of voice performances in video games
Year Title Role Notes Source
B-Daman Crossfire Mysterious Boy [29]
2008 Devil May Cry 4 Nero Also motion capture [2][29]
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice Almaz von Almandine Adamant [51]
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Additional voices [52]
Marvel Heroes Iron Fist [53]
Mortal Kombat X Kung Jin [54]
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Tohru Adachi [55]
2011 Star Wars: The Old Republic Torian Cadera [56][29]
The Last Remnant Rush Sykes [57]
2014 Tenkai Knights: Brave Battle Guren Nash, Bravenwolf [29]
2013 Killer Is Dead Tokio [29]
2012–13 Naruto series Genma Shiranui, Sasori, Yagura Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 [29]
2012 Binary Domain Kurosawa [29]
2009 Dissidia: Final Fantasy Firion [29]
2011 Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy Firion [29]
2010 Transformers: War for Cybertron Bumblebee [29]
2010 Super Street Fighter IV Yang [29]
2009 Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (video game) Dragon Knight, Onyx [29]
2009 MagnaCarta 2 Juto, Elgar [29]
2007 Eternal Sonata Fugue [29]
2006–07 .hack//G.U. series Kuhn Rebirth, Reminisce, Redemption [29]
2006 Baten Kaitos Origins Ven [29]
2006 Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria Kraad, Masato, Roland, Seluvia, Xehnon [29]


Discography

A list of Eyeshine albums:[58]

Studio albums
  • Red Stripes White Lights (2008)
  • My Paper Kingdom (2009)
  • Tone of Echoes (2010)
  • Sonosis (2011)
  • Revolution Airwaves (2012)
  • Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight (2013)
  • Sidewalk Dreams and Chalk Dust (2015)
EPs
  • How About That (2006)
  • I'm Dreaming On (2015)
Compilation albums
  • Afterglow (2011)
  • Xmas (2011)
  • Sansvox (2011) – Karaoke album
  • Like Yesterday (2012)
  • Sansvox II: Acoustic (2014) – Karaoke album

References

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  7. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Heist-Johnny-Yong-Bosch/dp/B00005V4XY
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  52. ^ Square Enix. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD. Scene: Closing credits, 1:54 minutes in, Voice Actors, Additional Voices.
  53. ^ @johnnyyongbosch (November 4, 2015). "It's been announced, I'm voicing #ironfist for #marvelheroes. Excited for this one!" (Tweet). Retrieved November 4, 2015 – via Twitter.
  54. ^ Brian Chard [@bcharred] (April 14, 2015). "Huge thanks to the stellar MKX voice actors: Troy @TroyBakerVA (Shinnok/EBlack/Fujin), Ronald M. Banks (Quan Chi); Ashly Burch (Cassie)..." (Tweet). Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Twitter.
    Brian Chard [@bcharred] (April 14, 2015). "... Steve Blum (SubZero/Reptile/Bo'RaiCho); Johnny Yong Bosch (Kung Jin); Andrew @AndrewSBowen (Johnny/Smoke/Rain); Greg Eagles (Jax/Baraka)" (Tweet). Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Twitter.
  55. ^ Bosch tweets concerning Persona 4 Ultimax:
  56. ^ BioWare (December 20, 2011). Star Wars: The Old Republic. Electronic Arts, LucasArts. Scene: closing credits, 9:50 in, English Cast.
  57. ^ Square Enix. The Last Remnant. Square Enix. Scene: Ending credits, 2:11 in, English Voice Recording, Cast.
  58. ^ "Eyeshine". Spotify. Retrieved March 4, 2016.

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