Sacanime Summer 2021 Souvenir Book

GUESTS!
LUCI CHRISTIAN
Luci Christian- One Piece, Full Metal Alchemist, Ouran
High School Host Club, Dragon Ball Super and My Hero
Academia’s Ochaco Uraraka – voice actress and ADR script
writer Luci Christian!
Luci Christian is a voice actress and ADR script writer at
Funimation and Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks. She
has provided many voices for English versions of Japanese
anime series and films.
Her involvement in anime starts in ADV Films in Houston
where she had some bit parts in Those Who Hunt Elves that
involved about three hours of studio time. She did not hear
back for some time until she got cast in Neo Ranga. A few
weeks later, she auditioned and got her first starring role
as Kaname Chidori in Full Metal Panic!. In Super Gals! Ran
Kotobuki, she voices the title character who is a fun-loving
teenage gal in a family of police officers. In Prétear, she
voices main character Himeno Awayuki, a teenage girl who
ends up living with two stepsisters and becomes involved in a
magical girl fantasy. She also voiced teacher Yukari Tanizaki
in the school life comedy Azumanga Daioh.
Christian joined the voice actors who would regularly travel
from Houston to record with Funimation in Dallas. She had
supporting roles in Fullmetal Alchemist as guest character
Psiren and later as the recurring character Wrath. She voiced
actress Asako Kurumi in Funimation’s dub of Kodocha, and
a lead role as Rico in the girls-with-guns drama Gunslinger
Girl. In 2006, she voiced lead character Asuna Kagurazaka
in the school anime Negima, which is about a boy magician
who teaches at an all-girls middle school. She also landed
the lead role of Tenma Tsukamoto in the comedy School
Rumble, voiced the supporting role of Hitomi Kashiwa
in Welcome to the NHK, and voiced the youthfullooking
Mitsukuni “Honey” Haninozuka in Ouran High
School Host Club. After Funimation acquired the dubbing
rights for the long-running One Piece anime series, Christian
was selected to play its lead female navigator Nami.
In 2007, the American Anime Awards nominated her for
Best Actress for her work in Princess Tutu as the lead role of
Ahiru, and Best Actress in a Comedy for her work in Desert
Punk, Negima and Nerima Daikon Brothers.
In 2009, she voiced Kirino Chiba, the captain of a kendo
team in Bamboo Blade and Lenalee Lee in the fantasy
series D.Gray-man. In 2010, she voiced as Nagisa Furukawa
in the Clannad series, the title character in Birdy the Mighty
Decode and Makina Hoshimura from Corpse Princess.
She voiced Medusa in the Soul Eater anime series, which
was released on video in 2010 and later broadcast on
Cartoon Network in 2013. In 2011, she voiced Meryl Strife
in the English dub of anime feature film Trigun: Badlands
Rumble. In 2012, she voiced Nessa in Fractale, served as
the narrator for Okami-san and her Seven Companions and
Kamisama Kiss, and voiced companion devil Elsie in The
World God Only Knows.
In 2013, she voiced main characters Nagisa Motomiya in
AKB0048, Marika Kato in Bodacious Space Pirates, and
Himeko Inaba in the body-swapping anime series Kokoro
Connect. Christian voiced Chihaya Ayase in Sentai Filmworks’
English dub of the adaptation of Yuki Suetsugu’s manga
series Chihayafuru. Also in 2017, she had starring heroine
roles as Hestia in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a
Dungeon? and Stella Vermillion in Chivalry of a Failed Knight.
Most recently, she voiced Yurin in Dragon Ball Super,
Hiro Soma in Fruits Basket and is currently the voice
of Ochaco Uraraka in the hit anime series, My Hero
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Academia.
SACANIME SUMMER 2021 SEPTEMBER 3RD - 5TH, 2021