In-Person Autograph Policy
- Attendees are entitled to one complimentary autograph per guest. The complimentary item may not be a Funko Pop or Pop Box (the box that the figure comes in). All items will be signed at the guests discretion. After one complimentary autograph, additional autographs may be purchased at a limit of 2 additional items per line rotation. Purchasing additional items will require the attendee to exit the line and re-enter. Autographs are not guaranteed and will be accounted for as time allows
- Guests may charge for additional autographs/selfies/videos. Guests set their own autograph prices and all sales are final.
- Waiting in line does not guarantee an autograph. Guests may refuse to do an autograph/selfie/video at their personal discretion.
- In fairness to others waiting in line, limit your interactions with the Guests to a minute or less unless otherwise indicated by the Guest.
- Do not solicit autographs from Guests outside of designated signing times and location.
- Bulk autographs are prohibited unless arranged by Guest and Staff in advance and may not take place on the convention floor or during scheduled panel times/autograph sessions.
- Do not touch any Guest without their permission.
Prohibited Items:
- Bootleg/Pirated/Unofficial Merchandise
- Items that contain profanity, gore, mature or inappropriate content
Allowed Items:
- Licensed/Official Merchandise
- Anime St. Louis badges/program books
- Fan-creations, including fanart
- Merchandise/prints purchased from Guest
Gift Policy
- Guests may accept or refuse gifts at their own discretion.
- Allowed gifts include: Fanart, small handmade crafts.
- Prohibited gifts include: Large items, food of any kind.
Failure to adhere to the autograph policy can result in your badge being revoked.
THIS YEAR'S GUESTS
Barbara Goodson is an American voice actress who has done voice-over work in live action, cartoons, video games, audiobooks, anime, and foreign dubbing movies and episodic shows into English. Her best-known role was providing the English dub voice of the main villain Empress Rita Repulsa in the Power Rangers franchise, starting with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and including Power Rangers Zeo, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, and Power Rangers in Space and most recently the 30th Anniversary Special Once and Always as Robo Rita on Netflix.
She also voiced Prince Sprocket and Orbus in Power Rangers Zeo, and Mandilok in Power Rangers Wild Force. One of her other favorites was Red Fraggle and Wingnut in Jim Henson’s cartoon series Fraggle Rock as well as Cruella Deville for Disney on Ice, Mother Talzin on Star Wars: The Clone Wars in which she received a Best Actress award from Behind The Voice Actors.
Her other notable roles include Granny Chiyo from Naruto, one of the first Kid Goku’s aka Zero in Dragon Ball Z, Naota in FLCL, Laharl in Disgaea, the Queen of England in Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knights, the old lady in The Bad Guys and Enhatu in the soon to be released video game Asgard’s Wrath. Barbara also voiced Tom in HBO’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer and classic anime shows such as Doris in Vampire Hunter D, Takashi and Kaori in Akira and Marie Crystal and Sera in Robotech.
For her work in the series CloudBread, as Wooley, Ruis, the Grandmas and Teacher Ellie, she and her fellow cast members were nominated for Best Children’s Programming in 2011 for an Annie Award. She was also proud to be awarded an Earphones Award for narrating Blair Clemons in the Time/Warner book On a Night Like This.
Barbara is so very grateful to be able to continue to do what she loves to do and to have the privilege of meeting the people who enjoy her work and grew up listening to her throughout the years!
Chris Cason has voiced Mr. Popo and Tien Shinhan in “Dragon Ball Z”, Agent Shao in “Battle of Gods”, “Resurrection F”, and “Dragon Ball Super: Broly”, Gluttony in “Fullmetal Alchemist”, Holy Roman Empire in “Hetalia”, Face McShooty and Mal in “Borderlands 2”, Tecchi in “Sword Art Online 2”, Jack the Ripper in “Soul Eater”, Miyamoto and M1 in “Yu Yu Hakusho”, Taruru in “Sgt. Frog”, Boo and Whitey in “Shin Chan”, Hanai in “School Rumble”, Ukyo in “Ouran High School Host Club”, Chamo in “Negima”, Babbit in “Kodocha”, Siegfried in “Kenichi”, and Hanbei in “Sengoku Basara” represent some of Chris’s favorite and best known roles.
As an ADR Director, Chris has had the pleasure of directing/asst. directing such titles as: One Punch Man, Dragonball Z Uncut, Dragonball, Dragonball GT, Yu Yu Hakusho, Negima, Kodocha, Galaxy Railways, Baki the Grappler, School Rumble, Hell Girl, Kaze no Stigma, Bamboo Blade, Birdy the Mighty: Decode, Initial D, Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, The Asterisk War, The Seven Deadly Sins, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Mob Psycho 100, and Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World.
As a writer, he has adapted and/or assisted on scripts for Case Closed, Negima, Witchblade, Ouran HighSchool Host Club, Bamboo Blade, AM Driver, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Blood Lad, Initial D, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Occultic; Nine, Magi: The Kingdom of Magic, and The Seven Deadly Sins.
He has also had the opportunity to be a part of many popular video games. Some of his favorites were: voicing random ghouls and specters for Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Mega Man in Street Fighter X Tekken, Tatsu in Xenoblade Chronicles X, Face McShooty in Borderlands 2, and Forsyth in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. For additional information, visit “Chris Cason’s Anime Chuckle Hut” on Facebook, Casonworld on Twitter, and chriscason180 on Instagram.
Cynthia Cranz is an American actress primarily known for her extensive voice work dubbing anime shows, many that have aired on the Cartoon Network and Toonami. The Fort Worth, Texas native has been acting professionally since 1993, performing in theater, commercials, industrial videos, music videos, PSA’s, infomercials, TV, film, commercial print, video games and voice over.
In 1999 she was one of the first actors cast by Funimation Entertainment in their Flagship Show Dragon Ball Z, voicing the roles of Chi Chi and Mrs. Briefs, and continues to voice those roles presently. Other notable roles include: Boton – Yu Yu Hokusho, Mitzy – Shin Chan, Mitch – Case Closed (Detective Conan), Paninya – Fullmetal Alchemist, Chieko – Princess Jellyfish, Tsurara – Rosario and The Vampire, Lisa – Summer Wars, Coach Mo – Big Wind Up and Pipimi in Pop Team Epic.
Recently she reprised her roles as Mitsuru (Mii) in Fruits Basket and Bellemere in One Piece. She can also be heard as the voice of Sister Bikini – Ace Attorney, Shiizaki – Date A Live, Melida – Wise Man’s Grandchild, Serena – Love Esquire, Mineko – Citris, Lisa – Soul Eater, Ferro – GunSlinger Girls, Dog Woman – Desert Punk, Meow’s Mom – Space Dandy, Elena – Claymore, Lisa – The Galaxy Railways, Kyoko – Witchblade, Karin – B’t X, Nao – Shiki, Lilith – Trinity Blood, Rieko – Spiral, Mika – Burst Angel, Sara – D. Grey-Man, My Hero Academia, Attack On Titan and hundreds of other roles in Anime and video games over the past 2 decades. She is very excited to announce her role as Miss Babcock in the upcoming Jam Productions and Netflix series, Jet Boy! When not in the booth, Cynthia enjoys riding and showing horses, a life- long passion and sport, as well as reading, cooking, gardening and piddling around the house which she shares with her husband, three legged lab, German Shepherd rescue, parakeet and 3 fish.
Lisa Reimold is a voice actress known best for her work in anime, including Aira in DANDADAN and Falin in Delicious in Dungeon. She also works on video games such as Fire Emblem: Engage as Framme and voices Ivy Pepper in the upcoming animated series for Lackadaisy!
Michelle Marie is a storyteller—a calling that began at the age of six after her parents took her to see her first musical. Throughout her childhood, she participated in as much community theatre as she could, this love of storytelling eventually leading her to pursue voice over professionally in 2016.
Leaving her beloved home-state of Oregon behind, she moved to LA in 2018 and has since lent her voice to 100+ roles in original animation, anime, and video games, including: My Melody and Chococat in Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures, Niffty in Hazbin Hotel (Pilot), Anis in Nikke: Goddess of Victory, Millium Orion in Trails of Cold Steel III & IV, Runa Sasaki in My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv. 999, Hanna Suiro in Beyblade Burst QuadDrive, Nana in Talentless Nana, and Tatiana in Undead Unluck. Check out her IMDB for more!
Outside of voice-over, Michelle tells stories in other mediums as well. “It’s not like I like you,” is a duet that features her original lyrics and vocals and has amassed over 30 million views on YouTube. She also published a Young Adult dystopian novel called “Al Eyes”, the first in a trilogy series. The book is available now at Barnes & Noble and Amazon!
Fun facts: Michelle loves sheep, particularly Wooloo, and lived in Japan as an exchange student for two years.
You can follow her story on Twitter (MichelleAMarie) and Instagram (MichelleAMarieVO).
Pros and Cons Cosplay are twin Master-level cosplayers from the Midwest who have a strong understanding of cosplay construction, cosplay competition and diversity and inclusion. They have competed and won numerous awards for cosplay craftsmanship and performance and focus on complex builds with multiple design elements including needlework, foamwork, wig styling, and intricate detailing. They are dedicated to making the cosplay community a safe and inclusive space for all, and work personally and professionally on developing inclusive cosplay contest policies, educating the community on bystander intervention techniques, social justice and inclusion in the cosplay and costuming community.
Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
IG: Instagram.com/prosandconscosplay
Website: https://meetprosandcons.com/
SungWon Cho is a voice actor you may have heard in Delicious in Dungeon, Lackadaisy, God of War: Ragnarok, Borderlands 3, Aggretsuko, Ranking of Kings, One Piece, Pluto, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Bigtop Burger, Pokemon, Neon White, AI: The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative, Like a Dragon, Granblue Fantasy, Odd Taxi, Craig of the Creek, Tuca & Bertie, OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, Monster Prom, and more. You may also know him from YouTube. He loves his cats Effie and Sophie very much.
Tracy Butler is the series creator of Lackadaisy, based on her award winning, Eisner nominated comic by the same name.
Coming from St. Louis where she had initially worked in the game industry as an illustrator, concept artist, and 3d animator, Tracy switched gears to comic-making in the mid 2010s to follow after her own passion for telling stories about cats, crime, and history.
More recently, she’s teamed up with animator/showrunner Fable Siegel and the founder of Iron Circus Comics, Spike Trotman, to produce Lackadaisy as an animated series. Since the release of the pilot episode, they have gone on to break crowdfunding records in seeking to finance the series independently.
Find Tracy’s comic work at Lackadaisy.com, and follow the progress of the animated series at YouTube.com/LackadaisyComic