Johnny Yong Bosch

Johnny Yong Bosch (born January 6, 1976) is an American actor, martial artist, voice actor and musician. His first major role was portraying Adam Park, the Black Power Ranger in the Power Rangers franchise. which led to roles in some martial arts films and television episodes. He provides the English voices for a number of anime productions and video games, including Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, Itsuki Koizumi in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Vash the Stampede in Trigun, Guy Cecil in Tales of the Abyss, Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Yu Narukami and Tohru Adachi in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series, Guren Nash/Bravenwolf in Tenkai Knights, Yukio Okumura in Blue Exorcist, Noby Nobi in Doraemon, Artemis in the Sailor Moon series Viz Media dub, and Yūsaku Kitamura in Toradora!. He is the front man of the band "Eyeshine". Bosch is located in Los Angeles and does most of his voiceover work at Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Animaze, New Generation Pictures, Studiopolis, and on some occasions will travel to Dallas to record shows for Funimation. Career Power Rangers Bosch is best known for his role as Adam Park in the show, replacing Walter Emanuel Jones' character Zack Taylor as the Black Power Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, for which he was cast in July 1994. In 1997 during Power Rangers Turbo he was kicked off the show due to Jason David Frank and Catherine Sutherland departing to leave the show; Saban decided to retire Bosch's and Nakia Burrise's characters without considering a re-shuffle of the cast. At the request of Koichi Sakamoto, he appeared in an episode of Power Rangers in Space in 1998 and later returned for two episodes (celebrating 15 years of the franchise) in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive in 2007. 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. He does the motion capturing and voice of Nero in Devil May Cry 4, making him the third actor involved with Power Rangers to have a role in the Devil May Cry series, after Reuben Langdon, who voices and motion capture for Dante in Devil May Cry 3 (and DMC4), and Daniel Southworth, who voiced and did motion capture for Vergil, also in DMC3, and for Credo, in DMC4.[citation needed] Recently, 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 [1000, 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, the first homosexual character, in the new Mortal Kombat X. Personal life Bosch was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Garland, Texas. His mother is Korean, and his father is of German and Irish descent.[citation needed]. He was interested in martial arts at an early age, and he officially started practicing wushu at the age of fifteen. He has also been trained in various other martial arts, such as jeet kune do, jujutsu, taekwondo, hapkido, judo, kickboxing, San soo style of kung fu and Filipino martial arts. He is also very interested in Japanese swordmanship and has trained in kendo, iaido and kenjutsu. He is married and has one daughter.