Zombriel

Cosplay Celebrity

Cosplay & Anime Bio

Zombriel, who is originally from Wisconsin, came to Texas to experience its vast cosplay opportunities and be a part of creating a community. An award winning craftsman cosplayer, she enjoys giving back to her community by visiting children’s hospitals, helping create a cosplay community, and providing guidance to aspiring cosplayers.

Zombriel

Cosplay Celebrity

Cosplay & Anime Bio

Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Astin was introduced to the world of cosplay by her mom, a long-time Star Trek fan, after expressing her disappointment over getting “too old” to dress up for Halloween. She officially picked up the craft in 2016 with her Armin Arlert cosplay and has been going strong ever since.

Using the knowledge of sewing and garment altering she gained from her previous projects working on costumes for various ballet recitals and shows to start her craft, the Abilene local has steadily accumulated more skills, specializing in sewing and in styling complex wigs, most recently delving into foam work and prop-making.

Outside of her cosplay life, she works as a ballet teacher, having been a professional dancer for five years before moving on to the teaching life. She also plays her accordion in whatever time she has left.

Ithileryn

Cosplay Celebrity

Cosplay & Anime Bio

Ithileryn is an award-winning and published cosplayer and photographer from Denton, Texas. While always drawn to makeup, hair styling, costuming, and performance from a professional dance background along with her fascination with videogames, anime, and fantasy genre lore, it was inevitable that she would discover cosplay! Since 2017, she has hand-made, tailored, and modeled dozens of costumes. Her specialties include makeup artistry, wig styling, patterning, sewing, photography, and set design, and she is well known for emulating characters' physicality and mannerisms, bringing them to life. She has been featured in multiple cosplay magazines including being the cover feature of Cosplay Realm Magazine’s Holiday issue and a special Avatar issue for Creative Cosplay Magazine, as well as been featured in online cosplay and nerd journals, such as Kotaku, Dexerto, CBR, and many more. Her most notable cosplays include Jinx (League of Legends), Elizabeth (BioShock), Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop), and Raven (Teen Titans); however, she cosplays from many sources, including anime, film, television, cartoons, comics, and videogames, along with creating her own original concepts and designs.

BCharlotteD

Cosplay Celebrity

Cosplay & Anime Bios

Hi! I am Charlotte! I do acting, modeling, and cosplays! Follow my page for all my cosplay's and creations! Thanks loves S2

I love to do cosplays and acting! Love video games, anime, movies, and all things nerdy! Feel free to tag me in photos or message me for photoshoots!

Awards

Best Costume at NTX Comic Book Show 2017 as Suicide Squad Harley Quinn

Judges Award at All-Con 2017 as Female Star-Lord

First Place at Dallas Comic Show with Star-Lord

Judge at Geekend Comic Day, Dallas Comic Show

Judge and Special Guest at Anime Sekai 2019, and more

Featured on Game Stops Instagram and Twitter

Collaborated with Where Da Waifu and Luca Jackets

Sephi Hakubi

Special Guest DJ

Sephi Hakubi is a Progressive EDM and Hard Dance DJ and multi-media producer based in San Antonio, Texas who manages HakubiVerse, an otaku entertainment label that focuses on rave culture with Japanese-fandom influences, pioneering the style he calls AnimEDM. Beyond HakubiVerse, Sephi has been associated with many dance music collectives all over the world such as Neon Genesis Hardcore, JDS: Just Don’t Stop Productions, Dream Drop Productions, eQlipse, and Team Brisk. Sephi utilizes his experiences in many of his interactions to become what he’s described as a “multi-media culture masher”, establishing the correlation between anime and electronic music. Sephi strives to make the electronic dance community relevant for fans by formulating his AnimEDM philosophy, a style of unique sounds and sights influenced from Progressive House, Trance, Eurodance, Hard Dance, and Hardcore music with Japanese inspirations. This AnimEDM philosophy encourages a place of friendship, musical freedom, and celebration for anime and rave fandom in hopes of providing a community for fans, known as Nightkids, seeking a realm of hope and happiness.

Sephi Hakubi’s style and philosophy amassed significant attention in the anime and rave scene as he performed for the masses at FAN:dom Con, San Japan, SukoshiCon, Realms Con, IKKiCon, Okashicon, MechaCon, Animatic Con, Anime Oklahoma, and Waifufest; as well as festivals such as Unite As One, Tonyc Summer Jam, and Texas Silent Disco. Sephi was also honored to open for internationally recognized DJs like FYER (Bobby Duque & Gabriel Guardian), Kenneth Thomas, Darude, JJ Flores, Donald Glaude, Made Monster, Ferry Corsten, Fracus & Darwin, BT, Zoe VanWest, Shawn Jackson, Hartshorn, AliceOfSin, and Jimni Cricket. These experiences brought Sephi much valued wisdom during his adventures playing with world-renowned industry performers, and these interactions and experiences would inspire his music with releases like Oceandrive and Once Upon a Space, released on HakubiVerse and available on many digital music shops and streaming services. Sephi continues to work in his music production while developing his own music label to define his AnimEDM concept for his fans to enjoy.

Links & Social Media
Sephi Hakubi Website: https://www.sephihakubi.com
HakubiVerse Website: https://www.hakubiverse.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SephiHakubi
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/SephiHakubi
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sephihakubi
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1WhWKMsaQ3QKgzD1KjnIj5
SoundCloud: https://www.soundcloud.com/sephihakubi
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/sephihakubi
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/sephihakubi
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sephihakubi

Kydol

Celebrity Cosplayer

Ky, also known as _kydol on socials, is a DFW-based cosplay idol and dancer! Her first ever cosplay was in 2016, and it’s been history ever since! She’s even now creating her own cosplays by hand! With over 15+ years of dance experience and a growing love for idols, Ky decided to join an idol group in 2022, which is now known as Love Bomb Idols ♡! Ever since becoming a cosidol, Ky has had the opportunity to perform all around the DFW, and has now been given the opportunity to perform outside the DFW as well! When Ky isn’t performing her heart out, she can be found learning new skills, posing for photos, sewing, or styling wigs! She is looking forward to meeting all of you at this year’s Anime Sekai! 💗🎉

Paul St. Peter

Voice Actor

Paul is an American voice actor who works on English-language productions of Japanese anime shows. He voiced Punch in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Mondego in Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, Kurama in Naruto, Yammy in Bleach, Jorgun in Gurren Lagann, and Higa in Durarara!!, and can be heard as various Digimon (the most recognized being Leomon). Some of his notable roles in video games include: Xemnas in the Kingdom Hearts series and Yuan Shao in Dynasty Warriors. He's best known for voicing Xemnas in the Kingdom Hearts series.

In the Mortal Kombat series, he does the voice of Nightwolf and Havik in Mortal Kombat: Deception. In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, he does the voice of Taven. St. Peter also acted as the narrator for the character endings in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.

Bcharlottedcosplay

Cosplay Guest

Hi! I am Charlotte! I do acting, modeling, and cosplays! Follow my page for all my cosplay's and creations! Thanks loves S2

I love to do cosplays and acting! Love video games, anime, movies, and all things nerdy! Feel free to tag me in photos or message me for photoshoots!

Awards

Best Costume at NTX Comic Book Show 2017 as Suicide Squad Harley Quinn

Judges Award at All-Con 2017 as Female Star-Lord

First Place at Dallas Comic Show with Star-Lord

Judge at Geekend Comic Day, Dallas Comic Show

Judge and Special Guest at Anime Sekai 2019, and more

Featured on Game Stops Instagram and Twitter

Collaborated with Where Da Waifu and Luca Jackets

Noura Cosplay

Cosplay Guest

Noura started cosplaying back in 2015 with a thrifted Claire Redfield costume from Goodwill; since then, her love for sewing took off strong, and she is now an award-winning seamstress in the master level division. Her main focus is finely sewn costumes and fresh new designs that she can share with other con goers and cosplayers.

Patreon: Noura Cosplay

Geordie Holly

Cosplay Guest

Geordie Holly is a British up-and-coming cosplayer and voice actor based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas.

Cosplay accomplishments:

Anime North Texas cosplay contest: Judges award 2015

Anime North Texas Cosplay contest: First place in Masters category 2016

I’ve been attending conventions and actively cosplaying since 2015, and started competing in 2015.

My favourite thing about conventions is making new friends with the same interests as me. I am so lucky to have met the friends I have now, and it is all because of conventions!

By day, I am a zookeeper and I love all kinds of animals!

I have been acting since I was 13 in the UK, and since relocating to Texas, I have started voice acting. I currently play 'Hood' on the upcoming game 'Victory Belles' and have multiple other roles that have not yet been released.

Mystix Panda

Cosplay Guest

My name is Mystix Panda, but most call me Panda or MP. I’ve been cosplaying for 15 years, made 85 percent of all my cosplays and all of my props. I build, sew, and craft!! The other 15 percent are a few morph suits. I fell in love with cosplay as soon as I found out about it. I had always loved theater and dressing up, and making clothes was already a thing for me. Renfaires also were a big part of my life. I get excited every time I see a character that I think I could do well and connect with.

I will be doing 3 panels this year!!
1. Cosplay on a budget
2. Anime scenes from a hat
3. Anime bloopers/dub lovers!!
You can reach me and see my stuff at:
Instagram.com/mystix_panda and at Twitch.tv/mystix_panda – watch me play games and do random chats and cooking lol.

Whitney Rodgers

Professional Model & Voice Actor

Whitney Rodgers is a Voice Actress, model, and singer best known for her roles as “Meiko Shiraki” in Prison School and “Yozora” from Haganai and Haganai NEXT!. Whitney has just recently been announced as “Lotta Hart” in FUNimation’s “Ace Attorney” and has played many other characters including: “Margaret” in One Piece, “Artemis” from Maria the Virgin Witch, “Amelia Evans” in Freezing Vibration, and more. Whitney has also lent her voice to SMITE for the playable characters of "Ordo Solarus Amaterasu" and "Leona Genesis Jet Pack Fighter."

When she is not actively recording voice-overs, Whitney enjoys: going to the gym, drinking gallons of coffee, watching Cutthroat Kitchen, playing Tetris Attack, and giving her cat Chihiro too much attention. You can follow her on Instagram: Whitney_Rodgers_Model or on Facebook: Whitney Rodgers Voice Actress