Exclusive Interviews

Hosts Sketch and CJ are joined by Steve Blum and Dana Swanson to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Toonami! Hear what the voices of the beloved hosts of the block had to say about Toonami’s amazing accomplishment, the impact these roles have had on them, and how Adult Swim came up with the scripts for the video game reviews! There’s a lot of love in the air, and we hope you check this episode out to show your support to the greatest action cartoon block on the planet.

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In this special episode of the FenaCast, Sketch and CJ have a chat with Brittany Cox the voice of Fena Houtman.

Music credits for this episode:

“Saihate” as performed by Minori Suzuki

Paul and Sketch interview the voice of Soma Yukihira on Food Wars, Blake Shepard. We talk about his acting career, voice acting, the anime he’s working on and of course we talk about Food Wars.

Sketch and Paul interview voice actor David Kaye, the voice of Sesshōmaru on Inuyasha and Yashahime as well as Treize Khusrenada on Gundam Wing. They talk about his various voice rolls on the block as well as about his career in voice acting.

CJ Maffris and Paul Pescrillo seat down with voice actor Josh Martin, the voice of Buu in DBZ, DBZ Kai and Dragon Ball Super. They talk about his role as Buu, his other roles, and what advice he gives to those that want to get into voice acting.

CJ had the chance to sit down and talk all things JoJo with the voice of Reimi, Kira Buckland. Both go in-depth about the franchise and the fanfare that follows. Later on, Kira talks about the pressure of being cast in Demon Slayer, as well as her experience with being cast in video games.

Christina Kelly returns to our podcast after 5 years for another interview with CJ, Paul and Sketch. We talk about Food Wars, recording now for Funimation, and other shows she is on.

CJ and Sketch interview voice actor John Gremillion. He voices Gentle Criminal on My Hero Academia and Roland Chapelle on Food Wars.

CJ Maffris and Paul Pescrillo interview Chris Wehkamp, the voice of Aizawa in My Hero Academia and Hinawa in Fire Force.

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CJ and Sketch talk with Kellen Goff about his time in My Hero Academia as the voice of Overhaul. The gang also chat about Kellen’s roles in Fire Force and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures.

CJ and Sketch seat down with voice actor Derick Snow, the voice of Shinra Kusakabe on the anime Fire Force, to talk about his many voice acting roles and how it feels to have a show on Toonami.

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VLord GTZ sits down with a group of other press members at Anime NYC to talk to voice actor Ray Chase.

Paul Pescrillo and CJ Maffris seat down with Jay Hickman, the voice of Joichiro Yukihira on Food Wars to talk about his character on the show and the other characters he’s played throughout his career.

Paul seats down with man who won Megalonia, Kaiji Tang. They talk about how he get started in his career, how he got the role of Joe on Megalo Box and about him playing the role of Vegeta on the Toonami Asia dub of Dragon Ball Super.

You can follow Kaiji Tang on Twitter @KaijiTang.

CJ and Darrell seat down with voice actress Emily Neves to talk Pop Team Epic as well as here career.

On this Toonami Faithful Exclusive Interview, Sketch was able to seat down for an interview with Colleen Clinkenbeard, the voice of Luffy on One Piece.

On the first interview of 2018, we sat down for an interview with Brian Drummond, the original voice of Vegeta. We talked about how he got his start in voice acting and how he recently was able to come back to Vegeta in Dragon Ball Super.

Sketch, Paul and CJ touch base with Gill Austin to discuss some of the ins and outs of building you a better cartoon show and look back on how much has changed in twenty years.

Music Credits:
“Moog Rockbox” by Chris Devoe

We get to know Jack with the tremendously talented Phil LaMarr, including some insight on the upcoming final season.

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Sketch, Paul and Jim have a chat with life-long actor Ben Diskin. We discuss his career starting from childhood touching his roles on several series such as Codename: Kids Next Door, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Blood+, Digimon and of course his recent role of Death Gun on Sword Art Online II.

Ben’s a true Toonami faithful who grew up on Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Outlaw Star, Gundam and the like and he straight up murdered us with some of his responses. So be warned, you might die laughing but there’s far worse ways to go.

We have a chat with Erica Mendez about Kill La Kill and Magi and ponder what various characters would look like wearing a Kamui.

Sketch, Paul and Darrell sit down with Tyler Loch the webmaster of Toonami Digital Arsenal to talk about the early days of Toonami fan sites, his many years archiving Toonami videos, his experience interacting with the Toonami staff and how working on the website sharpened his skills enough to start up his own software company. He also gives us some insight on how Toonami Digital Arsenal may change in the future and discusses some of his favorite shows that have aired on Toonami.

If by some chance you actually haven’t been to the the digital arsenal, be sure to check it out at www.ToonamiArsenal.com

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The band is back together to discuss the Toonami crew starting a live streaming show and why it will not be the end of this podcast in any way. Though this is our very last episode on Podomatic as we will be moving to Soundcloud in March.

We also discuss the lastest episodes of KILL la KILL and InuYasha: The Final Act as well as what changes my occur to the Adult Swim Saturday schedule if Dragon Ball Z Kai’s 8PM encores do exceedingly well.

Lastly, we have a chat with Bryce Papenbrook about his experience recording Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist, Tenkai Knights and other series along with screaming in his car, breaking microphones and how he has avoided having another sweet potato fry incident.

0:00 – Intro
4:20 – KILL la KILL Recap
20:54 – InuYasha: The Final Act Recap
30:45 – This Week on Toonami
40:10 – Toonami News
1:08:37 – Interview with Bryce Papenbrook
1:52:50 – Listener Mail / Sign-Off

Music Credits:
“Ignite” by Eir Aoi (First Opening for Sword Art Online II)

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Darrell, Paul and Sketch shoot the breeze with Michelle Ruff and discuss her work on Sword Art Online II, Gurren Lagann, Bleach and Lupin the 3rd. Also, Darrell gets what is coming to him.

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Jason DeMarco chats with Sketch and Paul about the recent changes to Toonami. He details why they came about and why the Toonami crew feel a sleeker block is actually for the better and why having less hours will not hurt Toonami’s plans or budget.

The conversation covers a range of topics including but not limited to the process of running Toonami and the various elements that go into it, why they cannot feasibly play every show’s full opening, what merchandising potential there is for Toonami, how music is selected for Toonami, whether or not old favorites could make it onto the block and why Toonami promos going forward wont always use a narrator in the traditional Toonami fashion.

Oh… and there’s some teases for what to expect from Intruder II and roughly when to expect it.

As always, thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy this exclusive interview.

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Your hosts in this exclusive are Sketch (Editor-In-Chief of ToonamiFaithful.com) and Paul Pescrillo (Founder of ToonamiFaithful.com)

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We speak with LeSean Thomas about his career in the animation community of America and Korea. He’s done everything from storyboarding and design work to directing and is now setting out to produce a pilot of his original series Cannon Busters through Kickstarter.

Listen to how he assembled the Cannon Busters crew, what shaped him as an artist and animator, what influences will go into the final product, what he hopes Cannon Busters can accomplish and what insight he has for aspiring artists.

For more about Cannon Busters, be sure to check out the KickStarter page where you see production designs and a video detailing the project. We implore you to lend your support how ever you can.

Yep, we’ve got Johnny Yong Bosch on the show. We talk Power Rangers, Trigun, Eureka 7 and of course Bleach and Space Dandy.

Before that, we recap the 2nd to last premiere episodes of Attack on Titan and Bleach and the sixth episode of Hellsing Ultimate in record time. During Attack on Titan Eren has trouble performing while everyone else tries to deal with Annie tranforming into a titan. Then on Bleach, Ginjo tries to drop a psychological bomb on Ichigo but Ichigo doesn’t care about the sudden reveal. Finally Seras and the Wild Geese protect the home base on Hellsing Ultimate.

We also have a boat load of news that we will likely discuss in greater length in our next episode and a sizable amount of listener mail.

00:00 – Intro
02:19 – Attack on Titan Recap
12:33 – Bleach Recap
20:00 – Toonami News
43:08 – Hellsing Ultimate Recap
53:00 – Interview with Johnny Yong Bosch
1:19:10 – Listerner Mail / Sign-Off

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Remember, we use an AAC feed now, which means you can skip to chapters using controls on your mobile devices and media players!

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Sketch and Paul chat with Gill Austin the co-creative director of Toonami who has been working on the block since it began on Cartoon Network.

Jim Nelson sits down with Wendee Lee at Otakon 2014 to discuss Bleach, Cowboy Bebop, and other roles in her vast voice-over career.

Sketch has a one on one interview with Jason Douglas the voice of Lord Beerus in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods, to discuss his career as a voice actor.

Our last episode of the year is here and we have Chris Cason in tow with the interview we recorded back at AAC. It’s finally here, PLUS a small little bonus that hopefully you will all enjoy.

Jim Nelson (Announcer On The Podcast) is basically the main host, but Jose Argumedo (Producer and Host) does pop up for 3 seconds. See if you spot him!

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Jim and Jose recap their time at Otakon to tide you over until the podcast returns.

NOTE: We recorded this last week, so some of this is way out of date.

Jose sits down with the voice of Naruto herself in this exclusive to the Toonami Faithful Podcast interview.

Our one-on-one interview with the legendary director of Cowboy Bebop reveals a show that you don’t want to miss.

Jim sits down with a one-on-one interview with recurring guest Kyle Hebert to talk Toonami, Wreck-It-Ralph and more!

Jim Nelson (Announcer on the podcast) flies solo on this interview.
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Jim is going solo, one more time. This time with ADR director for FUNimation, Zach Bolton!

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Jim is going solo on this one and he has an awesome chat with Bryce Papenbrook from the upcoming Sword Art Online. Check out his stuff at:

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From the One Year Anniversary episode, this special intro was made using comments from our amazing fans and hosts. We’d like to let you all have this as a separate little song from us.

Song: Contact – Daft Punk

We caught up with a special guest in the flesh back in January and sadly the interview was lost to time. Luckily, we found it and cleaned it up and now it’s here. We’re proud to present our KadeshFlow Interview…6 months later.

Jose is solo here, and without any stabilization so sorry about that. Also, some of the effects got screwy in the edit…er, sorry.

Multiple interviews from MomoCon, you won’t believe who we got on camera. Every Toonami fan is going to want to see this. Cameos abound by the staff! Thanks to MomoCon for being awesome!

We finally did it. This was very last minute but we finally came through and were able to get Steve Blum on the show. Now please stop requesting him.

Huge thanks to Steve for dropping by really late at night, right before Thanksgiving.

Your hosts this week are Paul Pescrillo (Creator of ToonamiFaithful.com), Jose Argumedo (Editor and Technical Director of the podcast), Daniel Sherlock (Webmaster of ToonamiFaithful.com) and Darrell Maddox (Yeah, he’s back. I don’t know why either).

Richie Branson returns to our show in this exclusive clip to discuss the tour and future plans.
Your host tonight is Jose Argumedo flying solo on camera.

Live in person Kyle Hebert returns to our show to spare a few minutes of his time after AFO.
Your host tonight is Jose Argumedo flying solo for the first time on camera.