Anime Weekend Atlanta

Kson

Natalee Aukerman — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:30:03 +0000

Vtuber

The very first leader of Japan’s bousou-zoku gang.
After earning the title of Japan’s number one delinquent, saw its members gradually retire. Satisfied with her activities as a delinquent, she decided to aim for the top of the VTuber world next. With a wild personality that defies the conventions of VTubers, kson continues to shake up the VTuber scene, and her path to dominance is far from over… Currently, she is active mainly on YouTube and Twitch, continually growing their loyal fanbase in the VTuber community.

X | YouTube | Twitch | FanBox | Discord

MindaRyn

Natalee Aukerman — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:40:54 +0000

Singer

MindaRyn is a singer who has been exposed to Japanese anime since childhood and moved to Japan to pursue activities with the goal of singing anime songs. As a trilingual speaker fluent in Thai, Japanese, and English, she leverages her high language proficiency in her music, including covering English lyrics of anime songs as coupling tracks.

Her YouTube channel has over 1.1 million subscribers, featuring videos of her stage performances abroad, covers of popular anime songs, and her own tie-up songs arranged as acoustic covers and solo performances.

She has performed theme songs for numerous popular anime and tokusatsu series, including That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Ultraman Blazar, and Ultraman Omega.

Furthermore, in 2025, she is on her first world tour, Hello New Friends, traveling to countries such as Brazil, Sweden, Canada, and the United States. She is actively expanding her role as an “Anime Song Ambassador”!

Mariya Ise

Natalee Aukerman — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:40:31 +0000

Voice Actor

Not only is Mariya Ise popular as a voice actress, she is also highly active on stage. She is known for her wide acting range, performing everything from heroines to young boys to psychologically intense characters.

Notable works include:

“HUNTER×HUNTER” – Killua Zoldyck
“JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean” – Foo Fighters
“Chainsaw Man” – Himeno
“Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time” – Midori Kitakami
“Mobile Suit Gundam AGE” – Wendy Hertz
…among others.

Aya Uchida

Natalee Aukerman — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:40:20 +0000

Voice Actor

Aya Uchida is a Japanese voice actress known for her many roles in anime, radio, and games. Her roles include Kotori Minami in Love Live!, Arin Kannazuki in Trinity Seven, Kaban in Kemono Friends, and Kaede Furutani in Yuru Yuri, among many others. In her spare time she enjoys making desserts, crafting accessories, and hairstyling.

FLOW

Natalee Aukerman — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:55:21 +0000

Band

FLOW is a five-member mixture rock band consisting of KOHSHI (Vo), KEIGO (Vo), TAKE (Gt), GOT’S (Ba), and IWASAKI (Dr). Brothers KOHSHI (older brother, Vo) and TAKE (younger brother, Gt) began making music together in 1993 and formed FLOW in 1998. KEIGO (Vo) and GOT’S (Ba) joined in 1999, followed by IWASAKI (Dr) in 2000, completing the current lineup. Since their major debut in 2003 with the single “Blaster,” FLOW has released numerous hit songs powered by their signature twin-vocal melodies and diverse musical style. The band is particularly known for their strong connection with anime, having created iconic theme songs such as “GO!!!” (opening theme for NARUTO), “COLORS” (opening theme for Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion), and “Kaze no Uta” (opening theme for Tales of Zestiria the X).

FLOW has also been active internationally since 2006. From 2024 to 2025, they embarked on their largest world tour ever, “ANIME SHIBARI,” performing across Australia, North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. As a true live band, FLOW continues to cross borders and deliver their music to fans all around the world.

Their representative song “Sign,” the opening theme of NARUTO Shippuden, hassurpassed 140 million streams worldwide on Spotify, demonstrating their enduring global popularity.

Rolling Quartz

Natalee Aukerman — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:55:41 +0000

All Female K-Rock Band

Drums: YeongEun / Guitar: Hyun Jung Choi / Vocal: Ja Young / Guitar: Iree / Bass: Arem

Rolling Quartz are from Seoul, Korea. What blossomed as a flower, morphed into an INFERNO! A blazing destiny would have members of Rolling Girlz meet members ofRose Quartz which would birth the formation of the all-female quintet Rolling Quartz in August 2019. Their next level aspirations are to bring awareness and acceptance to all the musical talent that K-ROCK has to offer the global music community. We believe this is just the beginning of something really BIG!

Highlights
2021: Debut Single“Blaze”: Over 2 Million Spotify Streams Currently
2022: First EP “Fighting”: Debuted at #23 iTunes World Album Chart and #5 iTunes US Rock Albums Chart
2022: First US Performance: Globally Recognized OTAKON Cultural Convention in Washington DC. VIP and Standard Ticketing Sold Out
2022: Korean Hallyu “Korean Wave” Culture Award for ExcellenceBand Category
2023: First US TOUR: 8 Performances in 7 Cities
2023: 3rd Single“Fearless”: Over 3 Million Youtube views currently
2024: First EU TOUR: 6 Performances in 6 Cities (Paris, London, Amsterdam, Cologne, Berlin and Warsaw)
2024: Pulp Summer Slam March 23^th (The Philippines)
2024: Anime Detour from March 29^th – March 31^th (Minneapolis, MN)
2024: Yokifest June 28^th (Budapest, Hungary)
2024: Australia Tour
2025: 2nd EU TOUR: 13 Performances in 11 Cities (London, Amsterdam, Cologne, Paris, Lyon, Barcelona, Munich, Warsaw, Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm)
2025: 2^nd US and Canada Tour in 34 Cities

Social Media & Streaming

Hamu Cotton

Natalee Aukerman — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:55:41 +0000

Performer

Hamu Cotton is a Japanese cosplay performer and YouTuber based in California. She combines her favorite hobbies and passions – dancing, singing, acting, film, and event coordinating – to bring her favorite anime characters to life. She has been an active performer for 4 years, completing over 80+ performances in multiple countries. Hamu released her very first original song “HAMU ENERGY☆” and made her artist debut at Anime Expo. Along with her performance activities, she hosts her own specialized event called “HamuFest”, which kicked off a tour at the start of this year. Follow her social media @hamu_cotton to keep updated on her next activities and projects!

Kristen McGuire

Natalee Aukerman — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:54:32 +0000

Voice Actor

Kristen McGuire is a professional voice actor, artist, ADR director and script adapter with over 350 credits across anime and video games.

She is most well known for her work as the playable character Kachina in the Natlan region of Genshin Impact, Milim Nava in the anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Akane Kurokawa in Oshi No Ko, Young Vash in TRIGUN STAMPEDE. Isabel Magnolia in Attack on Titan, Ruri in Dr. Stone, Tatami Nakagame in My Hero Academia, Yu in Fire Force, Senko in The Helpful Fox Senko-san, Hinano Kurahashi in Assassination Classroom, Mukuro in Date A Live, Vueko in Made in Abyss, Alice Lendrott in Duke of Death and His Maid and many more!

She has also provided voices for several video games, including Pirilika in Disgaea 7, Biscuit and Rouge in Nikke: Goddess of Victory, Thor in Aether Gazer, Flora in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Aeval in Genshin Impact, Fee in Fire Emblem Heroes, and others. Kristen is also an award-winning anime artist. She draws all of her own autograph prints and offers anime-style caricatures of attendees at conventions.

MADKID

Natalee Aukerman — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:55:23 +0000

Band

MADKID is a Japanese boy group consisting of 2 rappers (LIN and YUKI) and 3 vocalists (YOU-TA, SHIN, KAZUKI) who formed in 2014 and made their major debut in 2018.

In 2019, the group released their single “RISE” for the TV anime series “The Rising of the Shield Hero”. The song quickly became a hit all over the world. They were later able to release their songs “FAITH”and “Bring Back”, as openings for the second season of the series.

In January 2023, MADKID released “PARANOID” as the theme song for the Netflix TV anime series “Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre”. In October of the same year, they released their single “SIN”, which became the opening theme song for Season 3 of “The Rising of the Shield Hero”. In December of that year, they released their single “FLY” as the opening theme for the TV anime series “Sasaki and Peeps”, which was released in January 2024.

In April 2024, the group released the single “Futatsu no Kotoba”, as the opening theme for the TV anime series “TADAIMA, OKAERI”. The following month, the group made their debut performance in Canada at Anime North, in Toronto. In October of this year, they released their single “Chaser”, as the opening theme for the TV anime series “Haigakura”.

In January-February 2025, the group held their first North American tour in collaboration with anime song-singer NANO. The tour was visiting 11 cities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

In October this year,they will release “Mad Pulse” as the theme song for the TV anime series “DIGIMON BEATBREAK”.

With their astonishing rap work and powerful vocals, they make for a one-of-a-kind performance.

May Hong

Natalee Aukerman — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:55:03 +0000

Voice Actor

May Hong is currently starring as “Mira” in the animated feature “Kpop: Demon Hunters,” Netflix’s latest sensation and global phenomenon. “Kpop” has consistently been their #1 Movie since its release. May has also been seen across Series and Films, including Steven Soderbergh’s “Full Circle” (Max), Julio Torres’ “Fantasmas” (Max), “Tales of the City” (Netflix), “Up Here” (Hulu), “Hacks” (Max), “High Maintenance” (HBO). She appeared in “Adam,” directed by Rhys Ernest, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.