Johnny Yong Bosch

Johnny Yong Bosch

Birth name: John Jay Bosch
Born: January 6, 1976
Age: 48
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
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Biography

John Jay Bosch (born January 6, 1976), known as Johnny Yong Bosch, is an American actor, martial artist, voice actor and musician. His first major role was portraying Adam Park, the second Black Power Ranger in the Power Rangers franchise, which led to roles in some martial arts television and feature films. He provides the English voices for a number of anime productions and video games, including Vash the Stampede in Trigun, Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, Renton Thurston in Eureka Seven, Itsuki Koizumi in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Izaya Orihara in Durarara!!, Yukio Okumura in Blue Exorcist, and Noby in Doraemon. He is the front man of the band Eyeshine. Bosch is located in Los Angeles and does most of his voice-over work at Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Animaze, New Generation Pictures, Studiopolis, and on some occasions travels to Dallas to record shows for Funimation.

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Life and career

Bosch was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Garland, Texas. His father was a soldier in the Army and met his mother while stationed in South Korea. He was interested in martial arts at an early age, inspired by martial arts movies and Bruce Lee. He taught himself martial arts at first, mimicking moves from Lee as well as Jackie Chan. He said he was ridiculed a lot when he was young and became a bully, but made a change for the better after studying kung fu. In addition to training in martial arts, in which he won several competitions, he also played soccer.


Power Rangers

Bosch auditioned for the Power Rangers show in Dallas when he was informed by his martial arts instructor. In 1994, he landed the role of Adam Park, the new Black Power Ranger, in the second season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Bosch said that when he got the part, he changed his middle name to Yong, which was his mother's given name, at the request of Saban who thought his credited name needed to be more Asian. For the feature film Power Rangers: The Movie, he did all of his stunts after his stuntman had broken his leg. He also noted that among all the different animal characters the Rangers got to be associated, his was associated to a frog. In Power Rangers Zeo, Bosch's character became a Green Ranger. His final regular stint in the franchise was in Power Rangers Turbo, where his character passes his Green Turbo Ranger powers to a new member. He played Park in the second feature film Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. In looking back at his acting for the show, Bosch said that "Power Rangers was a lot of fun but it was a kid’s show and very cheesy because of it, which made getting work after that really hard. Plus, I didn’t know squat about acting then." His best friends on the set included Jason Frank (who played Tommy Oliver), Jason Narvy (who played Skull) and Nakia Burrise (who played Tanya Sloan). At the request of Power Rangers director Koichi Sakamoto, he had a guest appearance in the episode "Once A Ranger" 'in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive in 2007 for the franchise's 15th anniversary; where he mentioned he got to go to New Zealand. He and Narvy also starred in the film Wicked Game, also known as Extreme Heist, which was directed by Sakamoto and features several other Power Rangers alumni.

Voice acting

Bosch voiced Vash the Stampede in Trigun as his first job and for various Japanese anime, including notably Bleach as Ichigo Kurosaki 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. Bosch also voiced "Izaya Orihara" in Durarara in 2011. Among video games, Bosch liked voicing Nero in Devil May Cry 4 as he got to visit Japan to do the motion capture.

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 Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, 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, in the new Mortal Kombat X.

Eyeshine

Bosch got involved in music by teaching himself how to play guitar. In his band Eyeshine, he provides vocals, songwriting, and guitar. He describes the type of music he plays as "Edge Rock. We’re somewhere on the edge of sounding like Grunge, Alt. Rock, Punk and Pop." His musical inspirations include The Beatles, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Oasis, Led Zeppelin and also movie soundtracks.

The band released an instrumental album called Sonosis. Bosch described the album as "something you could just listen to and could move you to feel something" and that "the titles were a reflection of the emotions we felt as we wrote the songs".

Personal life

Bosch is of half Korean descent. He is the second oldest of four children in his family. He has mentioned being a Christian in some of his interviews. He is married, and has a daughter named Novi and a son named Jetson.


Filmography

Live-action roles

List of acting performances in film and television
Year Title Role Notes Source
000000001994-01-01-00001994-96 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Adam Park seasons 2-3
000000001995-01-01-00001995 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Adam Park
000000001996-01-01-00001996 Power Rangers Zeo Adam Park
000000001997-01-01-00001997 Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie Adam Park
000000001997-01-01-00001997 Power Rangers Turbo Adam Park 19 episodes
000000001998-01-01-00001998 Power Rangers in Space Adam Park 1 ep. Always a chance
000000002001-01-01-00002001 Wicked Game
(Extreme Heist)
Billy Ray Leung
000000002007-02-15-00002007-present Anime TV Host Video podcast
000000002011-10-29-00002011 Supah Ninjas Master Shin
000000002012-01-01-00002012 Death Grip Torch direct-to-video release
000000002014-01-01-00002014 Love Like Bullets
000000002007-01-01-00002007 Power Rangers Operation Overdrive Adam Park Eps. "Once A Ranger", 2 episodes


Voice roles

Anime

List of voice performances in anime
Year Title Role Notes Source
000000002001-01-01-00002001 Akira Shotaro Kaneda Pioneer dub
000000002001-01-01-00002001 Gate Keepers Reiji Kageyama
000000002003-01-01-00002003 Wolf's Rain Kiba
000000002003-01-01-00002003 Last Exile Claus Valca
000000002003-01-01-00002003 Trigun Vash the Stampede
000000002003-01-01-00002003 Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card Eriol Hiragizawa
000000002005-01-01-00002005-09 Naruto Sasori, others
000000002006-01-01-00002006 Boys Be... Tsuyoshi Ueno Ep. 4, as Kevin Hatcher
000000002006-01-01-00002006 Eureka Seven Renton Thurston
000000002006-01-01-00002006-14 Bleach Ichigo Kurosaki
000000002007-01-01-00002007 Gurren Lagann Rossiu Adai
000000002007-01-01-00002007-10 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Itsuki Koizumi 2 seasons
000000002007-01-01-00002007 5 Centimeters Per Second Takaki Tohno
000000002008-01-01-00002008 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion series Lelouch Vi Britannia
000000002008-01-01-00002008 Lucky Star Daisuke Ono
000000002010-01-01-00002010-present Naruto Shippuden Sasori, others
000000002010-01-01-00002010-present Durarara!! series Izaya Orihara Also x2
000000002010-01-01-00002010 Toradora! Yusaku Kitamura
000000002011-09-20-00002011 The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Itsuki Koizumi
000000002011-01-01-00002011 Trigun: Badlands Rumble Vash the Stampede
000000002012-01-01-00002012 Blue Exorcist Yukio Okumura Also film
000000002012-01-01-00002012 Persona 4: The Animation Yu Narukami
000000002012-01-01-00002012 Sengoku Basara: The Last Party Sanada Yukimura
000000002013-01-01-00002013 Fate/zero Ryunosuke Uryu
000000002013-01-01-00002013 Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club Makoto Tachibana
000000002014-01-01-00002014 Blood Lad Braz D. Blood
000000002014-01-01-00002014 Expelled from Paradise Frontier Setter
000000002014-01-01-00002014 K Saruhiko Fushimi
000000002014-07-07-00002014 Doraemon Noby
2014 Knights of Sidonia Nagate Tanikaze
2015 Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine Nagate Tanikaze
000000002015-01-01-00002015 Magi: The Kingdom of Magic Titus Alexius
000000002015-10-05-00002015 Yo-kai Watch Nathan "Nate" Adams
000000002015-01-01-00002015 Sailor Moon Artemis Viz dub
000000002015-01-01-00002015 Sailor Moon Crystal Artemis
000000002016-01-01-00002016 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Orga Itsuka


Animation

List of voice performances in animation
Year Title Role Notes Source
000000002008-01-01-00002008 Three Delivery Sid
000000002015-01-01-00002015 DC Super Friends Robin

Video games

List of voice performances in video games
Year Title Role Notes Source
000000002006-01-01-00002006-07 .hack//G.U. series Kuhn Rebirth, Reminisce, Redemption
000000002006-01-01-00002006 Baten Kaitos Origins Ven
000000002006-01-01-00002006 Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria Kraad, Masato, Roland, Seluvia, Xehnon
000000002007-01-01-00002007 Eternal Sonata Fugue
000000002008-02-05-00002008 Devil May Cry 4 Nero Also motion capture
000000002008-08-26-00002008 Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice Almaz von Almandine Adamant
000000002008-01-01-00002008 The Last Remnant Rush Sykes
000000002009-01-01-00002009 Dissidia: Final Fantasy Firion
000000002009-01-01-00002009 Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight Dragon Knight, Onyx
000000002009-01-01-00002009 MagnaCarta 2 Juto, Elgar
000000002010-01-01-00002010 Transformers: War for Cybertron Bumblebee
000000002010-01-01-00002010 Super Street Fighter IV Yang
000000002011-01-01-00002011 Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy Firion
000000002011-01-01-00002011 Star Wars: The Old Republic Torian Cadera
000000002008-01-01-00002008-present Naruto series Genma Shiranui, Sasori, Yagura Including Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, and Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
000000002012-01-01-00002012 Binary Domain Kurosawa
000000002013-06-04-00002013 Marvel Heroes Daniel Rand / Iron Fist
000000002013-10-18-00002013 B-Daman Crossfire Mysterious Boy
000000002013-01-01-00002013 Killer Is Dead Tokio
000000002014-01-01-00002014 Tenkai Knights: Brave Battle Guren Nash, Bravenwolf
000000002014-01-01-00002014 Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Tohru Adachi
000000002015-03-17-00002015 Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Additional voices
000000002015-01-01-00002015 Mortal Kombat X Kung Jin


Discography

A list of Eyeshine albums:

Studio albums
  • Red Stripes White Lights (2008)
  • My Paper Kingdom (2009)
  • Tone of Echoes (2010)
  • Sonosis (2011)
  • Revolution Airwaves (2012)
  • Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight (2013)
  • Sidewalk Dreams and Chalk Dust (2015)
EPs
  • How About That (2006)
  • I'm Dreaming On (2015)
Compilation albums
  • Afterglow (2011)
  • Xmas (2011)
  • Sansvox (2011) - Karaoke album
  • Like Yesterday (2012)
  • Sansvox II: Acoustic (2014) - Karaoke album

[ Source: Wikipedia ]

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