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Johnny Yong Bosch (born January 6, 1976)[1] is an American actor, musician, singer, and martial artist. His first major role was the portrayal of Adam Park, the second Black Power Ranger and later, the Green Zeo Ranger and first Green Turbo Ranger in the Power Rangers franchise, which led to roles in some martial arts television and feature films. Bosch is located in Los Angeles and does most of his voice-over work at Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Animaze, New Generation Pictures, NYAV Post, Studiopolis and on some occasions travels to Dallas to record shows for Funimation. As a voice actor his most notable roles were as Vash the Stampede from Trigun, Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach and Sabo from One Piece.

Johnny Yong Bosch
Bosch in 2007
Born	John Jay Bosch (1976-01-06) January 6, 1976 (age 46) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Other names	Kevin Hatcher
Occupation	Actor musician singer martial artist
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Amy Bosch ​ (m. 2003)​
Children	2
Musical career
Instrument(s)	Vocals guitar
Musical artist
Website	eyeshine.net

Life and career

Bosch was born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Garland, Texas, as John Jay Bosch.[2][3][4] 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.[2][3] He taught himself martial arts at first,[3] mimicking moves from Lee as well as Jackie Chan.[5] Bosch 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.[5][3]

Power Rangers and others projects

Bosch auditioned for the Power Rangers show in Dallas after being informed of the audition by his martial arts instructor.[2] In 1994, he landed the role of Adam Park, the new Black Power Ranger, replacing Walter Emanuel Jones 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 part of his mother's given name, at the request of Saban who thought his credited name needed to be more Asian.[5] For the feature film Power Rangers: The Movie,[2] he did all of his stunts after his stuntman had broken his leg.[5] He also noted that among all the different animal characters the Rangers got to be associated, his was associated to a frog.[6][7] 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.[2] He played Adam in the second feature film Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie.[5][2] 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."[2] His best friends on the set included Jason David Frank (who played Tommy Oliver), Jason Narvy (who played Skull) and Nakia Burrise (who played Tanya Sloan).[5] At the request of Power Rangers director Koichi Sakamoto, he had a guest appearance in the Power Rangers Operation Overdrive episode "Once A Ranger" in 2007 for the franchise's 15th anniversary, where he mentioned he got to go to New Zealand.[6] 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.[8][9]

In July 2019, a crowdfunding campaign for the film Legend Of The White Dragon, including Jason David Frank, Bosch, Jason Faunt, Ciara Hanna, Yoshi Sudarso, Chrysti Ane and Jenna Frank, was launched on kickstarter.[10]

In 2020, he directed his first film Ark Exitus starring Jason Narvy.

Voice acting

Bosch made his voice acting debut as main character Kaneda from the cult classic anime film Akira In 2001, His other most famous voice over role was the main character of Vash the Stampede in the title show Trigun, he worked once again with Koichi Sakamoto on the film Broken Path. In the same year, Bosch was also cast as the lead role of Ichigo Kurosaki in the hit shonen anime Bleach. In 2007, Bosch co-starred alongside Ray Park in a comic-book style action film, Hellbinders. Among other works, Bosch also voiced Lelouch in Code Geass in 2008, and Izaya Orihara in Durarara in 2011. Johnny voiced Yun Arikawa in the 2021 Netflix kaiju anime series, Godzilla Singular Point.

In video games, Bosch has voiced Firion, the protagonist of Final Fantasy II, in the crossover games Dissidia: Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. In 2011, he voiced Yang in Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Tohru Adachi and the protagonist Yu Narukami in the Persona 4 games and its anime adaptation. In 2014, Bosch also voiced main character Hajime Hinata from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. In 2015, he voiced Kung Jin in Mortal Kombat X. Among video games, Bosch liked voicing Nero in Devil May Cry 4 as he got to travel to Japan to do the motion capture. He reprise his role of voicing Nero in its following Devil May Cry 5. In the same year, Bosch landed the role of Artemis in Viz Media's redub of Sailor Moon as well as Sailor Moon Crystal. Bosch also voiced lead character Nate Adams from Yo-kai Watch which has aired on Disney XD in the US.[11]

On July 4, 2017, he voiced Broccoli Punch in Cartoon Network's Mighty Magiswords, recording with fellow Power Rangers actor Paul Schrier.[12] He reprised his role as Broccoli Punch, as well as playing the Giant Monster and Whiney, in the second season two-part episode "The Incredible Tiny Warriors".

In 2019, Bosch replaced Vic Mignogna as the voice of Broly and Sabo for the Funimation dub of the Dragon Ball and One Piece franchises respectively, due to the sexual harassment allegations against Mignogna.[13]

Music

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."[2] His musical inspirations include The Beatles, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Oasis, Led Zeppelin and also movie soundtracks.[6]

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".[6]

The band gave their final performance at Yama-Con in December 2017.[14]

In 2018, Johnny formed a new band with former Eyeshine guitarist Masataka "Polo" Yazaki called Where Giants Fall.[15] They released their first self-titled studio album on November 25, 2021.[16]

Personal life

Bosch was born to a Korean mother and an American father of Irish and German descent. He is the second of four children in his family.[5][2][7] He married Amy Bosch on March 21, 2003. He has a daughter named Novi and a son named Jetson.[2][17][18][19]

Filmography

Voice over roles

Anime

List of dubbing performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2000	Trigun	Vash the Stampede		[2]
2001	Gate Keepers	Reiji Kageyama		[20][21]
2002	Witch Hunter Robin	Haruto Sakaki
2003	Last Exile	Claus Valca		[6]
2004	Wolf's Rain	Kiba		[6]
	Le Portrait de Petit Cossette	Eiri Kurahashi
	Heaven and Earth	Masataka Takayanagi	As Kevin Hatcher
2005	Gankutsuou	Albert de Morcerf
	Samurai Champloo	Shinsuke	Episode 7
	Fullmetal Alchemist	Lujon	Episode 35	[22]
2005–09	Naruto	Genma Shiranui		[6]
2006	Boys Be...	Tsuyoshi Ueno	Ep. 4, as Kevin Hatcher	[23]
	Eureka Seven	Renton Thurston		[24]
2006–07	Haré+Guu	Chat	As Kevin Hatcher	[25]
2006–14	Bleach	Ichigo Kurosaki		[26]
2007–10	The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya	Itsuki Koizumi	2 seasons	[27][28]
2008	Gurren Lagann	Rossiu Adai		[29]
	Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion series	Lelouch vi Britannia		[30][31]
	Lucky Star	Daisuke Ono		[24]
2009–19	Naruto: Shippuden	Sasori		[6]
2011–16	Durarara!! series	Izaya Orihara	Also Durarara!!×2	[32][33]
2012	Blade 2012	Djalal	Episode 7
	Persona 4: The Animation	Yu Narukami, Tohru Adachi		[24]
2012–17	Blue Exorcist series	Yukio Okumura	Blue Exorcist: The Movie and Kyoto Saga	[24][34]
2013	Pokémon Origins	Brock		[35]
	Eureka Seven: AO	Renton Thurston		[24]
	Fate/Zero	Ryunosuke Uryu		[24][36]
	K	Saruhiko Fushimi	also Return of Kings and Movie	[37]
2014	Blood Lad	Braz D. Blood		[38]
	Doraemon	Noby		[39]
	Toradora!	Yusaku Kitamura		[40]
2014–15	Knights of Sidonia	Nagate Tanikaze	Netflix dub
2015	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Jonathan Joestar	Phantom Blood	[41]
	Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club	Makoto Tachibana	Also Eternal Summer and Dive to the Future	[42][43][44]
	Magi: The Kingdom of Magic	Titus Alexius		[45]
2015–17	Yo-kai Watch	Nathan "Nate" Adams, Hovernyan	also Movie	[46]
	Sailor Moon Crystal	Artemis		[47]
2015–19	Sailor Moon	Artemis	Viz Media dub	[48]
2016	Ajin: Demi-Human	Kei Nagai	Netflix dub	[49]
	Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School	Hajime Hinata / Izuru Kamukura	Despair Arc, Future Arc, and Hope Arc	[50]
	Cyborg 009 VS Devilman	Cyborg 009 aka Joe Shimamura		[51]
	Kuromukuro	Ryoto Akagi		[52]
2016–18	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans	Orga Itsuka		[53]
2017	Akito the Exiled	Lelouch vi Britannia / Julius Kingsley		[54]
	Children of the Whales	Chakuro	Netflix dub	[55]
2018	B: The Beginning	Minatsuki	Netflix dub	[56]
	Devilman Crybaby	Wam	Miniseries; Netflix dub	[57]
	Pop Team Epic	Popuko, Chomp Chomp Bacon	Episode 8b	[58]
	Violet Evergarden	Aiden Field	Episode 11; Netflix dub	[59]
	Twin Star Exorcists	Shimon Ikaruga		[60]
	Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These	Mann		[61]
	Mecard	Tanatos		[62]
	Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas	Pisces Albafica
	Forest of Piano	Kai Ichinose	Netflix dub	[63]
2018-20	Hi Score Girl	Haruo Yaguchi	Netflix dub	[64]
2018	Bungo Stray Dogs	Shousaku Katsura	OVA Episode 25
2018–present	Baki	Hector Doyle	Netflix ONA	[24]
2019	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED	Dearka Elsman	NYAV Post dub	[65]
	Black Clover	Zora Ideale		[66][67]
	Inazuma Eleven: Ares	Trevor Cook		[68]
	Marvel Future Avengers	Iron Fist		[24]
	Neon Genesis Evangelion	Toji Suzuhara	Netflix dub
	Boruto: Naruto Next Generations	Ryogi
	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba	Giyu Tomioka		[69]
	Teasing Master Takagi-san	Hamaguchi	Season 2	[70]
2020	Drifting Dragons	Jiro	Netflix dub
	Tower of God	Bam	Crunchyroll dub	[71]
	Dorohedoro	13	Netflix dub
2020–present	One Piece	Sabo	Funimation dub
2021	High-Rise Invasion	Mamoru Aikawa	Netflix dub
	Godzilla Singular Point	Yun Arikawa	Netflix dub
	Full Dive	Hiroshi Yūki		[72]
	Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan	Hanabee Kikaku
2022	Blue Period	Yatora Yaguchi	Lead role; Netflix dub	[73]

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[74]
2001	Akira	Shotaro Kaneda	Pioneer dub
2003	Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card	Eriol Hiragizawa		[24]
2008	5 Centimeters Per Second	Takaki Tohno		[75]
2011	Trigun: Badlands Rumble	Vash the Stampede		[76]
2011	The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya	Itsuki Koizumi		[77]
2012	Sengoku Basara: The Last Party	Sanada Yukimura		[24]
2013	Blue Exorcist: The Movie	Yukio Okumura	Limited theatrical release
2014	Expelled from Paradise	Frontier Setter		[78]
2016	Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky	Daryl Lorenz		[79]
2016–18	Digimon Adventure tri.	Takeru "T.K." Takaishi	Limited theatrical release	[80]
2017	Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower	Daryl Lorenz		[81]
2017	Sailor Moon R: The Movie	Artemis	Limited theatrical release	[82]
2017	Blame!	Atsuji		[83]
2018	Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution	Renton Thurston		[84]
2018	Big Fish & Begonia	Qiu	April 2018	[85]
2018	Sailor Moon S: The Movie	Artemis	Limited theatrical Release	[86]
2018	Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie	Artemis	Limited theatrical Release	[86]
2018	High Speed! -Free! Starting Days	Makoto Tachibana		[87]
2018	Free! -Timeless Medley- Kizuna	Makoto Tachibana		[87]
2018	Free! -Take Your Marks-	Makoto Tachibana		[87]
2019	The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky	Solaad
2019	Anemone: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution	Renton Thurston
2019	Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection	Lelouch vi Britannia
2019	Evangelion Death (True)2	Toji Suzuhara	Netflix dub
2019	Promare	Lio Fotia		[88]
2019	One Piece: Stampede	Sabo		[89]
2020	My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising	Nine
2020	A Whisker Away	Kento Hinode	Netflix dub
2020	Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna	Takeru "T.K." Takaishi		[90]
2021	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train	Giyu Tomioka		[24]
2021	Sailor Moon Eternal	Artemis	Netflix dub	[91]
2022	Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero	Broly		[24]

Animation

List of voice performances in animation

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2008	Three Delivery	Sid		[24]
2010	Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville	Magic
2012–14	NFL Rush Zone	Troy Kang		[24]
2014–18	Space Racers	Raven, RoboCoach XL-5, Mini-Bots	Episode "The Haunted Asteroid"	[92]
2015	DC Super Friends	Robin		[93]
2016	Mighty Magiswords	Broccoli Punch, Brock L. Doccoli, Gruntion 1, Whiney, Giant Monster		[94][95]
2016	Rainbow Ruby	Ling Ling
2017	Mecard	Tanatos
2018	Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures	Whittaker Reardon, Mr. Guerrero, Bad Guy in Movie #2		[24]
2019	The Lion Guard	Tompok
2022	Lego Monkie Kid	Ne Zha

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2006–17	.hack//G.U. series	Kuhn	Rebirth, Reminisce, Redemption, Reconnection	[24]
2006	Baten Kaitos Origins	Ven		[24]
2006	Tales of the Abyss	Guy Cecil		[24]
2006	Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII	Incidental Characters		[96]
2006	Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria	Kraad, Masato, Roland, Seluvia, Xehnon		[24]
2007	Eternal Sonata	Fugue		[24]
2008	Devil May Cry 4	Nero	Also motion capture	[2][24]
2008	Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice	Almaz von Almandine Adamant		[97]
2008	Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World	Emil Castignier		[97]
2008	The Last Remnant	Rush Sykes		[98]
2008	Persona 4	Protagonist, Tohru Adachi		[24]
2008–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	[24]
2009	Dissidia: Final Fantasy	Firion		[24]
2009	Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight	Dragon Knight, Onyx		[24]
2009	MagnaCarta 2	Juto, Elgar		[24]
2010	Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love	Shinjiro Taiga
2010	Transformers: War for Cybertron	Bumblebee		[24]
2010	Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes	Yukimura Sanada		[99]
2011	Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds	Zero	Also in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3	[97]
2011	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	Firion		[24]
2011	Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition	Yang	Also in Ultra Street Fighter IV	[24]
2011	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Torian Cadera		[24]
2012	Binary Domain	Kurosawa		[24]
2013	Marvel Heroes	Daniel Rand / Iron Fist		[100]
2013	Killer Is Dead	Tokio		[101]
2012	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair	Hajime Hinata / Izuru Kamukura		[102]
2014	Ar Nosurge	Delta		[103]
2014	Tenkai Knights: Brave Battle	Guren Nash, Bravenwolf		[24]
2014	Persona 4 Arena Ultimax	Yu Narukami, Tohru Adachi		[104]
2015	Mortal Kombat X	Kung Jin		[105]
2016	Seven Knights	Evan		Facebook[106]
2017	Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite	Zero		[24]
2017	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony	Rantaro Amami, Hajime Hinata / Izuru Kamakura		[107]
2018	Dissidia Final Fantasy NT	Firion		[24]
2018	BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle	Yu Narukami, Tohru Adachi		[108]
2018	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate	Zero
2018–19	The Walking Dead: The Final Season	James
2018	World of Final Fantasy: Maxima	Firion		[109]
2019	Devil May Cry 5	Nero	Also motion capture	[24]
2019	Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order	Iron Fist		[24]
2019	Catherine: Full Body	Archie Wallace		[24]
2019–20	Teppen	Nero, Zero		[110]
2019	Dragon Ball FighterZ	Broly (DBS)		[24]
2020	Dragon Ball Legends	Broly	2020 onwards
2020	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV	Joshua Bright		[24]
2020	Yakuza: Like a Dragon	Masumi Arakawa (young; flashbacks only), additional voices		[111]
2021	Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid	Adam Park
2021	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles	Giyu Tomioka		[24]

Dubbing of foreign shows in English

List of English-language dubbings of foreign language shows

Year	Title	Country	Dubbed from	Role	Live Actor	Source
2013	Violetta	Argentina	Spanish	Napo	Rodrigo Velilla
2016	Marseille	France	French	Eric	Guillaume Arnault	[112]
2020	The Idhun Chronicles	Spain	Spanish	Kirtash

Live-action roles

List of acting performances in film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1994–96	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers	Adam Park	seasons 2–3	[2]
1994	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Alpha's Magical Christmas		Video short
1995	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie			[2][20]
1996	Power Rangers Zeo			[20]
1997	Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie			[2][20]
1997	Power Rangers Turbo		Episodes 1–19 (Shift into Turbo), (Passing the Torch)
1998	Power Rangers in Space		episode 25 (Always a Chance)
1999	Power Rangers: The Lost Episode		Special episode (archival footage)
2005	Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy	Josh	Also director
2007	Power Rangers Operation Overdrive	Adam Park	Episodes 20–21 (Once a Ranger)	[6]
2007–2011	Anime TV	Host	Video podcast	[113][114][115][116][117]
2008	Broken Path	Jack Ellis/Hikori
2010	Hellbinders	Ryu		[118]
2011	Supah Ninjas	Master Shin		[6]
2012	Death Grip	Torch	Direct-to-video release	[119][120][121]

Discography

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)
• Gone Tomorrow (2017)
• Where Giants Fall (2021)

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

References

External links

Media related to Johnny Yong Bosch at Wikimedia Commons

• Eyeshine official website
• Johnny Yong Bosch at Behind The Voice Actors
• Johnny Yong Bosch at IMDb 
• Johnny Yong Bosch at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Johnny Yong Bosch convention appearances on AnimeCons.com

Preceded by Ron Rubin	Voice of Artemis 2014–present	Succeeded by None

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