We are proud to announce Richard Epcar as EAE's guest of honor.

RICHARD EPCAR is well known to Anime and game fans, starting with the original ‘Robotech’ series- in which he played  ‘BEN DIXON’, ‘LUNK’, ‘GREL’, and now ‘CAPT. VINCE GRANT’, in the new original animated feature, ‘Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles’, which he also directed.
He is the voice of ‘BATOU’ in all things ‘Ghost in the Shell’ including ‘Ghost in the Shell 2-Innocence’, which he also adapted and directed into English.
Some games you’ve heard him on: ‘Star Wars-Empire At War’, ‘Star Wars: Old Republic’,
‘Mortal Kombat vs. D.C. Universe as ‘The JOKER’ and ‘RAIDEN’, a new DC game in which he plays GREEN ARROW, ‘Kingdom Hearts 2 and Chained Memories’ as ANSEM / XEHANORT, ‘Star Craft 2’ as DARK TEMPLAR, ‘Red Faction Guerilla’, ‘Xenosaga I, II and III as ZIGGARAT 8, ‘Ace Combat 6’, ‘Guilty Gears II’, ‘.Hack I, II and III’, ‘Blue Dragon’, ‘Naruto’, ‘Space Siege’, ‘Supreme Commander’, ‘Paraworld’, ‘Black Hawk Down’, ‘Robotech Invasion’, ‘Samurai Warriors’, ‘Dynasty Warriors’, ‘Warcraft III’ and ‘World of Warcraft’, ‘Fall of Liberty’, ‘Street Fighters’, ‘Dante’s Inferno’ and ‘Star Ocean 1, 2, & 3’ to name a few.
Most recently he can be heard on ‘Bleach’ as ‘KOGA’ and ‘ZANGETSU’, ‘Narurto’,  ‘Buso Renkin’, ‘Huntik’ as ‘GRIER’, ‘Ghost Slayer Ayashi’, ‘Blue Elephant’, ‘Blaze of Glory’, ‘BOBOBO-BO-BOBO’, ‘MR. NOISY’ on ‘The Mr. Men Show’ and ‘Avenging Apes of Africa’.  He is currently the voice of  INSPECTOR LUNGE on ‘Monster’ and he plays MR. INVINCIBLE in ‘Hero Hospital’ a new animated webisode series.
Shows he’s directed are ‘Lupin the Third’ doing the voice of ‘JIGEN’, ‘Noein’, doing the voice of ‘KOOYRAMA’ and the first season of  ‘Digimon’ doing ‘ETEMON’, ‘MYOTISMON’ and ‘APEMON’ and now ‘MERUKIMON’ on ‘Digimon Data Squad’.  An original animated movie with an all star cast.
 ‘The Reef’ in which he played ‘MOE’.  The series ‘Fighting Spirit’ doing the voice of ‘KAMOGAWA’, ‘Patlabor III’, ‘The Secret of Mamo’, ‘Zentrix’, ‘Toy Warrior’, and ‘Power Rangers’ doing many monster voices to name just a few.  He also wrote for ‘Transformers’ and did the voice of  ‘ARMORHIDE’.
Some of you remember him from ‘X-Men’ as ‘GLADIATOR’, ‘Lucky Star’, ‘Ghost Slayer Ayashi’, ‘Lain’, ‘Serial Experiment’, ‘Trigun’, ‘Wings of Honneamise’, ‘Fists of the North Star’, ‘Fushigi Yuugi’ as ‘MITSUKAKE’, ‘GULD’ in ‘Macross’ ‘Capt. Harlock’, ‘Ninja Scroll’ as ‘GEMMA’, ‘Curious George’, ‘Steroko’, ‘MAC’ in ‘Teknoman’, ‘Bastard’, ‘Street Fighter’, ‘Daigunder’, ‘GTO’, ‘Samuri X’,
‘Rurouni Kenshin’ as ‘SEIJURO HIKO’, ‘Macron’ and ‘Macross I, II, III,  Macross Plus’, ‘Eagle Riders’, ‘Gundam’, Mobile Suit Gundam’, ‘Witch Hunter Robin’,  ‘The New Speed Racer’- as RACER X, ‘Count of Monte Cristo’, ‘Prince of Egypt’, and ‘Cyber Soldier 009’-as ‘BLACK GHOST’, to name just a few.
He was named ‘Favorite Actor’ by DVD VisionJapan.
Some games he’s directed: ‘Star Ocean 1 & 2’, ‘Blue Dragon’, ‘Vandal Hearts’, ‘Shadow Hearts II’, ‘Lupin III’, ‘Fighting Spirit’ and ‘Victorious Boxers-Revolution’ in which he played KAMAGAWA in both, ‘Vegas’, ‘Smack Down vs. Raw’, ‘Jack Ass the game’, ‘Dead Head Fred’, co-directed
‘Unreal Tournament 3’ and co-cast the mo-cap for ‘Quantum of Solace’.
Live action foreign films that he has adapted and directed into English are many, including Academy Award winners - ‘Cinema Paradiso’, ‘Belle Epoque’, ‘Eat, Drink, Man, Woman’, ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’, ‘Fencing Master’, ‘Widow of St. Pierre’, ‘Betty Blue’, ‘Kill Buljo’,
‘The Emperor and the Assassin’, ‘Amores Perros’, ‘Mission Kashmir’, ‘Azumi I & II’,
‘The Returner’, ‘Omyoji’, ‘Oldboy’, ‘Shiri’, and ‘Fearless’, with Jet Li, to name a few.
As an actor he can be seen in a new International Coke commercial and will be soon seen in a new webisode series entitled, ‘Operation-Nightshade’.  He’s recurred on ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘General Hospital’, On film he co-starred in ‘Memoirs of an Invisible Man’ and ‘Three Putts’.  On television he’s done several shows, including ‘Columbo’, ‘Diagnosis Murder’, ‘Guns of Paradise’, ‘Beverly Hills 90210’, ‘Matlock’, ‘Who’s the Boss?’ and ‘Cheers’.
He also does tons of voice work on many shows including: ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’, ‘The Proposal’, ‘What Happens in Vegas’, ‘The Killing Room’, ‘Resident Evil 3’, ‘Ugly Betty’, ‘Street Kings’, ‘Gilmore Girls’, ‘Jag’, ‘Devil’s Rejects’, ‘Diagnosis Murder’, ‘Xena’ & ‘Hercules’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘Independence Day’, ‘Inspector Gadget’, ‘Seven’, ‘Rumble in the Bronx’, ‘Man in the Iron Mask’, ‘Rounders’, ‘Crime Story’, ‘Hell Raiser III & IV’, ‘Hard Target’, ‘Operation Condor’, ‘Hopalong Cassidy’, ‘ER’, ‘Nash Bridges’, ‘Babylon 5’, and many others.
As an International Supervisor for Universal Pictures and DreamWorks, Richards work has taken him all over the world supervising the foreign dubs and mixes of feature films such as:  ‘Gladiator’, ‘Madagascar’, 'Galaxy Quest', ‘Chicken Run’, ‘El Dorado’ and the 20th Anniversary release of ‘E.T.’.