Suzie and the rest of the
two-dimensional crew didn't get up and say their lines for us; they had to be
written, timed, and enunciated all by us. This is who "us" is (as far as
enunciation goes, anyhow).
Scott Melzer
Voice of: Marti Cinemacher
Also: writer, editor, director, producer, sound technician & editor, provider
of source footage, internet crawler, data wrangler sound effects procurer, visual effects creator, flak taker,
scapegoat, Otakon liason
Favorite Anime: Kiki's Delivery Service, Fushigi Yuugi,
Giant Robo, Serial Experiments Lain
Favorite Manga: Gunm (Battle Angel Alita), Akira,
Nausicaa, Gundam WingDing Orgy
Website: "Not Really..."
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Hell yes. I haven't missed one yet! Unless
I kill myself making this project (Please mail the CDs to Otakon, should I die)."
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow:
"I don't know, but as the dove is the bird of peace, and the
eagle is the bird of America,
the swallow is the bird of love."
::hopeless-romatic-falling-to-his-death sound::
Thirty-four years old, I find myself perpetually surrounded
by those much younger than me. This has the odd effect of both making me think
and feel younger, as well as feeling much older. I'm a paladin at heart. There's
always a way to succeed and still be the nice guy. Nice guys don't finish last.
Sometimes they stop to help their friends along the way. Love may not conquer all,
but it's one of the things that's worth fighting for.
I've done a bunch of music videos over the last seven years,
but this is my first major parody work. It was a huge undertaking, and we couldn't
have gotten nearly as far as we have without the help of many friends.
I was conceived under a Christmas tree and was born in hick
upstate Pennsylvania in 1966. I moved quickly to correct the situation and lived in
Philadelphia for a few years while my parents finished their college. I then lived
in southern New Jersey from the age of four until I moved away to college, and now
call the Princeton area my base of operations. Painfully single (probably
like the majority of people reading this page) and a hopeless romantic, I believe
that love is the most important thing in the universe.
I believe in karma. In the long run, the good will be
rewarded and the bad punished. Er, as someone who's been single for seven years,
I'm not sure where that puts me...
[Webmaster's Notice: Since scott has somehow forgotten the
stuff he's done, here's a list of what I know he did:
Love Stinks by J. Geils Band to Ranma 1/2
Neverending Story theme to El-Hazard
Spirit of Man by Chris de Burgh to Wings of Honneamise
Shiny Happy People by R.E.M. to Various
Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney & the Wings to Dragon Ball and
Dragon Ball Z
Master & Servent by Depeche Mode to Neon Genesis Evangelion
[with no Evas!]
Two Thousand Years by Billy Joel to Giant Robo
Big Time by Peter Gabriel to El-Hazard
Silent Lucidity by Queensryche to Serial Experiments Lain
Pokemon Fight Club commercial to (duh) Pokemon
This is your Life by the Dust Brothers (feat. Tyler Durden) to
Dragon Ball Z
...And that's it so far...]
Rachel Esralew
Voice of: Suzie Sweetrie
Favorite Anime: Marmalade Boy
Website: "None yet..."
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "You bet I'll be there!"
What is the airspeed:
"Depends on the air density, subspecies, time of day, and
emotional state of the swallow." :)
Down with Bush! I'm a fishetarion liberal minded
Cook College sophomore with unnatural
blonde hair and a deep passion for muenster cheese (especially when I can get
it for under 5 dollars a pound). I work at the
Department of Environmental Protection
where I collect bacteria from natural bodies of water and I electroshock fish so
that I can count them and then I eat them!!! cackle cackle cackle... just
kidding. I really buy fish from the store, and then I eat them... I love
my perverted boyfriend, Randy, and I love a good hug. And finally, I hope that
George W. Bush gets a mind disabling disease that causes him to be considered too
ill to carry out his presidential duties, to which he contagiously passes onto his
intelligent but just as evil vice president, Dick Cheney, through an unconservative
act of homosexuality. Then I hope Dick Cheney gets pregnant and has to get an
abortion (because a child at his age would ruin his career!) Finally, in
Bush's insanity, I hope he stalks Gale Norton by night and rams a gas pipe up her
ass. HAVE A NICE DAY!
Andrew Battle
Voice of: Randall Wolfson
Favorite Anime: [dunno]
Website: None
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: [Probably]
What is the airspeed: ::falling-to-one's-death sounds::
Some stuff about Andrew: He's big and tall. And I mean like
giant sized. We're talking Jolly Green Giant-sized, without all the chlorophyll.
His girlfriend is Rachel... do NOT call him
"Andy" unless you want to live in fear of your life. Just kidding. But really, he
hates being called Andy.
Jeremy Simmons
Voice of: "Donald Gayeman"
Favorite Anime: Anything involving male bonding
Website: [dunno]
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: [he better]
What is the airspeed: ::falling-to-one's-death sounds::
JEREMY NOT WRITE WHO HE IS, SO ADROK WRITE FOR HIM.
ADROK WRITE SO WELL, NO ONE ABLE TO TELL DIFFERENCE. JEREMY VERY GAY. JEREMY HAVE
GIRLFRIEND, BUT STILL GAY. JEREMY LIKE TO PLAY DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION.
JEREMY FAVORITE SONG, SO MANY MEN, ALSO VERY VERY GAY. JEREMY LIKE TO
WRESTLE OTHER MEN. IF THAT NOT HOMOSEXUAL, ADROK NOT KNOW WHAT HOMOSEXUAL IS.
JEREMY ALSO LIKE TO RUN OUTDOORS IN FURS. IS NOT INHERENTLY GAY, BUT ADROK THINK
JEREMY DO THIS TO ATTRACT OTHER MEN. THEREFORE, ADROK THINK JEREMY ENJOY THE
COMPANY OF MEN.
Lukas Chen
Voice of: Andrew Akshun
Favorite Anime: Trigun, Giant Robo, Marmalade Boy
Website: Yer lookin' at it!
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "If I don't, it will be because I'm
dead."
What is the airspeed: "I like pie."
Little is known about the shady Taiwanese-made SM bootleg
copy of a human. It has been confirmed that his usual base of operations is
Princeton, New Jersey, although he currently attends Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ironic, then, that Otakon is held ten minutes
from where he spends the other three-quarters of the year. His previous otaku
efforts include Giant Robo to "Two Thousand Years", a helping hand in
Lain to "Silent Lucidity", and the Pokemon: Fight Club commerical
parody, all of which were collaborations with Mister Melzer.
He also camps out in his dorm at 5:30 PM
every weekday to watch the Batman-meets-Giant Robo series The
Big O on Cartoon Network during
the college months.
He will kill you if you insist that "All Your Base" is
still cool.
Devin Jay "DJ" Thompson
Voice of: Richard Deisschukker, a.k.a. Jareth Darkstrider
Favorite Anime: Trigun, Serial Experiments Lain,
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop
Website: [dunno]
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Yes... probably dressed as Vash,
to boot"
What is the airspeed: "Zero if it's sitting on the ground."
I was born in the back of a 1972 Chevy stationwagon...
this has permanently scared me. Now, a freshman at
Princeton University, I am venting these
pent-up issues through being Treasurer, and President elect of Anime Manga
Princeton, and by starring in fan-parodies. Next stage in the healing process,
music videos...
Michael Wall
Voice of: James [Rocket]
Favorite Anime: Serial Experiments Lain, Neon Genesis
Evangelion, Tenchi Muyo
Website: None
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Yes... yes I am."
What is the airspeed: ::falling-to-one's-death sounds::
I'm very dense and forgetful. I've been an otaku for almost
two years. And, I've lived in Princeton my whole life. Enough said.
Jon Miller
Voice of: Steven Sweetrie, NOT an Actual Tribble, That Thing Eating
Gilbert Grape, "ALART", Pika/Mokona Guy, "Diorama" Heero, M:I birds & tape
voice, "Gotta catch her now!" Ataru, random incidentals all over the place
Favorite Anime: Dragon Ball Z, Neon Genesis Evangelion,
Urusei Yatsura,
GoldenBoy, Fushigi Yugi,
Martian Successor Nadesico
Website: "I have two, I just don't know where I put them."
[ you can, however, reach Jon at his e-mail address.]
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Is it a kind of cookie? I hope so,
cuz I like cookies..."
What is the airspeed: "Now, would this swallow be carrying a coconut?
And is it an African swallow?
Because a regular swallow could not
possibly carry a coconut..."
Deep in the trenches of Belle Mead, New Jersey lies
dormant the most evil and hideous person ever to walk the earth... Damn, it's
scary that something that horrible lives in the same town as me.
I attend
Raritan Valley Community College, where
I am getting a wonderful associates degree in Film Production and Computer
Engineering. After that, I plan to transfer to finish my major in Film Production.
This will be my second year at Otakon and I will be
contributing a music video this year; Neon Genesis Evangelion to My
Own Prison by Creed. Other than that, I enjoy collecting and watching anime,
but this doesn't mean that I don't like real life movies. My favorite movie of all
time is Army of Darkness, which contains the best B actor ever, Bruce
Campbell, as well as an awesome director, Sam Raimi.
If you want to know more, please send the following to the
Jon Miller Foundation:
1. A shrubbery
2. The Necronomicon (You must say the words before you take the book)
3. Your pitiful soul... I mean, beautiful soul, yeah...
4. twenty-five cases of Coca-Cola
5. Chainsaw with Boomstick
6. The seven Dragon Balls
7. Funions
8. $25,000,000.00 (we are very poor) {very poor}
9. A box of donuts and a case of Duff Beer
10. Another shrubbery
[ Jon was also the main force behind our ending trailer, Otaku: Army of
Darkness ]
Charles Hagaman
Voice of: Murray Mettlegere, "...in Pog form!" thief boss
Favorite Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Trigun, Seial
Experiments Lain, Fushigi Yugi
Website: None
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "A whole weekend with two-thousand
unslept, unbathed otaku? How can I refuse!"
What is the airspeed: ::falling-to-one's-death sounds::
Ever since returning from a brief trip to Japan last
summer, Charles retreated to his underground lair somewhere in Princeton, NJ,
swearing not to emerge until being able to perform SSR Afronova in Double mode.
After a bizarre pad-slipping accident, his quest was put on hiatus while he
attended school at Lehigh University,
claiming to be a full-time student, but actually rehabilitating his horribly
entangled legs.
Previous Otakon projected include minor yes-manning for
"Silent Lucidity" and finding that one good shot of a building blowing up for
"Shiny Happy People".
Marie Godyn
Voice of: Jessie Bradt
Favorite Anime: Key: The Metal Idol, Perfect Blue,
Memories, Serial Experiments: Lain, Lupin III, Trigun,
Cowboy Bebop, Saber Marionette J, Cool Devices
Website: "Website is coming soon"
Will you be attending Otakon 2K1: "Yes, I will be attending Otakon '01."
What is the airspeed: "Are we talking European or African swallow?"
Marie is a 21 year old student studying computer graphic art.
She works at Ebenezer's Cafe in Princeton, N.J. Although, she doesn't drink coffee
sometimes a double shot of caramel esspresso is needed when working night shift.
Marie is recognized by her fluctuating hair styles and friendly personality. She
likes baking (cookies and brownies) and eating ice cream (Macadamia Nut! Yum!) and
sour candy. Marie likes to give advice whether it is wanted or not. In her spare
time she plays with her cat Naked Kitty, spends time with friends at local diners
like The Princetonian and Manetta's, she also likes to drive down to Long Beach
island and play Skeeball.