“I’m so excited to be back for my 4th Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits event! It’s my favorite thing to do all year and I can’t wait to present my newest Anime Mythology presentation for everyone!” – Crispin Freeman
Crispin Freeman is a voice actor, director and script adaptor who’s been portraying characters in animation and video games for over a decade. He’s worked on a myriad of anime shows including Hellsing, Naruto, Ghost in the Shell, The Big O, Final Fantasy: Advent Children, Wolf’s Rain, Witch Hunter Robin, Chobits, Blood+, Last Exile, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Slayers, The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya & Miyazaki’s “Howl’s Moving Castle”. In the world of video games he’s played Superman, Iron Man, Dr. Manhattan, Legolas, & Will Turner from Pirates of the Caribbean. In American animation, he’s voiced characters in both the Spectacular Spider-man series where he played Electro and Wolverine and the X-men where he played Multiple Man. In 1999, he began giving presentations on mythological storytelling in animation at fan conventions. Since then, he’s been invited to lecture at DePaul University, the University of Chicago, the University of Texas at Dallas and the Lake County Discovery Museum of Illinois. He’s also presented internationally at the Armageddon Expos in New Zealand, the Supanova conventions in Australia and at Nippon Connection, the biggest Japanese Film Festival in Europe which is held every year in Frankfurt, Germany. He was interviewed for the August 2008 edition of Mechademia where he discusses his thoughts on Giant Robots and Superheroes. You can also check him out in the Starz Channel Documentary “Anime: Drawing a Revolution” as well as in the new mini-documentaries on Ghost in the Shell and Robotech on the iTunes music store. As always, he’s always very happy to be back at Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits!
