Guest of Honor

AnimeFest 2017 - Friday, August 18th - Sunday, August 20th, in the Dallas Arts District

Jerry Jewell

With over 150 credits to his name, Jerry Jewell can be heard in a wide variety of shows. He’s probably best known for his roles as "Kyo Sohma" in Fruits Basket, "Jimmy Kudo" in Case Closed, "Barry the Chopper/Number 66" in Fullmetal Alchemist, "Claire Stanfield" in Baccano!, "Russia" in Hetalia: Axis Powers, "Lau" in Black Butler and most recently, "Victor Nikiforov" in Yuri!! on Ice

Other popular roles include "Lyon" in Fairy Tail, "Taira" in Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, "Kaworu Nagisa" in the Evangelion movies: 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, "Happiness Bunny" in Shin-Chan, "Rin Tsuchimi" in Shuffle, "Akito Hayama" in Kodocha. "Aion" in Show By Rock!!, "Momotaro Mikoshiba" in Free! Eternal Summer, "Yuma Isogai" in Assassination Classroom and "Kusuo Saiki" in (The) Disastrous Life of Saiki K

He can also be heard in Dragon Ball, Eden of the East, Ouran High School Host Club, One Piece, Tsubasa, Trinity Blood, Soul Eater and a lot of other things that he may or may not remember or admit to.

Having worked as a voice actor for FUNimation since 2001, Jerry has taken on a different role at FUNimation, that of ADR Director. His first show was Blood C, followed by Shakugan no Shana III, Toriko, We Without Wings, Senran Kagura, Kamisama Kiss, A Certain Scientific Railgun S, episodes 313 – 324 of One Piece and Is This a Zombie? and Free! Eternal Summer, to name a few.

Jerry is honored to have the opportunity to work with a very talented and dedicated group of people at FUNimation, that take the quality of what they do very seriously. Well...seriously enough.

You can see more on Jerry Jewell's Website.
You can follow his personal account on Twitter at @VAJerryJewell.
You can Like his personal account on Facebook at Jerry Jewell.

This will be AnimeFest's first time to host Jerry Jewell.
And we hope you are as excited as we are to welcome him!!