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It’s animation domination at Supanova in 2025! With a roster of wonderfully well-spoken anime voice actors heading to Melbourne (March 29-30) and the Gold Coast (April 12-13) in just a few short months, we’ve made a handy cheat sheet for Supa-Fans looking to familiarise themselves with these recently announced Supa-Stars.
Whether you’re new to the medium or a seasoned veteran just looking to check our work, take a look at the list below, and who knows – maybe you’ll discover your next favourite VA in time for the show!
Bryce Papenbrook*
Known for: Eren Yeager (Attack on Titan), Cat Noir (Miraculous), Kirito (Sword Art Online)
Coming Up: Attack on Titan: The Last Attack (Recap Film)
If it’s Bryce Papenbrook’s monument in anime history you seek, you’ll find his name on some of the biggest shows there are, starting with Attack on Titan, playing the main role of Eren Yeager. Possibly one of the most ubiquitous anime of all time, this titanic pop-culture juggernaut took the world by storm in 2013. For a whole new generation, this was the gateway show, in the same way Death Note, One Piece, and Yu-Gi-Oh were before it.

From ‘Attack on Titan: The Last Attack’
Despite taking over four years for the second season to drop, fans never stopped yapping about this show, dreaming of the day it would return and rock everyone’s world again. And speaking from experience, that wait was well worth it. To have a show of such consistent quality with almost no falloff is a rare thing indeed.
Eren is also a hugely contentious character in his own right, being hit with accusations of “boring, generic” in 2013, and again in 2025, the mere mention of his name can start an argument. Was he right? Was he wrong? Time is a flat circle, but it’s due in no small part to Bryce’s excellent acting, alongside an equally amazing cast that includes fellow Supa-Star Trina Nishimura as Mikasa Ackerman!
Bryce is also known for his other biggest role, Adrien a.k.a. Cat Noir in Miraculous! Between AoT and this, Bryce is the master of the agonising slow burn. After six years, and hundreds of hours of clippable sound-bites, reaction images, nail-biting moments and frustration, Marinette, played wonderfully by fellow Supa-Star Cristina Vee, and Adrien finally confessed their feelings for each other. But the show doesn’t end there; in fact, season six is due to begin this year!
On that front, the final Attack on Titan film is also hitting Australian shores on Thursday, 6 February, featuring perhaps the last performance from Bryce Papenbrook as Eren, so don’t miss it!
*Bryce Papenbrook will appear exclusively at Supanova 2025 – Melbourne.
Trina Nishimura
Known for: Mikasa Ackerman (Attack on Titan), Makise Kurisu (Steins;Gate), Earphone Jack (My Hero Academia)
Coming Up: Attack on Titan: The Last Attack (Recap Film), My Hero Academia (Final Season)
Trina Nishimura plays Mikasa Ackerman in Attack on Titan, but new fans going in shouldn’t be fooled by her soft-spoken nature; she’s one of the most interesting characters in the series, and where words are spent by Trina, they are seldom wasted.

Kyoka Jiro/Earphone Jack from ‘My Hero Academia’
When you’re playing a stoic woman of few words, they all matter, and Trina’s performance as Mikasa commands attention in every scene. Don’t get it twisted though, Attack on Titan might have left the largest (literal) footprint, but Trina’s other roles are anime heavy-hitters too! Steins;Gate left a cultural imprint as THE time travel anime, and for being genuinely scary to boot, which is actually not that common in TV anime. Even the shows billed as horror are usually just gore-y, whereas Steins;Gate builds true suspense and terror, and Trina’s Makise Kurisu is at the centre of the experience.
Finally, there’s the sonic-hero Earphone Jack a.k.a. Kyoka Jiro from My Hero Academia, another anime that’s almost as widely-known now as Attack on Titan was in the 2010s. Fans of Trina’s should be on the lookout for the final Attack on Titan recap movie hitting cinemas very soon, her appearance as Park Heejin in season two of Solo Leveling, and the final season of My Hero Academia, confirmed to air this year!
Cristina Vee*
Known for: Miraculous Ladybug (Miraculous), Homura Akemi (Madoka Magica), Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon)
Coming Up: Miraculous (Season Six), Lupin the IIIrd (New Film)
The next voiceover Supa-Star and fan-favourite guest is Cristina Vee, who fans will remember gave a show-stopping musical performance at the Cosplay Competition back in 2023! Any list of Cristina’s biggest roles would be incomplete without Marinette Dupain-Cheng a.k.a. the other half of Miraculous Ladybug and Cat Noir. Cristina’s Marinette is a quadruple threat, balancing her life as a fashion designer hopeful, crime fighter, and leader of the French Miraculous superhero team, and her relationship with Adrien and Cat Noir (which is now one and the same but was formerly two separate items)!

The Miraculous gang sporting their new looks!
Cristina is also the Mahou Shoujo Queen, having played Homura Akemi on the subversive flip of the magical girl genre that was Madoka Magica, and Sailor Mars in Sailor Moon, the show that practically defined the genre to begin with! As for where you can hear Cristina next, the new season of Miraculous is due to air tomorrow in the United States, hopefully with an Australian premiere not far behind, and, the first traditionally-animated theatrical Lupin the IIIrd film in almost thirty years was also announced late last year, in the continuity where Cristina voices the vexing femme fatale Fujiko Mine!
*Cristina Vee will appear exclusively at Supanova 2025 – Gold Coast.
Ryan Colt Levy*
Known for: Denji (Chainsaw Man), Rody Soul (My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission)
Coming Up: Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc (Film)

Key visual for ‘Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc’
The saying goes “speak of the devil, and he shall appear,” and that works just fine for us, because the Chainsaw Devil, Ryan Colt Levy, is the next voice actor to appear at Supanova! This will be Ryan’s very first Supanova, but he’s been riding high for a while now as the voice of Denji in the wildly popular anime adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man.
A character chronically misunderstood by fans and newcomers, Denji’s naïveté is the glue that holds CSM together, and the way the show utilises him to address complex themes has caused no end of discourse online. Ryan brings a sense of humanity to this devil. Not to mention it’s beautifully animated by Mappa with oodles of visual references to the classic American cinema that Fujimoto is obsessed with, so there’s plenty of reasons to watch it!
As for what’s next for Ryan, just last year it was announced that the Bomb Devil/Reze arc was being adapted by Mappa, but not into a second season… into a movie! Chainsaw Man with movie development time and budget promises to be a thing of exquisite beauty, and we can’t wait to see how Ryan’s Denji handles everything that’s coming. We’re so sorry, Ryan… good luck…
*Ryan Colt Levy will appear exclusively at Supanova 2025 – Melbourne.
Sarah Natochenny
Known for: Ash Ketchum (Pokémon), Alya (Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian)
Coming Up: Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (Season Two)

Alya and Masachika from ‘Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian’
The last voice actor in our round-up is one of the very best, like no one ever was! Sarah Natochenny is the voice of the iconic Pokémon trainer Ash Ketchum for a whole generation of kids.
A seventeen-year run, from 2006 to 2023, is historic for any anime character, but Ash isn’t just any anime character, they’re the anime character; there’s not a soul in the world who hasn’t at least heard of Pokémon! While the Pokémon journey with Ash may have recently come to an end, Sarah has no plans to stop her voice-acting work. Pokémon fans will still be able to hear her voicing several different Pokémon in the anime, including her favourite, Buneary, and over 20 others, in the ongoing Pokémon Horizons series!
In the world of more human characters, she recently voiced Alya/Alisa in Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, a part that Sarah was uniquely positioned to play, given that she herself is Russian! If you watched Alya and wondered how Sarah could pick up and speak the language so fluently, well, she’s been practising it for a lifetime. If you can’t wait to hear more of Sarah’s Russian, a second season of Alya has been confirmed to be in production, with no dates confirmed yet.
There’s our cheat sheet, Supa-Fans, so what are you waiting for? Catch up on what your new favourite voice actors have been up to, and mark your calendars for when you can hear them next ahead of their arrival at Supanova in Melbourne (March 29-30) and on the Gold Coast (April 12-13).
What’s your favourite role of Bryce, Trina, Ryan, Sarah, and Cristina? And what are you most excited for coming up?