The Seishun Shitemasu Team
Peter Payne
Roles: Jean Luc Macek, Kyosuke, Emperor Akihito, Ranma, Admiral Rick Hunter, Lancer, others
Peter, the founder (more or less) of Seishun Shitemasu, was born in Maryland, lived a year in New Zealand when he was six (mainly getting beaten up for being a Yank), and moved to San Diego, CA at the age of 11. Effused with a deep interest in Japan and Japanese popular culture from an early age, Peter decided to learn Japanese when he started SDSU in 1987. Not content to just like the country, he pulled up stakes in 1991, and has been living in Gunma Prefecture, right in the center of Japan, ever since. He quit his job as an English teacher to start J-List. To see pictures of him now, as well as a map of Japan showing where he is, see the "about J-List" page. If you like Japan and are interested in some of the various articles Peter has collected over the years (including his Kimagure Orange Road novel translations, his "generic guide to teaching English in Japan" and the definitive "you've been in Japan too long when..." list, see his personal homepage.
Josh, AKA...
Pete Martell
Greg West
"The" Erma Landers
"The" Jake Bloodsucker
Nathan Wind
Allesandro Allegre
Vic Colfari
Roles: Goober, Admiral Reinhardt, Ryoga, others
And probably many more. We tended to take the non-union multiple-pseudonym style of the Intersound crew and cycle names with ridiculous regularity. I preferred writing to directing and voice acting; after Peter left for Japan Phill and I split the writing duties on virtually everything after Hell Bent For Leather. I re-wrote Robotech IV and much later wrote the script for City Hunter On Fire.
I stayed out of the lead-character roles in the voice acting as I never felt I had a natural aptitude for it the way Peter or Debbie did. Many of my roles amounted to little more than cameos. Goober, Reinhardt, Ryoga, Acroyer, the Narrator of both Voltron and UC:0069, and Spoonman (twice). And many others who're even more trivial.
Max Callahan, AKA "Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem"
Debbie Callahan, AKA "Occupant"
Roles (Max): Gemma, Scott Bernard, others
Roles (Debbie): Hikaru-chan, Akane, Annie Labelle, nearly every female role since we didn't know any girls then
Max and Debbie are the heart of the Seishun Shitemasu group, always there for the good times and bad times during a dub. From the beginning, Max was our tech guy, mainly because he had a sampling keyboard and none of us did. Debbie has been a valuable member of the team, by virtue of her sex, by which we mean her being female. As one of the few women we could stand to be around for any length of time, she has done probably 70% or more of our female roles.
Phill "Captain Nosehair" Sunbury
Roles: Captain Nosehair, Dr. Lang, weird witch thing
A core member from the start, Phill has always been an integral member of the team, providing important voices as well as input on the productions. Now he's a programmer and plays poker.
Chris "Kill the Bug Eyes" Lockwood
Roles: Gomer, Captain Gloval, others
A friend of the group who appeared as a voice actor in several productions. His contributions to the Seishun Shitemasu cause were hampered by his physically being in Japan during some of our most productive years. Like Peter, a major Japan Nut, he now lives in Japan, doing translation and trying to fend of Japanese women who keep trying to marry him. His major hobby is driving around Japan on his BMW motorcycle that he just bought, and wrecked in the former Soviet Union. Here, Chris drinks with Japanese friends, and says "Yoku dekimashita!" (which is an odd reference to a commercial for Nova, an English conversation school, which you won't have seen, and it was from 1992 anyway).
Chris's bike, which he rode to Kazekhstan and wiped, requiring a long stay in a Russian hospital
Adam "Ataru" Chaney
A close friend to everyone in the Seishun Shitemasu group from many years ago, Adam was an important source of information, and more importantly, a source of anime tapes for us to dub from. Back in the wooly days of the late 80's, when no anime was commercially available at all, Adam had a respectable collection of 300+ anime tapes. Adam now lives in San Diego with his wife. We think he got tired of anime and sold it on eBay.
And many unseen unknowns out by the cabin...
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