Johnny Yong Bosch


Johnny Yong Bosch is an American actor, voice actor, martial artist, singer and musician. His first major role was the portrayal of Adam Park, the second Black Power Ranger and later, the Green Zeo Ranger and first Green Turbo Ranger in the Power Rangers franchise, which led to roles in some martial arts television and feature films. Bosch is located in Los Angeles and does most of his voice-over work at Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Animaze, New Generation Pictures, NYAV Post, Studiopolis and on some occasions travels to Dallas to record shows for Funimation.
In July 2019, a crowdfunding campaign for the film Legend of the White Dragon, including past Power Rangers performers Jason David Frank, Bosch, Jason Faunt, Ciara Hanna, Yoshi Sudarso, and Chrysti Ane, as well as Jenna Frank, was launched on Kickstarter. The campaign concluded on August 11, 2019, without reaching its funding goal. On March 27, the project received a second launch on Kickstarter with a lower goal, this time in the form of a mini-series. The project was funded, and now working on its stretch goals for a limited series and potential for a feature film. The second campaign ended on May 27, 2020 with $508,578 raised, meeting the goal for a feature film.

Life and career

Bosch was born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Garland, Texas, as John Jay Bosch. His father was a soldier in the Army and met his mother while stationed in South Korea. He was interested in martial arts at an early age, inspired by martial arts movies and Bruce Lee. He taught himself martial arts at first, mimicking moves from Lee as well as Jackie Chan. Bosch said he was ridiculed a lot when he was young and became a bully, but made a change for the better after studying kung fu. In addition to training in martial arts, in which he won several competitions, he also played soccer.

''Power Rangers''

Bosch auditioned for the Power Rangers show in Dallas after being informed of the audition by his martial arts instructor. In 1994, he landed the role of Adam Park, the new Black Power Ranger, replacing Walter Emanuel Jones in the second season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Bosch said that when he got the part, he changed his middle name to Yong, which was part of his mother's given name, at the request of Saban who thought his credited name needed to be more Asian. For the feature film ', he did all of his stunts after his stuntman had broken his leg. He also noted that among all the different animal characters the Rangers got to be associated, his was associated to a frog. In Power Rangers Zeo, Bosch's character became a Green Ranger. His final regular stint in the franchise was in Power Rangers Turbo, where his character passes his Green Turbo Ranger powers to a new member. He played Park in the second feature film '. In looking back at his acting for the show, Bosch said that "Power Rangers was a lot of fun but it was a kid's show and very cheesy because of it, which made getting work after that really hard. Plus, I didn't know squat about acting then." His best friends on the set included Jason David Frank, Jason Narvy and Nakia Burrise. At the request of Power Rangers director Koichi Sakamoto, he had a guest appearance in the Power Rangers Operation Overdrive episode "Once A Ranger" in 2007 for the franchise's 15th anniversary, where he mentioned he got to go to New Zealand. He and Narvy also starred in the film Wicked Game, also known as Extreme Heist, which was directed by Sakamoto and features several other Power Rangers alumni.
In July 2019, a crowdfunding campaign for the film Legend Of The White Dragon, including Jason David Frank, Bosch, Jason Faunt, Ciara Hannah, Yoshi Sudarso, Chrysti Ane and Jenna Frank, was launched on kickstarter.

Voice acting

Bosch made his voice acting debut as main character Vash the Stampede from Trigun. In 2006, he worked once again with Koichi Sakamoto on the film Broken Path. In the same year, Bosch was also cast as the lead role of Ichigo Kurosaki in the hit shonen anime Bleach. In 2007, Bosch co-starred alongside Ray Park in a comic-book style action film, Hellbinders. Among other works, Bosch also voiced Lelouch in Code Geass in 2008, and Izaya Orihara in Durarara in 2011.
In video games, Bosch voiced Firion, the protagonist of Final Fantasy II, in the crossover games ' and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. In 2011, he voiced Yang in Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Tohru Adachi and the protagonist Yu Narukami in the Persona 4 games and its. In 2014, Bosch also voiced main character Hajime Hinata from . In 2015, he voiced Kung Jin in Mortal Kombat X. Among video games, Bosch liked voicing Nero in Devil May Cry 4 as he got to travel to Japan to do the motion capture. In the same year, Bosch landed the role of Artemis in Viz Media's redub of Sailor Moon as well as Sailor Moon Crystal. Bosch also voiced lead character Nate Adams from Yo-kai Watch which has aired on Disney XD in the US. He is also doing the voice dub of Yukimura Sanada in Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi series.
On July 4, 2017, he voiced Broccoli Punch in Cartoon Network's Mighty Magiswords, recording with fellow Power Rangers actor Paul Schrier. He reprised his role as Broccoli Punch, as well as playing the Giant Monster and Whiney, in the second-season two-parter episode "The Incredible Tiny Warriors".
In 2019, Bosch replaced Vic Mignogna as the new voice of Broly and Sabo for the Funimation dub of Shonen Jumps Dragon Ball and One Piece'', respectively, due to the sexual harassment allegations against Mignogna.

Eyeshine

Bosch got involved in music by teaching himself how to play guitar. In his band Eyeshine, he provides vocals, songwriting, and guitar. He describes the type of music he plays as "Edge Rock. We're somewhere on the edge of sounding like grunge, alt. rock, punk and pop." His musical inspirations include The Beatles, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Oasis, Led Zeppelin and also movie soundtracks.
The band released an instrumental album called Sonosis. Bosch described the album as "something you could just listen to and could move you to feel something" and that "the titles were a reflection of the emotions we felt as we wrote the songs".
The band gave their final performance at Yama-Con in December 2017.

Personal life

Bosch was born to a Korean mother and an American father of Irish and German descent. He is the second of four children in his family. He has mentioned being a Christian in some of his interviews. He is married to Amy Bosch and has a daughter named Novi and a son named Jetson.

Filmography

Voice over roles

Anime

Film

Animation

Video games

Dubbing of foreign shows in English

Live-action roles

Discography

; Studio albums
; EPs
; Compilation albums