I had the pleasure of interviewing Juliet Simmons at Anime Weekend Atlanta.
Anime Weekend Atlanta is a 4-day convention held annually at the Cobb Galleria, and Renaissance Waverly Hotel. The event is a family-friendly celebration of Japanese anime (animation), manga (comics), and cosplay (costume play) and is held annually during the last weekend of September.
Juliet Simmons is a part-time human being; part-time anime hound and a shy, quiet college student—well, for the most part. In the limelight, she is an actress and vocalist, voicing a variety of characters at Sentai Filmworks while also recording covers as the popular YouTube singer & utaite, JubyPhonic.
In over 5 years at Sentai Filmworks, Juliet has performed as a voice talent in about 65 shows. She was nominated for BTVA Awards 2015 for Best Female Lead Vocal Performance in an Anime Movie & in 2016 for Best Vocal Ensemble Performance in an Anime series. She appeared on national tv on Cartoon Network’s Toonami in Akame Ga Kill as Kurome and she also played Chiyo Sakura in Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun to rave reviews. Chiyo was such a fun dream role and favorite character that she says she feels she can ‘now die happy’. Other favorite characters so far have been Midori Tokiwa from Tamako Market and Madoka Harumi from Dog & Scissors. Recently she sang & voice acted the lead of Anonymous Noise, Nino Arisugawa.
JubyPhonic is Juliet’s singer persona and name for her YouTube channel with well over half a million fans & subscribers. Set to reach a quarter of a billion views this year, fans and collaborators from around the world come together to listen or to work–her covers have been translated into over 30 languages. As JubyPhonic, she has shared her English covers of Japanese VOCALOID & anime recordings over the internet now near 6 years–since age 17. She writes translyrics, sings, records, mixes, subs, and at times makes artwork for her own English covers of favorite synthetic Japanese singers and bedroom composers aka VOCALOID. Her purpose was to make the uniquely evocative and story-telling computer songs accessible to a broader audience with quality English renditions. The channel took off quickly, and she never looked back.
Visit Anime Weekend Atlanta for more information about the convention https://awa-con.com
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