06/15/2026
🌙✨In the name of Venus, welcome Cherami Leigh to Planet Anime KC! She joins us Saturday.
Cherami Leigh is an actor, writer and director and has been working in the industry for over 25 years. She has appeared in films such as Temple Grandin, The Hottest State and Fast Food Nation, as well as television shows including Friday Night Lights, Long mire, Bones and Shameless, and 9-1-1. In anime she has played over 150 characters including Lucy in Fairy Tail, Asuna in Sword Art Online,Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon, Sarada in Boruto, Kotaro in Kotaro Lives lone,Chloe and Grookey in Pokémon: Journeys, Trixx in Miraculous Ladybug and Red Blood Cell in Cells at Work.
Some of her video game credits include Female V in Cyberpunk 2077, Gaige in Borderlands 2, Makoto in Persona 5, A2 in NieR Automata, Minerva in The Walking Dead: Final Season, Irelia in League of Legends, The Imagined in Fortnite and most recently as Queen Sonia in Zelda-Tears of the Kingdom and Manon in Street Fighter 6. She also voices multiple characters in the Fire Emblem universe: Caeda, Mae, Rhea, and more.
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🪐Planet Anime Kansas City celebrates anime fandom with a weekend of celebrities, artists, cosplay, panels and more! Join us August 21-23, 2026.