Johnny Yong Bosch was one of the featured guests at this week’s Fan Expo Canada in Toronto. At two panels last Sunday he took questions from large crowds of fans about his career. Many current fans will know him as the voice of Ichigo in the English dubbed version of the anime Bleach, as well as Vash the Stampede in Trigun, and many other titles. But many of the older fans in the crowd first saw him as Adam Park in the early seasons of the Power Rangers television series.
In between entertaining his fans with stories about how he first got into voice acting, his Power Rangers auditions, and a particular tale that involved a homeless person and a 2 lb. bag of quarters, I asked Bosch about a recent interview with David Yost, the original Blue Ranger. Yost, who revealed that he is gay, said that he left the show after he “was called ‘faggot’ one too many times [by the show’s] creators, producers, writers, directors.”
