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[[Code Geass (Anime)|I, Johnny Yong Bosch, command you...]] '''[[Large Ham|DESCRIBE ME!]]'''
 
[[Running Gag|Happily, Your Highness!]] Born John Jay Bosch, '''[[Johnny Yong Bosch]]''' ([[Fan Nickname|Fan Abbreviation]]: JYB)is a former ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' star (he was [[Throw It In|a frog]]) who has since moved on to [[Anime]] voice acting, starting as Vash the Stampede in ''[[Trigun (Manga)|Trigun]]'', and has since moved on to other lead roles. This coincidentally pitted him as the star and hero for the ONLY''only TWOtwo'' new anime [[Adult Swim]] was running for a year and a half- this streak ended when ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]'' completed its run in May 2009. This plus the earlier run of ''[[Eureka Seven (Anime)|Eureka Seven]]'' led many to call the starting anime block "The JYB Power Hour". When combined with his role as Ichigo in ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'', Adult Swim meant two things: shows from Williams Street, and shows starring JYB. He is the vocalist for his own band, [[Music/Eyeshine|Eyeshine]]. Oh yeah... and he's also an accomplished martial artist and could [[Badass|kick]] [[I Know Karate|your ass]]! And since [[Vic Mignogna]] got fired due to allegations of harassment, Bosch became the new voice of Broly from ''[[Dragon Ball]]''.
 
His Japanese vocal equivalent is [[Masakazu Morita]], their voices have identical ranges. His career path on the other hand, mirrors [[Masaya Matsukaze]]. Fans may sometimes compare him to [[Jun Fukuyama]] since he shares four roles with Jun (Albert Morcerf from ''[[Gankutsuou (Anime)|Gankutsuou]]'', Lelouch Lamperouge from ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]'', Haruto Sakaki from ''[[Witch Hunter Robin (Anime)|Witch Hunter Robin]]'', and Juto from ''[[Magna Carta]]'').
 
Has a [[Twitter]] [http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyyongbosch account.]
 
No relation to [[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Johnny Longbone]].
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=== Notable Roles: ===
* Adam Park ([[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|2nd Black Ranger]]/[[Power Rangers ZEOZeo|Green Zeo Ranger]]/[[Power Rangers Turbo|1st Green Turbo Ranger]]) in ''[[Power Rangers]]''
* [[One-Scene Wonder|Cameraman]] in ''[[Drop Dead Gorgeous (Filmfilm)|Drop Dead Gorgeous]]''. "Fuckin' beauty queens, blowin' chunks everywhere. I-I've never seen anything like it before, and I live in L.A."
* Vash the Stampede in ''[[Trigun (Anime)|Trigun]]'', his first venture in voice acting.
* Ichigo Kurosaki and [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Hollow Ichigo]] in ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]''
* Renton Thurston in ''[[Eureka Seven (Anime)|Eureka Seven]]''
* Lelouch Lamperouge in ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]''
* Emil Castagnier (both normal and Ratatosk Mode) in ''[[Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World|Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]''
* Nero in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'' (voice and mocap)
* Rossiu Aday in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''
* Genma Shiranui and Sasori in ''[[Naruto (Anime)|Naruto]]''
* Tohru Adachi and the few instances in which the Main Character speaks in ''[[Persona 4]]''. The Protagonist sounds more like a Power Ranger (he calls out almost every Persona like he's saying "IT'S MORPHING TIME!").
* A rare bit part: Chet in ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Haré+Guu]]'', where he is credited as Kevin Hatcher
** Bosch also used the Hatcher pseudonym as Yuichi Taira in ''[[Paranoia Agent (Anime)|Paranoia Agent]]''
* Itsuki Koizumi in ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]''
* [[Daisuke Ono]] in ''[[Lucky Star (Anime)|Lucky Star]]'' (As a [[Shout-Out]] to him portraying Itsuki mentioned above, whom Ono had also previously voiced)
* Almaz in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]''
* Albert de Morcerf in ''[[Gankutsuou]]''
* Guy Cecil in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''
* Gram River in ''[[Mars Daybreak]]''
* Rush Sykes in ''[[The Last Remnant]]''
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* Firion in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''
* Kuhn in ''[[.hack]]''
* Kaneda in ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'' (the Animaze dub)
* Kiba in ''[[WolfsWolf's Rain (Anime)|Wolfs Rain]]''
* Haruto Sakaki in ''[[Witch Hunter Robin]]''
* Billy Ray Leung in ''Wicked Game'', a live-action buddy-heist B-movie with fellow ''[[Power Rangers]]'' star Jason Narvy (Skull of [[Those Two Guys|Bulk and Skull]]), which mostly served to show off his martial arts and stunt skills.
* Raguna in ''[[Rune Factory: Frontier]]''
* Sid in ''[[Three Delivery (Animation)|Three Delivery]]''
* Reiji Kageyama in ''[[Gate Keepers]]'' and ''[[Gate Keepers 21]]''
* Prince Sagum in ''[[Moribito Guardian of the Spirit]]''
* Claus Valca in ''[[Last Exile (Anime)|Last Exile]]''
* Yuji "Saku" Sakurai in ''[[Beck (Animemanga)|Beck]]''
* Kazuki Makabe in ''[[Fafner in The Azure Dead Aggressor]]''
* Masataka Takayanagi in ''[[Tenjou Tenge]]'' (credited as Kevin Hatcher)
* [[Kid Appeal Character|Bumblebee]] in ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''
* Clair "Vampire" Leonelli in ''[[Heat Guy J (Anime)|Heat Guy J]]''
* Shinjiro Taiga in ''[[Sakura Wars]] So Long My Love''
* Sanada Yukimura in ''[[Warriors Orochi]]'' and ''[[Samurai Warriors]]'' 3
** as well in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' ('''[[Say My Name|YOUR LORDSHIIIIIP!!!!!!!]]''')
* Bo-Jiggler in ''[[Bobobo-Bo BoboboboBo-bobo]]''
* Juto in ''[[Magna Carta|Magna Carta II]]''
* Seto in ''[[Fragile Dreams|Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon]]''
* [[Embarrassing First Name|Sakura]] [[Butt Monkey|Kusa]][[WTHWhat the Hell, Casting Agency?|kabe]] in ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan (Light Novel)Dokuro-chan|Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan]]'' (used a whiny type pitch similar to Renton Thurston from what this troper has been told)
* [[Jerkass|Izaya Orihara]] from ''[[Durarara!!]]''
* [[Mega Man X|Zero]] in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Video Game)|Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', [[The Other Darrin|standing in for]] Lucas Gilbertson ([[Just for Pun|from Nero to Zero!]] ... wait, another Zero?)
* [[Street Fighter III (Video Game)|Yang Lee]] in ''Super [[Street Fighter IV (Video Game)|Street Fighter IV]]''
* Kazuma in ''[[Freedom Project]]''
* Kota Fugiki in ''[[Gods Eater Burst]]''
* Ryu in ''[[Hellbinders]]''
* Torian Cadera in ''[[Star WarstheWars: The Old Republic]]''
* Xiba in ''[[Soul Calibur|Soul Calibur V]]''
* Kurosawa in ''[[Binary Domain]]''
* Yuusaku Kitamura in ''[[Toradora!]]''
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=== {{creatortropes|[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|It's Tropin' Time!]] ===}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Surprisingly, despite him constantly being typecastedtypecast inas hot blooded, hammy heroes, he is quite capable of voicing ''anti-heroes.'' such as Lelouch Lamperouge
** Johnny Yong Bosch stated in his [https://web.archive.org/web/20090207065936/http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=74120855&blogId=204807209 Myspace blog] that anti-heroes is his personal preference.
* [[Bishonen]]: He's voiced quite a few of them. Vash, Itsuki, Lelouch, and Sasori are a few examples.
** Hell, he's [[Truth in Television|even one in real life]].
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: [[Word of God]], he's [[No Koreans in Japan|half-Korean]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092356/http://www.rangermania.com/johnnyyongbosch.htm\].
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: If a Bosch-character is good, he's generally [[Idiot Hero|not very bright]]; if a Bosch character is smart, he's generally [[Manipulative Bastard|not very good]].
** Ichigo Kurosaki is an interesting aversion to this trope, because while he's got the [[Leeroy Jenkins]] thing down he's actually quite intelligent, both in school and in battle. This totally applies to Ichigo's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], though.
* [[Full-Name Basis]]: A lot of people say his full name when talking about him. Even on this wiki.
** One exception was in the first few episodes of ''Power Rangers'' where he was introduced, when he was credited under John BocshBosch.
* [[The Hero]]: His primary forte. As he once noted in an interview, it was his "perfect Hero Voice" that landed him [[Trigun|his first anime voice acting role]].
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Also part of his primary forte, though ironically in [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] (a series known for being a [[World of Ham]]) he voices Rossiu, [[The Spock]] amongst the cast.
* [[Kid Hero]]: ever since his [[Playing Against Type]] role of [[Eureka Seven|Renton Thurston]], he has been getting ''some'' roles where he uses a higher-pitch voice that casts him into younger characters. From [[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World|Emil]], [[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice|Almaz]], [[Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan (Light Novel)Dokuro-chan|Sakura Kusakabe]], and recently [[Soul Series|Xiba]], they all have whiny higher pitch voice in stark contrast to the [[Hot-Blooded|HotBloodedness]] [[Large Ham|hams]] he had like [[Trigun|Vash the Stampede]] and [[Bleach|Ichigo Kurosaki]].
* [[Large Ham]]: Most of his voice acting makes the characters larger than life to the point of [[Superlative Dubbing]].
* [[Not Even Bothering Withwith the Accent]]: While he's capable of pulling off a high-pitch voice like Renton Thurston, he has yet played any role that involves pulling off an accent. That was until:
** He has spoken in a completely different language in a dub - Being [[Durarara!!|Izaya's]] voice actor required him to speak in Russian for a few lines. It sounds near perfect compared to Izaya's original voice.
** Similarly, while still easily recognizable, he also attempted a Japanese accent in ''[[Binary Domain]]'' as Kurosawa. Seeing that he had worked a lot of anime titles in the past, it's no surprise he manage to pick this accent up quickly.
* [[Pigeonholed Voice Actor]]: due to him being typecastedtypecast either into the [[Bishonen]] or [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Large Ham|Hammy]] [[The Hero|heroes]]
** He has range if you get past [[Shonen Jump]] and [[Adult Swim]] roles. Notably Claus, [[Kid Hero|Renton]], [[Police Are Useless|Adachi]], [[Psychopathic Manchild|Claire]], [[The Philosopher|Itsuki]], and now [[Affably Evil|Izaya]].
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Since his vocal range is limited due to typecasting, his voice acting is ''easily'' the most recognizable by many fans, ''even when he is supposed to be playing against the type''.
** Subverted with the title character from ''[[Soul Eater]]'', ''he'' was misattributed to this character before it was later announced that the newcomer [[Micah Solusod]] is voicing Soul. <ref>* It also didn't help to note the fact that Johnny Yong Bosch worked with [[FUNimation]] on several titles in the past. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], as he was raised in a town in [[Everything Is Big in Texas|Texas]] during his childhood years where it is located ''near Funimation's headquarters''</ref>
*** To hammer this example out, [[Micah Solusod]]'s performance on Lizst in ''[[Ookami-Sansan]]'' sounds ''exactly'' like [[Johnny Yong Bosch]]'s performance as [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Itsuki]]. And to make this a [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] context, Micah [[Poor Man's Substitute|will be replacing Johnny Yong Bosch's role as Kazuki]] in the recent [[Fafner in The Azure Dead Aggressor|Fafner film adaption]] dub.
** Likewise with Pit in ''[[Kid Icarus]] Uprising'' (actually Antony Del Rio). This case is interesting because it persisted even after Johnny stated that he did not voice Pit.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: In addition to above mentioned roles, he has voiced a whiny [[Butt Monkey]], Sakura Kusakabe, from Dokuro-chan.
** And as Rossiu in ''[[Gurren Lagann]]''. Since he usually plays [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Large Ham|Large Hams]], you'd think he'd be right at home in a series where more than half the cast fits that description...but he voices one who doesn't.
* [[Relationship Voice Actor]]: Usually plays either [[The Lancer|alongside]] or [[The Rival|opposite]] to [[Yuri Lowenthal]].
** Also worked with [[Crispin Freeman (Creator)|Crispin Freeman]] in many of the voice acting work, either as [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|a]] [[Wolf's Rain (Manga)|steadfast]] [[Witch Hunter Robin (Anime)|ally]] ([[Eureka Seven (Anime)|or]] [[Last Exile (Anime)|understudy]]) or [[Durarara (Light Novel)!!|overly]] [[Code Geass|smug]] rival.
*** As well as [[Gods Eater Burst|inferior.]]
** His characters also tend to get paired with those played by either [[Stephanie Sheh (Creator)|Stephanie Sheh]] or [[Laura Bailey]], the former especially so.
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