J E P   C A S T

JEP CAST (Japanese Entertainment Podcast) is a podcast where four girls hilariously discuss the ins and outs of Johnny’s Jimusho (also known by fans as Johnny’s Entertainment or shortened simply to JE) which is a Japanese talent agency of male pop stars. The first half of each episode covers a week’s worth news about groups such as KAT-TUN, NEWS, SMAP, V6, TOKIO, Kanjani8, Kinki Kids, Tackey and Tsubasa, TEGOMASU, and Hey!Say!Jump. In the second half of the podcast, we take a popular Japanese drama and talk about our thoughts and opinions on it. Come join us for the latest news and to hear about what we are watching this week!

H O S T S

JENNIE [ main host, audio editor, web maintainer ] is the oldest of all the hosts at 27 and lives with her husband in a small town in Germany. She was born and raised in Los Angeles and hopes to move to Japan in 2010. She spent the first few years of her marriage teasing her husband about his anime and Japan addiction only to be sucked in herself during a week of forced bed rest with nothing else to do. Now, there is not a day that goes by where her husband does not regret pulling her into Japanese culture as her fixation on Johnny’s has become a staple in their household. While she is an unabashed NEWS fan, there isn’t a group in Johnny’s that she doesn’t enjoy and, as such, she spends way too much time trying to keep current in fandom. If she’s not working on something to do with JEP Cast, whether it be anything from editing audio to coming up with new segment ideas to shamelessly bossing Kami around, you can find her traveling around Europe or off taking photos of anything and everything, trying to perfect her photography skills. She likes to tell herself that one day, she will be a grownup and stop her fangirling ways but she knows this isn’t true.

KAMIKA [ news host, backup audio editor ] is the driving force behind the podcast (even though Jennie’s the real reason that the podcast exists because Kamika’s just much too lazy to push herself to actually go through with half the ideas she thinks up. …This applies to so many other things.) But M-tendencies aside, Kamika’s a 21-year-old college student living in New York with her HUGE family. She’s absolutely horribly obsessed with LJ, so most of her time is spent refreshing LJ, chatting with people on LJ (commentspams are your friend!), or posting obnoxiously long entries. While she is a ridiculously huge NewS fan (her entrance into fandom being due to a certain Yamapi), she does enjoy listening and learning about the other JE groups, and eats up all their media with a spoon.

PEYTON [ drama host ] is really the Japan!a!phile of the hosts. She has a BA in Japanese Studies and is currently in her first year of graduate school, working on her MA. Originally from the California Bay Area, like Jennie, she is no longer there and currently is living in New England. She also lived in Tokyo for one year, right when KAT-TUN debuted, so she is pretty much first and foremost a KAT-TUN fan though she’s well-versed in almost all of Johnny’s and knows them like the back of her hand (when she’s not cheating or making mistakes). Of course, since it was Japanese dramas that sucked her into the fandom oh so long ago, when she’s not fangirling Johnny’s boys, she’s sinking her teeth into every kind of drama out there. Just call her a media!whore, she doesn’t mind at all.

RHEY [ letter / question host ], the youngest of the hosts at nineteen, is a boring girl living in the exciting city of New York. Her likes include (and probably are limited to) long walks on the beach, candle-lit dinners, the Large Hadron Collider, and dead-fish!eyes.

S T A F F

CHRISTY — Transcriber
Age: 17 (May 11)
LJ username: x_strangerrr
Email address: roseate.c@hotmail.com
Location: Malaysia
Favorite Group: NEWS
Favorite JE boy: Nishikido Ryo
Favorite JE song and/or PV: Song- Kiss~ kaerimichi no love song PV- Summer Time
Favorite Jdrama: Hana Kimi
A little about me: Umm, well I’m a student and I’m currently pursueing interior design. So yeah. (I’m boring, I know -.-) Haaha.

LOCKY — Transcriber
Age: 17 (April 16)
LJ username: lockability
Email address: locky@jepcast.com
Location: Canada
A little about me: I’m really bad at picking favourites! Um, I like all the JE boys, from the older groups right down to the juniors. As for me personally, my hobbies are writing and being unabashedly nerdy.

MRSFINNY — MySpace Webmaster
Age: 17 (November 29)
LJ username: mrsfinny
Email address: mrsfinny@jepcast.com
Location: US
Favorite Group: NEWS
Favorite JE boy: Yamashita Tomohisa
Favorite JE song and/or PV: Can’t choose D:
Favorite Jdrama: Nodame Cantabile [JE: Sapuri]
A little about me: I’m pretty much a nerd that loves everything Asian [mainly Japanese]. My hobbies are listening to music, watching dramas & anime, and photoshopping [if you can even call those hobbies] XD. There’s more to me, but that’s not important ^_^.

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