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Icon-mightymorphinThis article is about an actor in several Power Rangers shows, most notably in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

John Jay Bosch, better known as his acting pseudonym Johnny Yong Bosch is an American actor, voice actor, martial artist, and musician who portrayed Adam Park in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, and Power Rangers Turbo, with his most recent reprisal of the role in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always.

He also portrayed the movie incarnation of the same role in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.

Biography[]

Bosch was born in Kansas City, Missouri to an American father and a South Korean mother. From an early age, Bosch was fascinated with martial arts and mimicked several famous martial artists such as Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Bosch mentioned that he was a bully in his past but changed upon learning kung fu. At the time of auditioning for Power Rangers, Bosch was studying Shaolin Kung Fu under Master James Clark in Texas and it was Clark that showed him the audition ad and prompted him to audition.

After Walter Jones left the franchise due to a pay dispute, Bosch was cast as his replacement as the new character Adam. Bosch changed his middle name to Yong to sound more Asian at the request of Saban and has been using this name for all of his professional activities since. Bosch remained in the role of Adam for three years until Turbo when everyone except Blake Foster was let go to create a clean slate team and increase ratings. One year later, Bosch reprised his role as Adam in the Power Rangers In Space episode "Always a Chance".

Since the end of Power Rangers, Bosch has found great success as a voice actor, having accumulated prolific roles in anime and video games such as Vash the Stampede in Trigun/Trigun Stampede, Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, Lelouch vi Britannia in Code Geass, Yu Narukami from Persona 4, Nero from the Devil May Cry-series, Jonathan Joestar in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Hajime Hinata in Danganronpa, and Giyu Tomioka in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

Since starting his voiceover career, Bosch has occasionally returned to Power Rangers. He reprised his role as Adam in both the Power Rangers Operation Overdrive two-parter "Once a Ranger" and the MMPR 30th anniversary special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always. He has also voiced several Rangers in both the Super Megaforce game and Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid.

Personal Life[]

  • Bosch currently resides in West Hills, Calfornia, with his wife Amy, who he married in 2003. They have two children: a daughter named Novi and a son named Jettson.
  • He has three siblings: Cindy, Michael, and Diana.

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Musical Career[]

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Eyeshine is a four piece "Edge Rock" band from Los Angeles, CA that was founded in 2004 by Bosch himself. Bosch serves as the lead vocalist and plays the rhythm guitar, while his other bandmates play the drums, guitar, and bass. The band has released nine albums and one EP. In 2011, they entered a world-wide search for the best unsigned bands created by Emmy award winning producer Don Was called "Gimme The Gig." They made it to the finals, but lost. They re-entered for its second competition and won, which got them a music video for one of their songs, "Stratosphere."

Since the band's induction, they have received nationwide fame and have toured all around North America, Australia, and even Japan. In 2017, the banded disbanded after the release of their final album, Gone Tomorrow, and held their final live performance at Yama-Con. After Eyeshine disbanded, Bosch created a new band named Where Giants Fall, while keeping associated with his previous Eyeshine bandmates new bands 9Electric.

Notes[]

  • Bosch performed his own stunts throughout Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, due to his stunt actor having broken his leg during training. He also came up with the idea of Adam being upset his Ninja powers were drawn from the frog, as he felt frogs are not fast or agile from a human perspective since he even caught them in his backyard as a child.[1]
  • Bosch has stated that he was always interested by the idea of portraying his character Adam in a death scene.[2]
  • He hosted the web program AnimeTV[3] with Cristina Vee, who would go on to portray another Black Ranger, Vesper Vasquez, on Power Rangers HyperForce.
  • From Goldar's Vice-Versa to Rangers Back in Time Part 2, he was credited as "John Bosch."
  • He shares a birthday with Kevin Copeland.
  • As of his role in Ultraman Blazar, Bosch is the first actor in American television history (and the third actor overall after Kane Kosugi and Masashi Taniguchi) to have portrayed (in some capacity) a hero character in three major Tokusatsu franchises: a Power Ranger, a Rider, and an Ultra.

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