mario bueno - BIOGRAPHY

Mario is a vocalist, actor, emcee, and producer specializing in “nerd culture” content creation. His production brand Digital Era Entertainment has been putting out fan-centered narrative work since 2003, informative content (articles/video essays/podcasts) since 2017, and pivoted into weekly live-streamed content in 2018. The brand is currently producing a visual novel (game) project that was featured by IGN in Spring 2022 as part of their "Rogue Jam" competition (in partnership with Rogue Games). 

Emceeing since high school and professionally since 2009, he has regularly hosted events for fan events across the US such as C2E2 and companies such as Crunchyroll. He spent 12+ years in Events Promotions representing companies ranging from Samsung and Google to Bandai-Namco Entertainment and Square Enix. Conducting panels as far back as 2006, he began professionally moderating in 2019 at SPJA's Project Anime conference. He featured as an On-Camera Presenter/Interviewer for Anime News Network from 2007-2008, can be heard as a Voice Over Artist for film channel Screen Rant, and recently served as a PR Specialist for Virtual Youtuber agency VShojo.