Her soft-spoken, easy-on-the-ears sound box provides the voices for Lady Rainicorn and Beemo on Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, the odd-ball comedy about a boy, Finn, and his dog, Jake, living in the Land of Ooo, a post-apocalyptic candyland of sorts. When Niki Yang answers the phone, I’m startled at how much she sounds like the quirky, adorable characters she portrays on TV.
This story originally published in KoreAm Journal May 2013. Niki Yang speaks life into two characters on Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time.