is a Japanese actor who specializes in voice acting.
For his portrayal of Setsuna Aoki in Sakura Wars, and Athrun Zala in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom and Masahiro Sanada in Tenjō Tenge, he was chosen as the most popular voice actor in the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 2004, and won the Best Supporting Character (male) award at the 1st Seiyu Awards in 2007. He is best known for his roles as Akaza in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Gaara in Naruto, Zeref in Fairy Tail, Cho Hakkai in Saiyuki, Kaworu Nagisa in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Makoto Yuki in Persona 3, Kuja in Final Fantasy, Otto Apocalypse in Honkai Impact 3rd, Luocha in Honkai: Star Rail, Kamisato Ayato in Genshin Impact, Katsura Kotarou in Gintama & Eishi Tsukasa in Food Wars Shokugeki no Sōma.
Filmography
Animation + List of voice performances in animation Year Series Role Notes Source Ranma ½ Yutaro Yudono Mobile Police Patlabor Mechanical Man The Three-Eyed One Takashi –1992 Magical Princess Minky Momo: Hold on to Your Dreams Joe Thumbelina: A Magical Story Prince Kobo-chan Tsuruta Legend of Galactic Heroes: Golden Wings Additional voices Please Save My Earth Laszo YuYu Hakusho Shinobu Sensui (young) Marmalade Boy Kei Tsuchiya Chō Kuse ni Narisō Kamioka Ryuu Yamato Takeru Amatsumi Combustible Campus Guardress Jinno Takumi –1995 Tonde Burin Koichi Mizuno –1997 You're Under Arrest Saki Abdusha OAV and TV Captain Tsubasa J Misaki Taro (adult) –1995 My Sexual Harassment Young boy Ninku Sekirai Ninku Sailor Moon SuperS Fisheye Jura Tripper Mint Soar High! Isami Idol Nurse Angel Ririka SOS Seiya Uzaki, Herb Level C Mizuki Shinohara Neon Genesis Evangelion Kaworu Nagisa Tōma Kishinden ONI Shuramaru Fire Emblem Gordon Case Closed Saguru Hakuba & Various characters –2009 Slayers series Xellos Slayers Special Jeffrey Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go WGP Schmidt Hen Hiroyuki The Kindaichi Case Files Shin'ichi Ukon Clamp School Detectives Itomu Yuudaiji Fushigi Yûgi OVA 2 Ren Shigyō Shinkai Densetsu Meremanoid Leon Berserk Judeau Voogie's Angel Ash Dragoon Sedi OAV Outlaw Star Yase LET'S ぬぷぬぷっ Oomori Ani Maico 2010 Akira Tenpoin Legend of Basara Tatara Sentimental Journey Masahiro Yamamoto Ep. 7 Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective Shunichi –1999 Master Keaton Matsui Hiroshi Kare Kano Kazuma Ikeda Touch: Miss Lonely Yesterday Sasaki Digimon Adventure Wizardmon Gokudo Gokudo Also known as Jester I'm Gonna Be An Angel! Michael Saiyuki Premium Cho Hakkai OAV Soul Hunter Shinkohyo Jibaku-kun Baku (Bucky) Seraphim Call Narration Ep. 10 –2000 Gundress Saiki Ryo Pilot Candidate Yu Gensomaden Saiyuki Cho Hakkai Sakura Wars Setsuna Aoki TV series Boys Be... Makoto Kurumizawa Tales of Eternia: The Animation Reid Hershel Pokémon: The Johto Journeys Falkner –2003 Cyborg 009 Apollo Inuyasha Amari Nobunaga Haré+Guu Seiichi Tachibana Final Fantasy: Unlimited Makenshi Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002 Hikaru Matsuyama The Prince of Tennis Hajime Mizuki Kogepan Cream Bread Tokyo Mew Mew Shunsuke Ep. 30 The Twelve Kingdoms Kouya Samurai Deeper Kyo Sarutobi Sasuke Seven of Seven Yuuichi Kamichika Spiral Eyes Rutherford –2007 Naruto Gaara Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Athrun Zala Kiddy Grade Un-ou I"s Jun Koshinae OVA Gunparade March: The New March Atsushi Hayami D.N.Angel Satoshi Hiwatari Zatch Bell! Wonrei Detective Academy Q Masumi Toujo Rumic Theater Shinatome Ep. 11 Shadow Star Tomonori Komori Saiyuki Reload Cho Hakkai The Galaxy Railways Owen Ep. 9 Uninhabited Planet Survive! Haward Chrono Crusade Chrono Mezzo DSA Otokawa Hiroshi Saiyuki Reload Gunlock Cho Hakkai Tenjho Tenge Masahiro Sanada Ep. 10 Kyo Kara Maoh! Saralegi Sgt. Frog Saburo Madlax Morris Lopis Gundam SEED Destiny Athrun Zala My-HiME Nagi Homura Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō Abe no Yasuaki Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Edo Phoenix Genshiken Manabu Kuchiki Season 1 only Gakuen Alice Narumi L. Anju Meine Liebe Naoji Ishizuki Gallery Fake Hiroto Sukisho Kai Nanami The Law of Ueki Inumaru Elemental Gelade Coud Van Giruet Doraemon Prince Ep. 215 Alien Nine Yellow Knife My-Otome Nagi Dài Artai –2006 Blood+ Joel Goldschmidt VI –2007 Saint Beast Kirin no Yuda OVAs and TV series Nintama Rantarō Ayabe Kihachirou –2006 Negima! Magister Negi Magi Fate Averruncus Kage Kara Mamoru! Raijuurou Kumogakure Glass Fleet Vetti Sforza –present Gintama Kotaro Katsura Nana Okazaki "Shin" Shinichi Night Head Genesis Naoya Kirihara Harukanaru Toki no Naka de – Maihitoyo Yasuaki Abe Shōnen Onmyōji Abe no Seimei (young) Kekkaishi Toshihiko Tsukijigaoka Saiyuki Reload: Burial Cho Hakkai OVA Nodame Cantabile Takahashi Noriyuki The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet Killian Black OVA series –2017 Naruto: Shippuden Gaara Claymore Zaki Idolmaster: Xenoglossia Karasu Kōtetsu Sangokushi Ryomou Shimei Kamichama Karin Michiru Nishikiori Shining Tears X Wind Kaito Kiriya Bokurano Koyemshi Ice Julia Bamboo Blade Danjūrō Eiga –2009 Shugo Chara! Tsukasa Amakawa Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne Apos The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk Kally –2017 Natsume's Book of Friends Shuichi Natori TV series and OVAs Casshern Sins Margo Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka Fuyuhiko Nishino The Girl Who Leapt Through Space Emilio Surre The Beast Player Erin Duke Damiya Pandora Hearts Xerxes Break, Emily Metal Fight Beyblade Tobio Oike First Love Limited Yukito Renjou Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark Badou Nails Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas Virgo Asmita Tatakau Shisho – The Book of Bantorra Mokania Fairy Tail Zeref –2010 Kiddy Girl-and Un-ou HeartCatch PreCure! Cologne Angel Beats! Mysterious young man Ep. 12 Hakuouki Hekketsuroku Tokishige Masaki The Betrayal Knows My Name Kanata Wakamiya Magic Kaito Saguru Hakuba Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan Inugamigyobu Tamazuki –2011 Hen Semi Komugi Musashi OVA and TV series Heaven's Lost Property Forte Panty Robo Ep. 5 Star Driver Head –2011 Princess Resurrection Emile OVA Starry Sky Kotarou Hoshizuki Saiyuki Gaiden General Tenpou OVA Toriko Tommyrod Penguindrum Keiju Tabuki Alice in the Country of Hearts Joker Fate/Zero Ryūnosuke Uryū Phi Brain: Puzzle of God Jikukawa Souji Ben-To Hercules Future Diary Aru Akise Lupin: Blood Seal – Eternal Mermaid TV special The New Prince of Tennis Hajime Mizuki The Knight in the Area Araki Ryuuchi Daily Lives of High School Boys President Saint Seiya Omega Pisces Amor Accel World Yellow Radio Arashi no Yoru ni Kuro Chōyaku Hyakunin isshu: Uta Koi Fujiwara no Yoshitaka Kamisama Kiss Mikage Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic Yunan Psycho-Pass Shūsei Kagari Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East Kagetsu Amnesia Kent Red Data Girl Hodaka Murakami The Severing Crime Edge Seigi Nakajima A Simple Thinking About Blood Type O-gata Arata: The Legend Harunawa Saiyuki Gaiden: Kouga no Shou General Tenpou OVA Brothers Conflict Chiaki Danganronpa: The Animation Byakuya Togami Servant × Service Lucy's father Devils and Realist Samael Ep. 11–12 Kyōsōgiga Myoe / Inari Tokyo Ravens Atsune Hirata Samurai Flamenco Beyond Flamenco Blood Lad Roi OVA Nobunagun Eugène François Vidocq D-Frag! Naganuma One Piece Cavendish Captain Earth Eiji Arashi Ep. 5 Sengoku Basara: End of Judgement Hanbei Takenaka Nobunaga Concerto Hori Hidemasa Terra Formars Joseph Gustav Newton TV series –2016 Mysterious Joker Viridian –2015 Yona of the Dawn An Jun-gi Parasyte Hideo Shimada Cardfight!! Vanguard G Shouma Shinonome Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire Daigo short anime film Juuza Engi: Engetsu Sangokuden: Gaiden Youzhou Genya Ryuubi OVA Chain Chronicle Hero/Haruaki/Black Knight short anime series Cute High Earth Defense Club Love! Chizu Kazutake & Tokiwa Tomaru Ep. 1 Q Transformers: Return of the Mystery of Convoy Ultra Magnus World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman Ando Suruga –2017 Blood Blockade Battlefront Fallen King Femto Ace of Diamond: Second Season Hisashi Watanabe –2016 Snow White with the Red Hair Izana Wistalia Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers Tgurneu Lance N' Masques Shin Hanabusa Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation Itsuki Isozaki Cyborg 009 Apollo OVA Dimension W Albert Schuman Divine Gate Oz Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū Yūrakutei Yakumo VIII (Kikuhiko) Magi: Adventure of Sinbad Yunan Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto Yoshinobu Kubota Terra Formars: Revenge Joseph Gustav Newton –2017 Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Edo Phoenix –2017 Rin-ne Kurosu 2016 ClassicaloidPad-kun 2016 Bungo Stray Dogs Fyodor Dostoyevsky 2016 March Comes in like a Lion Tōji Sōya 2016 Monster Strike Kharma Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū: Sukeroku Anew Arc Yūrakutei Yakumo VIII (Kikuhiko) Chain Chronicle ~Light of Haecceitas~ Yuri, Black Knight 2017 Elegant Yokai Apartment Life Reimei Isshiki 2017–present Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Gaara Magical Circle Guru Guru President of Darkness Ep. 4, 7, 10–12, 15 –2018 Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Third Plate Tsukasa Eishi Girls' Last Tour Kanazawa Ep. 3–4 Devils' Line Megumi Ishimaru Saiyuki Reload Blast Cho Hakkai How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Keera L. Greenwood Ep. 6–8 – Cells at Work! Normal Cell / Cancer Cell Season 1–2 Angolmois: Record of Mongol Invasion Emperor Antoku Ep. 6–7 Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King Jūmonji Suruga The Morose Mononokean II Sakae Ashiya Kakegurui XX Rin Obami Mob Psycho 100 II Keiji Mogami 7 Seeds Chimaki Yamori Carole & Tuesday Black Knight African Office Worker Company President Turtle Outburst Dreamer Boys Faust Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Fourth Plate Tsukasa Eishi –2020 Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld Gabriel Miller Dr. Stone Hyōga –2020 Ace of Diamond act II Hisashi Watanabe –2023 Bofuri Marcus Darwin's Game Oboro Ep. 11 Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Fifth Plate Tsukasa Eishi Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World Regulus Corneas Cells at Work!! The Return of the Strongest Enemy. A Huge Uproar in the Body’s Bowels! Cancer Cell Anime film Kemono Jihen Akio Tademaru Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai Larhalt World Trigger Kazuaki Ōji Season 2 Fruits Basket: The Final Akira Soma Mars Red Takeuchi Pretty Boy Detective Club Odoru Soutouin Ep. 11 The Case Study of Vanitas The shapeless one/teacher The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace Prontea That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Guy Crimson Season 2 Kimi to Fit Boxing Hiro Digimon Ghost Game Kiyoshirō Higashimitarai Tesla Note Pino 2021–2024 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Akaza Saiyuki Reload: Zeroin Cho Hakkai Tribe Nine Shun Kamiya Requiem of the Rose King Duke of Richmond Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs Luxion Skeleton Knight in Another World Domitianus Tokyo Mew Mew New Seiji Aizawa My Master Has No Tail Utaroku Ebisuya By the Grace of the Gods Caulkin Season 2 The Fire Hunter Hibari Rokudo's Bad Girls Kota Kijima/Manager Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion Heika Demint Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Sanctuary Arc Armagest Golden Kamuy Heita Matsuda Season 4 My Happy Marriage Takaihito Helck Hon The Witch and the Beast Matt Cougar Mission: Yozakura Family Asuka Hatoda Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. Kei Koga Kagaku×Bōken Survival Kei Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Kirishima Miyama Bananya Around the World Narrator Solo Leveling: Arise From the Shadow Ant King / Beru Koisuru One Piece Biology Club President ONA The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest Loki Silveria Ranma ½ Hikaru Gosunkugi Season 2 Fire Force Oguro Season 3 Ace of Diamond Act II Hisashi Watanabe Season 2 Daemons of the Shadow Realm Asuma Kagemori Recommendations from Iwamoto-senpai Bōkyo Kizujō The Ogre's Bride Senya Kiryūin Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia Dayir
Puppet + List of voice performances in feature films Year Series Role Notes Source 2018 Thunderbolt Fantasy Touriken Yuuki 2 Lóu Zhèn Jiè (Ro Shinkai) / Dì Kōng (Tei Kuu) Glove Puppetry TV Series
Theatrical animation