Akira Ishida

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Akira Ishida
Born November 2, 1967 in Aichi, Japan Age 39
Statistics Occupation Seiyū Gender Male Family Parents, Elder Sister Ethnicity Japanese Notable Credit(s) Chrono Crusade as Chrono Gundam Seed as Athrun Zala Naruto as Gaara Neon Genesis Evangelion as Kaworu Nagisa

Akira Ishida (石田 彰 Ishida Akira, born November 2, 1967) is a male seiyū born in Aichi, Japan.

He has been part of Mausu Promotion (formerly known as Ezaki Production. Named changed in 1990) since 1988. He is known in for voicing some very famous oddly effeminate male characters (including Fish Eye, Kaworu Nagisa, and Xellos)

• Blood type: O

Contents 1 Voice Roles 1.1 Anime 1.2 Game 1.3 Drama CD 1.4 Tokusatsu 1.5 Dubbing Roles 2 Trivia 3 External links

[edit] Voice Roles

[edit] Anime

Asterisks denote major roles

• Berserk (Judeau)
• Captain Tsubasa (Hikaru Matsuyama)
• Chrono Crusade (*Chrono)
• CLAMP School Detectives (Itomu Yuudaiji)
• Detective Academy Q (Masumi Toujo)
• Detective Conan (Hakuba Saguru)
• Digimon Adventure (Wizardmon)
• D.N.Angel (*Satoshi Hiwatari)
• Elemental Gelade (*Coud Van Giruet)
• Final Fantasy: Unlimited (Makenshi)
• Fire Emblem (Gordon)
• Fushigi Yūgi (Ren Shingyō)
• Gakuen Alice (Narumi)
• Gallery Fake (Hiroto)
• Genshiken (Kuchiki)
• Gin Tama (Katsura Kotarou)
• Gokudo (*Gokudo)
• Gunparade March (*Atsushi Hayami)
• Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny (*Athrun Zala)
• Haré+Guu (Seiichi Tachibana)
• Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō (Abe no Yasuaki)
• Houshin Engi (Shinkohyo)
• InuYasha (Nobunaga Amari)
• Kamichama Karin (*Michiru Nishikiori)
• Kiddy Grade (Un-oh)
• Kindaichi Case Files (Shin'ichi Ukon)
• Kogepan (Cream Bread)
• Law of Ueki (Inumaru)
• Marmalade Boy (Kei Tsuchiya)
• Meine Liebe (Naoji)
• My-HiME (Nagi Homura)
• My-Otome (Nagi Dài Artai)
• Nana (*Okazaki "Shin" Shinichi)
• Naruto (Gaara)
• Negima!: Magister Negi Magi (Fate Averruncus)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (Kaworu Nagisa)
• Night Head Genesis (*Naoya Kirihara)
• Ninku (Sekirai Ninku)
• Nurse Angel Ririka SOS (Seiya Uzaki)
• Pokémon (Hayato (Falkner))
• Sailor Moon Super S (Fish Eye)
• Saint Beast (Kirin no Yuda)
• Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload and Saiyuki Reload Gunlock (*Cho Hakkai)
• Sakura Wars (Setsuna Aoki)
• Sentimental Journey (Masahiro Yamamoto)
• Shounen Onmyouji (Seimei Abeno (Young))
• Slayers (Xellos)
• Samurai Deeper Kyo (Sasuke Sarutobi)
• Seven of Seven (Yuuichi Kamichika/Mutsumi Saburo)
• Sgt. Frog (Mutsumi Saburo)
• Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna (Eyes Rutherford)
• Sukisho (Kai Nanami)
• Super Pig (Kouichi Mizuno)
• Tales of Eternia (*Reid Hershel)
• I'm Gonna Be An Angel! (Michael)
• Tenjho Tenge (Masahiro Sanada)
• The Law of Ueki (Inumaru Wanko)
• The Prince of Tennis (Hajime Mizuki)
• The Twelve Kingdoms/Juuni Kokki (Kouya)
• Tokyo Mew Mew (Shunsuke)
• Tournament of the Gods (*Sid)
• Uninhabited Planet Survive! (Howard)
• YAMATO TAKERU (Amatsumi)
• You're Under Arrest (Saki Abdusha)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Ed Phoenix)
• Zatch Bell! (Wonrei)

[edit] Game

• Animamundi (Count St. Germant)
• Bakumatsu Renka Shinsengumi (Souji Okita)
• Baldr Force EXE (PS2 port-over) (Tooru Souma)
• Future GPX Cyber Formula Road to the Infinity series (Seiichiro Shiba)
• Galaxy Angel (Camus O. Lamphroaig)
• Gunparade March (Atsushi Hayami)
• invisible sign -is- and invisible sign -is- Nemureru Mori (Makoto Miyake)
• Jeanne D'Arc (Roger)
• Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories (Zexion)
• Luminous Arc (Alf)
• Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (Alex)
• Megaman Legends (Rockman JUNO/TV Reporter)
• Namco X Capcom (Gilgamesh)
• Namco X Capcom (Rockman JUNO)
• Otometeki Koi Kakumei Love Revo (Kaede Tokita)
• Sengoku Basara 2 (Takenaka Hanbei)
• Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked (Tsurumaki Worso)
• Sukisho (Kai Nanami)
• Summon Night EX Thesis ~Yoake no Tsubasa~ (Nova)
• Super Robot Wars series (Mekibos)
• Tales of Eternia and Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology (Rid Hershel)
• Ururun Quest Renyuuki (Tsukishiro)

[edit] Drama CD

• Ai wo Utau yori Ore ni Oborero (Ran Nikkaidou)
• Cafe Kichijouji de (Hifumi Minagawa)
• Gunparade March (Atsushi Hayami)
• Kamikaze (Ishigami Kamuro)
• Okane Ga Nai (Yukiya Ayase)
• Persona 3 (Secret character)
• Shounen Onmyouji (Seimei Abeno (Young))
• Slayers (Xellos)
• Sukisho (Kai Nanami)
• Tales of Eternia (Rid Hershel)
• Yorozuya Toukaidou Honpo (Yoshitsune Shima)

[edit] Tokusatsu

• GoGo Sentai Boukenger (Wicked Dragon Dembey)
• Jūken Sentai Gekiranger (Bae)

[edit] Dubbing Roles

• A Nightmare on Elm Street (Glen Lantz)
• Child's Play (Andy)
• Die Hard 3 (Dexter)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Tom Marvolo Riddle)
• Seabiscuit (John "Red" Pollard)
• Titanic (Jack Dawson)
• The Brave Little Toaster (Weird Electrical Appliance)
• The Sopranos (Anthony Soprano, Jr.)
• Velvet Goldmine (Brian Slade)

[edit] Trivia

• Akira was involved in a motorcycle accident before. (It is not documented, possibly to protect his privacy.) It is evident that he liked motorcycles but ever since the accident, it is said that he has been banned from riding again by Mausu Promotions.
• He admitted to disliking vegetables when he appeared as a guest on the radio show 'Mikako@Payo Payo'
• He had confessed to not owning a cell phone on Naruto Nippon. Whether or not he currently owns a cell phone is up to debate.
• At least 2 of the characters he voiced had links to the word "dawn".
  • In Naruto, his character (Gaara) was captured by the group Akatsuki (dawn in Japanese).
  • In Gundam Seed, his character's (Athrun Zala) name means dawn; Cagalli, his love interest, also had links to the word.

• Some of his characters have links with music as well.
  • In Kare Kano, Ikeda Kazuma is the lead singer of a rock band.
  • In the Nana anime, Akira voices Okazaki Shinichi, the bassist of the band Black Stones.
  • In Evangelion, Kaworu made his appearance humming Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". He is also shown to play violin in the movie, Death and Rebirth, and plays the piano in the manga.
  • In Gundam Seed, one of Athrun Zala's closest friends (Nicol Amalfi) was a piano player.
  • In Spiral, Eyes Rutherford is a piano prodigy.

• In Japan, apart from the time while Full Metal Alchemist was showing, he has appeared in every anime in the Saturday 6 p.m. timeslot on MBS and TBS, beginning from Gundam Seed and ending with Blood+. (GS, GSD and Blood+)

• One of the most well-known characters whom he has voiced (Kaworu Nagisa) appeared in the anime (Evangelion) for only one episode, with about 13 minutes of screentime.

• In late 2004 to 2005, he was simultaneously voicing two characters in animes produced by Sunrise.
  • My-Hime (as Nagi Homura)
  • Gundam Seed Destiny (as Athrun Zala)
• He has portrayed 3 personalities from the Sengoku era of Japan.
  • In the video game Sengoku Basara 2, he voices Takenaka Hanbei.
  • In the anime Samurai Deeper Kyo, he voiced Sarutobi Sasuke.
  • In the anime Inuyasha, he voiced Nobunaga Amari.

• Good friends and frequent co-stars with Hoshi Soichiro, Seki Tomokazu and Seki Toshihiko.
• In at least two anime, Sukisho and Level-C he portrays the love interest of the characters portrayed by Shinichiro Miki
• He has stated that he will no longer sing in public, including for anime concerts or CDs. His recent anime character songs thus feature him talking instead of singing over background music.

• For his portrayal of Athrun Zala in Gundam Seed Destiny, Akira won the "Best Supporting Character (male)" award at the first "Seiyu Awards". In the same category, Soichiro Hoshi was also nominated for his role as Kira Yamato in the same series.

[edit] External links

• Akira Ishida at Anime NFO
• Profile on Mausu Promotion