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What Is a Seiyuu?

Anime 101 infographic explaining what a seiyuu is, showing a fictional Japanese voice actor recording anime dialogue and the wider world of voice acting, games, music, radio, and live events

What is a seiyū? Learn how Japanese voice actors work across anime, games, dubbing, music, agencies, auditions, recording, and live events.

Mayumi Asano: Haku’s Voice, Career, Roles and Performance Guide

Japanese voice actor Mayumi Asano in her official Osawa agency portrait

Japanese voice actor profile Mayumi Asano Haku’s voice has to hold gentleness, lethal skill, concealed allegiance, and the belief that usefulness is the closest thing to love. Mayumi Asano makes those contradictions belong to one fifteen-year-old boy, not a twist wearing a pretty face. Profile facts Japanese name 浅野 まゆみ Romanized name Mayumi Asano Born […]

Nobuo Tobita: Ebisu and Zetsu’s Voice, Career and Performance Guide

Japanese voice actor Nobuo Tobita in his official Arts Vision agency portrait

Japanese voice actor profile Nobuo Tobita Naruto gives Nobuo Tobita two jobs that should not fit inside one performer. Ebisu is a stiff teacher who learns that status is not the same as value. Zetsu is surveillance, appetite, imitation, and conspiracy wearing a body. Tobita makes both legible without pretending they belong to the same […]

Naruto Japanese Voice Actors: Original Cast and Performance Guide

Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi overlooking the Hidden Leaf Village at sunset

CVM Sekai Cast & Creators · Japanese Original Performances The voices inside the village. Naruto works because its performers make bravado, grief, rivalry, absurdity, and loneliness sound as though they occupy the same body. This directory follows the original Japanese cast,not replacement dubs,and opens only profiles that are genuinely published. Performance is part of the […]

Showtaro Morikubo: Shikamaru’s Voice, Career, Roles and Performance Guide

Japanese voice actor Showtaro Morikubo in his official Add9th agency portrait

Japanese voice actor profile Showtaro Morikubo Shikamaru Nara could have sounded like a smug genius who merely tolerates everyone else. Showtaro Morikubo makes him sound like a tired human being whose care keeps defeating his desire to do nothing. That difference is the whole character. Profile facts Japanese name 森久保 祥太郎 Romanized name Showtaro Morikubo […]

Noriaki Sugiyama: Sasuke’s Voice, Career, Roles and Performance Guide

Japanese voice actor Noriaki Sugiyama at New York Comic Con wearing a BLEACH shirt

CVM Sekai Cast & Creators · Japanese Original Performance Noriaki Sugiyama Sasuke Uchiha can freeze a room with three quiet words, then sound suddenly, devastatingly young when grief breaks the seal. Noriaki Sugiyama’s performance makes restraint audible: pride held rigid, love denied, fury rationed, and loneliness leaking through every attempt at control. Profile Japanese name […]

Anime Voice Actors

Voice actor wearing headphones recording dialogue at a studio microphone while watching an animated scene

Anime Binge · Behind the Worlds · Cast & Creators You knew the voice before you knew the name. One character starts talking and suddenly you are staring at the screen thinking, WAIT. I know that voice. Then the credits send you down another rabbit hole and apparently the villain from one series is the […]