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Mamiko Noto

Cast · Known for From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke, Cells at Work!, Monster

Mamiko Noto is a Japanese voice actress and singer working under Office Osawa. Noto was born in Ishikawa Prefecture. Some of Noto's prominent anime roles include Kotomi Ichinose in Clannad, Rin in Inuyasha, Kotori Monou in X, Aoi Kannazuki in Kaitō Tenshi Twin Angel, Enma Ai in Hell Girl, Haruka Nogizaka in Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Mavis Vermillion in Fairy Tail, Sawako Kuronuma in Kimi ni Todoke, and Satellizer L. Bridget in Freezing, and Yukako Yamagishi in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Noto was nominated in the 1st Seiyu Awards for her work as Yakumo Tsukamoto in School Rumble and as Masane Amaha in Witchblade. Noto has released several character songs and albums which have charted in Oricon, and was a guest at the Otakon and Anime Expo conventions held in the United States.

Brenna O'Brien

Brenna O'Brien (born March 9, 1991) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for voicing Rin in the anime series Inuyasha. O'Brien was in the original pilot of The Middle in 2007 also starring Ricki Lake and Atticus Shaffer. This pilot was then re-created in 2009 with the current cast. O'Brien began her acting career at age 9, performing in local theatre productions and school plays. Her first film role was in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed at the age of 12 and from there went on to guest star in such films and televisions shows such as Supernatural as the NSA demon secretary Cecily, Stargate SG-1, Meghan in Zixx: Level Two, X-Men: The Last Stand, Phantom Racer and Girl in Progress. She is an accomplished voice over actor, having worked as a guest star as well as lead roles in several anime series, including Inuyasha, Hamtaro, Gundam SEED Destiny, and Elemental Gelade. She was a lead voice in Marvel’s animated feature Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, Marvel series Iron Man: Armored Adventures and Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost.

Paul Dobson

Cast · Known for Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, Superbook, LEGO Ninjago: Dragons Rising

Paul Dobson is an English-Canadian voice actor who works for Ocean Studios and various other studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He performed Naraku and Myoga from InuYasha, Doctor Doom from Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, Juggernaut from X-Men: Evolution, Happosai from Ranma ½, Enzo Matrix from ReBoot, Folken Fanel from the Ocean dub of Escaflowne, Zarbon from the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z, Graveheart from Shadow Raiders, various characters from several Transformers series (Beast Machines, Armada, Energon and Cybertron), Moo from Monster Rancher, Graham Aker from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 series, Sensei Wu from Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu and various voices in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War video game series.

Ken Narita

Cast · Known for InuYasha, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Monogatari

Ken Narita (成田 剣, Narita Ken) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Saitama Prefecture. His real name is Tsutomu Narita (成田 勉 Narita Tsutomu). He is currently a freelancer. He is best known for his roles in Hikarian (Hikari), InuYasha (Sesshomaru), the Angelique series (Arios), Code Geass (Jeremiah Gottwald), Le Chevalier D'Eon (Durand), and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers (Jail Scaglietti). Narita has recently been chosen to succeed the late Hirotaka Suzuoki as Bright Noa, starting with Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. He has also been chosen to voice Saitō Hajime in the 2012 release of Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto-Hen and Dragon Shiryu in Saint Seiya Omega as well. Aoshima Yaiba is an alias of Narita Ken for adult games and anime.

Satsuki Yukino

Cast · Known for InuYasha, Monogatari, Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness

Satsuki Yukino (ゆきの さつき, Yukino Satsuki, previously 雪乃 五月, 雪野 五月), real name Yuki Inoue (井上 由起, Inoue Yuki), born May 25, 1970, is a popular Japanese voice actress from Ōtsu, Shiga. Yukino is also a singer as part of the Hinata Girls. She was a member of Ken Production until 2016. Yukino's most well-known voice roles include Kagome Higurashi in Inuyasha, Mutsumi Otohime in Love Hina, Yoruichi Shihouin in Bleach, Kaname Chidori in all the Full Metal Panic series, Mion and Shion Sonozaki in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Milly Thompson in Trigun and Kira Yukyou in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Description above from the Wikipedia article Satsuki Yukino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .

Kappei Yamaguchi

Cast · Known for Ranma1/2, Death Note, Detective Conan

Mitsuo Yamaguchi (山口 光雄, Yamaguchi Mitsuo), better known by his stage name of Kappei Yamaguchi (山口 勝平, Yamaguchi Kappei) is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Fukuoka, affiliated with Gokū and 21st Century Fox. He is best known for the roles of Ranma Saotome (Ranma ½), Jackson Neil (Miracle Girls), Tombo (Kiki's Delivery Service), Yattaro (Kyattou Ninden Teyandee), InuYasha (InuYasha), Ryuichi Sakuma (Gravitation), L (Death Note), Usopp (One Piece), Hideyoshi (Law of Ueki), and Kaito Kid and Shinichi Kudo (Case Closed). His current starring roles include that of Raimon "Monta" Taro, the Deimon Devil Bats' ace receiver in Eyeshield 21. Yamaguchi has appeared in eroge as Kyōya Ushihisa (牛久 京也, Ushihisa Kyōya).  He made his first public appearance in North America at Otakon 2008;  and was also a guest at Sakura-Con 2009.  Yamaguchi's third appearance to date has been at Animazement in 2010. He is married and has a daughter, Akane Yamaguchi (山口 茜), and a son, Ryunosuke Yamaguchi (山口 竜之介), who also are voice actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kappei Yamaguchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Kirby Morrow

Cast · Known for Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Kirby Robert Morrow (August 28, 1973 – November 18, 2020) was a Canadian actor, voice actor, writer and comedian. Morrow was born in Jasper, Alberta and studied theatre at Mount Royal University in Calgary, and worked in Vancouver, British Columbia. In animation, he was known as the voice of Miroku from InuYasha, Van Fanel from the Ocean dub of Escaflowne, Cyclops from X-Men Evolution, Jay from Class of the Titans, Teru Mikami from Death Note, Trowa Barton from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Ryo Takatsuki from Project ARMS, Goku from Ocean's dub of Dragon Ball Z (from Episode 160 onwards), Hot Shot from Transformers: Cybertron (replacing Brent Miller) and Cole from Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu. On camera, he was known for the recurring role of Captain Dave Kleinman from Stargate Atlantis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kirby Morrow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

David Kaye

Cast · Known for Up, Teen Titans Go!, DuckTales

David Kaye is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He is best known for animation roles such as Megatron in five of the Transformers series (Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron), Optimus Prime in Transformers: Animated, Professor X in X-Men: Evolution, Cronus in Class of the Titans, Khyber in Ben 10: Omniverse, several characters in Avengers Assemble, and Duckworth in the reboot of DuckTales. He is also known for anime roles, including Sesshōmaru in Inuyasha and Treize Khushrenada in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, and video game roles such as Clank in the Ratchet & Clank series and Nathan Hale in the Resistance series. He is also the announcer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO and voiced the Celestial Arishem in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals. He did voice work for various other studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for many years while occasionally doing voice work in Los Angeles, California, US, before fully relocating there in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Kaye (voice actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Mark Oliver

Cast · Known for Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Mark Oliver (born in Vancouver, Canada in 1966) is a voice actor who works for Ocean Studios, based in Vancouver, Canada. He has played several roles in animated series such as Rau Le Creuset in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Garamaru in Inuyasha. From Wikipedia (es), the free encyclopedia

Trevor Devall

Cast · Known for Adventure Time: Side Quests, Superbook

Trevor Devall (born November 10, 1972) is one of the various voice actors who work for Ocean Group, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Trevor has performed various anime roles, most notably Mu La Flaga of Gundam SEED. Other anime roles include Mukotsu of InuYasha's Shichinin-tai, as well as the multiple faces of Alpha-Q, and all Terrorcon drones, on Transformers Energon. In prelay animation, he has provided the voice of Pyro on X-Men: Evolution. He also voiced Hermiod on Stargate Atlantis.

Richard Ian Cox

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Ian Cox (born October 3, 1973) is a Welsh-Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian and online radio host best known for his voice work for English language dubs of anime, mainly for InuYasha. Richard gained prominence for playing the character of Henry Dailey's (played by Mickey Rooney) teenaged traveller and horse rider, Alec Ramsay, in The Family Channel's Adventures of the Black Stallion during the early 1990s. Cox also gained fame for voicing Ian Kelley, the title character in the animated series Being Ian and for voicing Scattershot, one of the Autobots in the CGI-Animated series Transformers: Cybertron. In 2015, he provided the voice of Lofty in the American dubbed version of the 2015 reboot of the British children's animated television series Bob the Builder taking over from both Sonya Leite and Emma Tate. He maintains an active online presence on Tumblr and Twitter as well as Facebook. He hosts his own podcast called The Show.

Jason Simpson

Jason Simpson is a prairie boy who brought his eagerness and ambition to Vancouver 20 years ago, and in those 2 decades, has had the pleasure of building a diverse resumé. Recent project credits include VIREN in Netflix’s ‘The Dragon Prince’; the ANNOUNCER in EA Sports’ NHL’18 / NHL’19 “Threes”; and a multi-episode arc on the hit CW show, DC Legends of Tomorrow. Jason is proud to have been the voice of numerous other characters on hit shows like Reex, Roog and Romble in LEGO’s Nexo Knights; BIRCH BUCKET, SPEARHEAD and the BUFOGREN in My Little Pony; LOBOS, TORCH WEAVER, and BIKEY in Black Lagoon; JURA, MEZU, NUSHI, ZUSHINEZUMI and more in Inuyasha; DR. LEONARD in Line Rangers; KONDO in Gintama; and UNHYGIENIX and SOMNIFERUS in Asterix: The Mansion of the Gods. You’ll also hear him doing his thing in Screechers Wild, Superbook, Nina’s World, the hit feature Sausage Party, Netflix’ The Hollow & The Deep, Supernoobs, Geronimo Stilton, Gundam Seed Destiny 00, Death Note, and many more. Jason can be heard in numerous Video Game titles such as League of Legends, voicing the monstrous RENGAR; the Mech Warrior franchise, Thimbleweed Park, Tooth and Tail, Industries of Titan, as SEYMOUR REDDING in the Dead Rising franchise, The Amazing Spider- Man, N.O.V.A. 3, and a host of others. Jason started his career in Film & Television, and still loves to throw his large, 6’4” frame in front of the camera as much as he can. Some select film and tv credits include The Magicians, Riverdale, Arrow, Lucifer, iZombie, Once Upon A Time, Psych, and Fringe to name a handful. Jason is also a successful Voice Over coach and instructor.

Janyse Jaud

Cast · Known for Andromeda

Janyse Jaud (born November 26, 1969) is a Canadian actress, voice actress, singer, musician, and author. Her major voiceover roles include Hulk Versus, My Little Pony, Inuyasha, Ed Edd n Eddy, Batman: Black & White, Baby Looney Tunes, War Planets, Spider-Man Unlimited, and Strawberry Shortcake. She is also the narrator of the Emmy Award-winning TV series Adoption Stories. She has worked with companies such as Warner Bros., Alliance Atlantis, Hasbro, Marvel, Paramount, Cartoon Network, and Universal Pictures in both on-camera and voice. As a singer and songwriter, she has received many awards including Winner of Best Song ‘This Day Is Mine’ in the Contemporary Christian category at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, Winner of Best Jazz CD ‘The Magic of Christmas’ at the Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards, three Nominations at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for Best Jazz Song ‘That’s What I Love About You’, Best Dance Song ‘Best Friend Forever’, and Best Contemporary Christian Song ‘Dreamers’ as well as two nominations at the Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards for Best Song ‘Dreamers’ and Artist of the Year, as well as a nomination for Best Children's Song ‘Stomp’ at the Independent Music Awards USA, and a nomination for Best Song ‘Blessed Is This Holy Night’ at the Hollywood Music Awards. She was chosen as a finalist (one of the top 4 rated songwriters) by the Song of the Year international songwriting contest. She has had many of her original songs chosen for movie soundtracks.

Naoko Yamada

Director · Known for A Silent Voice: The Movie

Naoko Yamada (山田 尚子) is a Japanese animator, television and film director. Working at Kyoto Animation, she directed the K-On! and Tamako Market anime series, and the anime films A Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird. Yamada intended to work in film after university, but she decided to join Kyoto Animation after seeing an advertisement. Her first assignment at KyoAni was drawing inbetween frames for Inuyasha. She was eventually promoted to a key animator for Air. After working as an episode director of Clannad, she was asked to make her chief directorial debut with K-On!, an adaptation of a slice-of-life manga. The series was very successful, spurring a second season and a film. In 2013, she directed Tamako Market, and followed it with the film Tamako Love Story in 2014. For Tamako Love Story, she was awarded the New Face Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival. She storyboarded the entire film herself, and also wrote the lyrics for the opening theme song, Everybody Loves Somebody. Yamada's next project was the feature film A Silent Voice, an adaptation of the manga of the same name, that reflected on elements of bullying and physical impairment in Japan. The film opened at #2 in the Japanese Box Office and grossed a total of ¥2.3 billion, the 19th highest-grossing film in Japan in 2016. The film also received multiple award nominations, including Best Animation Film in the Mainichi Film Awards and the Excellent Animation of the Year in the Japan Academy Prize. For Yamada, the most important part of being a director is to observe people. She describes herself as a "method" director, emphasizing the minds of the characters. On July 18, 2019, a man started a fire at the main studio of Kyoto Animation, killing 36 of Yamada's colleagues and wounding 33 others. Yamada was reported not to have been hurt in the fire. In 2020, Yamada left KyoAni to join Science SARU, where she directed 2021's The Heike Story. Source: Wikipedia

Chiara Zanni

Chiara Zanni (born July 19, 1978) is a Canadian actress and comedian. She is known for her roles as Amy Ryan on The N series About a Girl and Maggie Buckman on the CBC series Edgemont. She is also known for her voice-work as Hahli in Bionicle: Mask of Light, the titular character in Hamtaro, Jubilee in X-Men: Evolution, Eva "Molly" Wei in Ōban Star-Racers, Piper in Storm Hawks, Stellaluna in the film adaptation of Stellaluna, and Kani Maki in Sushi Pack. Zanni was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to an Italian father and an English mother. She started her career at the age of eight when she was cast as the "Pokey Little Puppy" in the animated series Little Golden Bookland. She has appeared in the feature films X-Men, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Come l'America, In the Land of Women and Good Luck Chuck. Her television credits include Supernatural, Stargate Atlantis, Edgemont, Trophy Wife, Bye Bye Birdie, 1st to Die and Post Mortem. She has also provided voice-work to projects such as Zeke's Pad, Hamtaro, Trollz, My Little Pony, Polly Pockets, Barbie: Fairytopia, X-Men: Evolution, Sabrina: The Animated Series, Bionicle: Mask of Light, Inuyasha, Storm Hawks, and Ōban Star-Racers. In 2013, she made her Los Angeles voice acting debut with Henry Hugglemonster. She voiced Daring Do in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and she has appeared in MLP conventions in Vancouver and Richmond. Zanni is married and is a Christian.

Nijiro Murakami

Cast · Known for Alice in Borderland

Murakami Nijiro is a Japanese actor and voice actor, the only son of actor Murakami Jun and singer UA. His parents divorced when he was nine-years-old and he grew up with his mother, stepfather, and three half-siblings. While still attending preparatory school, he moved to Okinawa with his family. Murakami also studied for some years in Montreal, Canada. He debuted in 2014 portraying the main character of Kaito in the award-winning film "Still the Water", for which he received the Best Newcomer Award at the 29th Kasaki Film Festival. In 2015, he debuted in the television series "Tenshi no Naifu". Later that same year, he starred in the live-action adaptation of the anime series "AnoHana", as well the movie "Wasurenai to Chikatta Boku ga Ita". As a voice actor, he is best known for voicing Hiro Shishigami in the anime series "Inuyashiki". He is currently working under Decade, a Japanese talent agency.

Shinsuke Sato

Director · Known for Alice in Borderland

Shinsuke Sato (佐藤 信介, Satō Shinsuke; born September 16, 1970) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has directed several live-action film adaptations of manga and anime, including The Princess Blade (2001), Gantz (2011), I Am a Hero (2016), Bleach (2018), Inuyashiki (2018), Kingdom (2019) and its sequels.