Blake Shepard

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Blake Shepard
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Blake Thomas Shepard
OccupationVoice actor
Years active2003–present

Blake Thomas Shepard is an American voice actor who works on anime series. He has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series and films; notable credits include Ikki from Amnesia , Yuzuru Otonashi from Angel Beats! , Soma Yukihira from Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma , Arata Wataya from Chihayafuru , Tanaka from Tanaka-kun is Always Listless , Birthday from Hamatora , Agito Wanijima from Air Gear , Godo Kusanagi from Campione! , Taro Sado from MM! , Kei Takishima from S · A: Special A , Kyosuke Natsume from the Little Busters! series, Futoshi from Darling in the Franxx , Akiyuki Takehara from Xam'd: Lost Memories , and Hiro Hiyorimi from Princess Resurrection . Outside of voice acting, Shepard is the lead singer and guitarist in a band called Electric Attitude. [1]

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Career

In 2017, Shepard voiced Arata Wataya, who is Chihaya's childhood friend that inspired her to play competitive karuta in Sentai Filmworks' English dub of the Chihayafuru anime series. The first season of the series was released on home video in September 2017. [2]

Dubbing roles

Anime

List of dubbing performances in anime
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
2005 Gilgamesh Tatsuya Madoka, Terumichi MadokaPress [3]
2007 Air Gear Akito/Agito Wanijima [4] [5] [6]
2011 Angel Beats Yuzuru Otonashi [7] [8] [9]
2012 Princess Resurrection Hiro Hiyorimi [10]
2012 Campione! Godou Kusanagi
2012 Trails in the Sky OVA Joshua
2013 La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia Liberta [11]
2013 Special A Kei Takishima [12]
2013 Little Busters! Kyosuke Natsumealso season 2, EX [13]
2013 Another Ikuo Takabayashi [14]
2014 From the New World Mamoru Ito [15]
2014 Amnesia Ikki [16]
2014 Diabolik Lovers Laito Sakamakialso season 2
2014–present Haikyuu!! Hisashi Kinoshita
2015 Brynhildr in the Darkness Ryota Murakami [17]
2015 Dog and Scissors Kazuhito Harumi [18]
2016 Nanbaka Liang [19]
2016 Tanaka-kun is Always Listless Tanaka [20]
2016 ReLife Kazuomi Ōga [21]
2017 Chihayafuru Arata Wataya [2]
2017 Chivalry of a Failed Knight Shizuya Kirihara [22]
2017–2023 Food Wars! Soma Yukihira [23]
2018 Darling in the Franxx Futoshi [24]
2019 Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya Dragon Shiryū
2020 The Pet Girl of Sakurasou Ryūnosuke Akasaka [25]
2022 My Isekai Life Brow Slime [26]
2022 Blue Lock Kira [27]
2023 Farming Life in Another World Hiraku Machio [28]
2023 Love Flops Yoshio [29]
2024 Helck Chef Ajikaba [30]

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