Naruto is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. It tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja who seeks recognition from his peers and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the leader of his village. The story is told in two parts: the first is set in Naruto's pre-teen years, and the second in his teens. The series is based on two one-shot manga by Kishimoto: Karakuri (1995), which earned Kishimoto an honorable mention in Shueisha's monthly Hop Step Award the following year, and Naruto (1997).
Takeshi Kusao is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer. He was born in Tokorozawa, Saitama, and works for Aoni Production. Among his many roles, he is best known as the voices of Trunks, Kabutack, Hanamichi Sakuragi, Ryo Sanada, Parn, Coco/Kōji Kokoda, Ky Kiske, Yukimura Sanada, Dororo and Mao.
Derek Stephen Prince is an American voice actor who has played various roles in the Digimon series, the voice of Elgar in the live-action Power Rangers Turbo, and Power Rangers in Space.
Michael Tremain Sinterniklaas is a French voice actor and ADR director based in the United States. He has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series, as well as cartoons and video games. He has worked for Funimation, Studiopolis, Konami Cross Media NY, Central Park Media, Bandai Entertainment, Viz Media and Media Blasters. He is the founder and owner of NYAV Post, a Bi-coastal studio located in New York City and Los Angeles, which dubbed many different anime titles and recorded several original prelay works.
Barbara Goodson is an American voice actress who has done voice-over work in cartoons and shows. Her best-known role was providing the English dub voice of the main villain Empress Rita Repulsa in the Power Rangers franchise, starting with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and including Power Rangers Zeo, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, and Power Rangers in Space.
Michael John Sorich is an American actor, writer and director.
Michael McConnohie is an American voice actor, writer and director who has provided many voice roles in movies, anime, and video games. He and fellow actress Melodee Spevack run a production company called VoxWorks. Some of his major works include the Narrator on Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Hunter x Hunter, The Necromancer in Diablo II, Azulongmon in Digimon, Gork in Masked Rider, Keiichi Ikari in Paranoia Agent, Rolf Emerson in Robotech, Manzou the Saw in Samurai Champloo, Cosmos and Tracks in Transformers, Hot Shot / Ironhide in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, D in Vampire Hunter D, Chief Inquisitor Margulis in Xenosaga and Charles zi Britannia in Code Geass.
Joe Ochman is an American actor who is most active in voice over roles in various animation shows, films, and video games. He is the fourth and current voice of Jiminy Cricket since 2014.
Ezra Weisz is an American voice actor and ADR director who stars in various anime television shows.
Jean-Benoît Blanc is a French and British actor of film and television who has worked on animations and video games in Los Angeles.
Davide Perino is an Italian voice actor, the most representative of the sixth generation of dubbing. He is the official Italian dub-over artist of Elijah Wood and Jesse Eisenberg.
Leonardo Graziano is an Italian voice actor.
Luca Bottale is an Italian voice actor who contributes to voicing characters in movies, cartoons, anime, video games, and more. He is well known for dubbing characters from popular TV programs in Italian, such as Usopp from One Piece, Zane Truesdale from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and more. Bottale is also known to the Italian public for voicing Sly Cooper in the 1st three games of the Sly Cooper video game series.
Patrizio Prata is an Italian voice actor and dubbing director who contributes to voicing characters in movies, cartoons, anime, video games and more content. Prata is well known for voicing characters in animated content such as Android #17 in Dragon Ball Z, Roronoa Zoro in One Piece, Kabuto Yakushi in Naruto and Naruto: Shippuden, Jaden Yuki in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and other famous animated titles to date. He also provides the voice of Geronimo Stilton in the Geronimo Stilton animated series.
Gianluca Iacono is an Italian voice actor who contributes to voicing characters in movies, cartoons, anime and more content. Iacono is well known for voicing Vegeta in the Italian version of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT, Genghis in The Wacky World of Tex Avery and Roy Mustang in Fullmetal Alchemist. Between 2010 and 2011, he temporarily replaced Claudio Moneta as the voice of Kakashi Hatake in Naruto: Shippuden.
Simone D'Andrea is an Italian voice actor.
Lorenzo Scattorin is an Italian voice actor who contributes to voicing characters in movies, cartoons, anime and other content.
Grant George is an American voice actor, known for voicing characters in anime dubs and video games. He was the voice of Izuru Kira from the internationally acclaimed Bleach anime series, the Warrior of Light from Final Fantasy, Shinjiro Aragaki from the Persona series, Night Rikuo from the Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan series, Uzu Sanageyama from Kill la Kill, Chikage Rokujo from the Durarara!! series, Shuichi Saihara from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Keiichi Maebara from When They Cry, Lancer from Fate/Zero, and Gilgamesh from the Studio Deen adaption of Fate/stay night series and movie. He has also voiced Scott Lang in several of the Marvel animated series.
Lucien Dodge is an American voice actor who does work in animation, anime and video games. He is mostly known for his characters in anime such as Waver Velvet in Fate/Zero, Maron and Chili in Pokémon, K1-B0 in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Yuma Kokohead in Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, Takumu Mayuzumi in Accel World, the title character of the video game Dust: An Elysian Tail, Mahito in Jujutsu Kaisen, Metphies in Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle, and Godzilla: The Planet Eater, and Akaza in Demon Slayer. He has also read for audio books for Live Oak Media. Dodge has appeared on voice acting panels at T-Mode, Otakon, and NohCon, has been a special guest teacher at NYU, and had appeared at the National Audio Theater Festival for six consecutive years. He lives in Los Angeles, California, in an apartment with his partner, Erica Mendez. They have been together for about twelve years as of 2022. He has been heard in commercials endorsing products such as Pop Tarts, Minute Maid, Verizon Wireless, Kellogg's and Chevrolet.
Nanowar of Steel is an Italian comedy heavy metal band. Their name is a pun on the metal bands Manowar and Rhapsody of Fire, and represents their tendency to satirize "true metal", the primary focus of their music. Their work mainly aims to make humorous references to and jokes about the genre, often parodying the way in which power metal bands are perceived to take themselves very seriously.
