Shannon Emerick

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Shannon Emerick
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Alma mater Yale University
OccupationActress
Years active2004–present
AgentPastorini-Bosby Talent Agency
Children1 [1]

Shannon Emerick is an American voice actress who voices a number of English language localizations of Japanese anime shows with ADV Films, Seraphim Digital and Sentai Filmworks. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Theater Studies and English. In anime, she is known as the voice of Charlotte Dunois from the Infinite Stratos series, Kei Kishimoto from Gantz and Riki Naoe from the Little Busters! series. Outside of voice acting, she is a stage actress in the Houston area. She won the Best Actress award from Houston Press for her theater work twice in 2006 and 2011, respectively.

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Biography

In 2017, Emerick voiced Arata Wataya as a young child in Sentai Filmworks' English dub of the adaptation of Yuki Suetsugu's manga series Chihayafuru . Wataya is one of the three main characters in the series. [2]

English dubbing roles

Animation

YearTitleRoleNotesSource
2014 AKB0048 Yoko Asamiyaalso season 2 [3]
2014 Amnesia Orion [4]
2012 Tatakau Shisho: Book of Bantorra Mirepoch Finder [5]
2011 Clannad seriesGarbage Dollalso season 2 [6]
2012 Dream Eater Merry Engi Threepiece [7]
2003 Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok Loki [8]
2005 Gantz Kei Kishimoto [9]
2014 Gatchaman Crowds Rui Ninomiyaalso season 2 [10] [11]
2005 Godannar Ellis Valentine [12]
2010 Hakuoki seriesKaoru Nagumoalso season 2 [13]
2012 Infinite Stratos seriesCharlotte Dunoisalso season 2 and OVAs [14] [15]
2013 Little Busters seriesRiki Naoealso season 2 and EX [16]
2013 Phi Brain seriesCubik Galoisalso season 2 [17]
2014 Rozen Maiden: Zurückspulen Jun Sakurada [18]
2014 No Game No Life Tet
2015 Akame ga Kill! The Emperor
2017 Chivalry of a Failed Knight Kagami Kusakabe [19]
2017 Chihayafuru Young Arata Wataya [20]
2018 Revue Starlight Junna Hoshimi [21]
2018 Made in Abyss Nat [22]
2020 BanG Dream! Misaki Okusawa/MichelleSeason 2 [23]
2021 Vinland Saga Thorfinn (young)Sentai Filmworks Dub [24]
2023 Farming Life in Another World Anne [25]
2024 The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy Leonis Death Magnus [26]
2024 My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered Yogiri (young) [27]
2024 Wistoria: Wand and Sword Narrator [28]
2024 Dungeon People Furin [29]

Video games

List of dubbing performances in video games
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
2021 World's End Club Tattsun [8]

Awards

YearAwardResult
2006Houston Best Actress awardWon [30]
2011Houston Best Actress awardWon [31]

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