Blake Shepard

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.

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.

Dubbing roles

Anime

List of dubbing performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2005	Gilgamesh	Tatsuya Madoka, Terumichi Madoka		Press
2007	Air Gear	Akito/Agito Wanijima
2011	Angel Beats!	Yuzuru Otonashi
2012	Princess Resurrection	Hiro Hiyorimi
2012	Campione!	Godou Kusanagi
2012	Trails in the Sky OVA	Joshua
2013	La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia	Liberta
2013	Special A	Kei Takishima
2013	Little Busters!	Kyosuke Natsume	also season 2, EX
2013	Another	Ikuo Takabayashi
2014	From the New World	Mamoru Ito
2014	Amnesia	Ikki
2014	Diabolik Lovers	Laito Sakamaki	also season 2
2014–present	Haikyuu!!	Hisashi Kinoshita
2015	Brynhildr in the Darkness	Ryota Murakami
2015	Dog and Scissors	Kazuhito Harumi
2016	Nanbaka	Liang
2016	Tanaka-kun is Always Listless	Tanaka
2016	ReLife	Kazuomi Ōga
Template:Dts	Chihayafuru	Arata Wataya
2017	Chivalry of a Failed Knight	Shizuya Kirihara
2017–2023	Food Wars!	Soma Yukihira
2018	Darling in the Franxx	Futoshi
2019	Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya	Dragon Shiryū
2020	The Pet Girl of Sakurasou	Ryūnosuke Akasaka
2022	My Isekai Life	Brow Slime
2022	Blue Lock	Kira
2023	Farming Life in Another World	Hiraku Machio
2023	Love Flops	Yoshio
2024	Helck	Chef Ajikaba

External links

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• Blake Shepard at the CrystalAcids Anime Voice Actor Database