Tetsuya Kakihara


Tetsuya Kakihara is a Japanese voice actor and singer. Previously affiliated with 81 Produce, he became a freelancer in June 2013. He set up his own agency, Zynchro, in July 2014.
Since 2010, Kakihara has been affiliated with Kiramune, a music label by Bandai Visual and Lantis, where he debuted as a singer with his first mini album, Still on Journey. His first single, "String of Pain", released on 6 February 2013, is the ending theme song to the anime in which he also voices the main role of Shino Inuzuka. He has released two full albums, five mini albums, and six singles. His third single, "咲いちゃいな ", was released on 15 April 2015.
Kakihara is well known for voicing roles as young boys with a fiery personality, like Natsu Dragneel from the anime Fairy Tail. In games and drama CDs, he plays teenagers/mature roles, in which he employs his soft, sweet and mysterious voice, in otome games like Shin from the PSP game series Amnesia, and K1-B0 from. Like other Japanese male voice actors, he is also active in BL Drama CDs and anime, and usually plays the uke part, like Akihito from Finder Series, a work of popular boys love manga artist Ayano Yamane.

Biography

Before becoming a voice actor, Kakihara had always longed to live in Japan. He was fascinated by entertainment culture; he thought Japan had funny television shows, and he has loved to read manga and watch anime since he was little. So with that in mind, he set off toward his goal to become a voice actor. In 2001, Kakihara went to the Amusement Media Academy to study voice acting. At first, it was not a smooth road for him to get in, as the school was surprised he actually came all the way from Germany after receiving a prompt email from him three days prior. Kakihara sincerely requested the school to accept his application, and when they officially accepted him, he found temporary housing at a friend's house. While attending courses, he worked part-time jobs, and improved his Japanese through part-time school, he debuted as a professional voice actor in 2003.
He is nominated for the 'Best Male Newcomer/Rookie' award for his performance at the first Seiyu Awards in 2007.

Filmography

Anime

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Anime/Game

Tetsuya Kakihara is active in the following online anime-related radio programs.

Live-action

Kakihara released his debut mini-album, Still on Journey, on 24 November 2010, which is produced by Kiramune Project. His second mini-album, Continuous was released on 15 February 2012, third mini-album, Call Me, was released on 13 March2013, and fourth mini-album. "ダンディギ・ダン ", was released on 30 July 2014. His first single is called "String of pain", released on 6 Februar 2013. It is the ending theme song for anime ' in which he also voices the main role of Shino Inuzuka.
He also attended the following live music performances:

Mini albums

Albums

Anime character music CDs/song listing

Listing of anime character songs that have been released on CD as singles or as a track on anime character album. Song names in double quotes.