Eric Vale (born Christopher Eric Johnson)[4] is an American voice actor featured in numerous English versions of Japanese anime series. Some of these include Yuki from Fruits Basket, Sanji from One Piece, Tomura Shigaraki from My Hero Academia, and Future Trunks from Dragon Ball Z.
Eric Vale | |
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Born | Christopher Eric Johnson April 28, 1974 |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1999–present |
Agent | Mary Collins[1] |
Spouse |
Alese Watson (m. 2003) |
Children | 2[3] |
Website | www |
Career
editHe is known for voicing Koichiro Iketani in the Initial D series, Trunks in the Dragon Ball series, Sanji in One Piece, Kogoro Akechi in Trickster, Keisuke Umehara in Big Windup!, Huey Laforet in Baccano!, Tobari Durandal Kumohira in Nabari no Ou, Jean Croce in Gunslinger Girl series, Kisumi Shigino in Free! series, Kakeru Ryuen in Classroom of the Elite, Solf J. Kimblee in Fullmetal Alchemist, Kazuma in Noragami series, Tsunenaga Tamaki in Deadman Wonderland, Qisha Tianling in Chaos Dragon, Akechi in Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace, Casshern in Casshern Sins, Hayato Kujo in Aquarion Logos, America and Canada in the Hetalia: Axis Powers series, Ferid Bathory in the Seraph of the End series, Yuki Sohma in Fruits Basket series, Tenko "Tomura Shigaraki" Shimura in My Hero Academia, Loke in Fairy Tail and Phoenix Wright from Ace Attorney.
Filmography
editAnime
editYear | Title | Role | Crew role, notes | Source[5] |
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1999–present | Dragon Ball series | Future Trunks, Adult Present Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer, Dr. Flappe | Funimation dub | |
2001 | YuYu Hakusho | Sakyo, Rando, Kokoda Hatanaka | ||
2002 | Fruits Basket | Yuki Soma | also 2019 reboot | [6] |
2003 | Blue Gender | Yuji Kaido | ||
2004 | Fullmetal Alchemist | Solf J. Kimblee | ||
2005 | Desert Punk | Kanta Mizuno | [7] | |
2005 | Gunslinger Girl series | Jean Croce | ||
2006 | Mamotte! Lollipop | Zero | Funimation dub | [8] |
2007 | B't X | Teppei Takamiya | Illumitoon dub | [9] |
2007–present | One Piece | Sanji, World Tournament Announcer (Ep. 590) | Funimation dub | [10] |
2007 | School Rumble series | Oji Karasuma | [11] | |
2008 | Hetalia: Axis Powers series | America, Canada | Funimation dub | [12] |
2009 | Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple | Hermit | Season 2 only | [13] |
2009 | D.Gray-man | Arystar Krory III | also Hallow | [14] |
2009 | Nabari no Ou | Tobari Durandal Kumohira | [15] | |
2009 | Spice and Wolf | Weiz | [16] | |
2010 | Initial D | Koichiro Iketani | Funimation dub | [17] |
2010 | Soul Eater | Justin Law | ||
2010 | Casshern Sins | Casshern | [18] | |
2011 | Dance in the Vampire Bund | Akira Kaburagi Regendorf | Credited as Alpha Lagrange | [19] |
2011 | Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood | Solf J. Kimblee | ||
2011–2019 | Fairy Tail | Loke | [20] | |
2012 | Deadman Wonderland | Tsunenaga Tamaki | [21] | |
2012 | Is This a Zombie? | King of the Night | [22] | |
2013 | We Without Wings | Hariu Kurodo | [23] | |
2013 | Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero | Akatsuki Ousawa | [24] | |
2013 | Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing | Victor | [25] | |
2013 | Maken-ki! Battling Venus series | Akaya Kodai | [26] | |
2014 | Ghost in the Shell: Arise | Tsumugi | [27] | |
2014 | Jormungand series | Kasper Hekmatyar | [28] | |
2014 | Robotics;Notes | Ko Kimijima | [29] | |
2014–2018 | Tokyo Ghoul | Nishiki Nishio | [30] | |
2014 | Attack on Titan | Luke Cis | season 1 | [31] |
2014 | Sengoku Basara: Judge End | Keiji Maeda | [32] | |
2015 | Death Parade | Takashi | Eps. 1-2 | [33] |
2015 | Gangsta | Barry Abbott | Eps. 1, 4 | [34] |
2015 | Noragami | Kazuma | [35] | |
2015 | Ping Pong: The Animation | Egami | [36] | |
2015 | Prison School | Takehito "Gakuto" Morokuzu | [37] | |
2015 | Seraph of the End | Ferid Bathory | [38] | |
2015 | Yona of the Dawn | Sinha | [39] | |
2016 | Aquarion Logos | Hayato Kujo | [40] | |
2016 | Brothers Conflict | Iori Asahina | [41] | |
2016 | Chaos Dragon | Qisha Tianling | [42] | |
2016 | Dimension W | Albert Schuman | [43] | |
2016 | First Love Monster | Kanade Takahashi | [44] | |
2016–present | My Hero Academia | Tomura Shigaraki | [3] | |
2016 | Snow White with the Red Hair | Izana Wisteria | [45] | |
2016 | Terror in Resonance | Kato | [46] | |
2016 | Joker Game | Jiro Gamo | [47] | |
2016 | Trickster | Kogoro Akechi | [48] | |
2016 | Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace | Akechi | [49] | |
2016 | The Vision of Escaflowne | Dryden Fassa | Funimation dub | [50] |
2016–2019 | Ace Attorney | Phoenix Wright | anime adaptation | [51] |
2017 | Knight's & Magic | Tsubasa Kurata | [52] | |
2017 | Sakura Quest | Soichiro Koharu | Ep. 14 | [53] |
2017–present | Classroom of the Elite | Kakeru Ryuen | [54] | |
2017 | A Sister's All You Need | Kenjiro Toki | [55] | |
2018 | Darling in the Franxx | Hachi | [56] | |
2018 | Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens | Yamato | [57] | |
2018 | Junji Ito Collection | Makoto Tokura | Ep. 5B | [58] |
2018 | B't X | Teppei Takamiya | Anime Midstream dub | [59] |
2018–2021 | How Not to Summon a Demon Lord | Takuma Sakamoto/Diablo | [60] | |
2018–present | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | Kurobe | [61] | |
2019 | Boogiepop and Others | Kentarou Habara | [61] | |
2019 | Radiant | Grim | [61] | |
2019 | Black Clover | Fanzell Kruger | Funimation dub | [62] |
2019 | YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World | Takuya Arima | [63] | |
2019 | Fire Force | Arthur Boyle | [64] | |
2020 | Plunderer | Licht Bach | [65] | |
2021 | Moriarty the Patriot | Marquis Glover | [4] | |
2021 | Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan | Tekito Derekida | [66] | |
2021 | The World Ends With You: The Animation | Eiji Oji | [4] | |
2022 | Kakegurui ×× | Ibara Obami | Sentai Filmworks dub | [67] |
2022 | Aoashi | Tatsuya Fukuda | [68] | |
2022 | Spy × Family | Zachry Feiss | Episode: "Will They Pass or Fail" | [4] |
2022 | Shinobi no Ittoki | Kidou Minobe | [69] | |
2023 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury | Nuno | [70] | |
2023 | Heavenly Delusion | Robin | [71] | |
2023 | My Home Hero | Yoshitatsu | [72] | |
2023 | Shangri-La Frontier | Rakuro/Sunraku | [73] | |
2024 | Banished from the Hero's Party | Godwin | [74] |
Films
editYear | Title | Role | Crew role, notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | One Piece Film: Strong World | Sanji | [75] | |
2012 | Sengoku Basara: The Last Party | Keiji Maeda | [76] | |
2012 | Mass Effect: Paragon Lost | Essex | [77] | |
2014 | One Piece Film: Z | Sanji | [78] | |
2016 | The Boy and the Beast | Kyuta | [79] | |
2017 | One Piece Film: Gold | Sanji | [80][81] | |
2019 | One Piece: Stampede | Sanji | [82] | |
2022 | Fruits Basket: Prelude | Yuki Soma | [4] | |
2022 | Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero | Trunks | [83] | |
2022 | One Piece Film: Red | Sanji | [84] |
Video games
editYear | Title | Role | Crew role, notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
2002 | Dragon Ball Z: Budokai | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2003 | Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 | Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer | [85] | |
2004 | Seven Samurai 20XX | Additional voices | [86] | |
2004 | Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2004 | Dragon Ball Z Budokai: 3 | Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer | [87] | |
2005 | Dragon Ball Z: Sagas | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2005 | Spikeout: Battle Street | Additional voices | [88] | |
2005 | Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi | Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer | [85] | |
2006 | Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2006 | Super Dragon Ball Z | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2006 | Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2007 | Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road | Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer | [85] | |
2007 | Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2008 | One Piece: Unlimited Adventure | Sanji | [85] | |
2008 | Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2008 | Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2009 | Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo | World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer | [85] | |
2009 | Dragon Ball: Raging Blast | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2010 | Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2010 | Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2011 | Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2012 | Borderlands 2 | Boom, Will the Bandit, McNally | [87] | |
2012 | Dragon Ball Z: For Kinect | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2014 | Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z | Future Trunks | [87] | |
2015 | Dragon Ball Xenoverse | Future Trunks | [85] | |
2016 | Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 | Future Trunks | [87] | |
2018 | Dragon Ball FighterZ | Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer | [87] | |
2018 | Dragon Ball Legends | Future Trunks, Trunks (adult) | [87] | |
2020 | Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot | Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer | [87] | |
2020 | My Hero One's Justice 2 | Tomura Shigaraki | [4] | |
2021 | Tales of Luminaria | Hugo Simon | [89] |
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- ^ Dimps; Polygon Magic. Seven Samurai 20XX. Sammy Studios. Scene: Ending credits, 5:09:59 in, CAST.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d e f g "Eric Vale | Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved October 23, 2017. Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ "Spikeout: Battle Street (2005 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ Colopl. Tales of Luminaria. Bandai Namco Entertainment. Scene: Opening credits, 19:18 in, Cast.
External links
edit- Official website
- Eric Vale at IMDb
- Eric Vale at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Eric Vale at the CrystalAcids Anime Voice Actor Database
- Eric Vale convention appearances on AnimeCons.com