Akira Ishida
Acting1967Nisshin, Aichi, Japan
Biography
Akira Ishida (石田 彰, Ishida Akira, November 2, 1967) is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Nisshin, Aichi. He is affiliated with Peerless Gerbera.
Voted the most popular voice actor in the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 2004, and the Best Supporting Actor at the 1st Seiyū Awards in 2007.
Known For
Naruto Shippūden
Gaara (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Akaza (voice)
Naruto
Gaara (voice)
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Akaza (voice)
The Last: Naruto the Movie
Gaara, The Fifth Kazekage (voice)
Sword Art Online
Vecta (voice) / Gabriel (voice) / Subtilizer (voice) / Gabriel Miller (voice)
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
Acting History
2026
Gintama: Yoshiwara in Flames
as Kotaro Katsura (voice)
Evangelion Broadcast 30th Anniversary Special Performance
as Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
2025
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
as Akaza (voice)
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League
as Red Hood (voice)
Gintama on Theater 2D: Shinsengumi Crisis Arc
as Kotarou Katsura (voice)
Ranma1/2
TVas Hikaru Gosunkugi (voice)• 3 eps
Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective
TVas Yuta Ashiya (voice)• 3 eps
Star Wars: Visions
TVas Teto (voice)• 1 eps
CITY THE ANIMATION
TVas Mimineko (voice)• 1 eps
Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
TVas Magatia (voice)• 3 eps
Solo Leveling
TVas Beru (voice)• 2 eps
GINTAMA - Mr. Ginpachi's Zany Class
TVas Kotarou Katsura (voice)• 12 eps
2024
Ultraman Blazar The Movie: Tokyo Kaiju Showdown
as Earthy (voice)
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger Final Three Episodes TTFC Special Version
as Dagded Dujardin (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
as Athrun Zala (voice)
Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.
TVas Kei Koga (voice)• 12 eps
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
TVas Regulus Corneas (voice)• 11 eps
FAIRY TAIL 100 YEARS QUEST
TVas Zeref (voice)• 3 eps
The Witch and the Beast
TVas Matt Cugat (voice)• 4 eps
Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii
TVas Kirishima Miyama (voice)• 12 eps
Surviving Science!
TVas Kei (voice)• 21 eps
2023
The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe
as Kenji Nagata (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Special Edition II - The Far-Away Dawn
as Athrun Zala (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny TV Movie IV: The Cost of Freedom
as Athrun Zala (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Special Edition I - The Empty Battlefield
as Athrun Zala (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Special Edition III - The Rumbling Sky
as Athrun Zala (voice)
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger: Adventure Heaven
as Dagded Dujardin (voice)
My Happy Marriage
TVas Takaihito (voice)• 9 eps
Ultraman Blazar
TVas Earthy• 25 eps
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You
TVas Hakari's Father (voice)• 2 eps
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger
TVas Dagded Dujardin (Voice)• 50 eps
The Fire Hunter
TVas Hibari (voice)• 11 eps
Helck
TVas Hon (voice)• 12 eps
Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion
TVas Heika Demint (voice)• 12 eps
Rokudo's Bad Girls
TVas Kouta "Manager" Kijima (voice)
2022
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
as Keiju Tabuki (voice)
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 2: I Love You
as Keiju Tabuki (voice)
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs
TVas Luxion (voice)
Honkai Impact 3rd Animation
TVas Otto Apocalypse (voice)• 2 eps
Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa
TVas Saguru Hakuba (voice)
She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man
TVas White Hood (voice)• 1 eps
Tokyo Mew Mew New
TVas Seiji Aizawa (voice)• 24 eps
Skeleton Knight in Another World
TVas Domitianus (voice)• 12 eps
Tribe Nine
TVas Shun Kamiya (voice)• 12 eps
Raven of the Inner Palace
TVas Feng Xiao Yue/Hou Shougetsu (voice)• 5 eps
My Master Has No Tail
TVas Utaroku Ebisuya (voice)
2021
Gintama: The Very Final
as Kotarou Katsura (voice)
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
as Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
TVas Akaza (voice)• 10 eps
Tesla Note
TVas Pino (voice)
MARS RED
TVas Takeuchi (voice)
Digimon Ghost Game
TVas Kiyoshirou Higashimitarai (voice)• 67 eps
Fruits Basket
TVas Akira Sōma (voice)• 3 eps
Kemono Jihen
TVas Akio Tademura (voice)• 2 eps
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
TVas Guy (voice)• 5 eps
The Case Study of Vanitas
TVas The Teacher (voice)• 24 eps
The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace
TVas Prontea (voice)
Kimi to Fit Boxing
TVas Hiro (voice)
Artiswitch
TVas (voice)
2020
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
as Akaza (voice)
Looking for Magical Doremi
as Hayato Yabe (voice)
Survival in Body
as Kei (voice)
Cells at Work!! The Return of the Strongest Enemy: A Huge Uproar in the Body’s Bowels!
as Cancer Cell (voice)
BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.
TVas Markus (voice)• 24 eps
Kyojo
TVas Kenji Ozaki（尾崎 賢治）• 2 eps
2019
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment
as Kagari Shuusei (voice)
One Piece: Stampede
as Cavendish (voice)
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.2 First Guardian
as Kagari Shuusei (voice)
Outburst Dreamer Boys
TVas Faust
Mob Psycho 100
TVas Keiji Mogami (voice)• 3 eps
7SEEDS
TVas Chimaki Yamori (voice)• 24 eps
Sword Art Online
TVas Vecta (voice) / Gabriel (voice) / Subtilizer (voice) / Gabriel Miller (voice)• 8 eps
Africa Salaryman
TVas Kame-shachou (voice)
2018
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
as Fyodor Dostoyevsky (voice)
Batman Ninja
as Red Hood / Jason Todd (voice)
Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond
as Shuichi Natori (voice)
LAST HOPE
TVas Wu Ron (voice)• 26 eps
Cells at Work!
TVas Cancer Cell (voice) / Ordinary Cell (voice)• 5 eps
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
TVas Keera L Greenwood (voice)• 12 eps
Mr. TONEGAWA Middle Management Blues
TVas Keiichi Ogino (voice)
Late Night! The Genius Bakabon
TVas レレレのおじさん
Gakuen Basara: Samurai High School
TVas Takenaka Shigeharu (voice)
2017
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
as Zeref (voice)
The Ancient Magus' Bride
TVas Will-o'-the-wisp (voice)• 6 eps
Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas
TVas Yuri (voice)
Girls' Last Tour
TVas Kanazawa (voice)• 2 eps
March Comes In Like a Lion
TVas Touji Souya (voice)• 5 eps
Children of the Whales
TVas Orca
Makeruna!! Aku no Gundan!
TVas Chiku (voice)
2016
Persona 3 the Movie: #4 Winter of Rebirth
as Makoto Yuki / Ryoji Mochizuki (voice)
Sinbad - Night at High Noon and the Wonder Gate
as Galip (voice)
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy - Hope Arc
as Super High-School Level Imposter (voice)
Magi: Adventure of Sinbad
TVas Yunan (voice)• 13 eps
Dimension W
TVas Albert Schumann (voice)• 12 eps
Danganronpa: The Animation
TVas Byakuya Togami (voice) / Byakuya Togami• 12 eps
ClassicaLoid
TVas Pad-kun (voice)
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
TVas Yakumo Yuurakutei (voice)• 25 eps
Bungo Stray Dogs
TVas Fedor Dostoevskij• 60 eps
2015
Sinbad - The Flying Princess and the Secret Island
as Galip (voice)
Boruto: Naruto the Movie
as Gaara (voice)
Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down
as Ryoji Mochizuki (voice)
Blood Blockade Battlefront
TVas Femt• 24 eps
Snow White with the Red Hair
TVas Izana Wistaria (voice)• 13 eps
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
TVas Eishi Tsukasa
Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation
TVas Itsuki Isozaki• 12 eps
Ace of the Diamond
TVas Hisashi Watanabe (voice)• 51 eps
Lance N' Masques
TVas Hanabusa Shin
World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman
TVas Andou Suruga (voice)• 12 eps
2014
Persona 3 the Movie: #2 Midsummer Knight's Dream
as Makoto Yuki / Pharos (voice)
Juuza Engi: Engetsu Sangokuden - Gaiden Youzhou Genya
as Ryuubi (voice)
The Last: Naruto the Movie
as Gaara, The Fifth Kazekage (voice)
Mysterious Joker
TVas Viridian (Voice)
Parasyte -the maxim-
TVas Hideo Shimada (voice)• 4 eps
Yona of the Dawn
TVas An Joon-Gi (voice)• 1 eps
Terra Formars
TVas Joseph• 26 eps
Magi: Adventure of Sinbad (OVA)
TVas Yunan (voice)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
TVas Ed Phoenix (voice)• 148 eps
Chain Chronicle
TVas Yuri (voice) / Haruaki (voice)
Nobunaga Concerto
TVas Hori Hidemasa (voice)• 10 eps
Nobunagun
TVas Francois Vidocq (voice)
Majin Bone
TVas Victor / Tiger Bone (voice)
Fool Japan: The ABCs of Tetsudon
Director
2013
Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth
as Makoto Yuki / Pharos (voice)
STAR DRIVER: The Movie
as Head (voice)
Gintama: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya
as Kotarou Katsura (voice)
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
as Zexion (voice) (archive sound)
The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel
as Meruka Kuramitsu / Mitsuru Kamekura (voice)
Amnesia
TVas Kent
The Severing Crime Edge
TVas Seigi Nakajima (voice)
Arata: The Legend
TVas Harunawa (voice)
Kyousougiga
TVas Inari (voice)
Red Data Girl
TVas Hodaka Murakami (voice)
2012
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
as Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
Library War: The Wings of Revolution
as Mikihisa Komaki (voice)
Daily Lives of High School Boys
TVas Student Council President (voice)• 4 eps
The Knight in the Area
TVas Ryuuchi Araki (voice)• 37 eps
Kamisama Kiss
TVas Mikage (voice)• 25 eps
Psycho-Pass
TVas Shuusei Kagari (voice)• 22 eps
Kyousougiga
TVas Inari (voice)
2011
Lupin the Third: Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid
as Himuro (voice)
Nintama Rantaro the Movie: Ninjutsu Academy - All Hands on Deck!
as Kihachirou Ayabe (voice)
Naruto OVA 9: Chunin Exam on Fire! and Naruto vs. Konohamaru!
as Gaara (voice)
Alice in the Country of Hearts: Wonderful Wonder World
as Joker (voice)
The Future Diary
TVas Aru Akise (voice)• 26 eps
Ben-To
TVas Le club d'Hercules (voice)• 12 eps
Penguindrum
TVas Keiju Tabuki (voice)• 24 eps
Fate/Zero
TVas 雨生龙之介• 25 eps
Toriko
TVas Tommyrod (voice)• 147 eps
Abnormal Physiology Seminar
TVas Komugi Musashi (voice)
Katte ni Kaizou
TVas Nukata (voice)
Saiyuki Gaiden
TVas Tenpō (voice)
2010
Haruka - Beyond the Stream of Time 3: Endless Destiny
as Lidzvan (voice)
Gintama: The Movie
as Katsura Kotarou (voice)
Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Finder
as Aki Tesuno (voice)
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan
TVas Inugamigyobudanuki Tamazuki• 48 eps
Star Driver
TVas Reiji Miyabi / Head (voice)• 25 eps
Angel Beats!
TVas Mysterious young man (voice)• 1 eps
Magic Kaito: Kid the Phantom Thief
TVas Hakuba Saguru (voice)• 12 eps
HeartCatch PreCure!
TVas Cologne (voice)• 49 eps
The Betrayal Knows My Name
TVas Kanata Wakamiya (voice)• 24 eps
Starry Sky
TVas Kotarou Hoshizuki (voice)
2009
Engine Sentai Go-Onger vs. Gekiranger
as Bae (voice)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Space
TVas Emilio Surre• 26 eps
Pandora Hearts
TVas Xerxes Break (voice)• 25 eps
Beyblade: Metal Saga
TVas Tobio Ooike (voice)• 102 eps
Hatsukoi Limited.
TVas Yukito Renjou (voice)• 1 eps
Kiddy GiRL-AND
TVas Un-ou
The Beast Player Erin
TVas Duke Damiya
Dogs: Bullets & Carnage
TVas Badou Nails
2008
Juken Sentai Gekiranger vs. Boukenger
as Bae (voice)
Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World
as Tatsulot (voice)
Ice
as Julia
Toshokan Sensou: Koi no Shougai
as Mikihisa Komaki (voice)
Natsume's Book of Friends
TVas Shuuichi Natori (voice)• 86 eps
Library War
TVas Mikihisa Komaki (voice)
Casshern Sins
TVas Margo (voice)• 1 eps
The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk
TVas Kally• 12 eps
The Hill Dyed Rose Madder
TVas Fuyuhiko Nishino
Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne
TVas Apos (voice)
Kamen Rider Kiva
TVas Tatsulot (voice) / Narration (voice)
2007
Kiddy Grade I: Ignition
as Un-oh
Kiddy Grade II: Maelstrom
as Un-oh
Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion
as Soujirou Kusaka (voice)
Lupin the 3rd: The Elusiveness of the Fog
as Eshika (voice)
Kiddy Grade III: Truth Dawn
as Un-oh
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
as Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
Naruto Shippūden
TVas Gaara (voice)• 500 eps
Juken Sentai Gekiranger
TVas Bae (Voice)• 49 eps
Shugo Chara!
TVas Tsukasa Amakawa (voice)• 1 eps
Bokurano
TVas Koemushi (voice)• 24 eps
Claymore
TVas Zaki (voice)• 1 eps
Bamboo Blade
TVas Danjūrō Eiga (voice)• 26 eps
iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia
TVas Karasu (voice)• 4 eps
Shining Tears X Wind
TVas Kaito Kiriya
Chibi Goddess Karin
TVas Michiru Nishikiori (voice)
ICE
TVas Julia (voice)
Keitai Shoujo
TVas Hiro Aida (voice)
Saiyuki Reload: Burial
TVas Cho Hakkai (voice)
2006
Submarine 707 Revolution
as Goro Kusaka
In a Distant Time
as Yasuaki Abeno (voice)
Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem
as Saguru Hakuba (voice)
The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet
as Killian Black (voice)
NANA
TVas Shinichi "Shin" Okazaki (voice)• 47 eps
GoGo Sentai Boukenger
TVas Wicked Dragon Dembey (voice)• 1 eps
Gintama
TVas Kotarou Katsura (voice)• 367 eps
NIGHT HEAD GENESIS
TVas 雾原直也（配音）
Magical Travelers
TVas Kikyo Kotsukahara (voice)
2005
Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel
as Gaara of The Desert (voice)
Digimon X-Evolution
as Wizardmon (voice)
Blood+
TVas Joel Goldschmidt VI (voice)• 50 eps
Elemental Gelade
TVas Coud Van Giruet (voice)• 26 eps
The Law of Ueki
TVas Inumaru (voice)• 14 eps
Petopeto-san
TVas Waga Hachirou
2004
My-Hime
TVas Nagi Homura (voice)• 26 eps
Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time – A Tale of the Eight Guardians
TVas (voice)• 26 eps
Gin'yuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe
TVas Naoji (voice)• 26 eps
2003
Chrono Crusade
TVas Chrono• 24 eps
Zatch Bell!
TVas Wonrei (voice)• 150 eps
D.N.Angel
TVas Hiwatari Satoshi (voice)
Uninhabited Planet Survive!
TVas Howard (voice)• 52 eps
Shadow Star Narutaru
TVas Akinori Komori
Submarine 707R
TVas Goro Kusaka (voice)
Saint Beast: Seijuu Kourin Hen
TVas Judas (voice)
2002
Galerians: Rion
as Rion Steiner (voice) / Cain (voice)
Animation Store Manager
as Wataru (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
TVas Athrun Zala (voice)• 100 eps
Kiddy Grade
TVas Un-oh
Seven of Seven
TVas Mutsumi / Yuichi Kamichika (voice)
Naruto
TVas Gaara (voice)• 158 eps
I"s
TVas Jun Koshinae
2001
Slayers Premium
as Xellos (voice)
Saiyuki: Requiem
as Cho Hakkai (voice)
Gitaroo Man
as Zowie/Kazuya
Haré+Guu
TVas Seiichi (voice)• 39 eps
Rune Soldier
TVas Hector (voice)• 24 eps
Ajimu: Beach Story
TVas Hirosuke Nakaido (voice)
Alien Nine
TVas Yellow Knife (voice)
Kogepan
TVas Cream Pan
2000
Saiyuki
TVas Cho Hakkai (voice) / Field Marshall Tenpou (voice)• 50 eps
Miami Guns
TVas Julio Peacemaker
Boys be...
TVas (voice)
1999
Gundress
as Ryo Saiki
Gokudo
TVas Gokudou / Justice (voice)• 26 eps
Bucky - The Incredible Kid
TVas Baku (voice)• 26 eps
I'm Gonna Be An Angel!
TVas Mikael
Soul Hunter
TVas (voice)
Saiyuki
TVas Cho Hakkai (voice)
1998
Revival of Evangelion
as Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²
as Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
Touch 4: Miss Lonely Yesterday
as Sasaki (voice)
Love & Pop
as Yoshio
His and Her Circumstances
TVas Kazuma Ikeda (voice)• 2 eps
Sentimental Journey
TVas Yamamoto Masahiro (voice)
Momoiro Sisters
TVas (voice)
Android Ana Maico 2010
TVas (voice)
1997
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
as Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
Fujimi Block No. 2 Symphony Orchestra
as Taketo Igarashi
Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!!
TVas Schmidt (voice)• 51 eps
CLAMP School Detectives
TVas (voice)• 26 eps
Berserk
TVas Judeau (voice)• 25 eps
You're Under Arrest!
TVas Saki Abdusha (Voice)• 1 eps
Voogie's Angel
TVas Ash (voice)
Dragoon
TVas Sedi Caliver (voice)
The Mysterious Play: OAV II
TVas Ren Shigyou
1996
Slayers
TVas Xelloss (voice)• 52 eps
Midori no Makibaō
TVas Wakazou• 61 eps
Neon Genesis Evangelion
TVas Kaworu Nagisa (voice)• 1 eps
Fire Emblem
TVas Gordin (voice)
1995
Jura Tripper
TVas Minto• 39 eps
Gakuen Alice
TVas 鳴海・L・杏樹 / Anju L Narumi• 26 eps
Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
TVas Seiya Uzaki
1994
Ninku: Tomb of Knives
as Sakichi (voice)
Marmalade Boy
TVas Kei Tsuchiya (voice)• 76 eps
Yamato Takeru
TVas Amatsumi (voice)• 37 eps
Super Pig
TVas Kouichi Mizuno• 51 eps
Bakuen Campus Guardress
TVas Takumi Jinno (voice)
Combustible Campus Guardress
TVas Takumi Jinno (voice)
1993
Blue Memories: Boys, Colonizing Manchuria and Mongolia
as Yusuke Asakawa (voice)
Ambassador Magma
TVas Gum (voice)
1989
Earthian
TVas Black Angel #2 (voice)
1971
Kamen Rider
TVas Tatsulot (voice)