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.^[1]

Blake Shepard
Born	Blake Thomas Shepard
Occupation	Voice actor
Years active	2003–present

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.^[2]

Dubbing roles

Anime

List of dubbing performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2005	Gilgamesh	Tatsuya Madoka, Terumichi Madoka		Press[3]
2007	Air Gear	Akito/Agito Wanijima		[4][5][6]
2011	Angel Beats!	Yuzuru Otonashi		[7][8][9]
2012	Princess Resurrection	Hiro Hiyorimi		[10]
2012	Campione!	Godou Kusanagi
2012	Trails in the Sky OVA	Joshua
2013	La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia	Liberta		[11]
2013	Special A	Kei Takishima		[12]
2013	Little Busters!	Kyosuke Natsume	also season 2, EX	[13]
2013	Another	Ikuo Takabayashi		[14]
2014	From the New World	Mamoru Ito		[15]
2014	Amnesia	Ikki		[16]
2014	Diabolik Lovers	Laito Sakamaki	also season 2
2014–present	Haikyuu!!	Hisashi Kinoshita
2015	Brynhildr in the Darkness	Ryota Murakami		[17]
2015	Dog and Scissors	Kazuhito Harumi		[18]
2016	Nanbaka	Liang		[19]
2016	Tanaka-kun is Always Listless	Tanaka		[20]
2016	ReLife	Kazuomi Ōga		[21]
2017	Chihayafuru	Arata Wataya		[2]
2017	Chivalry of a Failed Knight	Shizuya Kirihara		[22]
2017–2023	Food Wars!	Soma Yukihira		[23]
2018	Darling in the Franxx	Futoshi		[24]
2019	Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya	Dragon Shiryū
2020	The Pet Girl of Sakurasou	Ryūnosuke Akasaka		[25]
2022	My Isekai Life	Brow Slime		[26]
2022	Blue Lock	Kira		[27]
2023	Farming Life in Another World	Hiraku Machio		[28]
2023	Love Flops	Yoshio		[29]
2024	Helck	Chef Ajikaba		[30]
2025	Loner Life in Another World	Nerd A		[31]