#BAKUGO VOICE ACTOR NOBUHIKO OKAMOTO SERIES#

“We had concepts of what big shows were, what popular anime were, but very few anime in recent years had broken through just being an anime popular show to being a pop culture phenomenon.

“When we started, they kind of told us, ‘We think this is going to be a really big show,'” Chapin said. The manga and anime are so well known, with millions of fans throughout the world, and these voice actors wanted to ensure they got it right and that their performances would prove enduring. There is an added pressure that comes with voicing characters on a popular property like My Hero Academia. Quiñones, who keeps in touch with her many, many fans on Twitter, has voiced Nessa on Pokémon, Echidna on ReZero, Yelena on Attack on Titan and Yuki on Horimiya. I thought it was the best work that I could do for her because I very much live by the philosophy of: This is your one chance to be the character, so if it’s your one chance, make it the best, at least in terms of auditions.” So I already knew what was going on in the anime, making sure I understood Mirko as a character, and then by the time I submitted the audition, I felt content with it. I was like, oh gosh, what should I do? I had read ahead in the manga, and I was already a fan of the series. … I didn’t expect to get My Hero auditions at that point, but I did get them.

“I got cast sometime around this time last year, and at that point I didn’t come into studio like these two did. “I’m a more recent addition,” Quiñones said. So I swung for it, but I live by a rule when it comes to auditions: Do it, and forget it.”Ĭhapin, who also has an impressive following on Twitter, is best known for his voice acting on shows like Dragon Ball Super, Attack on Titan, Evangelion, Tokyo Ghoul and Black Clover. I read for Deku, but I remember thinking I’ve got to really put my hat on this Bakugo audition and go for it. I was watching those first two episodes, and I was like, if that’s not Justin I don’t know who it’s going to be. But, man, I was positive Justin was going to be Deku. “The first two episodes I think had come out in Japanese at that point before we did the auditions and started recording. “I was in the same round of auditions as Justin and just went in,” Chapin said. Stone and Hanako on Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun. There’s nothing too hopeful, so yeah, I’m really glad how it worked out.”īriner, who has nearly 70,000 followers on Twitter, has also voiced Luck on Black Clover, Ginro on Dr. You throw it out there, and maybe it will come back. I think that’s sort of typical for most auditions. “So I tried out for just about anyone I could get my hands on. “For my personal audition story, I was asked to come in, read for the project, and I personally was a little familiar with it,” Briner said in a recent Zoom interview.

#BAKUGO VOICE ACTOR NOBUHIKO OKAMOTO SERIES#

In the Japanese version, the character is voiced by Sayaka Kinoshita.Īll three actors, who are quite successful in the voice acting business, came to the anime series after auditioning for Funimation. Quiñones plays Mirko, a fellow hero whose quirk allows her to have the strength of a rabbit. This character is pivotal to the overall plot of the series he’s Deku’s childhood friend who tries to become the top hero in the academy. In English, he’s voiced by Briner, while in the Japanese version, he’s voiced by Daiki Yamashita.Ĭhapin plays Bakugo in the English-language series (Nobuhiko Okamoto provides his voice talents in the Japanese version). Deku, the main character, was actually born without a superpower, called a “quirk” on the show, but that doesn’t stop him from dreaming of becoming a hero one day. Recently, Funimation launched the fifth season of the SUB (subtitled) version of My Hero Academia, featuring voice actors Justin Briner, Clifford Chapin and Anairis Quiñones.įor the uninitiated, who are probably not reading this article anyway, My Hero was originally created by Kohei Horikoshi and follows a world of people who have unbelievable (and awesome) superpowers. The property, which is a successful manga series and anime series, continues to dominate the world of television and publishing. If 20 were anything close to business-as-usual, fans of anime and manga would be piling into arenas and hotel lobbies for their beloved fan conventions, and no doubt some serious cosplaying from My Hero Academia would be present and accounted for. Image courtesy of Funimation / Provided with permission.

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