Brittney Marie Karbowski (born June 26, 1986) is a voice actress working primarily for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks (and its predecessor ADV Films). Perhaps her best-known role is that of Black Star from Soul Eater. She is also known for her roles as Selim Bradley in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Ikaros in Heaven's Lost Property, Wendy Marvell in Fairy Tail, Himeko Katagiri in Pani Poni Dash!, Mikoto Misaka (plus her clones) in A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun and Rimuru Tempest in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.
She's often appeared alongside Luci Christian and Monica Rial since all three of them tend to work in both Dallas and Houston (and all three also happen to be the most prolific English dub actresses
with Karbowski, having 500+ roles, being the 4th most prolific dub actor with a few roles just behind John Swasey).
She married a man named Matthew Hernandez in 2013.
Now she's on Twitter.
Notable roles:
- Ai Shindou in Beyond the Boundary
- Akane Mishima in Kämpfer
- Altargaia in Don't Hurt Me, My Healer!
- Amelia Irving in Love Flops
- Ange in Black Summoner
- Anko Kitashirakawa in Tamako Market
- Anri Misugi in Sasami: Magical Girls Club
- Anna in Le Chevalier d'Eon
- Anna Gram in Phi Brain Kami No Puzzle
- Anya in Negima!? (second season)
- Apis in One Piece, also Klabautermann, a.k.a. The Going Merry
- Aria in Akame ga Kill!
- Athena and Metis in Campione!
- Arisa (Saunders' cheating third-in-command) and Suzuki (the loader of Leopon Team) in Girls und Panzer
- Alice/Arisu Maresato in High School Of The Dead
- Ayumi Matsuoka in The Island of Giant Insects
- Ayu Tsukimiya in Kanon
- Big Sister May in Halo Legends (Odd One Out)
- Black Star in Soul Eater
- Byakko in Release the Spyce
- Cal Devens in Phantom ~ Requiem for the Phantom
- Camie Utsushimi in My Hero Academia
- Cecil Sudo in Wizard Barristers
- Cecilia Alcott in Infinite Stratos
- Chaika Bohdan in Coffin Princess Chaika
- Charles in Tales of Luminaria
- Chela, Margavine, and Pookie in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
- Chizuru Yukimura in Hakuouki
- Chuatury "Chuchu" Panlunch in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
- Chuko in World's End Club
- Citrinne in Fire Emblem Engage and Fire Emblem Heroes
- Clair Aoki in Gleipnir
- Cleo Zaubraff in Broken Blade
- Cus in Dragon Ball Super
- Dianette in I'm Quitting Heroing
- Edward Mason in Angels of Death
- Ena Komiya in Just Because!
- Estelle Bright in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (OVA)
- Eve Neuschwanstein in NEEDLESS
- Francesca in In Another World with My Smartphone
- Fumie Hashimoto in Den-noh Coil
- Furan Takaki in Maken-ki!
- Futaba Ida in Magical Warfare
- Glowworm in Azur Lane
- Grimm Grimoire in Combatants Will Be Dispatched!
- Hakumei in Hakumei & Mikochi
- Hajime Shino in Ensemble Stars!
- Hikari in Sekirei
- Himeko Katagiri in Pani Poni Dash!
- Himiko in Btooom!
- Hinako Tsuwabuki in Ouran High School Host Club
- Hisako Arato in Food Wars!
- Hitch Dreyse in Attack on Titan
- Ikaros in Heaven's Lost Property
- Ingrid Bernstein in Freezing
- Inia Sestina in Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
- Isana Tachibana in Dream Eater Merry
- Ithea Myse Vangulious in WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?
- Kaguya Yamai in Date A Live
- Kanna Kamiyama, Yukiko Miwa, and Rimu in Demon King Daimao
- Kanon Nakagawa and Chihiro Kosaka (darrin'd Serena Varghese in season 2note ) in The World God Only Knows (Also, by extension, Apollo in the Goddesses Arc)
- Kanade in Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.
- Kanaka Kagami in Tsugumomo
- Karan in Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World
- Karen Aijo in Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight
- Karen Tendou in Gamers! (2015)
- Katsuragi in Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash (anime adaptation)
- Kazusa Onodera in O Maidens in Your Savage Season
- Kei Shindou in ef - a fairy tale of the two.
- Koruri in 7 Seeds
- Koyomi Kanou in Bloom Into You
- Kyoko Jingu / The Magical Girl in The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!
- Larmica in Vampire Hunter D
- Lelei La Lalena in Gate
- Lisianthus in SHUFFLE!
- Lulu Lima in Michiko & Hatchin
- Luluco in Space Patrol Luluco
- M.O.M.O. in Xenosaga
- Malga Naruse in Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere
- Manami Kinjou in Cat Planet Cuties
- Maria in The Case Study of Vanitas
- Matake Ogata in Shakugan no Shana (replacing Nicole Bouma from season 2 on)
- Maxi Akizuki in Dog & Scissors
- Mayura Ichikawa in Best Student Council
- Meifeng Sakura in Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid
- Mei Ogawa in Bamboo Blade
- Melina Angel in Assassin's Pride
- Melinda in Nomad of Nowhere
- Metatron in Seven Heavenly Virtues
- Mifi Rotten in Chrome Shelled Regios
- Mikoto Misaka, Misaka 10032, Last Order, Misaka Worst, and every other Misaka clone in A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun
- Migi in Parasyte
- Mimi Katsura in Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA
- Minoru Ohkuma in Akebi's Sailor Uniform
- Mio Imai and Datsueba in Ghost Stories
- Mitchie Peligrim and Mithlim Netherlant in Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time
- Miyako Shiina in Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!
- Momoe Okonogi in Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
- Momoko Oginome in Penguindrum
- Mone in Yumeria
- Najimi Ajimu in Medaka Box
- Nakhal in Madlax
- Nanachi in Made in Abyss
- Nanami Nishijou in Chaos;Head
- Nina Yamada in Mamotte! Lollipop
- Noa Hiiragi in MM!
- Noriko Kamomebata in Scum's Wish
- Orine Aida in AKB0048
- Otome Saotome in Shimoneta
- Papi in Monster Musume
- Pochi in Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
- Ravel Phenex in High School D×D
- Ren Aharen in Aharen-san wa Hakarenai
- Riful of the West in Claymore
- Rimuru Tempest in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- Rin Natsume in Little Busters!
- Rino in Tanaka-kun is Always Listless
- Rose Sheedy in Red Garden
- Roya in Kiba
- Ryou Fujibayashi in CLANNAD
- Sanae Dekomori in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
- Saori Arisugawa in Tribe Nine
- Satsuki in ICE
- Selim Bradley (aka Pride) in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- Sendai in KanColle
- Sherry Barnett in The Eminence in Shadow
- Shiina Chuujou in Amagi Brilliant Park
- Sister Anna in Chrono Crusade – her first VA role, taking over halfway through for the retiring Mandy Clark
- Suiseiseki in Rozen Maiden Zurückspulen (also minus the desu, replacing Rebecca Forstadt)
- Takenaka Hanbei in The Ambition of Oda Nobuna
- Terakomari Gandesblood in The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess
- Timothy Hearst (Hallow) and Angela/Sofia (eps 33-34) in D.Gray-Man
- Tirol Ochagama in Sabikui Bisco
- Touta Konoe in UQ Holder!
- Vanessa in Tenchi Muyo: War on Geminar
- Vivian in Cross Ange
- Volkan in Sorcerer Stabber Orphen
- Wendy Marvell in Fairy Tail
- Yamada in B Gata H Kei: Yamada's First Time
- Yoshino "Hideyoshi" Hide in Battle Girls: Time Paradox
- You Kosukabe from Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?
- Yukari Sakuragi in Another
- Yuki Takeya in School-Live!
- Yuki "Tomonori" Yoshida in Is This A Zombie?
- Yukina Sonogi in Night Raid 1931
- Yuu Hiyama and Omamori-sama in Ushio and Tora
- Yuuko Kanda in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou
- Yuri Nakamura in Angel Beats!
- Yuzuki Katagiri in Black Bullet
- Zircon in Land of the Lustrous
Tropes associated with Brittney Karbowski’s roles:
- Crossdressing Voices: Notably as Black Star and Selim Bradley.
- Black Star was also her very first male role and admitted at a panel that this was unintentional, because she was just mocking her little brother's voice at the audition and didn't expect the director to take it seriously.
- Cute, but Cacophonic: A lot of her young girl roles will have this pitch, Wendy being the best example.
- Genki Girl: Often plays these types of characters whenever she's not playing teenage Tsunderes. Himeko and Sanae Dekomori are perfect examples.
- Girlish Pigtails: A lot of the characters she voices tend to spot twintails. Wendy and Sanae Dekomori are noticeable examples.
- Pigeonholed Voice Actor: Most of the characters she voices happen to be young teenage girls with a short temper or have a large ego. However, she's also typecast into Token Mini-Moe (particularly when she works in Houston).
- Playing Against Type: While she's quite well known for her tsundere or Token Mini-Moe in terms of Sentai Filmworks dubs, Migi from Parasyte is an amoral Blue-and-Orange Morality alien parasyte living within someone's right hand.
- There is also Black Star, which is one of her first male roles she voiced.
- LeLei is basically a Rei Ayanami Expy.
- Misaka Worst, who is the Ax-Crazy Evil Twin of the Misaka clones.
- Star-Making Role: As Himeko in Pani Poni Dash! (specifically for Houston based dubbing), and as both Sia from SHUFFLE! and Black Star from Soul Eater (for Funimation based dubs).
- Tsundere: She does have tsundere roles to boot. Examples include Yuri, Misaka, Yoshida, Cecilia, and Rin.
- Token Mini-Moe: Pre-teen and toddler girls aren't exactly her main forte, but have been recently getting a few. Some examples include Last Order, Alice, Anko, Noa, Wendy, Futaba Ida, Takenaka Hanbei, and Yoshino Hide.
- In fact, three of her these roles note were shared by Rina Hidaka, a Japanese voice actress who is also known to voice these kinds of characters.
- Woman of a Thousand Voices: Despite often being pigeonholed as Tsundere characters, she has played a few other characters with a few different ranges of voice acting, from energetic genki girls like Himeko Katagiri, to aggressive boys such as Black Star, to an Emotionless Girl, Ikaros in Heaven's Lost Property, to voicing higher pitched voiced characters like Wendy and Orine Aida, to even voicing a British character, Cecilia Alcott, in Infinite Stratos.
