It's Hero Time!Yuri Lowenthal is a voice actor from California who is probably one of the most prolific in the industry right now. In fact, his work is getting so common in the North American industry that he may as well be his own trope. He is usually cast as the Kid Hero of the series, some examples being Simon and young Superman. Despite all those roles, he is probably best known as the voice of Anti-Hero Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto.He has provided the voice of Luke fon Fabre in Tales of the Abyss, Kamal in the Halo tie-in Alternate Reality GameI Love Bees, and Cecil Harvey in the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy IV and Dissidia: Final Fantasy. Ironically, he doesn't voice Yuri Lowell in Tales of Vesperia; that role went to Troy Baker instead.His range tends to be rather limited, with most of his roles demanding nothing more than "normal American accent", which is close to his normal voice anyway (although this is probably due to him being typecast quite a lot). Saying that, he can also pull off a pretty good Creepy Child voice and has a wide range of regional accents for when the role calls for them.Currently married to fellow VA Tara Platt, who voice Mitsuru in Persona 3 where he voiced the MC. He and Tara also co-authored a book called Voice-Over Voice Actor: What It's Like Behind the Mic, which gives their personal experiences in voice acting and advices to newcomers. This book is often referenced and recommended by many veteran voice actors at conventions like Steve Blum, Crispin Freeman, Sam Riegel, Kyle Hebert, and Vic Mignogna.Also acted as the main character in the Van Von Hunter movie. Perhaps fittingly, his character became a massive otaku over the course of that film.Has a Twitteraccount.And yes, his first name is Yuri.We're sure he's heardevery joke you have in mind.And did we mention that he's good friends with Doug Erholtz?Texas counterpart? Josh Grelle.
Fallout: New Vegas: Ringo, Oliver Swanick, Henry Jamison, Nolan McNamara, Lucius, Aurelius of Phoenix, a large amount of additional voices and the male Courier.
Mass Effect 2: Additional voices, all of whom seem to get the short end of the stick in some way. Mordin's assistant, Daniel, who's held hostage by batarians. The Stock Boy, who's either going to a) get punched in the gut, b) believe a ridiculous lie, or c) have the situation explained to him in a heartwarming way. Feron, who gets tortured by the Shadow Broker for a couple years. Some of the salarian mercs you gun down many, many times.
Shadow Of Destiny (PSP Version): Eike. Nostalgia Filter built a lot of criticism about him not sounding like the old voice actor, but his performance is very solid.
Emo: Surprisingly, this is how most of the fandom describes his voice acting, even though he normally isn't typecasted into these characters.
Sasuke Uchiha is probably the biggest offender. The fandom describes Yuri's English VO of this character as "emo". Ironically, Sasuke Uchiha is one of the least emotional characters in Naruto, so saying that Yuri's voice acting is emo is probably inappropriate.
Apparently, this reputation got stuck into him when it comes to voice acting. Two of the anime dubs have his character referred to as "emo" twice (once by Rivalz in Code Geass, and again by Toxsa in Tenkai Knights).
Evil Laugh: He's fantastic at these. It shows when he's voicing characters such as Shadow Yosuke from Persona 4 or Advocat.
The Danza: Averted very closely with the Tales Series. He was told he wouldn't be allowed to audition for the part of Yuri Lowell in Tales of Vesperia, by virtue of the fact he'd just played the part of the main protagonist in the previous entry in the game series, Tales of the Abyss, and the producers didn't want the lead roles to sound the same. Incidentally, the role went to Troy Baker.
Older than They Look: He's 42, and and looks like he's in his thirties. And he sounds like he's in his twenties!
Old Shame: Odd as it sounds, he says he's embarrassed that he hasn't done a hentai dubbing role, and that if he could have done so in the past, he would've (and according to the Hellsing commentary, still would if given the chance).
Omniglot: He is fluent in Japanese, German, and French. Lampshaded that according to him, the only Spanish he knows involves ordering Mexican food. This can easily explain why he averts the Not Even Bothering with the Accent trope above.
One of Us: Yuri is a member of Toonami Faithful. He's a fan of anime (especially Gundam), video games and comic books. He has stated that Sasuke Uchiha is one of his favorite roles. He's also a Whovian, even saying he'd love to play the first American Doctor. He once cosplayed as Haseo
Star-Making Role: He hit it big with his career as a voice actor after playing Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto. He also managed to hit it big as a western VA in Ben 10: Alien Force as well as bothshows that followed it.
The Stoic: A lot of his angsty characters will have this personality. However...
Not So Stoic: Expect his said character to break the stoicism because of the said angst.
Tom Hanks Syndrome: A rare voice actor example. Prior to his role in Naruto, his known roles were Kid Hero roles who are idealistic; or flatout comic relief Butt Monkey. While he's still casted into Kid Hero characters from time to time, he's been getting more dramatic and angsty roles. In fact, he's probably more well-known for his angsty characters than his Kid Hero characters.
.And yes, his first name is Yuri. We're sure he's heard every joke you have in mind.And did we mention that he's good friends with Doug Erholtz?Texas counterpart? Josh Grelle.
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