Playing Against Type / Anime

The page is divided based on either by work or by creator (which that itself is divided based on language).

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By Work

• 07th Expansion, responsible for the When They Cry series loves to have voice actors do this, especially when casting them in supposedly Pigeonholed roles, only for the character's true nature to come out:
  • Daisuke Ono: Known for playing charming bishounen, has played Mamoru Akasaka and plays stubborn, rebellious, somewhat perverted Battler Ushiromiya.
  • Rie Kugimiya: Famous for her tsundere little girl roles, plays kind and surprisingly... complex Meido Shannon.
  • Soichiro Hoshi: Often cast as passive characters who snap. His role, Keiichi Maebara snaps a number of times, but is anything but passive.
  • Yukari Tamura, who has played many happy-go-lucky little girls:
    • Rika Furude smiles a lot, says "Nii~pah!"... and is, in fact, Really 700 Years Old and prone to drinking alcohol to forget her sad fate. And it was AWESOME.
    • Now over the top with her role as Frederica Bernkastel, the Witch of Miracles in Umineko: When They Cry, by virtue of her being a Fallen Hero and Rogue Protagonist.
  • Yui Horie: Made famous by her cute (and occasionally Tsundere) roles. Although Hanyuu is very cute, she's very pessimistic. Maria Ushiromiya is also very cute, but she is also very creepy.
    • She also plays against type in Prétear (as Big Bad Takako/Fenrir) and Ikki Tousen (as Chuubou)
• Baccano! has a number of noteworthy seiyuu playing against type. To name a few: Kappei Yamaguchi (known for playing Hot-Blooded Idiot Heroes) is cast as Extreme Doormat Stepford Smiler Tic Jefferson and Masakazu Morita (aka Ichigo and Tidus) plays Claire Stanfield, one of the biggest psychotic bastards known to man. The dub has J. Michael Tatum, who usually voices characters that are The Stoic or at least fairly serious, playing upbeat, scatterbrained, and less-than intelligent Isaac.
• From Code Geass:
  • Lelouch, the manipulative Anti-Hero who slowly slips into Anti-Villain territory, is played by Jun Fukuyama, an actor known for playing more straightforward heroes like Gravion's Touga Tenkuji. Meanwhile Suzaku, the Knight in Shining Armor, is played by Takahiro Sakurai, known for playing Anti Heroes like Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII. Reportedly this surprised even the other voice actors, who assumed that the two would be cast in the opposite roles. Director/co-creator Goro Taniguchi has said he did this on purpose, to show that Lelouch and Suzaku are both trying very hard to be something they aren't.
  • The US dub got this as well, with Lelouch being played by Johnny Yong Bosch, best known for being a former Power Ranger as well as Ichigo, while Suzaku is played by Yuri Lowenthal whom despite being known for his Kid Hero roles, he's also best known for playing Anti-Hero Sasuke Uchiha. The dub's producers remarked that Taniguchi had a hand in the casting, indicating that he pulled the stunt a second time.
• The Gundam 00 series seems to apply this trope intentionally.
  • Tōru Furuya, who typically play heroes like Amuro Ray, Chiba Mamoru, and Pegasus Seiya, plays Ribbons. Initially thought to be a side character, he turns out to be The Man Behind the Man (season 1) AND the Big Bad (season 2).
    • And one of the villains in the fourth Bleach movie, Shuuren.
  • Aside from Furuya, many seiyuus of past Gundam protagonists or a Major Supporting character voiced antagonists within the series: namely, Romi Paku (Loran), Kazuki Yao (Judau), Daisuke Namikawa (Al), Tetsu Shiratori (Sai) and Keiji Fujiwara (Eledore). The English version followed suit with the casting of voice actors such as Scott McNeil as Ali Al-Saachez (Duo), Kirby Morrow as Billy (Trowa), Nicole Bouma as Nena (Meyrin), Meryke Hendrikse as Liu Mei (Lunamaria) and Michael Adamwhaite as Ribbons (Yzak).
  • Possibly the biggest surprise in 00 may have been the casting of Brad Swaile as Setsuna F. Seiei, despite playing Gundam protagonists in the past. Swaile was at this point best known for his emotional characters (and yes that includes Light, who while sociopathic is still rather hammy and over the top at points), and the casting of him as the nearly emotionless, traumatised Setsuna was a surprising one. It still worked out pretty well though.
  • The Filipino dub also followed suit; Setsuna is voiced by the guy who voiced Ippo Makunouchi, Lockon by the guy who voiced Reito Kanzaki, H/Allelujah by the guy who voiced Youhei Sunohara, Tieria by the guy who voiced Yuuji Sakai, Liu Mei by the girl who voiced Chiyo Mihama, Sumeragi and Louise by the girl who voiced Ami Kawashima'', Marina by the girl who voiced Ranpha Franboise and Feldt by the girl who voiced Winry Rockbell.
  • Scott McNeil would later play Antoine from Dead Rising 2, an insane cannibal chef who kidnaps people and cooks them alive to be made into his "special dish" so he can be famous.
• Kämpfer: Most of the cast is Playing Against Type, notably Kaori Nazuka as Shizuku, Yukari Tamura as Seppuku Kuro Usagi, Nana Mizuki as Kanden Yamaneko, Mamiko Noto as Chissoku Norainu, Yui Horie as Akane (who’s mouth is very filthy). Subverted, however, with Ranka Lee as Kaede Sakura, then double subverted as she’s the worst offender- Ranka Lee as a Psycho Lesbian Big Bad?
• In the English dub of Linebarrels of Iron, Todd Haberkorn, who generally plays heroes or comic relief characters channels a Ribbons wannabe main villain, who is assisted by a character voiced by Vic Mignogna, who generally (with some exceptions, see below) gets the same kind of casting. In the other direction, Jerry Jewell, who often plays sinister characters, is cast as a cool Nice Guy.
• My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!:
  • In the original dub, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka is known for playing harem protagonists into the point of being nicknamed as "Harem King" by the fandom. In this series, he's reduced to being a member of a harem (Nicol Ascart).
  • In the English dub, Melissa Fahn is more commonly known for being either stoic or bitchy action girls, one of her more famous roles notwithstanding. Here, she plays Maria Campbell, who is sweet, nice, and as traditionally feminine as can be.
• In Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • Megumi Hayashibara was chosen to play Rei Ayanami, who became the archetypical Emotionless Girl. At the time, Hayashibara had become famous for her portrayals of Bokukko, Genki Girls, and generally outspoken characters — basically characters like Asuka Langley Soryuu, Rei’s sort-of love rival for protagonist Shinji.
  • This is also the case in the English dub where Amanda Winn-Lee, more known for playing hyperactive Rio in the Burn Up! series, filled the part of Rei.
  • Additionally Kotono Mitsuishi as Broken Ace Misato Katsuragi. Her most famous role until then? Dumb Blonde Idiot Hero Usagi from Sailor Moon.
  • Interviews from the Rebuild 2.0 Complete Records indicate that the makers deliberately cast voice actors whose voice and image would conflict with the characters, which is why they continued the tradition by having Maaya Sakamoto play the very eccentric Blood Knight Mari Makinami.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • Creepy Child psychic Gym Leader Natsume/Sabrina is played by Kae Araki, a.k.a. Chibi-Usa in the Japanese version, and by Lisa Ortiz (Lina Inverse) in the English version.
    • Ortiz was also Mars. Yes, Mars. A stoic, threatening commander trying to help with the main villain's goal of trying to create a new world by destroying the Earth.
  • Dan Green voices....Ash's Treecko. That's right, a foot-tall grass gecko. Actually a double subversion if you pay attention to Treecko's characterization.
  • Ikue Otani voices cute characters like Pikachu, but in the disturbing Corpse Party, she's Big Bad Sachiko, a murderous spirit.

By Creator - Japanese

• Kae Araki plays more often than not Moe Genki Girls. Then we get to the already mentioned Natsume/Sabrina, and Dark Magical Girl Ai Shinozaki...
• Nobutoshi Canna is known for voicing Blood Knights, Hot-Blooded characters, scheming villains with the occasional Bruce Lee Clone. But one would never suspect that he would voice the Adorkable Nice Guy Nowaki Kusama of Junjou Romantica and yes, he's the Seme in his pairing.
• Even Shigeru Chiba, who’s pretty much always been known for voicing loud and comedic characters, hot-blooded types, villains, and large hams voices a character who doesn’t fit into any of those categories: The quiet and kind Butler of Overlord (2012), Sebas Tian.
  • He’s also done some notable live action work, where he’s played two surprisingly more serious lead roles: The anti-hero Kōichi Todome from The Red Spectacles, and the solemn director, “I” from Talking Head.
• Susumu Chiba tends to be associated with calm bishonens like Castor from 07-Ghost and Sai from Hikaru no Go. Yet he also plays middle-aged gorilla stalker Kondo Isao in Gintama. Seriously.
• Yūko Gotō is most known for her cute-and-vulnerable moe-roles like Mikuru Asahina. She is really a down-to-asphalt motorcycle-devotee and actually voiced her own caricature, the hyper-masculine Yakuza-styled Gotouther-sama, in Lucky Star.
  • She later played Madoka's mother Junko who is little bit a masculine wife and a Hard-Drinking Party Girl. Junko acts often as Madoka's bro. This role is closer to Goto's real life personality (besides the aforementioned caricature) than most of her other roles.
• Kana Hanazawa often voices timid and shy girls like Nadeko Sengoku, Anri Sonohara, Shiori Shiomiya. Then she did violent, Large Ham Ichiko Sakura from Good Luck Girl!!
  • In 2014, she took a step further when she voiced Rize Kamishiro and Seryu Ubiquitous, both villainous, psychotic and cruel characters who were the total opposite of the characters that Hanazawa usually voices.
  • There is also Iris Heart, a super sadistic goddess of a Dominatrix in a Stripperific outfit who also has a thing for Double Entendre.
• Show Hayami is mostly known to voice characters who appear good but in fact they are evil sociopaths that love playing with people's minds and torturing them like Aizen in Bleach. Yet, he also voices characters completely different from his normal type like Ichiya or Umibozu in Gintama. Or if you want a Crazy Is Cool example, there's Klein Sandman.
  • The most jarring example, however, has got to be a minor role he got in GEAR Fighter Dendoh where he plays Ginga's overly flamboyant father who's EXTREMELY PRONE of broken English. In fact, flamboyant doesn't even begin to describe this character (though only for 1 episode, and Hayami also voiced the Big Bad, who's more in-line of his type)
• Noriko Hidaka, whose most famous role is Akane from Ranma ½, voiced Stepford Smiler Soujirou Seta from Rurouni Kenshin.
• Yōko Hikasa, who is known for voicing sexy and badass women such as Rias Gremory and Laura Matsuda made a jump into this trope as Yoh Asakura, who's not only a male shonen hero but is so lazy that the only motivation for his goals is so that he won't have to do anything else.
• Yoko Soumi's roles usually tend to be deep-voiced, sexy women, usually with large breasts or in positions of command/fighting, or the Yamato Nadeshiko. But in Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō, she plays the frail elderly goat Granny Mei, who does has a temper but is otherwise far detached from her usual typecast.
• Satoshi Hino back in the day used to be the second fiddle or non action guys like Yuji Sakai, Saito, or Shuuyu Koukin. Come present day, he's diversified his roles like Yuuto Kannagi, Kamui, Ryo Mogami, Riken Yoshinokazura as well as the titular overlord Ainz Ooal Gown, to the point he's barely even recognizable.
• Soichiro Hoshi: Like above, the man does generally passive characters who... Umm, yeah. You don't make angry, or get in the way. Kira Yamato happens to one of the more famous ones of this type. Along side to this is Lio Shirazumi, a homicidal, Knife welding, cannibalistic, Manipulative, Creepy Crossdressing maniac.
  • Actually Kira Yamato was Playing Against Type for him, before then he was known for playing generally hot-blooded and short tempered characters, Soichiro Nagi, Kazama the Shell Bullet and Yuki Aiba were par for the course before SEED.
• Yui Ogura has been typecast for playing cute Token Mini Moes. In Black Clover, she voices the battle-hungry, psychotic blood mage Vanica Zogratis.
  • She was also cast as the tomboyish, reserved, delinquent-like Broken Bird Homare in HuGtto! Pretty Cure, and the voice she uses for her is significantly lower pitched than her usual fare.
• Nobuyuki Hiyama is one of the kings of Hot-Blooded.
  • He broke type when playing the sensitive, responsible and almost fatherly Shiro Amada from the Gundam 08th MS Team.
  • As well as the genocidal psychopath Muruta Azrael from Gundam SEED.
  • He also voices emotionless chessmaster Wilhelm from Xenosaga. If you listen carefully, he sounds vaguely like a really calm Viral.
• Mitsuhiro Ichiki is noted by this wiki to "play teenage boys, often leaning heavily towards the Jerkass spectrum." In Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note, he plays Kozuka, the local Adorkable guy and the niceest of the Detective Team's boys. This stands out in a cast which also includes the Kid Hero, The Social Expert, and the Stoic Spectacles.
• Junya Ikeda who known for his roles as Gai Ikari of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger and Joe Kidou of Digimon Adventure tri. plays as the eerie Soft-Spoken Sadist Misanthrope Supreme Millions Knives of Trigun Stampede.
• Kikuko Inoue is well known for her Yamato Nadeshiko characters like Belldandy, Kasumi Tendou, and Shuuko Suzuhara. However, she also has many instances where she breaks the mold.
  • I-No... is anything but kind. She's a mega bitch.
  • Her performance as gorgeous exhibitionist high school teacher Yoshimine Mitsuka in DearS, who likes to strip down to her lingerie in front of her students and, at least in the manga version, openly stated that it turned her on to know that teenagers were checking out her body. In fact, she nearly seemed to be having an orgasm when she said that...
  • The Boss. Though in this case she really is a good mother and mentor... she just can't show it.
  • MS IGLOO 2's Shinigami lady.
  • And Grace O'Connor from Macross Frontier.
  • Louise's older sister Eleonore is even more cruel than Louise — and without the gentle/affectionate moments.
  • Also Palm Siberia, who's... not right in the head to say the least.
  • One of the earliest examples of hers: Panther of Saber Marionette J.
  • And even earlier than that, Princess Vespa in the Japanese dub of Spaceballs.
  • The arrogant and sociopathic Alv from Kiddy Grade and Lobelia Carlini from Sakura Wars are also her doing.
  • Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
  • Akira Yoshii, Akihisa's Cool Big Sis yet has a bro-con tendency in Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts.
  • Insarn, the sexy Evil Genius in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
  • And among all of these ladies... there's a boy. His name is Tsubasa Ohzora, and she voices him from age 12 to 15.
  • Mizuho Kazama was many things, but Yamato Nadeshiko was not one of them.
  • She also played the Yandere Dominatrix Queen in Miyuki-chan in Wonderland.
  • Played with for Ryoki, who is normally very sweet, kind, polite and motherly, which does fit her usual roles... unless someone touches her halo, causing her to switch to a violent, bitter, utterly foul-mouthed personality, which doesn't fit her usual roles.
• Miki Itō was originally this, playing Femme Fatale roles, until she did the switch-pigeonhole as a result of Playing Against Type.
  • And then there's Miyo Takano, who happens to be the Big Bad in a Milkman Conspiracy.
• Yūki Kaji has both played Shu and Issei in the same season. One is a brooding, angsty guy who is forced to become king, and the other one is a lecherous hotblooded kid who wishes to become the ultimate pawn. You try listening one then go to another. It's pretty amazing that he has two protagonist roles which are polar opposites of each other.
  • Then comes the next season where he plays Haruyuki, the resident Gonk and subject to lots of bullying almost everyday in Accel World. Personality-wise, he believes he is but trash in the real world and often locks himself up in a virtual world.
  • And then there's Eren Yeager. The Playing Against Type was so big that it became a Memetic Mutation (at least in the West).
  • He even becomes the Big Bad with a really deep voice known as Lord Silver Mask.
  • Also The Sociopath known as Q-Vier in Valvrave the Liberator.
• Gakuto Kajiwara's most famous roles are typically Hot-Blooded Stock Shonen Heroes, such as Asta and Shinra Kusakabe, but in Komi Can't Communicate, he plays a much down-to-earth and calmer Hitohito Tadano.
• Akira Kamiya, a man who is the archetype of Hot-Blooded voice acting:
  • He's gone on to voice loony mad scientist Dr. Tomoe from Sailor Moon.
  • He also dubbed Iago from Aladdin (The original movie, the sequels, the TV series and in Kingdom Hearts). Sadly, he retired Iago in 2001 and he is now voiced by Tōru Ōkawa.
  • Additionally, he also lent his Kinnikuman voice to Mr. Beetle in the Japanese dub of Don Bluth's Thumbelina.
  • This Kenshiro seiyuu also voiced Shun Mitaka in Rumiko Takahashi's most romantic series Maison Ikkoku. Yes.
  • AND Shutaro Mendou (Urusei Yatsura's version of Mitaka), and Kazamatsuri from Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (a Romantic False Lead again), not to mention Ryo from City Hunter. He did a LOT of romantic rivals/sex maniacs. Some fans think the action hero bit was just a sidelight (he was also Kinnikuman, but no one brings that up)...
  • Let's not forget that he was also the first voice of Kogoro Mouri, the egotistical Jerkass detective wannabe.
  • There's also his turn as the pint-sized psychopath Garlic Jr. in the first DBZ film. Sadly, he didn't reprise his role for the series, with Shigeru Chiba taking over there.
• Hiroshi Kamiya was best known for voicing straightforward heroes such as Koyomi Araragi, Tieria Erde, and Takashi Natsume. Then came Izaya Orihara. By now, Manipulative Bastard has been established as his second pigeonhole.
• Masami Kikuchi is one of the few who do this in the same franchise.
  • Let's see which characters he played in the Digimon series: The So-Called Coward Jou, Filler Villain Demon, The Professor Rob McCoy aka Dolphin, Cloudcuckoolander Neemon... KURATA?!
  • Digimon was not the first time Kikuchi played against type BIG time. He was Kouji's Jerkass older brother Akihiko in the Bronze OAV.
  • In Tales of Rebirth, he voiced Saleh, who can be summarized as an utter sadist.
  • And then there's The Prince of Tennis, where he's the very hammy and vain Wakato.
• Jurota Kosugi, known for usually voicing villains, plays the late Asuma Sarutobi in Naruto and its sequel Naruto Shippuden.
• Rie Kugimiya, who is commonly known for her Tsundere characters including the "Four Tsundere Wonders" Shana, Louise, Nagi, and Taiga, is often pigeonholed into these types of roles. This just makes the exceptions stand out all the more.
  • In the aforementioned Gundam 00, there's the cute and non-Tsundere Nena Trinity... until she grabs a gun.
  • Another case is from Bleach. Nemu Kurotsuchi is really melancholic and shy and spends her time being abused from hell and back by Mayuri Kurotsuchi... and she won't even dare to protest because he made her that way. And she's not a little girl.
    Mayuri: "Very good, Nemu, just smother him with those. Worst case is, he dies happy."
  • And there's also cute little Lichtenstein and the male Shrinking Violet (and potential Yandere) Latvia from Hetalia: Axis Powers. Well, maybe not completely...
  • She was also the upbeat Rise from Persona 4. Hell, there's even a comic out there referencing this trope...
  • She also plays Natsu's partner Happy in Fairy Tail. Interestingly enough, Happy becomes smitten with Wendy's partner Charle, who happens to be a tsundere...
  • Mizore Shirayuki is a Shrinking Violet Stalker with a Crush. She's not busty, but she's far from a pint-sized pettanko. Then again, she wears Zettai Ryouiki.
  • She also played Alphonse Elric and Ikuto Noguchi. Also from Fullmetal Alchemist Catherine Elle Armstrong.
  • A special case is that of Yua Sakurai, who has some of Rie's more famous characters' physical traits (long wavy hair, short stature), but is actually quite a nice girl.
  • She's also voiced Emotionless Boy Miharu Rokujou, which is definitely a huge contrast to some other roles she's played.
  • Her first male role was the sweet Kaname (also known as Taiki) in The Twelve Kingdoms. So yeah, that was her first pigeonholing, and then jumped into another...
  • Replacing the late Tomoko Kawakami as Miu Furinji in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. Very well-endowed and can kick ass, plus she's a Nice Girl rather than a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
  • She played a Precious Puppy in Chocotan!
• Megumi Matsumoto, pigeonholed for many years as the cute young boy, voiced Meganekko Genki Girl Suzuri in RideBack.
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka has been criticized for being pigeonholed into generic Harem protagonist roles such as Kirito, and while he has had other roles that have avoided this trend, such as Freed Sellzen, the true example here is Betelgeuse Romanee-Conti, in spades! It's easily his most insane role ever, and has been near universally praised as the very role that changed many peoples minds about him as a voice actor. And later an immensely Hot-Blooded swordsman called Inosuke Hashibiara who's nothing like the above roles.
• Kenta Miyake as Genma in Darker than Black is a lot like the Nena Trinity example mentioned above, where the actor plays a character who on the surface seems like their typical role (in this case, tall, deep-voiced Big Guy characters), but is revealed to be insane and evil.
• Mamoru Miyano normally plays Bishounen type characters with boyish voices, but in Steins;Gate, he played Okabe Rintaro who is far from bishounen and is deep-voiced.
  • Also, he tends to voice faaaaaaabulous Bishōnen such as Tamaki Suoh. Setsuna F. Seiei might be a Bishōnen but he is the exact opposite of the two above.
  • And then there's Shuu Tsukimiya.
• Toshiyuki Morikawa almost always voices imposing characters, ranging from demon exterminators to downright creepy ones. However, in addition to voicing a protagonist's father (in Bleach, where he also voices a villain as well as Naruto), he's also the voice of Spider-Man himself in the Japanese dub of Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
  • He was also the original voice of Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler to U.S. fans). Yes, that Jonouchi.
• Not that Hitomi Nabatame never did a Genki Girl like Mana/Cure Heart, but her most known portfolio is mostly about Cool Big Sis, Hard-Drinking Party Girl, mature women, or lesbians.
  • Although, considering the heavy subtext of the Precure franchise, you could say the last one MIGHT be a lil' spot on for Nabatame... In fact, the presence of Nabatame turns this particular Precure into 'the most Les Yay-ridden Precure series ever' and the first Precure that got a Ho Yay page on its own!
  • Her debut role, Yuuna from Maburaho is a cute, housewife-like Rose-Haired Sweetie with a high-pitched voice... who also happens to be a Violently Protective Girlfriend.
  • Nabatame also played Mei Mei from Nagasarete Airantou who is a Token Minimoe plus a Shrinking Violet.
• Mai Nakahara, who is known for cheery and sweet-faced Moe Action Girls as Mai Tokiha and Teana Lanstar, voiced the villainous Hot Witch Valerie from Luminous Arc 3.
• Kazuya Nakai is the voice actor for when it comes to badass swordsmen, such as Zoro, Toshiro Hijikata, Date Masamune, Mugen...and then there's Kokuto, who is also a swordsman, but is dangerously unstable and way too eager to shed some blood.
  • The crazed and foul-mouthed Jan Valentine from Hellsing.
  • Also gaunt and very eccentric Hiro/Hyoro
  • And there's The Stoic and Comically Serious, Shizuka Doumeki of XxxHolic.
• Yūichi Nakamura usually has roles where the jerks have a golden heart but thanks to his role as Hazama/Terumi, he can finally be a full-blown Jerkass.
  • Long before that there was his role as Dinosaur Ryuzaki in Yu-Gi-Oh!.
• Ryūsei Nakao in the past sometimes does more than the screechy voiced sadistic, mostly villainous men he's known for (and very UN-like his Nice Guy Real Life behavior). In GoLion, he played as the Sacrificial Lamb (but still heroic) Shirogane (Voltron fans will recognize him as Sven), and in Moomin (1990) he played the Butt-Monkey comic relief character Sniff.
  • He seems to do this often when he dubs Western Animation; he usually he plays the hero or comic relief sidekick. Examples include Yakko Warner from Animaniacs, Buster Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures, Bartok from Anastasia, Jon Arbuckle from Garfield and Friends, Heathcliff from Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats, and both Droopy and his son Drippy.
• Daisuke Namikawa ought to get a mention too. He can voice literally anyone with his diverse tonal range. Contrast characters such as Fai and the Italy brothers with Ulquiorra!
• Ai Nonaka usually does cutesy and nice characters. Kyouko Sakura in Puella Magi Madoka Magica is definitely not one of them. And neither is Eimi/Emilia in Blaze Union.
• Mamiko Noto, known for having a naturally soft voice, tends to play cute characters, such as Yukino Kikukawa, Angol Mois, and Kotomi Ichinose.
  • She then went on to play Masane Amaha, the Action Mom from Witchblade.
  • Add to that her roles in Monster, specifically a certain terrifying Creepy Crossdresser.
  • There is also the slow talking, deep voiced, Sexy Mentor Shigure from Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple.
  • Or Endless Frontier's Suzuka. Watch the meek and demure Mamiko Noto let out a shrilling Noblewoman's Laugh! OOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!
  • And the Lovable Alpha Bitch Lilicia Toudou in Student Council's Discretion.
  • And Broken Bird Satellizer from Freezing.
  • And Kosuda-kun's Cool Big Sis in B Gata H Kei.
  • Don't forget Oichi from Sengoku Basara, who is demure and cries a lot but goddamn terrifying the rest of the time.
  • She plays Aoi Mutou in Moyashimon, who is quite the Hard-Drinking Party Girl, isn't afraid to get dirty, and is not soft-voiced at all.
  • She voices the Creepy, Emotionless Girl Ai Enma in Hell Girl.
  • Don't forget her role as Asagami Fujino in The Garden of Sinners. MAGAREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
  • Let us not forget her role as Abusive Parent Saki Arima.
• Megumi Ogata is known for her deep and abrasive voice that leads her to mostly play young boys, such as Shinji Ikari, and tough Action Girl types, like Sailor Uranus or even Lara Croft before Atsuko Tanaka took the role.
  • But she is also the one to play Kunio Murai's mom in Great Teacher Onizuka, the very feminine and sexy Julia Murai...who is also a construction worker.
  • The true against type for her is Princess Emeraude from Magic Knight Rayearth, who is tiny, willowy, super feminine and NOT EVEN TOUGH. That is, until her lover is killed... but even her feminine touch still lived on. The show, however, also has a more in-type role for Megumi Ogata, though: Eagle Vision.
• Nobuhiko Okamoto usually plays loudmouthed and Hot-Blooded characters such as the likes of Katsuki Bakugou. Shin-ah is the exact opposite.
• Ryūzaburō Ōtomo manages to play against type while playing a character within his type! In Dragon Ball Z, he voices Dabura, a sinister devil under the control of Babidi. When he is killed by Majin Buu, however, his soul is deemed too evil to be punished in Hell, so his punishment is to be sent to Heaven, where he suddenly becomes a Friend to All Living Things, which everyone close to him finds creepy.
• Ari Ozawa usually plays The Cutie of that cast, being typecast by her Star-Making Role, Chiyo of Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun. In Magic of Stella she plays Ayame, the closest this series gives for a Tomboy.
• Yoshiko Sakakibara usually plays mother and scientist roles as well as The Baroness, such as Haman Karn, And then she played Rosemariné of Kaze to Ki no Uta, a Bishonen-type Long-Haired Pretty Boy.
• Satomi Sato is mostly known for playing demure girly girls. Ironically, she gained a huge amount of recognition as the tomboy Ritsu from KOn.
• While Tomokazu Seki simply plays too many roles to be a true Pigeonholed Voice Actor, he nonetheless usually finds himself playing either Hot-Blooded or Stoic badasses like Akira Fudo, Domon Kasshu, Beyond the Grave, Anime Tenchou, Sousuke Sagara, Gai Daigouji, and...Gravitations Shuichi?
• Kaori Shimizu was formerly known for her deep, sometimes deadpan voice but mostly tough voices that is suited for Sugar-and-Ice Personality Action Girls (Case in point: Signum).
  • Tales of Hearts gives her the role of Richia Spodune, a... uh... really soft-spoken, feminine Mysterious Waif.
  • And then you have Hiyori Tamura from Lucky Star. Double whoa.
• Hiro Shimono usually voices characters who can be a bit artsy such as Ayato Kamina. Keima Katsuragi is anything but that.
  • He's also often cast as bright and happy-go-lucky boys so it's downright surprising to find out that he also voices the villainous Dabi.
• Kenichi Suzumura is mostly known to play characters that are Hot-Blooded like Shinn from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny or Deadpan Snarker like Okita from Gintama or Ayumu from Spiral. He also plays transsexual Ginshu in Amatsuki, and the childish (and often whiny) Maya in Saint Beast.
• Chiaki Takahashi usually plays characters who are kind hearted, and if the character experiences a Face–Heel Turn or does something morally ambiguous, the character usually retains some sympathy to make her an Anti-Villain. Except in Neptunia, whereas her character Majiquonne/Arfoire is not only the Big Bad, she's also intentionally designed to be unsympathetic, and her motivation overall seems close to Generic Doomsday Villain.
• Hideyuki Tanaka: Ever since The '70s, he's been known for playing team dads and nice guys. His role in One Piece? A cruel, hammy, manipulative, bitter and arrogant Magnificent Bastard known as Donquixote Doflamingo.
• Rie Tanaka usually provides voices for peaceful, meek and/or strait-laced heroines like Chii from Chobits, Lacus Clyne and Meer Campbell from the Gundam SEED verse, and Yomi from Azumanga Daioh...but she was also the voice behind at least three devious/brutal villains: Suigintou from Rozen Maiden, Tomoe Marguerite from My-Otome, and Liang Qi from Canaan.
  • She also plays the straight-laced husky-voiced Mitsuru Kirijo from Persona 3.
  • Played with in Fate/EXTRAs sequel Fate/EXTRA CCC, where she plays the soft voiced Buddhist nun Sessyoin Kiara, until it's revealed that she's a cult leader responsible for countless suicides, and her desire to provide mankind salvation culminates in her gaining the status of a god, and the name Heaven's Hole. Her clothing, and in turn her voice, get progressively lewder in all of her appearances so far.
• Kei Tomiyama was known best for voicing the heroic Susumu Kodai in Space Battleship Yamato. He also voiced Tochiro Oyama in several Leijiverse titles as well as Yang Wenli in Legend of the Galactic Heroes. He also was Takashi Kasuga aka Kyosuke's dad in Kimagure Orange Road. All of these are intelligent, kindly, competent, yet vulnerable characters. Suprisingly, he voiced the Ax-Crazy Inspector Percy in the Riding Bean OVA. His character is essentially Inspector Zenigata on crack.
• Nao Tōyama is best known for voicing boisterous and outgoing Genki Girls who oftentimes pepper their sentences with Gratuitous English, such as Karen Kujo, Chitoge Kirisaki, and the Kongou and Takao Sisters. Then, there is the soft-spoken and reserved Reina Prowler, a character who contrasts so much with her previous roles one may very well be surprised she received a Singing Award for her performance as said character during the 15th Seiyuu Awards. There's also Lelei la Lalena, another introverted character very similar in demeanor to Reina who sometimes wears a hazmat suit and gas mask to reflect how cautious she is, and to a lesser extent High Elf Archer, who acts far more serious compared to her other, more comedic roles.
• Toshiyuki Toyonaga, who voiced many Adorkable characters such as Mikado Ryuugamine, Shun Matsuoka and Yuuri Katsuki currently voices Mahiro Fuwa, the Ax-Crazy, Jerkass Anti-Hero of Blast of Tempest. The amount of dramatic yelling in a suddenly rough, husky voice is very shocking.
• Kenji Utsumi often is the go-guy for voicing rather big characters, yet in the Red Ribbon Army saga of Dragon Ball, he voices the leader of the eponymous villainous army, Commander Red... who is a complete midget. Still met up with the other standard of being a Military dictator, though.
  • And let's not forget about his role as Gimli in the Japanese dub of The Lord of the Rings movies.
• Norio Wakamoto is best known for a long string of villain and/or badass roles.
  • Then there's Azumanga Daioh, where he played... a cat. Okay, it's Chiyo-Dad, so it's not completely out there, but still... a freaking cat! He also played the cute Mentor Mascot, Flappy, who has a really high-pitched voice, and the Team Pet Teddie in Persona 4.
  • Who can forget the melon-loving, v-shaped demon from Zatch Bell!, the almighty Victoreem-sama? VERY MERON!!!
  • It was just as weird when he played a dog statue in Yoshinaga Chi No Gargoyle.
  • He also played the Lemony Narrator of Hayate the Combat Butler; a voice job not only totally at odds with his usual hard tone, but also so oily that it can melt butter from a range of thirty feet.
  • One of his first roles was Master, a kindly bartender in the very, very romantic Maison Ikkoku series.
  • He played the gender-flipped Chousen in Koihime†Musou, whose Macho Campness seems to be lifted straight from Cho Aniki.
• Kappei Yamaguchi: The Japanese voice actor for Ranma, Usopp, and Inuyasha also tends to be pigeonholed into hotheaded hero roles. And then there's L who is nothing like those three.
  • Yamaguchi also plays Tobia Arronax, possibly one of the cleverest Gundam protagonists ever (though he does have his Hot-Blooded moments).
  • Feitan is the short, but creepy, dark clothed Genei Ryodan member with a quiet voice and is a torture specialist and he beheads almost every enemy he fights with his hands.
  • He also played Forever, a pervy gorilla who's also extremely psychotic, and Shigechi who's immensely greedy, but highly intelligent.

By Creator - English

• Chris Ayres normally played deep-voiced characters who are either antagonists, or in the supporting cast who are in middle-age, so it's surprising to see that in Gantz he played Kei Kurono, who's not only a young-teenager-like character, he's also the main character.
• Greg Ayres is known for playing innocent young boys or fun loving teenagers, but he has played vastly different characters at least twice. First, in Fullmetal Alchemist, he voiced Bido, a former human-turned-lizard chimera who is a con artist and trouble maker. And in Gantz, he voices Hajimeh w Muroto, a psychotic teenage serial killer and rapist.
  • He's Tsujido in Speed Grapher, who is a quiet and calm Dragon to the Big Bad.
  • He's also Guldo on Dragonball Z Kai.
  • In both Samurai 7 and Nightraid 1931, he voices characters who initially seem to fit his fun-loving, easy going type, but are revealed to have Stepford Smiler traits and are actually less nice/more melancholic than you'd expect.
  • A similar case comes in the "Mountain Villa" 2-parter in Case Closed, where he voices an geeky big guy. All of that is an act and he just so happens to be the killer.
  • He was also Monokuma in the Danganronpa: The Animation, the sadistic Killer Teddy Bear who oversees the Deadly Game.
• Laura Bailey seems to voice a lot of cute, generally innocent teenage girls (such as Keiko/Kayko Yukimura from YuYu Hakusho, Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket, Marta in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.)
  • But then she also voices Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist!
  • Don't forget Tia Harribel.
  • She's also young Chi-Chi in Dragon Ball. Between Lust, Harribel, and Young Chi-Chi's wardrobe, we're sensing a pattern with her characters' designs despite the characters' personalities being completely different.
  • She comes back in her against type mode in Dissidia Final Fantasy, being the Cloud of Darkness.
  • She's also the American equivalent of Mamiko Noto for the aforementioned Oichi.
• Steve Blum tends to be cast as impossibly cool leading men like Spike Spiegel.
  • Many people were surprised to hear him in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as the extremely Camp Gay Leeron. It should be noted that his range is far from limited.
  • See also: Dr. Ludger Brink from the 1995 Lucas Arts videogame, The Dig, or his appearance in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law as... Yakky Doodle.
  • In LEGO Batman, there are plenty of characters that are his type, like Batman, The Joker, Two-Face, Killer Croc... except Killer Moth, who's possibly the biggest loser in Gotham, and Blum voiced him too.
    • His role as Killer Croc really shined in Batman: Arkham Asylum.
  • The Green Goblin in The Spectacular Spider-Man and Orochimaru from Naruto are both higher-pitched madmen compared to his normal deep voice.
  • He accomplished a similar feat to fellow Digimon VA Masami Kikuchi. Hell, Digimon Tamers has 3 of his ranges in there — badass Yamaki, young boy Kenta, and Ridiculously Cute Critter Guilmon!
  • Blum has also voiced children (J.P.) and small creatures (Blunk).
  • In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Blum voices Aoi, a sensitive and soft-spoken intellectual better known as The Laughing Man.
  • And, of course, there is Orochimaru in Naruto. He's not exactly known for playing slimy scheming parasites.
  • There's also his role as Dr. Nebraska, a high-pitched evil mad scientist in episode 5 of Trigun.
• Johnny Yong Bosch: The Power Rangers alumnus has had several roles that could be considered playing against type.
  • Shortly after being cast as Lelouch, Bosch would go on to play Rossiu from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, another Well-Intentioned Extremist who comes into opposition with the protagonist.
  • He went further against type in Persona 4, where he plays Tohru Adachi, an incompetent Butt-Monkey of a police detective, which is a far cry from his usual heroic roles. This becomes even more apparent when it turns out that not only is Adachi the killer, he's Ax-Crazy to boot.
  • While being cast as Izaya Orihara could also be considered Playing Against Type, Johnny's basically established "evil, slimy, and/or manipulative bastard" as his secondary type at this point.
  • Bosch also has a second secondary type other than playing slimy anti-heroes/villains: the soft spoken/whiny young boys. There are Renton and Claus among quite a few others.
  • And by Fate/Zero, he plays the sociopathicRyuunosuke who loves to see people dying in brutal ways.
  • He also plays the sadistic, borderline Yandere Saruhiko Fushimi in Project K.
  • His first not-so-good-guy role is thought to have been Clair Leonelli from Heat Guy J.
  • His first antagonistic role was Reiji Takegawa, the Big Bad in Gatekeepers.
  • Yona of the Dawn has him playing the Big Bad's father. A middle-aged man mind you, which is way different from pretty much most of his roles.
• Despite her wide vocal range, Luci Christian people were still quite surprised when they found out that she portrayed Ax-Crazy Blood Knight Ophelia in Claymore.
  • Not to mention the psychotic Medusa from Soul Eater and the equally nuts Alois Trancy from Black Butler.
  • And there's the Truth from Fullmetal Alchemist, who's many things, but not bratty or insane.
• Colleen Clinkenbeard is known for playing Femme Fatales and sultry women. So it came as a surprise when she was cast as idiot Shonen hero Monkey D. Luffy. It ended up working so well that she was cast as Gohan in Dragon Ball Z Kai.
• Partial example: Richard Ian Cox is usually cast in the role of hotheadeds like Ranma and Inuyasha, but was cast as the generally calm Allelujah Haptism. However, he was in-type for Allelujah's Superpowered Evil Side.
  • He also played the cowardly helicopter pilot in the live-action movie Ghost Rider (2007).
• Sandy Fox normally voices Token Mini-Moe roles due to her high pitched, little girl-sounding voice. But when Chibi-Usa briefly undergoes a Plot-Relevant Age-Up and gets brainwashed and becomes Black Lady near the end of the second season of Sailor Moon, Sandy actually lowers her voice to accommodate Chibi-Usa's physical change into an older teen.
• Crispin Freeman is known for mostly playing badass Mr. Fanservice Anti-Heroes like Alucard, Itachi, and Alex Rowe. But...
  • He also starred in Chobits as dweeby loser Hideki.
  • He's also Fire Leo from the Viewtiful Joe cartoon. That's a pretty big difference from Alucard, Itachi, or most of his characters.
  • And then there's Kyon, the Generic Guy, Token Human/The Team Normal, and Only Sane Man among the SOS Brigade.
  • Freeman's stereotyped as a badass because he was played against type. His first popular major role was Justy Ueki Tylor, played against when he was given the role of Zelgadis of Slayers.
  • His role in the video game Justice League Heroes is freaking Superman, a far cry from the psychos he usually voices. In said performance, he does a reasonable impression of George Newbern, who voiced Superman in Justice League.
• Marlowe Gardiner-Heslin, a former Canadian voice actor from Toronto, has voiced minors in children's animation, but his voice role in the English dub of the Interlude OVA is mature and different than his previous roles.
• Kellen Goff is often typecast as either Ax-Crazy villains like Rekka Hoshimiya, Overhaul and Diavolo or monsters like Funtime Freddy and the Father Spider Demon, and has expressed wanting to expand his repertoire beyond those archetypes. Later, he would go on to play Senpai, his first main character and a Classical Anti-Hero Stalker with a Crush, and the Endearingly Dorky Nice Guy Sasaki.
• Todd Haberkorn, generally plays Hot-Blooded heroes or comic relief characters, but...
  • while they are both the main characters of their series like most of his notable Funimation roles, Naru and Haruka are vastly different from his typical hot-blooded and/or outgoing roles.
  • ever since he moved to Los Angeles, he has been often typecasted into villains such as Sugou Nobuyuki, Judar and Betelgeuse.
• Marÿke Hendrikse is known for playing Genki Girls and the shy type, but in Black Lagoon she plays Revy, the angry, violent, foul mouthed Sociopathic Hero progaonist.
• Jerry Jewell is known for his sinister or Pretty Boy roles. However, he plays a bat named Nazo "Kou" Koumori in Rosario + Vampire who pops up during random intervals to fill the audience in on information, and who also happens to be Kokoa Shuzen's sidekick and shape-shifting weapon of choice. However, in one later episode it is revealed that Kou has a teen human formed "Kotaro Ijuuin", and this character is right up Jewell's ally, making this arguably a Subverted Trope.
• Alessandro Juliani: The actor who played L in the English dub of Death Note had previously mainly voice acted as the Prince Charming equivalents in the Barbie movies. This is really playing against the type when you consider that L is said to be socially awkward and has no luck in romantic areas. Not that L really cares.
• Yuri Lowenthal traditionally voices the Kid Hero. Ironically enough, his Star-Making Role in Naruto was as Anti-Hero-turned-villain Sasuke. Not to mention his role as the Jerkass Omnicidal Maniac with Cluster F-Bomb Gig in Soul Nomad & the World Eaters, which is considered one of the best video game dubs ever. There's also his role as the lead in Girls Bravo, where he voices a Shrinking Violet who doubles as The Chew Toy.
• Mona Marshall, the voice of so many young boys? Turn on the dub of Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran. The voice of Ran, a twenty-something female bishojo ronin? That's her.
  • She also voiced another girl character, Leni, in Sakura Wars: The Movie.
  • She also voiced high pitched Ridiculously Cute Critter Terriermon in Digimon Tamers.
• Vic Mignogna's casting as Broly is very jarring. Not surprisingly, Dragonball Z Abridged took aim at how...vocal he is at not liking to do the Screaming Warrior.
  • The above wouldn't the last time he played someone more than a little Ax-Crazy.
  • His role as Mamoru in RahXephon is also against type. The character initially seems to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold Bromantic Foil, but then shows himself to be a Jerkass and does a Face–Heel Turn. So, Vic playing him goes against his usual casting as heroic characters.
  • For that matter, he also played Rome Ro in Heroic Age, who is not only the closest thing the series has to a Big Bad, but is very quiet and pensive.
  • Vic Mignogna voices E-123 Omega in Sonic The Hedgehog, a 1200-pound robot Anti-Hero who will do whatever it takes to kill Dr. Eggman. He's more difficult to recognize as Omega than most of his other roles.
  • Speaking of One Piece, there's also his role as the weaselly Jerkass that is Nezumi from the Arlong arc. His role as Sabo on the other hand is more in line with his usual characters.
• Kirby Morrow is typically the Ocean Group's go-to guy for dashing young heroes in both anime and western animation such as Miroku from Inuyasha, Ryo Takatsuki in Project ARMS, Trowa Barton from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Cyclops/Scott Summers in X-Men: Evolution, and Ken of Barbie fame.
  • However he joins fellow voice actor Brad Swaile in playing against type in Death Note, where he voices Knight Templar turned mass murderer, Teru Mikami. He's also voiced Gyunei Gus, Char Aznable's Ax-Crazy right hand man in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, and the cynical Raimi Mathews in Broken Saints.
• Liam O'Brien is known for voicing characters that are evil, crazy, or anti-heroic. However, he plays the very heroic Dr. Tenma from Monster.
• Lisa Ortiz, as mentioned before, usually voices cheery upbeat characters like Lina Inverse, Amy Rose, and Chisa Tsukamoto:
  • But in addition to the aforementioned Sabrina and Mars, she was also Lala-Ru from Now and Then, Here and There, and if you hear her voice as Kaku Bunwa, you won't recognize it's her.
  • She also voiced Shiori, a quiet, stoic, manipulative Attention Whore who wanted to exploit her friend's secret so she could ruin her life as part of her revenge plan.
• Joshua Seth usually voiced innocent kids, heroic teenagers, or goofy little characters, he was also Tetsuo from AKIRA a depressed teenage biker gang member with low self esteem who slowly goes insane after developing telekinetic powers and eventually goes on a murderous rampage.
  • He also played the main antagonist Knives as a child from Trigun who systematically kills off the people who raised him after developing a hatred of humans.
• Stephanie Sheh usually plays shy, quiet girls such as Hinata Hyuga, Eureka, and Mikuru Asahina. But she also plays Akira Kogami, Kin Tsuchi, and Kaguya Sumeragi.
  • She's also played some downright badass and/or villainous roles as of late, such as Kriem from Tiger & Bunny, and the Rin sisters from Anarchy Reigns.
  • She also did the voice clips for Kjelle in Fire Emblem: Awakening, who is far from shy, and is a confident, training-loving knight.
  • Aww, Airy from Bravely Default is voiced by her and she is so cute... Well if you ignore the fact she is the Big Bad working for an evil being out to devour the world.
  • She also plays the infamous cute psychopath Nui Harime in Kill la Kill.
  • Then there's her role as the broken, unhinged, suicidal Suito Kusanagi in the film The Sky Crawlers.
• Ian Sinclair, is known for playing soft spoken, loud or friendly voices, but in Toriko plays Toriko with a deep voice that is large as he is.
• Steve Staley, best known for voicing Jerkass and/or cynical characters like Neji Hyuga, Toshiro Hitsugaya, and Kadaj, plays Nice Guy Banagher Links.
• Sonny Strait generally voices happy-go-lucky, comic-relief-with-a-hint-of-badass guys. But then he also voices Kyuzo, who's The Stoic if there ever was one.
  • Then there's his role as Doctor on YuYu Hakusho, a creepy Axe-Crazy Soft-Spoken Sadist during the Chapter Black arc.
• Karen Strassman usually employs a tremendous amount of feminine grace in her characters, heroines and villainesses alike. But in Hellsing Ultimate, she voiced Heinkel Wolfe and she sounded quite butch.
• Brad Swaile was usually cast as awkward and/or dorky characters, usually teenagers. Then comes the Death Note dub, and he plays Magnificent Bastard main character Light Yagami. This totally works and is generally considered to be his best performance ever.
  • Plus, Swaile usually plays lead characters, like the afore-mentioned Light Yagami, but in Shakugan no Shana, he was Keisaku Sato, a minor character.
  • He was also "Slappy" from Dead Rising 2 a giggling delusional lunatic who believed himself to actually be the mascot he was portraying in costume while wielding a pair of flame throwers spraying them in random directions.
  • As of later chapters/episodes, Rock from Black Lagoon, who went from the sort of dorky character he was known for playing to a far more serious and violent character changed by his time and experiences in Roanapur.
• J. Michael Tatum, often voices stoic characters (often as the The Smart Guy with glasses) like Kyoya and Sebastian. However, he also voices Dororo from Sgt. Frog, whom despite appearing to be stoic at first, is also a wimpy Butt-Monkey.
• Julie Ann Taylor is known for her portrayal of Cool Big Sis characters like Milly, Ratchet, and even Ayaka. Then there's Mikan, who is a kid.
  • And not to mention Severa, Cordelia's future Jerkass daughter.

By Creator - Spanish

• Rossy Aguirre is best known for voicing either Hot-Blooded and aggressive tomboyish girls or young male kids. Akane Tendo definitely fits the first mold, but her other most iconic anime role, Ami Mizuno, is the complete opposite by being soft-spoken and feminine.
• The late Jesús Barrero, at least during the 80s and 90s, had most of his notable anime roles being young, heroic Hot-Blooded characters, ranging from Nice Guy to Jerk with a Heart of Gold, such as Pegasus Seiya, Rick Hunter and Kouji Kabuto. So it's rather jarring to hear him as the voice of Dekim Barton in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz.
• Cristina Hernández is best known in the Latin American anime fandom for playing cute and sweet girls like Sakura Kinomoto and Kari Kamiya. She also voiced Tayuya in Naruto.

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