- Akira Ishida plays either effeminate and/or gay male characters fairly frequently, a role usually given to female voice actors, or villains. For the former, this seems intentional, as many of his roles even look similar physically.
- Kikuko Inoue generally plays Yamato Nadeshikos, shrill noblewomen or mothers. She has also played gruff tomboys in Saber Marionette J and the Sakura Wars series, sexy she-bitch I-no in the Guilty Gear games and the psycho Alv in Kiddy Grade.
- She plays kind sisterly/motherly characters so often she's even called Onee-chan (Big Sister) by her fellow seiyuu and fans.
- Megumi Ogata plays male characters (often Bishōnen) or androgynous women like Eagle Vision, Yukito/Yue, Masaya Aoyama, Shinji Ikari, Yugi Mutou, Makoto Naegi, Kurama, Nagito Komaeda and more. Among her "masculine girl" roles are Haruka/Sailor Uranus, Sizer, Tier Harribel and others. (sanity are not absolutely required)
- Similar to Ogata is Romi Park, who tends to play younger male characters who are Older Than They Look like Toshiro Hitsugaya or Edward Elric... and her characters are usually young prodigies who are vertically challenged and sometimes have... issues... when this is mentioned.
- Mamiko Noto is known for playing Kawaiiko and Yamato Nadeshiko characters like Kotomi Ichinose for example
- Nana Mizuki voices Dark Magical Girl Rue, Dark Magical Girl Utau, Dark Magical Girl Fate, Dark Magical Girl Ouji, Dark Magical Girl Cerulean Blue, and Knight in Sour Armor Magical Girl Tsubasa. On the other side, she also voices Shrinking Violet Hinata and Shrinking Violet Magical Girl Tsubomi... as well as Genki Girl Shinobu and Genki Dark Magical Girl Levi.
- Mostima is, so to speak, a literal "Dark" "Magical" girl, but not a Dark Magical Girl, being more of a lone wolf, and a very casual and relaxed character.
- Atsuko Tanaka is often cast as a Cool Big Sis type of characters, seductive and alluring characters with a horror inspiration, or females that combines both authoritative or style, such as her role as Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell, Lisa Lisa in Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency, Reiko Tamura in Parasyte, Konan in Naruto and Caster in Fate/stay night.
- Although he has a wide range, Shin-ichiro Miki is usually typecast as a blond pretty playboy type of characters (including Kurz Weber or Limone). Also, his characters often harbor, uh, affection towards girls much younger than themselves, examples include: Allen Schezar (towards Hitomi), Crim (towards Subaru), Shannon Casull (towards Pacifica), Heinz Schneider (towards Ellis), Reiot Steinberg from Straight Jacket (towards Kapel Theta)... all these despite being versatile enough to play as Kojiro (James) all the way to Aladdin in the Japanese dub of the Disney series, or to Bob Makihara of Tenjho Tenge.
- His 'interact with girls younger than his character' is also very much seen in Gundam 00, as Big Brother Mentor Lockon Stratos interacts a lot with Emotionless Girl Feldt Grace. The catch is, instead of Lockon being interested at her, it was Feldt who ends up having an unrequited crush on him.
- Hikaru Midorikawa's most common roles are quiet, antisocial bishounen types. However, in the Banpresto multiverse, he's cast as a loud-mouthed ignorant jock of a character. In one of the "Preview of Next Episode" savescreens, he imitated Heero Yui, a more standard Midorikawa Hikaru role, and confused everyone.
- If anything, anyone voiced by Midorikawa will usually have an air of 'coolness' around him, something that is exploited to hell and back in Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto. Cool, Cooler, Coolest indeed.
- Expect almost any characters played by Ayako Kawasumi to have a 'dark side'. It happened many times... First, her character in Gate Keepers Ruriko Ikusawa had her powers converted to the dark when she's kidnapped, second, Chikane Himemiya in Destiny of the Shrine Maiden snaps and converts a Mecha into evil while submitting to a dark god, though to be honest, it's just a huge Gambit Roulette to her, and lastly one of the routes in Fate/stay night had Saber get defeated and turn to... Saber Alter.
- Nobuyuki Hiyama has a lot of range from deranged villains to cool and calm characters, but thanks to his role as Guy Shishioh, and Breakout Role as Hiei, fans noted that his common roles are hot blooded characters. He is also notable for being the "voice" of Link in Ocarina of Time.
- Junko Takeuchi, thanks to her role as Naruto, has been often typecast as goofy young boys such as Hokutomaru in Garou Mark of the Wolves, Dieter from Monster, Gon Freeces In Hunter × Hunter, and Mamoru Endou in Inazuma Eleven.
- Yuu Asakawa. It's not seldom that she'll play characters who are the most well-endowed between the cast, thereby turning her to be the candidate of the series' Ms. Fanservice. If the series is full of Ms Fanservices already... let's just say she'll be one of the top Fanservice providers.
- If she's voicing a boy, expect that boy to be somewhat arrogant and sure of his abilities. There's Mitani from Hikaru no Go, Kouji from Kyou no Go no Ni, and Sefuru from Harukanaru Toki no Naka de.
- Ms. Asakawa's ex-husband, Showtaro Morikubo, has also fallen into typecasting, mostly as bad-tempered guys who switch back and forth between Jerkass and Jerk with a Heart of Gold types. Look no further than Akaya Kirihara from The Prince of Tennis or Krylancelo Finrandi aka Orphen from Sorcerer Stabber Orphen. He's also Shikamaru Nara, who tends to be a jerkass with women.
- He also tends to play the adorable dorks who, while not necessarily evil or a jerkass, could probably kick your ass if they had to e.g. Amano Ginji in Get Backers, Ichiro in Nerima Daikon Brothers, or Narugami/Thor in Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok.
- Yuko Miyamura tends to be cast in the roles of reckless, loud, and boastful young women, such as Aisha Clan-Clan of Outlaw Star and Asuka of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- A better description of her standard character would be "crazy". Whether artificial girl (My Dear Marie), Yakuza boss’s daughter with a crush on teacher (Very Private Lesson), or action heroine with a dark past (Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion and Casca from Berzerk), all are a narrow margin from going crazy, and dangerously so. She was also the "instructor" on tape in Battle Royale, which was live-action (but she was crazy).
- Rie Kugimiya has become known for her young girl or young girl-bodied Tsundere roles: Shana (Shakugan no Shana), Louise (The Familiar of Zero), Iori (The Idolmaster), Nagi (Hayate the Combat Butler), Sugar (One Piece), Kagura (Gintama), Astarotte (Astarotte No Omocha), and Taiga (Toradora!). In fact, her other fan nickname is "the Queen of Tsundere".
- Tomokazu Sugita may be falling towards this as he becomes known for playing snarky and sarcastic male leads like Kyon.
- On several occasions he's cast as someone with the voice of some Unlucky Everydude. Point in case: Hideki Motosuwa in Chobits, Rin Tsuchimi in SHUFFLE!. Even Sugita uses his Unlucky Everydude voice type for Brooklyn 'Bullet' Luckfield.
- He also goes a full villain mode a few times with Shin in Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage, Renkotsu in Inuyasha, Charlotte Katakuri in One Piece and Satan in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
- Then there's Joseph Joestar, who not only weaponizes his snark but manages to be a Large Ham at the same time.
- Ryūsei Nakao has been typecast as cruel, quirky, disturbing, sadistic men (mostly villains) with high pitched voices, including Freeza (and his brother, Cooler, and his counterpart, Frost), Mayuri Kurotsuchi in Bleach, Him in Powerpuff Girls Z, Caesar Clown in One Piece as well as Farfarello.
- Need a badass with a Large Ham tendency? Norio Wakamoto. He often, but not always, plays hammy Big Bads. Among his roles: Igniz and Rugal (if only for one game so far), Cell, M.Bison/Vega, Vicious, MD Geist, Coach Ohta, Emperor Charles of Britannia, Oda Nobunaga, and Dracula in almost all the Castlevania games that feature voice acting.
- Voice actress Yuki Kaida has been more or less typecast to play soft-spoken teenage boys with hidden agendas or skills, like Shusuke Fuji from The Prince of Tennis and Kurapica from Hunter × Hunter (whom she even plays in the musicals). One of the few different roles she has been casted as is the gentle and troubled Machi Kuragi in the Fruits Basket CD-dramas.
- Yūko Gotō often plays girly Moe characters like Mikuru from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Ironically, Goto (aka "Gotouther-sama" after a character from Fist of the North Star, of which she is a fan) is apparently a hardcore biker in real life. Parodied in Lucky Star, in which she appears as an intimidating, hypermasculine Yakuza-style biker, then zooms off on her motorcycle making cutesy "vroom, vroom" noises.
- However... it seems she is set to not only Moe characters, but also Yandere characters. If Kaede Fuyou is telling you something...
- Daisuke Ono seems to be associated with charming Bishōnen like Yukito in AIR, Koizumi in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Sebastian in Black Butler and himself in Lucky Star (which is exactly as it's said: charming bishonen).
- Ikue Otani, Pikachu herself. Among other adorable Genki Girls and Keets include Zatch Bell!, Ojamajo Doremi's Hana-chan, Iincho from Dokidoki School Hours (sort of a subversion, but she's a SMAP fangirl...), and Tony Tony Chopper of One Piece.
- If you want a good seiyuu for a female character older than 30? Go to Masako Katsuki. She started with Naïve Everygirl (like Maya Kitajima form Garasu no Kamen) or Cool Big Sis (like Reccoa from Zeta Gundam) roles, but ever since she played Michiru aka Sailor Neptune in Sailor Moon she's been playing older ladies.
- She played some older ladies before that, too; take Ikari-sensei from High School Kimengumi in the 1980s.
- Fumihiko Tachiki is well-known for his work voicing sinister older villains, who usually share very personal connections to one or more of the main characters. This also usually goes hand in hand with his roles' tendencies, if they have children, to be at best distant or at worst downright manipulating and bad fathers. Most famously, of course, is Gendo Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion, but he has also played Kratos Aurion from Tales of Symphonia, Odin from Odin Sphere and Zaraki Kenpachi from Bleach. And even young comic relief Boss from Mazinkaiser. To sum it up, he's a very good choice for Big Guy type of characters, even moreso if they have a veteran-ish aura.
- Joji / George Nakata and Akio Ōtsuka only play extremely hard-boiled badasses, though their characters frequently get put into situations not quite of their calibur to add flavor.
- George Nakata = Villain. That's all that needs to be said. Granted, some of those villains are also protagonists, like Alucard in Hellsing, but villains nonetheless.
- Hideyuki Hori, though not as much as obviously seen, seems to be a rather popular choice for ninja characters. Including Ryu Hayabusa in Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, Schwarz Bruder in G Gundam, and in the crossover Namco X Capcom, he plays Team Commando's resident ninja Sho/Ginzu.
- If you see Show Hayami's name in a cast list, take extra caution. If that character seems like affable and attractive, there is a chance that he'll turn out to be the worst man in existence (case in point, Dr. Kazutaka Muraki in Descendants of Darkness, Masami Eiri in Serial Experiments Lain, and Sousuke Aizen in Bleach). He also plays straight socio/psychopaths just as often.
- And even if he is voicing a good guy, expect that character to be pretty fucked up in the head, like male lead Idol Singer Kouji from the yaoi anime Zetsuai1989 or Klein Sandman.
- Kumiko Watanabe comes in two flavors: If she's playing a boy, she's most likely to play young heroes (doesn't need to be main) or Bratty Half-Pint in general. If she's playing a female... then just be ready that her character may turn out to be the worst bitch in the series (Hello, Katejina Loos).
- She can also play screwball characters, as she played Woody Woodpecker in the dub of his 90s TV series.
- Yūichi Nakamura tends to play guys who, for a lack of better description, are jerks. Usually with hearts of gold underneath. We have Okazaki Tomoya from CLANNAD (a jerk who quickly softens up for his various love interests), Abe Takaya from Big Windup! (a jerk who doesn't realize that yelling at his shy, meek pitcher isn't helping said pitcher's self-esteem any), Alto Saotome of Macross Frontier (a jerk who has trouble recognizing other people's kindness toward him, especially if they happen to be his love interests), Ikuto Tsukiyomi of Shugo Chara!, etc. Meanwhile, Yuuki Terumi takes this pidgeonhole to psychopathic levels.
- At the same time, Nakamura also played a noticeable number of times fathers and especially older brothers (or even younger brother in Wata Mote), which is characteristic, the latter predominantly in Brother–Sister Incest series or playing with this. Put a plus if in a similar work also plays Saori Hayami as one of his Love Interest.
- Kappei Yamaguchi's kind of stuck with "hotheaded hero," having voiced Ranma, Inuyasha, and Monta from Eyeshield 21, among many others.
- Thanks to his role as L from Death Note, expect him to also play emo-ish characters like Cheshire or Feitan.
- He does quite well with goofball characters as well. Want an example? How about Teddie? Or Shigechi? Could Bugs Bunny count?
- Hitomi Nabatame is a versatile voice actress, doing stuffs from young girl, graceful princess, outgoing girls or characters. However, if there's several things she's most known for, it's either her Hard-Drinking Party Girl roles, or roles that have Les Yay painted in it. She may be even like this in real life.
- Mamoru Miyano often gets cast as pretty boys that at times can also fall into the Large Ham territory Tamaki, Tsukiyama and even Light.
- While they don't really fall into the "pretty boy" category, Death the Kid, Okabe and Kotaro definitely fall in the Large Ham category.
- He is quite suited to roles of cold covert killers such as Setsuna from Gundam 00 and Zero from Vampire Knight.
- Sometimes, a voice actor is pigeonholed into one type, but as time passed on, he/she is pigeonholed in another type and almost abandons their old pigeonholed types. The example of this is Aya Hisakawa, known as young, mostly spunky girl characters, especially Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury, Skuld, and Chai Xianghua. But as time passed, she finds herself pigeonholed into mature women that knows her stuffs, such as Maya Natsume, Retsu Unohana or even Stripperiffic Ms. Fanservice Judith. This is also somehow reflected in her old pigeonholed types — one of the Ah! My Goddess series features Skuld with an older form, and Hisakawa left Xianghua's role after Soul Calibur III.
- And the other example of 'switch pigeon hole' voice actor is Miki Itō. Beforehand, she's known as Femme Fatale type characters, sometimes overlapping with villains, such as Android no 18, Nova, Legretta the Quick. Now you find her voicing genuinely good Genki Girls like Asa Shigure, Taiga Fujimura...
- Natsuko Kuwatani is mostly known for absolutely loyal henchwoman to whomever she works for rather then the actual cause her master follows and rarely cares for anybody else. Kasuga in Sengoku Basara, Sette and Arf in Nanoha are good examples of following her master to the ends of the earth and often hints of a romance of them (some more blatant then others). Just call her Natsuko Kunoichi in that case.
- Shizuka Itō is known for her refined sexy personality (she does do hentai after all) and is often seen working with girlfriend Hitomi Nabatame (they have a good relationship, and apparently they are girlfriends if Hitomi's blog is to be believed) and the ability to go between romantically teasing or generally stoic and serious. Rest assured, she is a skilled femme fatale who is on fire (or at least her element in animes like Shakugan no Shana). She is also typecasted in high school anime as a Student Council President or representative.
- Soichiro Hoshi is often the younger partner of Akira Ishida. Aside from that, he plays normally passive characters with hidden berserker streaks to him such as Kira Yamato from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED franchise and Brooklyn from Bakuten Shoot Beyblade. His roles often carry sticks or similar stick-like weapons to battle. Beamspam Jesus has nothing on stick smack Jesus.
- Kazuma and Keiichi Maebara may be considered inversions. Both definitely have berserker sides to them, and Keiichi has a baseball bat as a weapon but Kazuma is openly loud, brash and violent while Keiichi is a loud, perverted dork who only becomes violent when he falls victim to the Hate Plague.
- Ditto Masaru, who is made of hot blood and punches out fifty-foot giant chickens in his spare time. And Sanada Yukimura is basically the former dialed up to eleven.
- If you're watching a 70s mecha anime, chances are that the Big Bad is voiced by Osamu Ichikawa. He has lent his voice to Norris Packard, Prince Heinel, Great General Garuda, Prince Richter and Prince Sharkin in the past. He's also a recurring voice actor for the Showa era Kamen Rider series.
- Tesshō Genda is mostly known for his The Big Guy roles. If you see a character voiced by him, expect them to fulfil the Mighty Glacier role, such as the younger Toguro in YuYu Hakusho, Takeda Shingen in Sengoku Basara, Kurama in Naruto, Kaido in One Piece, Mighty Kongman in Tales of Destiny, and Largo the Black Lion in Tales of the Abyss. He does some exceptions, though, like the dubbed version of Batman.
- Mitsuki Saiga mainly plays male roles despite being a female seiyuu. Many of the roles she plays is mainly as protectors but when she also has to play a villain as well, it becomes a Well-Intentioned Extremist character. Example is Makubex from Get Backers. And if she doesn't play boys, she plays Action Girl types, like Jun from the Mazinkaiser OAV.
- One curious case is Masami Kikuchi. He was pigeonholed for years as the Unlucky Everydude / Harem Cast Lead types (like Keiichi Morisato in Ah! My Goddess) and got to play against type in the course of a series saga. Compare his Jou Kido to his Rob McCoy aka "Dolphin" and his Akihiko Kurata. And then compare these to his Hiroshi Wakato from The Prince of Tennis...
- Yukari Tamura seems destined to be the go-to name for (usually loli) genki Magical Girls, with the title Fairy Musketeers and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. She has done several different roles (Mai Kawasumi in Kanon), but even if not magical, a large number of her characters tend to at least look somewhat loli (Sakura Yoshino in Da Capo, Mei Sunohara in CLANNAD, Ichigo Morino in Please Teacher!, Ink Nijihara in Moetan).
- Rika Furude is an inversion. She seems to play it straight for awhile, but eventually it becomes clear that there's more to her than meets the eye.
- And then there's Bernkastel, who is a Rogue Protagonist in Umineko: When They Cry, by virtue of her being the summation of all pre-Matsuribayashi-hen incarnations of Rika Furude.
- Marina Inoue when doing major roles is mostly cast in the Ojou role most of the time. While not always of the lady in fine dress theme, there is a generally air of being a woman with a duty. Examples are Yoko, Petra and Alicia. And did we mention that these characters are pretty handy with their guns?
- Most characters voiced by Nozomu Sasaki end up creepy or evil or both. These include characters like Tetsuo (and his very obvious Expy K9999), Mello, Olba Frost, Enishi Yukishiro, and the worst of them all... Johan Liebert. The only exception is Yuusuke Urameshi, but that's just ONE breakout role compared to his whole lot of... that type of character.
- Sasaki himself is probably another good example of someone who switched typecasts — he used to play a lot of sweet-voiced young boys and now does more creepy evil types. There were even rumors in Japan that he'd had some kind of surgery or injections to alter his voice. In Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which was made over a period of several years, try comparing Julian's voice at the beginning and end of the series to hear the 'change' (although arguably this could just be an example of acting, as the character had grown and matured).
- Isshin Chiba is mostly not-quite-so-active in anime. But when in video games, he has a lot of infamous roles, mostly as someone who is a Jerkass, or has an evil side. Including Albel Nox from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Melfice from Grandia II, Jedah Dohma from Darkstalkers and even Jin Kazama from Tekken, who has currently embraced his evil side. And, of course, who could forget that he was the voice of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's Dio "ZA WARUDO" "WRRRYYYYYY!!!" Brando in Jojos Bizarre Adventure Heritage For The Future, the game that served to introduce anime fans to JoJo long before the 2012 anime?
- Need a Tsundere Idol? Try Sakura Nogawa, often her roles will interlace with something idol related, famous roles includes Tsundere Tsubomi from Strawberry Panic!, Shiho from My-HiME and being one of Gust (Creator of the Atelier Series) newest talent to rely on. She has been cast in every Ar tonelico series so far.
- Kouji Tsujitani is known for his roles within being a Chivalrous Pervert and having one Star-Crossed Lovers too many (mostly unintentional). Examples of characters of exhibiting either trait include Bernard Wiseman, Seabook Arno, Azai Nagamasa and Miroku. He has other roles as well, but these comes to a troper's mind first when they think about this actor.
- Yuki Matsuoka is known for voicing extremely weird and eccentric characters such as Osaka and Orihime Inoue from Bleach. On the other hand, she voiced characters that are very much loved by the fandom such as Osaka and Haruhi Suzumiya's Tsuruya.
- Ami Koshimizu may have versatile voice styles, but she often has a consistent fanservice and humorously ecchi feeling to her roles that she plays. Kallen Stadtfeld and Ryuuko Matoi are prime examples of this.
- Kenichi Suzumura plays a lot characters whom knows or have the worst luck examples are Strawberry 100% and Gundam SEED Destiny, don't feel bad though, at least the VA gets to be quite close with Hitomi Nabatame... His characters also tend to be very loud, childish or rude and scream a lot (think Shinn Asuka in SEED Destiny or Chika Akatsuki in Zombie Loan)
- Hiro Shimono most notable typecast as a lead is seen as a somewhat meek person with a good sense of artist touch within him. His characters are usually pretty good at art or something culturally creative. Ayato Kamina is one such example.
- He also tends to voice characters that tend to get abused a lot such as Tadashi Karino, Akihisa Yoshii and Keima Katsuragi.
- Miyu Irino seems to be cast as an Unlucky Everydude who also have high chances of being a Woobie or a Scrappy. Case in point being Syaoran from Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, Saji from Gundam 00, Tomoharu from Asura Cryin', Kou from Cross Game, Tsutomu from Birdy the Mighty: Decode and Zwei from Phantom~Requiem for the Phantom~. Just note that his romantic interests tends to end up dead or horribly maimed.
- Ryūzaburō Ōtomo's voice is more often than not linked with villainous characters with an already-imposing stature, such as Sir Crocodile, Dabura, Tetsu Ushio in the first season of the Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vamdemon, Uka-Uka, Astaroth, The Terminator, and... Mr. Freeze?
- Satoshi Hino seems to be one of the go-to guys for Ordinary High-School Student types who get overshadowed by his female companions. Let's see: Yuji Sakai, Saito Hiraga, Koukin Shuyu, and Yuuri Mito.
- Kana Hanazawa is one of the best choices for timid, kind, if somewhat fragile, female characters such as Nadeko Sengoku, Anri Sonohara, Shiori Shiomiya and Kosaki Onodera. Though she has played against this on occasion, such as Mikan Yuuki in To Love Ru or Zange in Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, a great lot of her characters end up falling into the main type. She also falls in The Woobie typecast with Tenshi and Suou in Angel Beats! and Darker than Black.
- She also tends to voice Genki Girls such as Nessa, Rana Linchen and Mitsuri Kanroji.
- Aki Toyosaki got her start playing bubbly, somewhat ditzy female characters with Amuro in Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho, and hasn't really left it since. Roles such as Tomo in Seikon No Qwaser, Suu in Shugo Chara!, Ristarte in The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, and, above all, Yui in K-On! are good examples of this characterization.
- Yōko Hikasa, taking off from her Star-Making Role as K-On!'s Shrinking Violet Mio Akiyama, has been pigeonholed into girls with long black hair (and sometimes a Hime Cut), but not necessarily as shy as Mio, such as Seraphim ( Is This A Zombie?), Houki Shinonono (Infinite Stratos), Maya Kumashiro (Occult Academy) and Shino Amakusa (Seitokai Yakuindomo). Seen here
◊. Many roles of hers are excellent swordswomen as well, such as Houki and Seraphim as mentioned above, as well as Junko Hattori (Demon King Daimao), Maria Cadenzavna Eve (Symphogear), Weiss Schnee (RWBY), and Erica Blandelli (Campione!). - Wataru Takagi is commonly typecast as any form of Gangster/Delinquent and other forms of the dregs of society. Naturally, this often gets him into villain roles, such as Horada in Durarara!!, Chaka in Black Lagoon or Tobi in Naruto. However, he may also play the converted Delinquent such as Aoki in Hajime no Ippo or the Great Teacher Onizuka himself.
- Hiroaki Hirata has lamented that, after ten years building a reputation as anime's "pirate seiyuu," (Sanji, Benny, Balthier, Captain Jack Sparrow, etc.), it took exactly one role (Kotetsu T. Kaburagi from Tiger & Bunny) for him to lose this title and instead become known as the "oyaji seiyuu."
- Chiaki Takahashi is mostly known for her roles as Ms. Fanservice (occasionally overlapping with Cool Big Sis) or the one who is considered sexiest on the cast, considering she is a gravure idol. However, in a subversion, the personalities of her characters could differ from ditzy (Azusa), kind and nurturing, if conflicted (Litchi), utterly flirtatious (Haineko), and... well a lot more, but they always held the 'Sexy' part well.
- Yūki Kaji mostly known for voicing any unlucky person and Ineffectual Loner person, but intelligent, kind hearted and always careful. However, the character's life that he voiced was changed after he met a mysterious, but special girl. For example Haruyuki Arita, Haruaki Yachi, Amata Sora, and last, but not least, Shu Ouma.
- He also tends to get pigeonholed as "Hot-Blooded male lead who can SCREAM HIS HEAD OFF". Such as Eren Yaegar, Alibaba, Issei, and Johnny Joestar (in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven).
- Shigeru Chiba tends to be heard as either The Narrator, Hot-Blooded characters, goofball types, villains, or even a mixture of some of those.
- Issei Futamata's most common roles tend to fall along two types. One usual type would be him being cast as squeaky-voiced nerds and/or generally unlucky young men (that may or may not also be a bit unstable). The other common typecasting involves him voicing random mooks and corrupt businessmen, or other villains just as sleazy.
- You can assume any character voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa is totally badass. Whether good, evil, young, old, funny, Bishounen or Gonk, they are badass. Dante, Mr. Chang, Tekkaman Blade, Kaname Tousen, Ryu, Shishiwakamaru, Kimimaro, Tyki Mikk, Sephiroth, Katakura Kojuro, Ugo, Jirou, Obi-Wan, Neo etc. Also, he plays the badass fathers or father-figures of heroes, e.g. Minato Namikaze, Isshin Kurosaki, or Isaburou Sasaki.
- The Big Bads he plays are not only badass, but also extremely evil, like Griffith/Femto, Naraku, Gohyan, Yukio Oikawa, Bellial Vamdemon, the aforementioned Sephiroth, Yoshikage Kira or Enel.
- Nao Tōyama tends to play bubbly and somewhat ditzy girls such as Kanon Nakagawa, Chiho Sasaki, Karen Kujo, Yui Yuigahama, and the Kongou sisters.
- Rina Hidaka's name is often associated with young girls. Compare Enju, Yuniko, Last Order, Silica, and most of the Mutsuki-class Destroyers.
- Kōki Uchiyama is often associated for playing snarky and aloof young boys.
- Nobuhiko Okamoto who is associated with loud and wild characters with screaming as their hobbies, most notably Bakugo from My Hero Academia and Ghiaccio from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind.
- What does Kirito, Tooru Kokonoe, Bell Cranel, and Sora have in common? They are all Nice Guy protagonists in Harem Genre light novels voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka.
- Need Cool Big Sis which will look after the girls in the Schoolgirl Series, the delightful The Ace Love Interest in the school comedy, or the Girly Girl protagonist for your Reverse Harem work? Saori Hayami can perfectly handle this, especially if you need to sing well for the role.
- The vast majority of characters voiced by Takehito Koyasu are either villains (Zeke Yeager and Zato-One), campy and effeminate (Roswaal, Excalibur, Prince Bon, and Sister), or both (Nobuyuki Sugou/Oberon, Clayman, Mephistopheles, and of course, Dio Brando in the David Production JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime).
- Jun'ichi Suwabe tends to voice cool, gruff badasses like Archer, Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, Shota Aizawa, and Yami Sukehiro.
- While Aoi Yūki has a wide vocal range, she does tend to be typecast as quirky Badass Adorables or Action Girls who oftentimes possess overpowered abilities such as Hibiki Tachibana, Tsuyu Asui, Kumoko, Madoka Kaname, and Tatsumaki. On a lesser note, she also gets typecast as Delicate and Sickly ones who nonetheless can be Silk Hiding Steel if the situation calls for it, such as Yuuki, Okita Souji, and Lysithea Von Ordelia.
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