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| 2 | Gregory Scott Ayres (December 7, 1968 in Richmond, Virginia, USA) is an American voice actor best-known for voicing anime characters such as Kaoru from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', Sunohara from ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', Ganta from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' and Nishinoya from ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}''. Ayres started out as [[PromotedFanboy a fanboy of anime]] who was mentioned to ADV film directors. |
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| 4 | With his [[DyeHard constantly color-changing hair]], this VA has attended many anime conventions as a guest, and countless others as a fan. However, in February 2009, Greg suffered a mild heart attack while attending [=IkkiCon=] in Austin, Texas, which some have attributed to his near non-stop schedule. Greg Ayres is recognized not only for his dub work in popular anime, but also for his multi-talented and charismatic personality at anime conventions. Occasionally his surname is listed as [[InconsistentSpelling Ayers instead of Ayres]], however this spelling is incorrect as his legal name is "Gregory Ayres". |
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| 6 | At most conventions he typically holds a panel on [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil why fansubs hurt the anime industry]]. He is also known for being a DJ at dances and raves that conventions host. |
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| 8 | Greg has enjoyed playing Kaworu Nagisa from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and has said that he is one of his favorite characters. |
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| 10 | His older brother, the late Creator/ChrisAyres was also a voice actor/director. |
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| 12 | Due to distinctive high-pitch voice (which is unusual for a man in his 50s), he is often [[PigeonholedVoiceActor cast as young boys]], often either {{Butt Monkey}}s, cute little boys, or {{Kid Hero}}es. In fact, his voice is high-pitched enough to voice young boys that can be as young as ''8-years-old''. |
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| 15 | !!Notable roles from Greg Ayres: |
| 16 | * ''VideoGame/{{A3}}'' - Sakuya Sakuma |
| 17 | * ''Manga/AirGear'' - Onigiri |
| 18 | * ''Anime/AkibasTrip'' - Naisu Muramura |
| 19 | * ''Anime/AngelBeats'' - Ayato Naoi |
| 20 | * ''Literature/{{Another}}'' - Kouichi Sakakibara |
| 21 | * ''Manga/AoharuXMachinegun'' - Midori Nagamasa |
| 22 | * ''Manga/BGataHKei'' - Kosuda's God of Sex |
| 23 | * ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' - Kouta Tsuchiya |
| 24 | * ''Anime/BattleGirlsTimeParadox'' - Shiro |
| 25 | * ''Manga/{{BECK|1999}}'' - Yukio 'Koyuki' Tanaka |
| 26 | * ''Manga/BigWindup'' - Takaya Abe |
| 27 | * ''Manga/BlackCat'' - Shiki |
| 28 | * ''Manga/BlackClover'' - Neige |
| 29 | * ''Literature/BodaciousSpacePirates'' - San Daime |
| 30 | * ''Anime/{{Chihayafuru}}'': Yūsei Nishida (and his sister) |
| 31 | * ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' - Chrono |
| 32 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' - Youhei Sunohara |
| 33 | * ''Literature/CoffinPrincessChaika'' - Ricardo Gavarni |
| 34 | * ''Manga/CorpsePrincess'' - Black Cat |
| 35 | * ''Literature/ChromeShelledRegios'' - Harley Sutton |
| 36 | * ''Anime/DanganronpaTheAnimation'' and ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' - Monokuma |
| 37 | * ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart'' - Kenta Kanzaki |
| 38 | * ''Anime/DeadmanWonderland'' - Ganta Igarashi |
| 39 | * ''Anime/DevilSurvivor2'' - Daichi Shijima |
| 40 | * ''VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers'' - Azusa Mukami |
| 41 | * ''Manga/DNAngel'' - Satoshi Hiwatari |
| 42 | * ''Anime/DragonballZKai'' - Guldo |
| 43 | * ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' - Frost |
| 44 | * ''VisualNovel/DramaticalMurder'' - Clear |
| 45 | * ''Manga/{{Drifters}}'' - Minamoto no Yoshitsune |
| 46 | * ''[[VisualNovel/EfAFairyTaleOfTheTwo ef ~ a tale of memories]]'' - Hiro Hirono |
| 47 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'' - Sho |
| 48 | * ''Anime/{{Free}}'' - Nagisa Hazuki |
| 49 | * ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld'' - Satoru Asahina |
| 50 | * ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003''[=/=]''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' - Bido |
| 51 | * ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' - Shinji Kazama |
| 52 | * ''Manga/GetterRobo'' - Dr. Shikishima |
| 53 | * ''Anime/GhostStories'' - Leo Kakinoki |
| 54 | * ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' - Kamui |
| 55 | * ''Anime/{{Godannar}}'' - Shinobu Saruwatari |
| 56 | * ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' - Kenji Kido |
| 57 | * ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'' - Yu Nishinoya |
| 58 | * ''Manga/HakkendenEightDogsOfTheEast'' - Shino Inuzuka and Murasame |
| 59 | * ''Manga/HaventYouHeardImSakamoto'' - Yoshinobu Kubota |
| 60 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Hakuouki}}'' - Heisuke Toudou |
| 61 | * ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'' - Tomoki Sakurai |
| 62 | * ''Literature/HeavensMemoPad'' - Major |
| 63 | * ''Anime/HeroicAge'' - Mehitak Pore |
| 64 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers: The Beautiful World'' - Denmark ([[TheOtherDarrin replacing]] Montgomery Sutton) |
| 65 | * ''Manga/InitialD'' - Kenta Nakamura |
| 66 | * ''Manga/InuXBokuSS'' - Banri Watanuki |
| 67 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' (2006 series) - Jun Kitagawa |
| 68 | * ''Manga/{{Karneval}}'' - Gareki |
| 69 | * ''Manga/{{Kodocha}}'' - Tsuyoshi [[strike:Ohki]] Sasaki |
| 70 | * ''Literature/KokoroConnect'' - Taichi Yaegashi |
| 71 | * ''Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing'' - Dio Eraclea |
| 72 | * ''Literature/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'' - Fiole Folkal |
| 73 | * ''[[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Legend of the Mystical Ninja / Anime Ganbare Goemon]]'' - Sasuke, Hatarino |
| 74 | * ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' - [[PlayingAgainstType Masato]] [[DumbMuscle Inohara]] |
| 75 | * ''Literature/LogHorizon'' - Touya |
| 76 | * ''Literature/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'' - Makoto Isshiki |
| 77 | * ''Manga/LoveStage''- Izumi Sena |
| 78 | * ''Manga/{{Magikano}}'' - Hajime Hario |
| 79 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' - Koji Koda |
| 80 | * ''Manga/MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok'' - Heimdall |
| 81 | * ''[[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi Negima!]]'' and ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'' - Negi Springfield |
| 82 | * ''Manga/NanakaSixSeventeen'' - Yoshida |
| 83 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' - [[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionKaworuNagisa Kaworu Nagisa]] (Director's Cut only) |
| 84 | ** ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' - Kensuke Aida |
| 85 | * ''Anime/NerimaDaikonBrothers'' - Hideki |
| 86 | * ''Anime/NightRaid1931'' - Aoi Miyoshi |
| 87 | * ''Anime/NobunagaTheFool'' - UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi |
| 88 | * ''Literature/{{No 6}}'' - Sion |
| 89 | * ''Anime/OhEdoRocket'' - Seikichi Tamaya |
| 90 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'' - Cabaji the Acrobat, Sentomaru |
| 91 | * ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' - Kaoru Hitachiin |
| 92 | * ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' - Jaw |
| 93 | * ''Literature/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' - Sorata Kanda |
| 94 | * ''Anime/PhiBrainPuzzleOfGod'' - Rook Banjo Crossfield |
| 95 | * ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'' - Mannen |
| 96 | * ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' - Son Goku |
| 97 | * ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' - Heihachi Hayashida |
| 98 | * ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara: Samurai Kings'' - Uesugi Kenshin |
| 99 | * ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' - Keisaku Sato (season 2 onwards) |
| 100 | * ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'' - Machspeed |
| 101 | * ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' - Tsujido |
| 102 | * ''Manga/{{Spiral}}'' - Kousuke Asazuki |
| 103 | * ''Anime/SSSSGridman'' - Sho Utsumi |
| 104 | * ''Anime/SuperGals'' - Yuya Asou |
| 105 | * ''VisualNovel/TearsToTiara'' - Rathy |
| 106 | * ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' - Tommyrod |
| 107 | * ''Anime/ToukenRanbuHanamaru'' - Kogarasumaru |
| 108 | * ''Literature/TrinityBlood'' - Alessandro XVIII |
| 109 | * ''Literature/TheVexationsOfAShutInVampirePrincess'' - Mellaconcey |
| 110 | * ''Manga/TheWallflower'' - Yukinojoh Tohyama |
| 111 | * ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' - Kaoru Yamazaki |
| 112 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Xenosaga: The Animation]]'' - Gaignun Kukai, Jr. |
| 113 | ---- |
| 114 | !!Tropes associated with Greg Ayres: |
| 115 | * CrossdressingVoices: Averted. His high-pitch allows him to voice young boys as young as 8-years-old. In fact, some of the young boy roles he gets are voiced by a woman in the Japanese dub. |
| 116 | ** But played straight with [[spoiler:[[VisualNovel/TearsToTiara Rathy]]. Although to be fair, director Matt Greenfield and even Ayres himself mistakes Rathy as a boy]]. |
| 117 | ** Played straight in ''Anime/{{Chihayafuru}}'', where he not only voices Yūsei Nishida , but also his older sister. |
| 118 | * DyeHard: Does this in every convention. |
| 119 | * PigeonholedVoiceActor: This is somewhat {{Zig Zagg|ingTrope}}ed. He's been cast as characters with nearly every personality under the sun, but as mentioned, because of his unusual high-pitch voice for a man, he is often casted into young boys or baby-faced men. He's also been frequently cast as the bratty, egotistical, and at times ButtMonkey best friend of the main protagonist. |
| 120 | * PlayingAgainstType: Guldo from ''Anime/DragonballZKai'' is a villain. Masato Inohara from ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' is a [[DumbMuscle tall, muscular, idiotic]] ButtMonkey. Kazama from ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' is a tall, charismatic and HotBlooded {{Bishonen}}. |
| 121 | ** There's also Hajime Muroto from ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' while said character is a teenager, he is also a psychotic serial killer and a rapist. |
| 122 | ** To an extent, there's also Chrono from ''Manga/ChronoCrusade''. While Chrono's regular appearance is of a sweet, mild-mannered young teen, his true form is a powerful demon who speaks in a much deeper register than Ayres is usually cast as playing. |
| 123 | * QueerCharacterQueerActor: As a gay person himself, he voiced the bisexual Izumi Sena from ''Manga/LoveStage''. |
| 124 | %%* PromotedFanboy |
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