Tetsuya Kakihara

Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原 徹也, Kakihara Tetsuya, born 24 December 1982) is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He was affiliated with 81 Produce before he became a freelancer in June 2013. He set up his own agency, Zynchro, in July 2014.Since 2010, Kakihara has been affiliated with Kiramune, a music label by Bandai Visual and Lantis, where he debuted as a singer with his first mini album, Still on Journey. His first single, "String of Pain", released on 6 February 2013, is the ending theme song to the anime Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East in which he also voices the main role of Shino Inuzuka. He has released two full albums, five mini albums, and six singles. His third single, "咲いちゃいな (Saichaina)", was released on 15 April 2015.Kakihara is well known for voicing roles as young boys with fiery personalities, like Natsu Dragneel from the anime Fairy Tail. He's also particularly well-known for voice acting in otome games, such as voicing Shin from the PSP game series Amnesia and K1-B0 from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. Kakihara is also active in BL (boys' love) Drama CDs and anime. Kakihara was fascinated by Japanese entertainment culture and decided to become a voice actor. In 2001, Kakihara went to the Amusement Media Academy (a vocational school for voice actors and artists) to study voice acting. While attending courses, he worked part-time jobs, and improved his Japanese through part-time school. He debuted as a professional voice actor in 2003.He was nominated for the "Best Male Newcomer/Rookie" award for his performance at the first Seiyu Awards in 2007.