is a Japanese voice actor

Seiyu

Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and...

 who is affiliated with 81 Produce

81 Produce

is a voice talent management firm in Japan. The company's Director of Business Development, Rihoko Yoshida, is a former voice actress herself . A hybrid CD-ROM featuring voice talent data for members of 81 Produce was released on 19 October, 1997. The company is located Shibuya, Tokyo....

 (junior). Until the age of 18, he resided abroad in Düsseldorf, Germany.
He is currently affiliated with "Kiramune" in 2010, a music label by Bandai Visual Co., Ltd. and Lantis (company)

Lantis (company)

is a Japanese company that specializes as a music publisher label for Japanese musicians, anime soundtracks and video game soundtracks. It was established on November 26, 1999, and in May 2006, it was bought by, and became a subsidiary of, Bandai Visual...

, where he debuted with his first mini album 'Still on Journey' with 6 original tracks.

Kakihara is fluent in German and Japanese and near-fluent in English. He knows five languages: German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

, English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, and Latin. He is the only Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese person to voice a device in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's

is a thirteen episode sequel to Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, a magical girl alternate universe spinoff of the Triangle Heart series of games and OVAs. A third series, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, was released in 2007...

, with the German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

-speaking devices Lævateinn and Graf Eisen.

Anime

• Ah! My Goddess (as Male Student (ep 22))
• Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy )as Male Student (ep 8))
• Ao no Exorcist
  Ao no Exorcist
  is a manga written and illustrated by Kazue Kato. The manga has been serialized in Jump Square magazine by Shueisha since April 2009, with individual chapters collected into six tankōbon volumes as of April 4, 2011. The one-shot of the manga was first featured in the September 2008 issue of Jump...
  
   (Amaimon)
• Beyblade: Metal Fusion
  Beyblade: Metal Fusion
  Beyblade: Metal Fusion, known formally as , its Japanese name, is a Japanese manga production by Takafumi Adachi. It is also an anime production based on the original. It is currently being serialized by the monthly CoroCoro Comic ....
  
   (Hyōma)
• Bleach
  Bleach (manga)
  is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Noriaki "Tite" Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a —a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki...
  
   (Ggio Vega)
• Brave10 (Sarutobi Sasuke)
• Digimon Xros Wars: Time Traveling Hunter Boys (Ryōma Mogami)
• Cross Game
  Cross Game
  is a romantic comedy baseball manga series by Mitsuru Adachi that was serialized by Shogakukan in Weekly Shōnen Sunday between 11 May 2005 and 17 February 2010 . It is collected in 17 tankōbon volumes, with the final volume published in April 2010, shortly after the end of the anime series...
  
   (Mizuki Asami)
• Doki Doki School Hours
  Doki Doki School Hours
  is a four panel manga series and anime series by Tamami Momose.Sensei no Ojikan was serialised in Bamboo Comics from 1997, published by Takeshobō. A 13 episode anime TV series adaptation was created by J.C.Staff. It was aired on TV Tokyo from April 4, 2004 to June 27, 2004, A 7 episode OVA, Sensei...
  
   (Koro-chan)
• Dog Days
  Dog Days (anime)
  is a 2011 Japanese fantasy anime television series created by Masaki Tsuzuki and produced by Seven Arcs and Aniplex under the direction of Keizo Kusakawa. The series aired on Tokyo MX and other channels from April 2, 2011 to June 25, 2011...
  
   (Gaul Galette des Rois)
• Dragonaut - The Resonance (Kazuki Tachibana)
• Fairy Tail
  Fairy Tail
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 23, 2006, and has been published by Kodansha in 29 tankōbon volumes . An ongoing anime produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight was released in Japan on October 12, 2009,...
  
   (Natsu Dragneel, Natsu Dragion)
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Kain Fuery)
• Fushigiboshi no Futagohime
  Fushigiboshi no Futagohime
  is a 2005 Japanese animated television show produced by Junichi Sato with character designs by Birthday. Following Birthday's original concept in 2003, it was taken by Nihon Ad Systems and TV Tokyo and was reproduced into a full-length series in 2005...
  
   (Bright)
• Ga-Rei Zero (Masaki Shindou)
• Hanasakeru Seishōnen
  Hanasakeru Seishōnen
  is a manga series written and illustrated by Natsumi Itsuki. Set in the modern era, the story follows the path to romance of fourteen-year-old Kajika Burnsworth, daughter of powerful industrialist Harry Burnsworth, owner of the Burnsworth international conglomerate giant...
  
   (Toranosuke V Haga)
• Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri (Wish/Chris)
• Kannagi
  Kannagi (manga)
  , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eri Takenashi. The manga began serialization in the January 2006 issue of Ichijinsha's shōnen manga magazine Comic Rex. Six tankōbon volumes have been released in Japan. A 13-episode anime adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures aired between...
  
   (Meguru Akiba)
• Kaichou wa Maid-sama (Gouki Aratake)
• Lilpri
  Lilpri
  Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri , also known as Lilpri, is a Japanese shōjo anime directed by Makoto Moriwaki. The anime was adapted from the Sega arcade game of the same name.-Plot:...
  
   (Wish)
• Linebarrels of Iron
  Linebarrels of Iron
  is a Japanese manga series created by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi. The series was first serialized in Akita Shoten's monthly shōnen manga magazine, Champion Red, in 2005. It has since been compiled into eleven tankōbon, as of November 20, 2008...
  
   (Kouichi Hayase)
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's
  Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's
  is a thirteen episode sequel to Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, a magical girl alternate universe spinoff of the Triangle Heart series of games and OVAs. A third series, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, was released in 2007...
  
   (Lævateinn, Graf Eisen, Randy)
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
  Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers
  is the third season of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series. The Nanoha anime was, in turn, a spin-off of the Triangle Heart series of games and OVAs, specifically Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever...
  
   (Lævateinn, Graf Eisen, Strada)
• Metal Fight Beyblade (Hyouma)
• Minami-ke
  Minami-ke
  is a Japanese manga series by Koharu Sakuraba, who also authored Kyō no Go no Ni. It was first serialized in the weekly Japanese manga magazine Young Magazine in 2004. The slice of life comedy focuses on the everyday life of three sisters: Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki Minami. The manga was adapted into...
  
   (Fujioka)
• Monkey Typhoon
  Monkey Typhoon
  is a Japanese manga written by Tadashi Agi and illustrated by Romu Aoi. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 2001 and 2002....
  
   (Announcer)
• Moshidora
  Moshidora
  , full title , is a 2009 Japanese business novel by Natsumi Iwasaki. It follows high school girl Minami Kawashima who manages her school's baseball team using Peter Drucker's Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices to rally her dispirited teammates...
  
   (Keiichirō Asano)
• Nabari no Ō
  Nabari no O
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuhki Kamatani. The series premiered in Japan in Monthly GFantasy in 2004 ended serialization in 2010. Square Enix is also publishing the individual chapters in collected volumes with fourteen volumes released as of February 2011. The series has...
  
   (Sōrō Katō)
• Nepos Napos (Timo)
• Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Shima Jiro)
• Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan: Demon Capital (Shima Jiro)
• Pokémon
  Pokémon (anime)
  , abbreviated from , is a children's TV anime series, which has since been adapted for the North and South American, Australian and European television markets...
  
  : Diamond and Pearl (Reiji)
• Princess Princess
  Princess Princess (manga)
  is the title of a fictional series written and illustrated by Japanese author Mikiyo Tsuda about the lives of three high school boys and the school they attend. The series is contained within multiple media pieces which began as a manga first serialized in the manga magazine Wings starting in 2002...
  
   (Yutaka Mikoto)
• Prism Ark
  Prism Ark
  is a Japanese erotic video game and the sequel of Prism Heart developed by Pajamas Soft. Its first release was on August 25, 2006. This work contains adult-only content of a sexual nature....
  
   (Hyaweh)
• Romeo x Juliet
  Romeo x Juliet
  is a TV anime series, loosely based on William Shakespeare's classical play, Romeo and Juliet, along with numerous references and characters from other Shakespearean plays. Though the anime borrows mostly from Shakespeare's story, the manga adaptation differs extensively from the original...
  
   (Mercutio)
• Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas
  Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas
  , also known as simply The Lost Canvas, is a manga by Japanese author Shiori Teshirogi, a spin-off based on the manga series Saint Seiya, which was created, written and illustrated by Japanese author Masami Kurumada...
  
   (Pegasus Tenma)
• Shangri-La
  Shangri-La (novel)
  is a Japanese science fiction light novel, written by Eiichi Ikegami and illustrated by Ken'ichi Yoshida. The novel was initially serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine between April 2004 and May 2005. The chapters were collected into a single bound volume on September 23, 2005, and was...
  
   (MEDUSA)
• Sket Dance
  Sket Dance
  is a manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara and serialized, beginning in July 2007, in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. Sket Dance won the 55th annual Shogakukan Manga Award in 2009 for best shōnen manga...
  
   (Masafumi Usui)
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Simon
  Simon (Gurren Lagann)
  is the central protagonist of the anime and manga series, Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann. He begins the story as a short, unassuming and lonely young boy, but grows up to be a tall, commanding and well-loved young man. To many more, he is a legendary hero who overcomes impossible odds and great...
  
  )

Game

• Amnesia
  Amnesia
  Amnesia is a condition in which one's memory is lost. The causes of amnesia have traditionally been divided into categories. Memory appears to be stored in several parts of the limbic system of the brain, and any condition that interferes with the function of this system can cause amnesia...
  
   (Shin)
• Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana
  Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana
  is a console role-playing game developed by Japanese developer Gust for the PlayStation 2. This game is the first of the Atelier Iris saga to be released on the PS2. The Atelier strategy RPGs have been released on various consoles in Japan since 1997...
  
   (Klein Kiesling)
• Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm (Alvero Kronie)
• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
  BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
  is a fighting game developed by Arc System Works. The game's name is a portmanteau of "blaze" and "blue," with the "z" sound omitted in the Japanese pronunciation, rendering it similar to the word "brave" in pronunciation....
  
   (Jin Kisaragi/Hakumen)
• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
  BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
  is a 2-D fighting game developed by Arc System Works. The game is the official sequel to BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. As with the previous game, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift first came to arcades before both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions as the game was currently released for the Taito Type...
  
   (Jin Kisaragi/Hakumen/Alternate Announcer)
• Corpse Party BloodCovered: ...Repeated Fear
  Corpse Party
  is a horror adventure dōjin soft video game series developed by Team GrisGris. The first game in the series was developed using the RPG Maker software and released in 1996 for the PC-9801...
  
   (Sakutarō Morishige)
• Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
  Corpse Party
  is a horror adventure dōjin soft video game series developed by Team GrisGris. The first game in the series was developed using the RPG Maker software and released in 1996 for the PC-9801...
  
   (Sakutarō Morishige)
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII
  Final Fantasy Versus XIII
  is an upcoming action role-playing game published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and currently being developed by the company's 1st Production Department. Alongside Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Final Fantasy Type-0, the game is a part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis Final...
  
   (Prompto)
• Garnet Cradle (Sairenji Rihito)
• Genso Suikoden Tierkreis (Ryu)
• Mega Man Star Force 3
  Mega Man Star Force 3
  Mega Man Star Force 3, known in Japan as , is a video game developed by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It was released in Japan on November 13, 2008 and in United States on June 30, 2009. The game was released with two versions: and...
  
   (A.C.Eos/Ace)
• Mega Man Zero 4
  Mega Man Zero 4
  Mega Man Zero 4, known in Japan as in Japan, is a video game developed by Inti Creates and Natsume and published by Capcom for the Game Boy Advance handheld. It is the fourth and final title in the Mega Man Zero subseries of the Mega Man franchise. The game is set several months after the events...
  
   (Fenri Lunaedge)
• Seiken Densetsu 4 (Eldy)
• Solatorobo (Red Savarin)
• Suikoden Tierkreis
  Suikoden Tierkreis
  Suikoden Tierkreis, originally released in Japan as , is a role-playing video game for the Nintendo DS developed and published by Konami as part of their Suikoden series. Originally released in December 2008 for Japanese audiences, the game was made available in English in Europe and North America...
  
   (Liu)
• Tales of Hearts
  Tales of Hearts
  is the eleventh mothership title in the Tales series exclusively for the Nintendo DS, which was released on December 18, 2008 in Japan. Tales of Hearts characteristic genre name is...
  
   (Shing Meteoryte)
• Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3
  Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3
  is a sixth entry in the Tales of the World series, and the third entry in the Radiant Mythology series. Like other games in the series, it features a group of characters from various Tales games.-Job Classes:...
  
   (Shing Meteoryte)
• Zettai Meikyuu Grimm (Akazukin)

OVA/Movies

• Fairy Tail
  Fairy Tail
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 23, 2006, and has been published by Kodansha in 29 tankōbon volumes . An ongoing anime produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight was released in Japan on October 12, 2009,...
  
   (Natsu Dragneel)
• Kara no Kyōkai: Paradox Spiral
  Kara no Kyokai
  is a Japanese novel series, authored by Kinoko Nasu and illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi. It is also known under the nickname . Its subtitle is The Garden of Sinners.-History:...
  
   (Tomoe Enjō)
• Kowarekake no Orgel
  Kowarekake no Orgel
  Kowarekake no Orgel is a one-episode Japanese dōjin anime original video animation produced by ElectromagneticWave and directed by Keiichiro Kawaguchi. It originally debuted on December 28, 2008 in the Comic Market 75 dōjin convention...
  
   (Keiichirō)
• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
  Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
  is a novel by popular Japanese author Harutoshi Fukui . The novel takes place in Gundam's Universal Century timeline. Character and mechanical designs are provided by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Hajime Katoki, respectively...
  
   (Angelo Sauper)
• Naruto Shippuden: The Movie (Kusuna)
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Gurren-hen (Simon)
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Lagann-hen (Simon)
• Vexille
  Vexille
  is a 2007 Japanese CGI anime film, written, directed, and edited by famed Ping Pong director Fumihiko Sori, and features the voices of Meisa Kuroki, Yasuko Matsuyuki, and Shosuke Tanihara....
  
   (Taro)

Dubbing

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series)
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series)
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American animated series, mainly set in New York City. It first aired on February 8, 2003 and ended on November 21, 2009...
  
   (Leonardo
  Leonardo (TMNT)
  Leonardo is a fictional character that appears in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media.In the Mirage comics all four turtles wear red bandanas, but in other versions, he wears a blue bandana. His signature weapons are two ninjaken , which are universally referred to as...
  
  )
• The Great Discovery
  The Great Discovery
  The Great Discovery is a 2008 film and feature spin-off of the TV series, Thomas and Friends. The film is a follow up, not a direct sequel to Thomas and the Magic Railroad and a sequel to Calling All Engines! The DVD was released on September 9 2008 in the United States and October 6 2008 in the...
  
   (Henry the Green Engine
  Henry the Green Engine
  Henry the Green Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic 4-6-0 steam locomotive from The Railway Series books written by the Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry, and the spin-off children's television series, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.Henry lives on the fictitious...
  
  )
• ThunderCats (2011 TV series)
  ThunderCats (2011 TV series)
  ThunderCats is an American animated television series executive produced by Sam Register, and produced by Ethan Spaulding and Michael Jelenic and is a reboot of the original series by Tobin "Ted" Wolf. It is produced by Warner Bros. Animation with animation provided by the Japanese Studio 4°C.The...
  
   (Lion-O, Leo)
• Total Drama (series)
  Total Drama (series)
  Total Drama is a Canadian animated television series that parodies reality television, with the characters consisting of the eponymous fictional reality series and the contestants therein. All of the contestants have distinct personalities that serve as a main plot point...
  
  (Geoff)

Music

Tetsuya released his mini-debut album, "Still on Journey, on November 24, 2010, which is produced by Kiramune Project.
He will also be releasing his Second Mini-Album (title to be announced), on February 15, 2012, which is also produced by Kiramune Project.

He also did live performances (my life my time, Electric Monster, and Endless Journey) for the Kiramune Live Music Festival in 2010, in which a DVD have already been released on February 25, 2011.
He will also attend next year's Kiramune Live Music Festival 2012, which will be held on March 17 & 18, 2012 in Japan.

External links

• Kiramune Music Festival 2012 (Japanese)
• @Kiramune(キラミューン)- Lantis -Music Profile (Japanese)
• Tetsuya Kakihara at 81 Produce (Japanese)
• Official Blog