Yoshimitsu Shimoyama

Yoshimitsu Shimoyama (下山 吉光, Shimoyama Yoshimitsu, born May 6, 1976 in Yokohama, Kanagawa) is a freelance Japanese voice actor. He used to be affiliated with 81 Produce from April 1997 to January 30, 2012. He married fellow voice actor Satomi Arai in 2008 and had a son with her two years later, though it took him until 2016 to publicly announce his marital status.

Shimoyama became aware of voice acting as a vocation after watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes for the first time in high school. After officially joining the industry in 1997, he became a novel narrator of the work that inspired him as well as several other titles penned by the original author Yoshiki Tanaka.

Throughout Shimoyama's voice acting career, he has taken on a variety of different roles due to his versatile pitch. A few of the characters voiced by him include Mukkuru in Utawarerumono, Lulubhu in Toriko, and Halfdan in Vinland Saga.

Works

 * Theodore - Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny
 * Motherglare - Fairy Tail; reprise of his role in the anime
 * Cao Ren, Zhang Bao, Zhang Zhao - Sangokushi Hadou
 * Tanba - Buddy Mission: BOND