Eric Vale

Eric Vale
Vale in 2021
Born
Christopher Eric Johnson

(1974-04-28) April 28, 1974 (age 50)
Occupations
  • Voice actor
  • director
  • writer
  • producer
Years active1999–present
AgentMary Collins[1]
Spouse
Alese Watson
​
(m. 2003)​
[2]
Children2[3]
Websitewww.therealericvale.com

Eric Vale (born Christopher Eric Johnson)[4] is an American voice actor featured in numerous English versions of Japanese anime series. Some of these include Yuki from Fruits Basket, Sanji from One Piece, Tomura Shigaraki from My Hero Academia, and Future Trunks from Dragon Ball Z.

Career

He is known for voicing Koichiro Iketani in the Initial D series, Trunks in the Dragon Ball series, Sanji in One Piece, Kogoro Akechi in Trickster, Keisuke Umehara in Big Windup!, Huey Laforet in Baccano!, Tobari Durandal Kumohira in Nabari no Ou, Jean Croce in Gunslinger Girl series, Kisumi Shigino in Free! series, Kakeru Ryuen in Classroom of the Elite, Solf J. Kimblee in Fullmetal Alchemist, Kazuma in Noragami series, Tsunenaga Tamaki in Deadman Wonderland, Qisha Tianling in Chaos Dragon, Akechi in Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace, Casshern in Casshern Sins, Hayato Kujo in Aquarion Logos, America and Canada in the Hetalia: Axis Powers series, Ferid Bathory in the Seraph of the End series, Yuki Sohma in Fruits Basket series, Tenko "Tomura Shigaraki" Shimura in My Hero Academia, Loke in Fairy Tail and Phoenix Wright from Ace Attorney.

Filmography

Anime

List of voice performances in anime
Year Title Role Crew role, notes Source[5]
1999–present Dragon Ball series Future Trunks, Adult Present Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer, Dr. Flappe Funimation dub
2001 YuYu Hakusho Sakyo, Rando, Kokoda Hatanaka
2002 Fruits Basket Yuki Soma also 2019 reboot [6]
2003 Blue Gender Yuji Kaido
2004 Fullmetal Alchemist Solf J. Kimblee
2005 Desert Punk Kanta Mizuno [7]
2005 Gunslinger Girl series Jean Croce
2006 Mamotte! Lollipop Zero Funimation dub [8]
2007 B't X Teppei Takamiya Illumitoon dub [9]
2007–present One Piece Sanji, World Tournament Announcer (Ep. 590) Funimation dub [10]
2007 School Rumble series Oji Karasuma [11]
2008 Hetalia: Axis Powers series America, Canada Funimation dub [12]
2009 Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple Hermit Season 2 only [13]
2009 D.Gray-man Arystar Krory III also Hallow [14]
2009 Nabari no Ou Tobari Durandal Kumohira [15]
2009 Spice and Wolf Weiz [16]
2010 Initial D Koichiro Iketani Funimation dub [17]
2010 Soul Eater Justin Law
2010 Casshern Sins Casshern [18]
2011 Dance in the Vampire Bund Akira Kaburagi Regendorf Credited as Alpha Lagrange [19]
2011 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Solf J. Kimblee
2011–2019 Fairy Tail Loke [20]
2012 Deadman Wonderland Tsunenaga Tamaki [21]
2012 Is This a Zombie? King of the Night [22]
2013 We Without Wings Hariu Kurodo [23]
2013 Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero Akatsuki Ousawa [24]
2013 Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing Victor [25]
2013 Maken-ki! Battling Venus series Akaya Kodai [26]
2014 Ghost in the Shell: Arise Tsumugi [27]
2014 Jormungand series Kasper Hekmatyar [28]
2014 Robotics;Notes Ko Kimijima [29]
2014–2018 Tokyo Ghoul Nishiki Nishio [30]
2014 Attack on Titan Luke Cis season 1 [31]
2014 Sengoku Basara: Judge End Keiji Maeda [32]
2015 Death Parade Takashi Eps. 1-2 [33]
2015 Gangsta Barry Abbott Eps. 1, 4 [34]
2015 Noragami Kazuma [35]
2015 Ping Pong: The Animation Egami [36]
2015 Prison School Takehito "Gakuto" Morokuzu [37]
2015 Seraph of the End Ferid Bathory [38]
2015 Yona of the Dawn Sinha [39]
2016 Aquarion Logos Hayato Kujo [40]
2016 Brothers Conflict Iori Asahina [41]
2016 Chaos Dragon Qisha Tianling [42]
2016 Dimension W Albert Schuman [43]
2016 First Love Monster Kanade Takahashi [44]
2016–present My Hero Academia Tomura Shigaraki [3]
2016 Snow White with the Red Hair Izana Wisteria [45]
2016 Terror in Resonance Kato [46]
2016 Joker Game Jiro Gamo [47]
2016 Trickster Kogoro Akechi [48]
2016 Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace Akechi [49]
2016 The Vision of Escaflowne Dryden Fassa Funimation dub [50]
2016–2019 Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright anime adaptation [51]
2017 Knight's & Magic Tsubasa Kurata [52]
2017 Sakura Quest Soichiro Koharu Ep. 14 [53]
2017–present Classroom of the Elite Kakeru Ryuen [54]
2017 A Sister's All You Need Kenjiro Toki [55]
2018 Darling in the Franxx Hachi [56]
2018 Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Yamato [57]
2018 Junji Ito Collection Makoto Tokura Ep. 5B [58]
2018 B't X Teppei Takamiya Anime Midstream dub [59]
2018–2021 How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Takuma Sakamoto/Diablo [60]
2018–present That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Kurobe [61]
2019 Boogiepop and Others Kentarou Habara [61]
2019 Radiant Grim [61]
2019 Black Clover Fanzell Kruger Funimation dub [62]
2019 YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World Takuya Arima [63]
2019 Fire Force Arthur Boyle [64]
2020 Plunderer Licht Bach [65]
2021 Moriarty the Patriot Marquis Glover [4]
2021 Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan Tekito Derekida [66]
2021 The World Ends With You: The Animation Eiji Oji [4]
2022 Kakegurui ×× Ibara Obami Sentai Filmworks dub [67]
2022 Aoashi Tatsuya Fukuda [68]
2022 Spy × Family Zachry Feiss Episode: "Will They Pass or Fail" [4]
2022 Shinobi no Ittoki Kidou Minobe [69]
2023 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Nuno [70]
2023 Heavenly Delusion Robin [71]
2023 My Home Hero Yoshitatsu [72]
2023 Shangri-La Frontier Rakuro/Sunraku [73]
2024 Banished from the Hero's Party Godwin [74]

Films

List of dubbing performances in anime films
Year Title Role Crew role, notes Source
2009 One Piece Film: Strong World Sanji [75]
2012 Sengoku Basara: The Last Party Keiji Maeda [76]
2012 Mass Effect: Paragon Lost Essex [77]
2014 One Piece Film: Z Sanji [78]
2016 The Boy and the Beast Kyuta [79]
2017 One Piece Film: Gold Sanji [80][81]
2019 One Piece: Stampede Sanji [82]
2022 Fruits Basket: Prelude Yuki Soma [4]
2022 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Trunks [83]
2022 One Piece Film: Red Sanji [84]

Video games

List of dubbing performances in video games
Year Title Role Crew role, notes Source
2002 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Future Trunks [85]
2003 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer [85]
2004 Seven Samurai 20XX Additional voices [86]
2004 Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors Future Trunks [85]
2004 Dragon Ball Z Budokai: 3 Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer [87]
2005 Dragon Ball Z: Sagas Future Trunks [85]
2005 Spikeout: Battle Street Additional voices [88]
2005 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer [85]
2006 Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai Future Trunks [85]
2006 Super Dragon Ball Z Future Trunks [85]
2006 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 Future Trunks [85]
2007 Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer [85]
2007 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Future Trunks [85]
2008 One Piece: Unlimited Adventure Sanji [85]
2008 Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit Future Trunks [85]
2008 Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World Future Trunks [85]
2009 Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer [85]
2009 Dragon Ball: Raging Blast Future Trunks [85]
2010 Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team Future Trunks [85]
2010 Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 Future Trunks [85]
2011 Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi Future Trunks [85]
2012 Borderlands 2 Boom, Will the Bandit, McNally [87]
2012 Dragon Ball Z: For Kinect Future Trunks [85]
2014 Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z Future Trunks [87]
2015 Dragon Ball Xenoverse Future Trunks [85]
2016 Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Future Trunks [87]
2018 Dragon Ball FighterZ Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer [87]
2018 Dragon Ball Legends Future Trunks, Trunks (adult) [87]
2020 Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Future Trunks, World Martial Arts Tournament Announcer [87]
2020 My Hero One's Justice 2 Tomura Shigaraki [4]
2021 Tales of Luminaria Hugo Simon [89]

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