Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原 徹也, Kakihara Tetsuya?, born December 24, 1982 in Düsseldorf, West Germany) is a Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with 81 Produce.
From 2010, Kakihara is affiliated with Kiramune, a music label by Bandai Visual Co., Ltd. and Lantis, where he debuted as a Singer with his first mini album "Still on Journey". His first single is called "String of pain", will be release on February 6, 2013, is the ending theme song for anime Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East in which he also voices the main role as Shino Inuzuka. His 3rd mini album "Call Me" is schedule to be released on March 13, 2013.
Kakihara is very active in voice acting roles in Japan, and is capable of doing a broad range of voices in his works. In anime, he is well known for voicing roles as young boys with a 'fiery' personality, like Natsu from popular anime Fairy Tail. In Game and Drama CDs, he plays teenagers/mature roles, and is known for his unique soft, sweet, and mysterious voice- mainly in Otome games, like Shin from the PSP game series, Amnesia. Like other Japanese male voice actors, he is also active in Yaoi-themed Drama CDs and anime, and usually plays the uke part, like Akihito from Finder Series, a work of popular boys love manga artist, Ayano Yamane.
An interesting and talented fact about Kakihara is that he is Trilingual; fluent in German and Japanese and near-fluent in English. He used to know five languages: German, Japanese, English, Spanish, and Latin. He is the only Japanese person to voice German-speaking devices: Lævateinn, Graf Eisen and Strada, in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (series).
Read more about Tetsuya Kakihara: History As Voice Actor and Awards, Discography (as A Singer), Upcoming Live Events (Anime Conventions), DVD/Live Events As An Idol Artist, Magazines / Idol Visual Books