Tetsuya Kakihara

**Tetsuya Kakihara** (柿原徹也) is a voice actor involved in Bottleman. He voices Haku Kurenai in the Japanese dub of Cap Revolution Bottleman DX.

## Biography

Tetsuya Kakihara was born on December 24, 1982 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He has a younger sister.

His household was strict when he was growing up in Germany. He was expected to do well at school, due to his father being a teacher.

He lived in Germany until he was 18, so he is able to speak fluently in both German and English. Both his parents and his nationality are Japanese, but his household registration country is unknown.

As a child, he studied in the elementary school Brüder-Grimm-Grundschule. Since childhood, he has been intrigued by Japanese culture. He returned to Japan when he was 18, after being told by a nursery teacher in Germany that he sounded like a voice actor when he was doing social practice at the said nursery. For a long time, he was only able to speak 7% of Japanese language, due to having lived overseas for most of his childhood.

He is a graduate of the vocational school Amusement Media Academy. In 2007, he won the "Best Male Newcomer/Rookie" award at the first Seiyu Awards with his performance of Mikoto Yutaka from *Princess Princess*.

In 2010, he joined the band Kiramune with his new identity as a singer, and released his first mini album *Still On Journey*. He released *Strings of Pain* as the ending theme song for *Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East* as his first single on February 6, 2013. His third single *Sachiaina* was released on April 15, 2015. Overall, he has so far released two full albums, five mini albums, and six singles.

He later departed from 81 Produce to become a freelancer on July 1, 2013. The same day on 2014, he established his own company Zynchro, which means "synchronize" in German, with most of his staff.

## Trivia

* Kakihara mainly voices teenage and young adult characters, who are emotional, hot-blooded or heroic. However, he can also voice for characters who are calm, serious or intelligent.
* His nickname is "Kakkii".
* He is Christian.
* He has a middle name, although he has yet to disclose it.
* He is friends with many other Japanese actors, such as Tomoki Ono, Hado Nosuke and Yudai Sato. He would go drinking with Sato or invite him to his house. KENN is also one of his friends and acquaintances.
	+ Through Yudai Sato, Kakihara's room is described to be unexpectedly neat and tidy.
		- His actor friends also say Kakihara has a huge appetite and can eat a lot.
* Kakihara admitted that he is the type who prefers being surrounded by friends, and is afraid of being alone.
* He speaks of his younger sister highly.
* Kakihara had co-oped a lot with fellow actor Marina Inoue. In fact, they are university senior and junior who both graduated from Gakushuin University, although they also debuted as actors in the same year.
* His blood type is the exceptionally rare RH negative AB type. Because of this, he tends to memorize and remember other people's blood types very well.
* He supports international sports via nationalities. For baseball, he is a proponent of Japans; whereas for soccer, he prefers German teams.
* He adores being with children. He even once admitted that he would've chosen to become an elementary school teacher had he not become a voice actor.
* His other talents include playing magic tricks, social dancing, and snowboarding.
* He is a big fan of the music duo CHAGE and ASKA, which is mostly caused by his parents' love for them.
* He loves using *Jojo's Bizarre Adventure* gags on his blog.
* He's a massive fan of the baseball team Hanshin Tigers, with the retired member Norihiro Akahoshi being his favorite.
* He has a personal channel on Bilibili. He often invites fellow actor Yu Taniguchi onto his channel.
* A special Chinese edition of his photo portrait collection was published for Kakihara's own Chinese fans, which he also published and signed individually.
* When he was living in Germany, he sometimes went back to Japan, which is also his parents' birthplace. During one of his visits, he bought more than 300 manga, which are currently stored in his old home in Germany, and sent them to Germany by ship. He also grew to like reading shojo manga under the influence of his sister. Because of these experiences, he acknowledged he had been exposed to Japanese manga and animation since childhood.
* During his years in Germany, Germans found it difficult to pronounce Kakihara's given name Tetsuya, so many often called him "Tetooya" instead.
* He is afraid of insects, notably cockroaches. He also hates birds.
* Kakihara has a driver's license both for cars and motorcycles. He also loves to go around town during weekends and driving his friends around.
* As a student, Kakihara had a strong dislike for science. At one point, he handed a science test in blank, thinking he would just get perfect on the other subjects to balance it out.

## Gallery

### Notable Characters

Makoto Yutaka (*Princess Princess*)Simon (*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann*)Reiji (*Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl*)Natsu Dragneel (*Fairy Tail*)Prince Chris (*Lilpri*)

## Links

* Personal website: http://ameblo.jp/tetsuya-kakihara/

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