Clifford Samuel Chapin IV (born January 29, 1988)
is an American voice actor and director at
Funimation
Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes ...
and
Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Bang Zoom! Entertainment is an audio post-production studio with its headquarters in Burbank, California, in Greater Los Angeles. It has worked on anime, video games, television series, feature films, and original animation projects.
Their work ...
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Career
Chapin is known for his roles in anime and video games, such as Ichijo Takayanagi from ''
Red Data Girl
is a series of fantasy novels written by Noriko Ogiwara. Six volumes have been released. The first volume was published by Kadokawa Shoten in 2008, while the last was published in 2012. The manga adaptation, illustrated by Ranmaru Kotone and ...
,'' Connie Springer from ''
Attack on Titan
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It is set in a world where humanity is forced to live in cities surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to as ...
,'' Shingo Wakamoto from ''
Prison School
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from February 2011 to December 2017. Yen Press licensed the manga for English release in North America. The stor ...
,
Kukulkan
K’uk’ulkan, also spelled Kukulkan, ( "''Plumed Serpent''", "''Amazing Serpent''") is the name of a Mesoamerican serpent deity that was worshipped by the Yucatec Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula before the Spanish conquest of Yucatán. ...
'' in ''
Smite
''Smite'' is a 2014 free-to-play, third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed and published by Hi-Rez Studios for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch, and Amazon Luna.[Tokyo Ghoul
is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' between September 2011 and September 2014, and was collected in four ...]
,'' Yuri Dreyar from ''
Fairy Tail
''Fairy Tail'' is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from August 2006 to July 2017, with the individual chapters collected and published into 63 '' ...
, '' and
Katsuki Bakugo
, also known by his nickname and his hero name , is a superhero and one of the main protagonists of the manga series ''My Hero Academia'', created by Kōhei Horikoshi. His Quirk is , which allows him to make explosions from his hands by detonati ...
from ''
My Hero Academia
is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into ...
.'' Chapin won the ''VNs Now'' award Best Male VA of 2013 for his role of David Sawicki in ''Yousei'' by
Sakevisual
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. He also worked as a production assistant for ''
Toddlers and Tiaras
''Toddlers & Tiaras'' or ''Another Toddlers & Tiaras'' is an American reality television series that aired on TLC from January 27, 2009, to October 16, 2013. After a three-year hiatus due to much controversy, ''Another Toddlers and Tiaras'' aired ...
'', ''
NBC Nightly News
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'', ''Disaster Guy'', and ''
The Rolling Girls
is a 2015 Japanese anime television series produced by Wit Studio. The logo of this title contains the text, "Rolling, Falling, Scrambling Girls. For others. For themselves. Even if they're destined to be a 'mob'".
Plot
Ten years after the ...
''. In 2014, Chapin landed the lead voice role of
Raishin Akabane in ''
Unbreakable Machine-Doll
is a Japanese light novel series written by Reiji Kaitō and illustrated by Ruroo. Media Factory has published seventeen volumes under their MF Bunko J imprint from November 2009 to July 2017. A manga adaptation by Hakaru Takagi began seri ...
''.
In 2015, he voiced the lead character
Harutora Tsuchimikado in ''
Tokyo Ravens
is a Japanese light novel series written by Kōhei Azano and illustrated by Sumihei. It was adapted into a manga series in 2010. It received an anime series on October 9, 2013 and ended on March 26, 2014. Funimation simulcasted the series on ...
''.
Personal life
On June 18, 2021, Chapin was announced to be engaged to voice actress
Kristen McGuire
Kristen McGuire is an American voice actress and script writer affiliated with Funimation and Bang Zoom! Entertainment. She started as a comic book artist, before later joining Funimation as a voice actress. Some of her noteworthy roles include ...
.
Filmography
Anime
Animation
Video games
Awards
References
External links
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1988 births
Living people
American male video game actors
American male voice actors
American voice directors
People from Griswold, Connecticut
Hofstra University alumni
21st-century American male actors