Clifford Samuel Chapin IV (born January 29, 1988) is an American voice actor and director at

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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 ...

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 Sakevisual (stylized as sakevisual) is a developer and publisher of interactive story games such as visual novels and otome games, well known for their otome game ''RE: Alistair++''. Their games are for Windows, macOS and Linux. ''Sakevisual'' ...

. 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 ...

'', ''

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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

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chapin, Clifford 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