Erica Mendez is an American voice actress who has voiced in English dubs for
Funimation
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,
Bang Zoom! and
Studiopolis.
She studied graphic design in college for three years prior to becoming a voice actress.
Career
Mendez's first major voice role was the titular character
Pac-Man in the ''
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
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'' video game, which was released in 2013. In 2014, Mendez starred as Aladdin in the ''
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic'' series
and
Ryuko Matoi in the English dub of ''
Kill la Kill'', the latter of which was broadcast on the
Toonami
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block on
Adult Swim
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. Some of Mendez's other major roles include
Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus in the
Viz Media
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English dub of ''
Sailor Moon'', Maki Harukawa in ''
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony'',
Gon Freecss
is the protagonist from Yoshihiro Togashi's manga series ''Hunter × Hunter''. A young boy, Gon discovers that his father, who left him at a young age, is actually a world-renowned Hunter, a licensed professional who specializes in fantastical p ...
in the English dub of the 2011 anime adaptation of ''
Hunter x Hunter
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'' and Retsuko in the English dub of
Netflix
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anime series ''
Aggretsuko'', Annie in the fighting game ''
Skullgirls'', Kamisato Ayaka in ''
Genshin Impact
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'',
Wang Ai Ling in the English-language Chinese animated series ''
Stitch & Ai
''Stitch & Ai'' () is an English-language-produced Chinese animated television series and a spin-off of Disney's ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise. It is the franchise's third TV series, after the Western animated '' Lilo & Stitch: The Series'' and t ...
'', Diane in ''
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Art
* ''The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things'', a 1485 painting by Hieronymus Bosch
* '' The Seven Deadly Sins of Moder ...
'',
Arle Nadja
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in the ''
Puyo Puyo
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'' series,
Emma in ''
The Promised Neverland
is a Japanese manga series written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu. It was serialized in Shueisha's '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from August 2016 to June 2020, with its chapters collected in twenty ''tankōbon'' volumes. In ...
'' and Itsuki Sumeragi in the English dub of the Netflix anime ''Kakegurui''.
Personal life
Mendez identifies as
asexual.
Filmography
Anime
Animation
Films
Video games
References
External links
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Living people
Actresses from Chicago
Actresses from Los Angeles
American actresses of Mexican descent
American video game actresses
American voice actresses
Asexual women
Hispanic and Latino American actresses
21st-century American actresses
21st-century LGBT people
LGBT actresses
LGBT people from Illinois
Year of birth missing (living people)