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who was affiliated with Space Craft Entertainment but changed to Just Professional from 2016 to 2019. Ishii is the son of a Japanese father and Filipino mother. He is the former husband of voice actress

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. On December 27, 2019, Just Production announced that it ended its contract with Ishii and that he has been diagnosed with a maladjustment and is in poor physical health. Ishii will take a hiatus from voice acting in order to improve his health. On July 1, 2020, Ishii announced that he was returning to the voice acting industry after a 7-month hiatus, signing with the agency Aksent.

Early life and education

Ishii is of Japanese Filipino ethnicity. He lived in the Philippines for four years during his early childhood but returned to Japan for his school education. He was also a member of his junior high school tennis club. During his junior high school days he played a game called '' .hack//G.U.'' and became a fan of

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who inspired him to become a voice actor. After graduating from high school, Ishii went to the Tokyo Announcement Academy where he studied to become a voice actor.

Filmography

Anime

OVA

ONA

Video games

Dubbing roles

Personal life

On March 6, 2016, he announced his marriage to

. Ishii stated that the reasons he and Enomoto agreed to get married include their shared interests and many commonalities. They divorced in 2018.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ishii, Mark 1991 births Living people Japanese male video game actors Japanese male voice actors Japanese people of Filipino descent Male voice actors from Chiba Prefecture 21st-century Japanese male actors