Chiaki Kobayashi

Chiaki Kobayashi
Chiaki Kobayashi
小林千晃
Born	June 4, 1994 (age 29); Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation	Voice actor
Years active	2017–present
Agent	Office Osawa
Awards	Best New Actor Award at the 15th Seiyu Awards

Chiaki Kobayashi (小林千晃, Kobayashi Chiaki, born June 4, 1994) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Office Osawa. His roles include Hiroto Kuga in Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise, Deuce Spade in Disney: Twisted-Wonderland, Makoto Edamura in Great Pretender, Langa Hasegawa in SK8 the Infinity, Gabimaru in Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, Mash Burnedead in Mashle and Stark in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.

Filmography

Television animation

List of voice performances in anime
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	Case Closed	Baseball club junior, Junior high school boy
	Just Because!	Junior high school boy
	The Idolmaster SideM	Boy
2018	A Place Further than the Universe	Host
	Butlers: Chitose Momotose Monogatari	Kyoichi Sano	^[1]
	Cells at Work!	Killer T cell 1, Normal cell, Red Blood Cells
	ClassicaLoid	Male
	Hakyu Hoshin Engi	Firewood seller
	Hi Score Girl	Boy, Student
	Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katori no Nazotoki File	Actor	Ep.11
	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime	Goblin	Ep.2
	The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar	Customer, Slave Trader, Soldier, Warrior
	Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS	Knight of Hanoi
2019	Boogiepop and Others	Keiji Takeda	^[2]
	Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious	Colt	Ep.11
	Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?	Announcer, Man
	Fairy Gone	Security Force Member	Ep.3
	Fire Force	Firefighter, White-Clad	Ep.1, 19
	Forest of Piano	Satoshi Mukai
	Fruits Basket	Delivery man	Ep.4
	Given	Friend, Young man
	High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World	Villager	Ep.4
	King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars	Ushio Takahashi
	Senryu Girl	Amusement park attendee, Employee, Man
	Star-Myu: High School Star Musical 3	Student
	Vinland Saga	Askeladd (young)
	Wasteful Days of High School Girls	Ikemen	Ep.1
	Wise Man's Grandchild	Tony Freyd	^[3]
2020	A Certain Scientific Railgun T	Rival School Boy	Ep.3
	Ahiru no Sora	Shinshiro member, Spectator
	Asteroid in Love	Radio club member	Ep.11
	By the Grace of the Gods	Jill
	Darwin's Game	Kyōda	^[4]
	Great Pretender	Makoto Edamura	^[5]
	Higurashi: When They Cry – Gou	Bad Man
	Ikebukuro West Gate Park	Masaru Taniguchi	^[6]
	Moriarty the Patriot	Louis James Moriarty	^[7]
	Sing "Yesterday" for Me	Yū Hayakawa
	The Irregular at Magic High School - Visitor Arc	Parasite	Ep.8
	Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina	Gatekeeper	Ep.6
	Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens	Rinnosuke Nanahoshi
2021	2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team	Komukai
	Higurashi: When They Cry – Sotsu	Da Vinci's Guest	Ep.4
	How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom	Sur	Ep.10
	King's Raid: Successors of the Will	Youth
	Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series	Koduck trainer	Ep.57
	Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles	Saga Hayate	Ep.7-8
	SK8 the Infinity	Langa Hasegawa	^[8]
	Skate-Leading Stars	Terahigashi
	Sonny Boy	Asakaze	^[9]
	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime S2	Shōgo Taguchi
	Waccha PriMagi!	Inoru Omega	Ep.13
	Yo-kai Watch Jam - Yo-kai Academy Y: Close Encounters of the N Kind	Ryusuke Kyubi	^[10]
2022	Arknights: Prelude to Dawn	Guard	^[11]
	Eternal Boys	Soki Azuma	^[12]
	Fanfare of Adolescence	Kota Maki	^[13]
	I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss	Kyle Elford	^[14]
	Lupin the 3rd Part 6	Allen	Ep.22
	My Isekai Life	Yuji	^[15]
	Play It Cool, Guys	Hayate Ichikura	^[16]
	Requiem of the Rose King	John Grey	Ep.2
	Shoot! Goal to the Future	Hideto Tsuji	^[17]
	Tomodachi Game	Yūichi Katagiri	^[18]
	VazzRock the Animation	Shouto Takenaka
2023	Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill	Kaito
	Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World	Claude
	Frieren	Stark	^[19]
	Helck	Bowen
	Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku	Gabimaru	^[20]
	Horimiya: The Missing Pieces	Shimoda	Ep.7
	KamiErabi God.app	Kyō	^[21]
	Mashle	Mash Burnedead	^[22]
	Overtake!	Ryo Kagayama
	Ragna Crimson	Ragna	^[23]
	Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire	Rahl Rambach
	The Fire Hunter	Shōzō	^[24]
	The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague	Himuro-kun	^[25]
	The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent 2nd Season	Tenyū	^[26]
	Too Cute Crisis	Kaoru Mamizuka
2024	A Condition Called Love	Saki Hananoi	^[27]
	Blue Box	Kyo Kasahara	^[28]
	Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!	Kiyoshi Adachi	^[29]
	Mashle: The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc	Mash Burnedead
	Metallic Rouge	Noid 262	^[30]
	The Blue Wolves of Mibu	Hajime Saitō	^[31]
	Wind Breaker	Kōta Sako	^[32]

Original video animation (OVA)

List of voice performances in Original video animation (OVA)
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2020	ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards	Parrot	^[33]
2022	Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Clash	Peter Reamer
2022	Moriarty the Patriot	Louis James Moriarty

Original net animation (ONA)

List of voice performances in Original net animation (ONA)
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	Today's Menu for the Emiya Family	Clerk	Ep.1
2019	Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise	Hiroto Kuga
2020	Gundam Build Divers: Battlogue	Hiroto Kuga
2022	Vampire in the Garden	Allegro	^[34]
2022	Spriggan	Yu Ominae	^[35]
2023	Cute Executive Officer R	Subordinate
	Fate/Grand Over: Fujimaru Ritsuka Doesn't Get It	Bartholomew Roberts
	Gundam Build Metaverse	Hiroto Kuga
2024	Great Pretender: Razbliuto	Makoto Edamura

Theatrical animation

List of voice performances in theatrical anime
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2019	Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. lost butterfly	On-site reporter
2019	Yo-kai Watch Jam the Movie: Yo-Kai Academy Y - Can a Cat be a Hero?	Ryūsuke Kyūbi / Nine Tail
2021	Summer Ghost	Tomoya Sugisaki	^[36]
2023	Eternal Boys NEXT STAGE	Soki Azuma
2024	Blue Lock: Episode Nagi	Ranze Kurona	^[37]

Video games

2018

Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet as Voice 9 (Male)

2019

Crash Fever as Beethoven
DANKIRA!!! - Boys, be DANCING! as Atago Rentaro
Dragalia Lost as Shion
Fate/Grand Order as Bartholomew Roberts
MapleStory 2 as Thief
SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays as Soldier
Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble as Ryūsuke Kyūbi / Nine Tail

2020

Disney: Twisted-Wonderland as Deuce Spade
Fantasy Life Online as Nine Tail
MapleStory as Carlisle
World Flipper as Yakumo
Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y – Waiwai Gakuen Seikatsu as Ryūsuke Kyūbi / Nine Tail
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links as Aigami

2021

A3! as Akashi Serizawa
Border Reign as Ganshu, Goya
Bungo and Alchemist as Arthur Rimbaud
Cookie Run: Kingdom as Sparkling Cookie
Dragon Quest X Online as Guruyan Rush, Quad
Fire Emblem Heroes as Ronan
For Whom the Alchemist Exists as Nimuru
Granblue Fantasy as New King of Levin
Illusion Connect as Jason
Show by Rock!! Fes A Live as 13

2022

River City Girls 2 as Riki^[38]
Honkai Impact 3rd as Kosma

2023

Rear Sekai as Brad^[39]
Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis as Matt Windsor^[40]

2024

Reynatis as Marin Kirizumi^[41]

Dubbing

Live-action

After as Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin)
Seo Bok as Seo Bok (Park Bo-gum)^[42]
Tales of the City as Jake Rodriguez (Garcia)
Love Will Tear Us Apart us Da Qiao (Sun Ning)

Animation

The Boss Baby: Back in Business as Wagby
Heaven Official's Blessing as Fu Yao
Mune: Guardian of the Moon as Leeyoon^[43]
Tara Duncan as Robin M'angil

Media mix

List of voice performances in media mix projects
Year	Title	Role
2019	Paradox Live	Kenta Mikoshiba
2021	Live us	Akito Shinji
2021	VS AMBIVALENZ	Jintaro, Cion

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Work/Recipient	Result	Source
2021	15th Seiyu Awards	Best New Actor Award	Makoto Edamura (Great Pretender)	Won	^[44]

References

External links

Official agency profile (in Japanese)
Chiaki Kobayashi at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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v t e Seiyu Award for Best Rookie Actor
Best Rookie Actor (2007–2022)	Tetsuya Kakihara / Masakazu Morita (2007) Wataru Hatano / Tsubasa Yonaga (2008) Yuki Kaji / Nobuhiko Okamoto (2009) Atsushi Abe / Tomoaki Maeno (2010) Koki Uchiyama (2011) Takuya Eguchi / Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (2012) Nobunaga Shimazaki / Kazutomi Yamamoto (2013) Kaito Ishikawa / Daiki Yamashita (2014) Natsuki Hanae / Ryōta Ōsaka / Soma Saito (2015) Ayumu Murase / Shunsuke Takeuchi / Yūichirō Umehara (2016) Setsuo Itō / Yūsuke Kobayashi / Yuma Uchida (2017) Shun Horie / Koutaro Nishiyama / Taku Yashiro (2018) Kōhei Amasaki / Mark Ishii / Fukushi Ochiai / Shugo Nakamura (2019) Kotaro Daigo / Katsumi Fukuhara / Gakuto Kajiwara / Takeo Ōtsuka / Shōgo Yano (2020) Masahiro Itō / Chiaki Kobayashi / Shimba Tsuchiya (2021) Aoi Ichikawa / Reiji Kawashima / Gen Satō (2022)
Best Rookie Actress (2007–2022)	Aya Hirano / Yui Kano (2007) Emiri Katō / Yū Kobayashi (2008) Kana Asumi / Haruka Tomatsu (2009) Kanae Itō / Aki Toyosaki (2010) Hisako Kanemoto / Satomi Satō (2011) Ai Kayano / Shiori Mikami (2012) Kaori Ishihara / Rumi Okubo (2013) Maaya Uchida (2014) Sora Amamiya / Aya Suzaki / Reina Ueda (2015) Rie Takahashi / Aimi Tanaka / Sumire Uesaka (2016) Ari Ozawa / Sayaka Senbongi / Minami Tanaka (2017) Yui Fukuo / Ayaka Nanase (2018) Coco Hayashi / Kaede Hondo / Rina Honnizumi / Tomori Kusunoki / Manaka Iwami (2019) Madoka Asahina / Miho Okasaki / Miyuri Shimabukuro / Sayumi Suzushiro / Fairouz Ai / Nana Mori (2020) Rin Aira / Kana Ichinose / Riho Sugiyama / Natsumi Fujiwara / Azumi Waki (2021) Kanata Aikawa / Hikaru Akao / Nene Hieda / Hinaki Yano (2022)
Best Rookie Actor† (2023–present)	Shūichirō Umeda / Hina Suguta / Anna Nagase / Minami Hinata / Shion Wakayama (2023) Yurie Igoma / Yuki Sakakihara / Kikunosuke Toya / Nanoka Hara / Hina Yōmiya (2024)
† From 2023 (17th Seiyu Awards) onwards, the Actor/Actress Categories are merged as "Best Actor" with no gender distinction.