Hiroshi Tsuchida

Fathers, instructors, section chiefs, men in their forties who know something the hero does not. Hiroshi Tsuchida's casting range is narrower than his credit count suggests, and considerably more useful than that sounds, because anime runs on exactly that kind of voice and there are never enough people who can do it without sounding like a caricature of an adult.

He began in live action rather than a recording booth, playing Saizo, Ninja Blue, in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger across 1994 and 1995, a credit not among those listed here. Affiliated with 81 Produce, he also works steadily as a dub actor, supplying Japanese voices for characters in English-language films, which is its own craft: you are matching another performer's timing and choices rather than making your own.

Anime audiences know him best as Grisha Yeager in Attack on Titan, a role he has carried since 2013 and through the compilation features. The performance to argue for, though, is Daikichi Kawachi in Usagi Drop, a domestic drama that rests entirely on one ordinary man's decision and needs precisely the unshowy adult register he has.

The rest is the long tail of a working seiyuu career: John Titor in Steins;Gate, Damnatio Kira in Black Clover, Ganesha in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon, Kouichirou Iketani across the Initial D Legend films, Shunkan in The Heike Story, plus one-season parts stretching back to Texhnolyze in 2003.