Voice actor Krystal LaPorte reported on her official Twitter account that the worldwide famous voice actor Christopher Ayres passed away on October 18 at age 56.
Chris Ayres was born in Richmond, Virginia, on May 16, 1965.
He worked on voice acting and ADR coordinating on various English dubs of Japanese anime at Funimation, OkraTron 5000, New Generation Pictures and Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks.
He began his acting profession at age six and has performed on Broadway and Off-Broadway just as in various territorial productions. He got his beginning voice acting at ADV Films on Kino’s Journey as an additional an. In anime, he was known as the voice of Frieza from Dragon Ball Z Kai, Kei Kurono from Gantz, Prince Soma from Black Butler, and Shingen Takeda from the Sengoku Basara series. He had been a piece of the establishment and proceeded through Dragon Ball Super’s whole anime run that had finished with the Dragon Ball Super: Broly film.
He was additionally known for Mock Combat for Cosplay boards at anime shows.
In November 2017, Ayres was determined to have end stage COPD and required a twofold lung relocate to endure. A YouCaring pledge drive was made that looks for $25,000 to help with clinical consideration.
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