I was watching the English adaptation credits in the second disc of Skip Beat! when I spotted an unexpected name: Kyle McCarley. A couple years ago, I wrote a post about audiobooks narrated by folks who also do English anime voice acting. McCarley wasn't on that (admittedly short and not thoroughly researched) list.

McCarley narrated one of my top favorite audiobooks, The Goblin Emperor. He's also done a good bit of anime voice acting, although I haven't seen most of the stuff he's worked on. In Skip Beat!, he played a small part, Hikaru Ishibashi, one of the band members acting as guest hosts of a variety show. I've seen One Punch Man, where he also played a few small parts, but I completely missed him in that one. And I've watched Ajin, but only in Japanese with English subtitles.

Of the other stuff he's worked on, I'm most likely to one day watch Violet Evergarden (currenly on Netflix - he voiced Claudia Hodgins), Little Witch Academia (also on Netflix - he voiced Louis Blackwell), Bungo Stray Dogs 2 (he voiced John Steinbeck), Durarara!!x2 (currently on Netflix - he voiced Aoba Kuronuma), and B: The Beginning (currently on Netflix - he voiced Koku).

This post is inspired by a purchase I just made. Let's see how many of these folks I can track down. It's too bad that several of them have only narrated stuff I'm not interested in listening to, but I guess that keeps my Audible library from ballooning too much.

I've made an effort to list only those people who I was reasonably sure were really the audiobook narrators. For example, I found an audiobook narrated by a guy named Kirk Thornton, but he didn't sound like the Kirk Thornton I know from anime and I couldn't find any evidence they were the same person. Same with Liam O'Brien - I couldn't confirm that the audiobook narrator and the anime voice actor were the same person. If there are mistakes on this list, feel free to let me know.

Anyway, on to the list. Who knows, maybe there will be a part 2.

1. Alessandro Juliani

Anime fans may know Juliani as: L (Death Note)

A few audiobooks:

2. Chris Patton

Anime fans may know Patton as: Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist), Soushi Miketsukami (Inu X Boku Secret Service), Creed Diskenth (Black Cat)

A few audiobooks:

3. Vic Mignogna

Anime fans may know Mignogna as: Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist), Death Scythe (Soul Eater), Zero (Vampire Knight)

Audiobook:

4. Eric Vale

Anime fans may know Vale as: Yuki Sohma (Fruits Basket), Trunks (Dragon Ball Z), both America and Canada (Hetalia: Axis Powers)

A few audiobooks:

5. Stephanie Sheh

Anime fans may know Sheh as: Orihime (Bleach), Micchon (Eden of the East), Hinata (Naruto)

Audiobook:

That's it for now. Hopefully I'll come across some more later.