Voice actor Hiroshi Tsuchida, best known for Grisha Yeager in Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) and Daikichi Kawachi in Usagi Drop (Bunny Drop), died on October 11 of heart failure. He was 54.

His agency, 81 Produce, announced the news on Tuesday, noting that the funeral was held privately for family members only, at the family’s request.

Born in Tokyo in February 1972, Tsuchida graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Bunkyo High School and trained for two years with the Touhai theater company. After an injury made him consider quitting, he joined the talent agency Big Apple. He made his acting debut in 1994 as Saizo (Ninja Blue) in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, then worked mainly as a voice actor and narrator from the late 1990s. He also voiced HANE2 in Ultraman Decker.

Over the course of his career, Tsuchida voiced many memorable characters, including Keigo Oonishi in Texhnolyze, Ganesha in Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?), John Titor in Steins;Gate, and Raidou Namiashi in Naruto. His most recent role, Timothy Britts in Mushoku Tensei III: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3) and Lionel in Marronnier Oukoku no Shichinin no Kishi (The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom), which he was in the middle of voicing at the time of his death.

Outside anime, he also voiced Feng Wei in the Tekken game series and Kazuki in the Yakuza games. In Japanese dubbing, he voiced Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scott Adkins in many of their films, as well as Lightning McQueen in the Cars films, Kraglin in the Guardians of the Galaxy series, and Donatello in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) television series.

Source: Oricon News, Senkai News