Ryotaro Okiayu

Ryotaro Okiayu is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and singer born on November 17, 1969 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, and affiliated with Aoni Production. Raised partly in Osaka in a household full of anime memorabilia left over from his father's time at a film company, he preferred imitating characters' voices to drawing and settled on a voice acting career while in high school. His signature roles include Byakuya Kuchiki in Bleach, Treize Khushrenada in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Kunimitsu Tezuka in The Prince of Tennis, Shigure Sohma in Fruits Basket, and Kokushibo in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He sang with the Entertainment Music Unit between 1995 and 2000, serves as the regular Japanese dub voice for Scott Foley and Taylor Kitsch, and is married to voice actress Ai Maeda.