Daisuke Kishio

Daisuke Kishio, born March 28, 1974 in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, works as a voice actor, singer, and narrator, and has since joined Aoni Production in April 2014. The detail I keep coming back to is a small one. On June 1, 2007, he changed the written form of his given name from the kanji 大輔 to the hiragana だいすけ. The pronunciation didn't change. The romanization didn't change. Nothing about how anyone says his name changed at all. Only the shape of it on the page did, from angular characters to soft rounded ones. For English readers that distinction is invisible, which is exactly why it's worth pointing out: Japanese gives you a way to adjust the texture of a name without touching its sound, and he cared enough to actually go through with it. That instinct fits the job. Voice work is an industry where careers are short and turnover is brutal, and staying in the front rank for decades takes more than a good voice. It takes attention to things nobody else would bother changing.

Name (English)

Daisuke Kishio

Name (Japanese)

岸尾だいすけ

Reading

きしお だいすけ

Born

March 28, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

Origin

Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

seiyū / singer / actor

• Official sitehttps://www.aoni.co.jp/search/kishio-daisuke.html
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dkhidaisacu/
• Xhttps://x.com/daisacusacu
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke%20Kishio
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E5%B0%BE%E3%81%A0%E3%81%84%E3%81%99%E3%81%91
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1323136

Tags

• Mie Prefecture
• seiyū
• singer
• actor

Last updated

2026-08-07

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