Christopher Ayres

Christopher Owen Ayres (born May 16, 1965) is an American voice actor, ADR director and scriptwriter who works on a number of Japanese anime series at Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks, Funimation, OkraTron 5000 and New Generation Pictures. He got his start voice acting at ADV Films on Kino's Journey as an extra. In anime, he is known as the voice of Frieza from Dragon Ball Z Kai and Dragon Ball Super, Kei Kurono from Gantz, Prince Soma from Black Butler, and Shingen Takeda from the Sengoku Basara series. He is also known for Mock Combat for Cosplay panels at anime conventions.

Personal life
In November 2017, Ayres was diagnosed with end-stage COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and required a double lung transplant in order to survive. A YouCaring fundraiser was created that seeks $25,000 in order to assist with medical care and procedures.

Anime

 * format=y}} || Air Gear || Okuhira, DJ Plugman, Team Potemkine (Special Trick)
 * format=y}} || AKB0048 || Father Motomiya, Sensei Sensei (Next Stage)
 * format=y}} || Akame ga Kill! || Daidara, Bandit (Ep. 10)
 * format=y}} || Amnesia || Toma
 * format=y}} || Birdy the Mighty Decode || Bacillus
 * format=y}} || Black Butler || Prince Soma Asman Kadar
 * format=y}} || The Book of Bantorra || Minth Chesain
 * format=y}} || Broken Blade || General True
 * format=y}} || Btooom! || Yoshihisa Kira
 * format=y}} || Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century || Sergei Ovchinnikov
 * format=y}} || Claymore || Dauf
 * format=y}} || Coyote Ragtime Show || Hewlett
 * format=y}} || Darker than Black || Masashi Hitotsubashi
 * format=y}} || Desert Punk || Sawada
 * format=y}} || Devil May Cry: The Animated Series || Sid
 * format=y}} || Dragon Ball Z Kai || Frieza
 * format=y}} || Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' || Frieza
 * format=y}} || Dream Eater Merry || John Doe
 * format=y}} || Fairy Tail || Duke Everlue
 * format=y}} || Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood || Lt. General Raven
 * format=y}} || Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid || Wraith
 * format=y}} || Ghost Hound || Takahito Komagusu
 * format=y}} || Ghost Hunt || Reimei Minami
 * format=y}} || Guin Saga || Ghuru Shin, Kah, Riya
 * format=y}} || Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick || Murato
 * format=y}} || Hakuoki: Record of the Jade Blood || Katamori Matsudaira, Kiyotaka Kuroda
 * format=y}} || Highschool of the Dead || Yoshioka Takagi
 * format=y}} || IS (Infinite Stratos) || Dan Gotanda
 * format=y}} || Initial D || Miki (Funimation dub)
 * format=y}} || Innocent Venus || Riki, Dr. Nabuto
 * format=y}} || Jing, King of Bandits: Seventh Heaven || Maraschino
 * format=y}} || Kaleido Star || Mr. Patrova
 * format=y}} || Kiba || Morris
 * format=y}} || Little Busters || Sho Saigusa (Ep. 17-18)
 * format=y}} || Log Horizon || Woodstock W
 * format=y}} || Maburaho || Yukihiko Nakamaru
 * format=y}} || Majikoi! - Oh! Samurai Girls || Jun Inoue
 * format=y}} || Maria Holic || Mr. Berlin (Ep. 10)
 * format=y}} || Medaka Box: Abnormal || Shigusa Takachiho
 * 2004 || Megazone 23 Part II || Cujo
 * format=y}} || Michel || Woogy
 * format=y}} || Needless || Ishiyama, Nivy
 * format=y}} || One Piece || Johnny (Funimation dub)
 * format=y}} || Ouran High School Host Club || Renge's Father
 * format=y}} || Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt || Corset
 * || Peacemaker Kurogane || Keisuke Yamanami
 * format=y}} || Phi Brain: Puzzle of God || Funga, Freecell (Season 2)
 * format=y}} || Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they? || Kraken, Graeae, Jack O'Lantern, Strom
 * format=y}} || Project Blue Earth SOS || Kintaro Oyama
 * format=y}} || Romeo × Juliet || Camillo
 * 2005 || Sakura Diaries || Koji Akimoto
 * format=y}} || Sengoku Basara || Takeda Shingen
 * format=y}} || Sgt. Frog  - 3M (Ep. 11)
 * format=y}} || Super Dimensional Fortress Macross || Lynn Kaifun
 * format=y}} || Spice and Wolf || Assessor
 * format=y}} || Tamako Market || Chouji Yumoto
 * format=y}} || Tactics || Hasumi Ryokan, Koshikawa
 * format=y}} || The World God Only Knows || Mr. Kodama
 * format=y}} || Tokyo Majin || Ryuuzan Arai
 * format=y}} || Trinity Blood || Isaak Fernand von Kämpfer
 * format=y}} || Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle || Nanto
 * format=y}} || Tsuritama || Boss
 * format=y}} || Utawarerumono || Niwe
 * format=y}} || Xam'd Lost Memories || Kisel-ji
 * format=y}} || Xenosaga: The Animation || Jin Uzuki
 * || Yumeria || Sousyu
 * format=y}} || Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie || Garuga/Yasha (Funimation dub)