Akira Ishida

His blood type is "O".

At least 2 anime characters he voices have link to the word "Dawn". In Naruto Shippuden, Garra(Ishida) was captured by a group named Akatsuki (which is the word "dawn" in Japanese).

Akira Ishida is a big fan of motorcycles.

Akira Ishida's favorite color is blue.

He has been a cast memeber in over 70 non-anime productions.

In 1998 he joined Ezaki Production (which is now known as Mausu Promotion).

Hoshi Soichiro, Seki Tomokazu, and Seki Toshihiko are well-known friends and common co-stars with Ishida.

He has dubbed 10 movies into Japanese, one of them being Titanic (Jack Dawson).

He has confessed to not being an owner of a cell phone on Naruto Nippon. If he has gotten a cell phone since then is up for debate.

He has voice acted in over 60 anime and 20 video games. He also has created 9 CDs.

Akira openly admitted that he did not like vegetables when he was a guest star on the radio show 'Mikako Payo Payo'.

His most well-known character whom he has voiced (Kaworu Nagisa) appeared in the anime Evangelion for one episode, with approximately 13 minutes of screen time.

Ishida also did two voices at the same time in two different anime in late 2004 through 2005: My-Hime (as Nagi Homura) Gundam Seed Destiny (as Athrun Zala)

He officially stated that he will no longer be singing in public, or for any CDs or anime.

In Japan, he has been in every anime in the 6 p.m. Saturday time slot on MBS and TBS.