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His blood type is "O".
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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).
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Akira Ishida is a big fan of motorcycles.
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Akira Ishida's favorite color is blue.
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He has been a cast memeber in over 70 non-anime productions.
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In 1998 he joined Ezaki Production (which is now known as Mausu Promotion).
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Hoshi Soichiro, Seki Tomokazu, and Seki Toshihiko are well-known friends and common co-stars with Ishida.
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He has dubbed 10 movies into Japanese, one of them being Titanic (Jack Dawson).
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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.
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He has voice acted in over 60 anime and 20 video games. He also has created 9 CDs.
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Akira openly admitted that he did not like vegetables when he was a guest star on the radio show 'Mikako Payo Payo'.
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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.
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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)
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He officially stated that he will no longer be singing in public, or for any CDs or anime.
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In Japan, he has been in every anime in the 6 p.m. Saturday time slot on MBS and TBS.