Brad Swaile

Happy Birthday, Light Yagami!

Happy Birthday Brad Swaile! Love the man as Jin, Rock, Setsuna, and Gohan!

Happy Birthday Brad Swaile!

My top 10 favourite roles of his are:

1.) Light Yagami (Death Note)
2.) Rokuro "Rock" Okajima (Black Lagoon)
3.) Setsuna F. Seiei/Soran Ebrahim (Gundam 00)
4.) Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner (X-Men Evolution)
5.) Lan Hikari (Megaman NT Warrior)
6.) Amuro Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam 0079)
7.) Gohan (Dragon Ball Z)
8.) Keisaku Sato (Shakugan No Shana)
9.) Takeshi Tomoe (Project ARMS)
10.) Maxwell (Hamtaro)

It was great that this past year, Brad Swaile was a part of both the Gintama and World Trigger dubs, voicing Saito Shimaru in Gintama and Jun Arashiyama in World Trigger respectively.

Happy birthday, Brad.

Happy birthday, Brad!

Love this guy as Rock, Light, Amuro, Setsuna, Quatre and Adult Gohan.

I'll take a potato chip... and E A T I T !

I'm so HAPPY he finally got number one this week! But I wish we get to hear him some more in Anime! Brad is Justice!

So he's number one this week? I'm guessing it's because of the live action movie. Well, at least it introduced new people to the show.

Brad should be the voice for Joe Shimamura, a.k.a. Cyborg 009.

I think the director aren't giving Brad enough credit. During the scenes in Ratchet & Clank he showed a new side to his voice (at least to me) which proved that he has a great range. Such a shame that the directors are barely giving him any opportunity.

He was perfect as Light Yagami. It's ashamed that he's not in more dubs because this guy is an amazing actor.

Happy Birthday Brad Swaile!!!

Excellent as Light Yagami, Rock Okajima, Older Gohan, Amuro Ray, & Lan Hikari!!!

Happy Birthday Brad Swaile!

I'll take a potato chip... AND EAT IT! Happy Birthday, Brad Swaile! So far my favorite performances from him consist of Jin Kazama, Lan Hikari, Harry Champ, Light Yagami, Rokuro "Rock" Okajima, Brent Ernst/Slappy, Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Basara Kurofuchi, Son Gohan (Older), Amuro Ray, and Otaru Mamiya.

Happy Birthday Brad Swaile! I've recently been watching Gundam 00 and his performance as Setsuna is pretty great I gotta say.

I wish Brad gets more Anime roles some days. Happy 40TH Birthday Brad.

A big Happy Birthday to one of my most top favorite Voice Actors: Brad Swaile. Man he has got more anime roles.

Just saw he got an updated role for a movie, wonder if hes still going to be in more anime. Maybe gintama considering its being dubbed somewhere in Canada.

My favorite Vancouver voice actor he really good in all his roles especially as Rock,Amuro, Otaru, Jin Kazama, Setsuna, and Light Yagami

He is one of my favorite voice actors
Light and Quatre are my favorite roles
He was also great as Gohan,Maxwell,Nightcrawler, and Rock.
I too would love to see Brad in more Anime,but I guess it's not likely since there are so many companies in America handling dubs. I would also just like to see him in more stuff period . I heard he had a minor role in the ratchet and Clank movie

This man should be the voice of Marth.

Shoutout if Brad,Scott,Kirby,and Lisa should do more Anime.

Love him as Lan Hikari and Light Yagami.

I'm late on this but Happy Birthday Brad Swaile! loved your performances as Lan Hikari, Rock and Light Yagami!

Happy birthday Brad Swaile, the English Mamoru Miyano and Canadian Johnny Yong Bosch!

While he may not have the most flexible of vocal ranges, particuarly compared to the likes of the Dobson brothers, Brian Drummond, Peter New, Andrea Libman (yes she does show range oitside of her usual voice, thanks to MLP: FIM no less), Kathleen Barr, Don Brown, Venus Terzo, Andrew Francis, Colin Murdock, Tabitha St. Germain, Lee Tockar, Scott McNeil and Samuel Vincent, Brad's got good enough performances to make up for that (I would live to see him flex up his range though). He is also among Vancouver's most notable VAs (I would love for him to have a twitter account since many of the other Vancouver VAs do)

Although he has been acting since his late teens, his first true breakout role was Death Note's Light Yagami in 2007. At the same time it was a departure from his usual mold that was the idealistic yet whiny character. He truly fits the righteous knight templar character who uses the powers of the Death Note to kill the evils of the world, only to descend into delusion and let his ego take over him and declare himself as the God of the new world and begin killing anyone who opposes him left and right (a true example of how dangerous a Caligula archetype character can be), ultimately being being caught by the police and exposed as Kira, the very person whom he's manipulating the police to catch. In addition, his contrast with L also creates one of the greatest rivalries in anime and manga. But where he truly shines and owns the show is in the final episodes, where he gets a massive villainous breakdown and delivers one of the most harrowing evil laughs ever.

My personal favorite is Black Lagoon's Rock, a former salaryman who joins a band of pirates and descends into moral darkness as he discovers how rotten Roanapur really is.

He also made good performances in the Gundam franchise, having voiced the original protagonist Amuro Ray (though now that Gundam UC is being dubbed in LA, I'll be expecting Johnny Yong Bosch to take him over if Sunrise plans on redubbing the UC series with one uniform cast), Quatre Rabera Winner of Wing, Dearka Elsman and Anuel Neider of SEED (both of whom are also departures from his usual mold since the former is deeper voiced amd not as temperamentap and the latter is just plain crazy), and his greatest performance in the entire franchise, Setsuna F. Seiei, who is his biggest departure from his usual mold, playing the stoic pilot who grew up as a child soldier fighting wars comparable to those in real life. If Sunrise ever wants to give some Gundam dubs to Vancouver then Brad should get at least one role.

Other noteworthy performances include Son Gohan (older) of the Ocean dub of DBZ (and Im expecting him to voice him in the future Ocean dub if DBZ Kai, as well as Android 19 due to Todd Haberkorn), Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner from X-Men: Evolution, Brent Ernst/Slappy from Dead Rising 2, Jin Kazama from Street Fighter X Tekken (and I hope he reprises for Tekken 7), Ace from My Little Pony Tales, Harry Champ from Zoids New Century Zero, Takeshi Tomoe from Projects ARMS, and Keisaku Sato from Shakugan no Shana (especially when compared to Greg Ayres's version -sticks two middle fingers at Greg's version-).

My least favourite role from his is Transformers Energon's Kicker Jones, so much that he himself regretted that role. It's a shame since he could have done a good performance but it became wasted potential, just like that series. If Hasbro ever decides to give another series to Vancouver (-crosses fingers for a miniseries based off War For Cybertron and the cancelled TransTech series that will bridge G1 and the Aligned Continuity as one), Brad should get another shot at it. More likely I would like to see him appear in MLP:FIM or Dinotrux or Max Steel 2013 if they get another season.

If Funimation ever wants to branch out on their Broadcast Dubs venture (they have been thinking about it because their own studio cant contain all that forever lest they expand, which could be costly) then they should consider Vancouver a potential location to use, especially since the USD/CAD ratio is in the USD's favor (plus its cheaper than LA) and that Canada could get more games on its plate should the SAG-AFTRA strike happen, increasing Canada's demand for voiceover projects further (and thus increase the likeliness thay Brad could land a role)

Happy Birthday Brad Swaile!

A true tour-de-force in the field of voice acting, not only is he one of the strongest performers in the entire Vancouver talent pool but also one of the greatest voice actors of all-time with an amazing acting range.

His performance as Light Yagami/Kira in Death Note is truly the role of a lifetime, Light being one of the most diabolical villain protagonists in all of anime. He's such a fascinating character, on the surface he's just your ordinary student who is one of Japan's best and brightest but of course he finds the death notebook and discovers he has the power to kill, he becomes a righteous knight templar trying to kill off the evil of the world but he lets his ego go into his head and declares himself the god of the new world, and is caught in a battle of wits with the police who just want to bring him to justice. What makes Light so excellent is that he gets caught up in the investigation and pretends to help the task force to catch Kira, the dynamic Light has with L is one of the greatest rivalries I've ever seen.

I think the best part of Brad's performance as Light was in the final episode. I won't give anything away but he has this emotional villainous breakdown where he gives one of the most chilling evil laughs I've ever heard, the acting in the final episode is phenomenal and Brad steals the show...which is technically his but still. It's because of this and so much more that Death Note is my favourite English dub of any anime.

A close runner up for second place would be his performance as Rokuro "Rock" Okajima in Black Lagoon, playing a fish out of water salaryman who joins up with the Black Lagoon delivery company and his sense of morality slowly begins to get darker and more cynical as he sees just how dark and rotten the underworld really is.

He also is fantastic in The Gundam Franchise having voiced so many major characters in the entire franchise including the original protagonist Amuro Ray, as well as Quatre Raberba Winner, Dearka Elsman, Auel Neider, (both of which appeared in the same series SEED Destiny) and my personal favourite role of his in Gundam Setsuna F. Seiei, who is such a radical departure from his usual roles (yes even Light) playing a gruff, stoic former child soldier. It was a really gutsy casting choice that I thought payed off in the end, he almost wasn't even cast as Setsuna because he had done the other roles before him but he won the producers over with his performance and I'm glad he did. I hope Brad gets more oppurunities in the Gundam franchise in the future either as the villain or the Char clone.

I also loved his performances as Lan Hikari, Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Takeshi Tomoe, Son Gohan (Teen/Adult), Keisaku Sato, Maxwell, Nobunaga and Jin Kazama.

His performance as Kicker in Transformers Energon is my least favourite of his which is a shame since not only do I love Transformers but so does Brad Swaile too, I think he deserves another Transformer role because I know he can truly deliver a fantastic performance.

Happy Birthday Lan Hikari, Mousse from Ranma 1/2, Rokuro "Rock" Okajima, and Setsuna F. Seiei.

Brad Swaile is justice!

After watching half of the anime "Parasyte; the Maxin", I thought that Brad should have a shot at voicing Izumi Shinichi. What do you guys think?

I like his voice for Maxwell from Hamtaro. A sound clip of that should be added. How do I add a sound clip? Or can only moderators do that?

Brad Swaile did say he was going to do anime project soon since ai watched a video of him in an interview at Ohayocon on YouTube.

Brad Swaile is one of my top 2 #1 favorite Canadian voice actors along with Tabitha St. Germain!

One of the best, yet least prolific, male voice actors. I would love to hear him more often. He should come around to LA if he wants to continue voice acting; he would be guaranteed to be in everything.

HE IS LIGHT YAGAMI

I have got to meet Brad Swaile someday. He's one of my most faves!

I think that couldn't have found someone better to pull of Light Yagami's voice. The emotion you put into Light was amazing!

Happy Birthday Brad Swaile I like best Lan Hikari from Megaman NT Warrior

Happy birthday, Brad.

Great work in roles like Light, Amuro, Rock and Jin Kazama.

Happy birthday, Brad Swaile!

Loved your work as Lan and Gohan.

Happy Birthday, Brad, and thank you for the performances as Light Yagami, Setsuna, Rock, Nightcrawler (awesome german accent) and Harry Champ.

Since I've heard him as Kicker Jones first, I'll go with this comparison: Most of his roles that I've heard (and yes, even adult Gohan) sound like kicker in a way. Otaru Mamiya sounds just like kicker does, no difference at all.

Does anyone else think that he can make justice for Funimation, on the off-chance that he decides to work there?

He's great as light and as riuuki from te story of saiunkoku

Heard Brad Swaile in Black Lagoon! Freaking Brilliant voice acting performance!

Happy Birthday Brad Swaile
Lan: Ready Megaman Synchro Chip in Download in Crossfusion now

Happy Birthday Brad!

Why does Light Yagami not have more votes -_-

Light Yagami!!! ^_^

My friend Lan sounds like Sonic, Ash (Sarah Natochenney), and Sonic put together.

Happy Birthday Brad Swaile ^_^

I love how his voice can be whiney and innocent sounding (Kicker, Quatre, Amuro) and also sexy and sinister (Light, Setsuna)!

You... You just rock... There's no other way of putting it... You just. Rock.

I can see some new convention line requests material for Brad to be asked. Wouldn't surprise me if they were, "I shall show you fear...out of my way!" and asked to confess his love for Ling Xiaoyu. Poor Brad.

Happy Birthday, Brad!