Please welcome Christopher Sabat, the man behind the voices of some of the most memorable and powerful anime characters of the last two decades, including Dragonball Z, One Piece, YuYu Hakusho, and My Hero Academia to the Washington State Summer Con in Puyallup from June 21st through the 23rd.
Christopher booked his first anime role as Yamcha on Sleeping Princess in Devil’s Castle, a direct-to-VHS Dragonball feature. Soon after, he took on the task of casting and directing the Dragonball Z series to its completion while also performing many of the main characters as Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Kami, Zarbon, Recoome, Burter, and many others.
Over the years, Christopher brought many classic characters to life including Zoro in One Piece, Kuwabara in YuYu Hakusho, Alex Luis Armstrong in Fullmetal Alchemist, Elfman in Fairy Tail, Ayame Sohma in Fruits Basket, Saiga Tatsumi in Speed Grapher, Kurogane in Tsubasa Chronicles, Daisuke Jigen in Lupin III, Father Tres in Trinity Blood, Braun in Stiens Gate, Giroro in Sgt Frog, Rundas in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Garterbelt in Panty and Stocking, Sakaki in Kenichi, Masa in My Bride is a
Mermaid, Saito in Darker Than Black, Kitz Woerman in Attack on Titan, Alex D in Deus Ex: Invisible War, Kyoma Mabuchi on Dimension W, Rath and Geoff in Gearbox’s Battleborn, Batou in the Ghost In The Shell: Arise series, Goro Sasabe in Free! Eternal Summer, Sakuya Togane in Psycho-Pass, Jason in Tokyo Ghoul, and Mondo in Dangan Ronpa.
Most recently, he can be heard as the epic Allmight on My Hero Academia, Yami in Black Clover, Artur Watts in RWBY, Despa in Ranking of Kings, and as the “gruff” player character option in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands.