Kentaro Tone

Kentaro Tone’s Path from Hiroshima to the Booth

Growing up in Hiroshima Prefecture, Kentaro Tone spent three years of elementary school in the United States because of his father’s work, an early exposure to English that later shaped his ear for foreign dialogue. Back home, he joined the broadcasting club at Hiroshima Johoku Junior and Senior High School, then enrolled at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies to study Tagalog. Coursework took seven years to finish, partly because he was training at the Japan Narration Actor Institute at the same time. That training led to a spot at I’m Enterprise, the agency that has represented him ever since. His first credited work came in 2006, voicing digital content for an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki.

Bakuman and the Utawarerumono Franchise

Tone’s early breakthrough arrived through Akira Hattori in Bakuman, a manga-industry drama that carried his name to a wide anime audience. Around the same stretch he picked up Tetsuo Kinoshita in Danchi Tomoo and the club president in This Art Club Has a Problem! His longest-running commitment belongs to Utawarerumono, where he voices the character known across the timeline as both Oshtor and Haku, continuing into 2022’s Two White Emperors after taking over elements of the role. He also plays Zion Kunikida in Ingress: The Animation.

Games, Dubbing, and Global Franchises

Game credits pull from several major series: Bartre in Fire Emblem Heroes, Cressidus in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Galuf Baldesion in Final Fantasy XIV, and Jack Trevor in the Trails series. Japanese-dub work covers Western television imports including Desperate Housewives, NCIS, and Grey’s Anatomy. Anime roles keep stacking up too, from Sandeo in Ranking of Kings to Zach and other parts in Overlord, with a 2026 casting announcement adding a role called Week Kingsley in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.

Radio Work and Life Off Camera

Tone co-hosts bayfm’s it!! as the Monday partner, a role he has held since 2023, following an earlier run on a variety program with fellow performer Yuna Ogata. In June 2019 he married voice actress Yuka Takakura, and the couple welcomed a daughter on December 24, 2021. Fans know him by the nickname Toneken, a reference to his curly hair.