Ayumu Murase

is a Japanese voice actor who was formerly affiliated with the agency VIMS. He is especially known for voicing younger boys, even women with his high-pitched androgynous voice.

Biography Murase was born in the United States, but grew up in Aichi, Japan. He lived in Aichi until graduating from high school, after which he attended university in Kyoto Prefecture. Later, he moved to Tokyo.

After showing an interest in theatre, Murase joined the Japan Narration Actors Institute with the aim of becoming a voice actor. In 2011, he made his debut as a voice actor in the role of a male student in the TV anime Persona 4: The Animation. The following year, he played the first main character in the role of Shun Aonuma (14 years old) in From the New World. In 2014, he starred in the role of Shoyo Hinata in Haikyu!!.

In 2016, Murase won the Seiyu Award for Best Male Rookie.

Murase left VIMS and established his own agency Aster Nine on April 30, 2023.

Filmography

Television animation Year Series Role Source(s) 2012 From the New World Shun Aonuma (14 years old) Kids on the Slope Shigetora Maruo My Little Monster Takaya Mizutani, Haru Yoshida (young) Sword Art Online Shinichi Nagata/Recon 2013 Gatchaman Crowds Rui Ninomiya Love Lab Yū Yamazaki Majestic Prince Patrick Hoyle My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Taishi Kawasaki Nagi no Asukara Atsushi Minegishi 2014 Chaika - The Coffin Princess Guy Fairy Tail Uosuke Future Card Buddyfight Ryo Mobutani, Kakumo Maihama Gundam Build Fighters Try Toshiya Shiki (Team SD-R) Haikyu!! Shoyo Hinata Invaders of the Rokujyōma!? Kotarō M3 the dark metal Heito Isaku Mysterious Joker Joker Nobunaga Concerto Mori Ranmaru Nobunagun Antoni Gaudí Noragami Manabu Ogiwara Parasyte Joe Silver Spoon Kenta Ishiyama The Irregular at Magic High School Shinkurō Kichijōji Wolf Girl and Black Prince Yuu Kusakabe Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Halil 2015 Assassination Classroom Yūji Norita Castle Town Dandelion Haruka Sakurada Concrete Revolutio Yumihiko Otonashi Durarara!!x2 Neko Gangsta. Wallace "Worick" Arcangelo (young) Gatchaman Crowds insight Rui Ninomiya Haikyu!! 2 Shoyo Hinata Kamisama Kiss◎ Year God Makura no Danshi Haruto Enokawa Mysterious Joker Season 2 Joker Noragami Aragoto Manabu Ogiwara Overlord Nfirea Bareare Show by Rock!! Riku The Testament of Sister New Devil Burst Luka Ushio and Tora Baldanders Utawarerumono: The False Faces Kiuru 2016 Ajin: Demi-Human Tito Bananya Bananyako, Tabby Bananya, Mackerel Bananya, Baby Bananya, Bananya Bunch, The Mice Battery Fumito Sawaguchi Bungo Stray Dogs Sergeant Sugimoto Cheer Boys!! Ryūzō Sakuma Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song Yumihiko Otonashi D.Gray-man Hallow Allen Walker Divine Gate Bruno, Sigurd First Love Monster Kazuo Noguchi Go! Princess PreCure Prince Haikyū!! Karasuno High School vs Shiratorizawa Academy Shoyo Hinata Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto Yuto Mysterious Joker Seasons 3 and 4 Joker Nobunaga no Shinobi Sukezo Servamp Hugh the Dark Algernon III Shōnen Maid Madoka Takatori (teenage) Super Lovers Ikuyoshi Sasaki Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru Sayo Samonji Twin Star Exorcists Yuto Ijika Yuri!!! on Ice Kenjirō Minami 2017 Altair: A Record of Battles Tuğril Mahmut ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. Acca-kun Altair: A Record of Battles Mahmut Black Clover Luck Voltia Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga Karura ēlDLIVE Chūta Kokonose Hand Shakers Masaru Hojo Kamiwaza Wanda Naisu Super Lovers 2 Ikuyoshi Sasaki The Ancient Magus' Bride Cartaphilius/Joseph 2018 Banana Fish Skip Devilman Crybaby Ryo Asuka Doreiku Taiju Nakano Hinomaru Sumo Kei Mitsuhashi Inazuma Eleven: Ares Asuto Inamori Iroduku: The World in Colors Chigusa Fukasawa Last Period Gajeru, Tori Himemiya Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation Tōru Muhyō Nil Admirari no Tenbin: Teito Genwaku Kitan Hitaki Kuze Pop Team Epic Joseph (ep 9a) Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san Azarashi The Thousand Musketeers Nicola and Noël Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru 2 Sayo Samonji Yarichin Bitch ClubKyōsuke Yaguchi 2019 Ace of Diamond Act II Kaoru Yui Bananya: Fushigi na Nakamatachi Bananyako, Tabby Bananya, Mackerel Bananya, Baby Bananya, Bananya Bunch, The Mice Case File nº221: Kabukicho Maki Hokari Dr. Stone Ginro Ensemble Stars! Tori Himemiya Kochoki: Wakaki Nobunaga Oda Hidetaka My Roommate is a Cat Hachi Sarazanmai Kazuki Yasaka Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Iruma Suzuki 2020 Attack on Titan: The Final Season Udo Haikyu!! To the Top Shoyo Hinata Infinite Dendrogram Hugo Lesseps Ikebukuro West Gate Park Mitsuki Fujimoto Kakushigoto Kakeru Keshi Listeners Echo Rec Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation Season 2 Tōru Muhyō Number24 Yū Mashiro 2021 Backflip!! Mashiro Tsukiyuki Battle Game in 5 Seconds Akira Shiroyanagi Burning Kabaddi Yūki Hitomi How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Ω Sanro I-Chu: Halfway Through the Idol Kokoro Hanabusa Kemono Jihen Akira Megaton Musashi Kota Akutagawa Nintama Rantarō Haniwa Sekito Pretty Boy Detective Club Manabu Sōtōin Ranking of Kings Kage Show by Rock!! Stars!! Riku The Case Study of Vanitas Astolfo Granatum The Faraway Paladin Menel World Trigger 2nd Season Reghindetz 2022 Love of Kill Jinon Ninjala Kappei Salaryman's Club Ayato Misora She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man Solomon Prima Doll Nagi Tōma Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth Kiuru My Master Has No Tail Sakujiro Chainsaw Man Aki Hayakawa (young) 2023 The Vampire Dies in No Time 2 Mikazuki Kaina of the Great Snow Sea Yaona Trigun Stampede Elendira the Crimsonnail Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure Tsubasa Yuunagi/Cure Wing Skip and Loafer Kento Yamada I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too Shingo Kurata Am I Actually the Strongest? Hart Zenfis Sweet Reincarnation Pastry Mill Morteln Ragna Crimson Crimson Migi & Dali Dali Paradox Live the Animation Yeon Hajun Shy Mian Long Dead Mount Death Play Arius Sabaramond Undead Unluck Chikara Shigeno 2024 Four Knights of the Apocalypse Tristan Delicious in Dungeon Yaad I Parry Everything Rolo Tower of God 2nd Season Mule Love I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History Finn Smith Haigakura Heikan Okaimono Panda! Puchomaru Blue Miburo Seto Delico's Nursery Sophie Anderson 2025 I'm a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic Liam Promise of Wizard Mitile Ishura Season 2 Mestelexil the Box of Desperate Knowledge Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Disturbance Honjō Kamatari Classic Stars Lost Schumann #Compass 2.0: Combat Providence Analysis System Tesla Dekin no Mogura Kyōshirō Nekozuku Reincarnated as a Neglected Noble: Raising My Baby Brother with Memories from My Past Life Igor The Water Magician Ryō Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Dora Sanda Kazushige Sanda 2026 There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her Raven Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers Musashi Hōjō Petals of Reincarnation A. Hitler An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess Shawn Turquoin Alphasta Daemons of the Shadow Realm Gabriel, Scavenger, Kodetsu, Jiro, Ohagi, Daifuku, Asagiri, Fujin, Raijin Nippon Sangoku Tonotsugu Taira Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? Arata Kōda Scum of the Brave Lord Hazeru Seito Goodbye, Lara Luca The Elusive Samurai Shiba Ienaga Uncle's Obsession with Cute Things Masumi Nii Suikoden: The Anime Luc 2027 Inherit the Winds Tōdō Heisuke Shōzen Chiro Soara and the House of Monsters Kirik TBA Now That We Draw Yuuki Uehara

Theatrical animation Year Title Role Source 2015 The Empire of Corpses Friday 2018 Servamp -Alice in the Garden- Hugh 2018 Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Tied to the Temporal World Daisuke Yūki 2022 Goodbye, Don Glees! Shizuku "Drop" Sakuma 2022 Blue Thermal Eita Narihara 2022 Backflip!! Mashiro Tsukiyuki 2022 The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Tristan (teenager) 2022 Drifting Home Noppo 2023 Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine Pinga 2023 Sailor Moon Cosmos Sailor Aluminum Siren 2023 Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King Luck Voltia 2023 The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store Barbary Lion 2023 My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Movie Qumiit 2024 Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle Shoyo Hinata 2024 Fuuto PI: The Portrait of Kamen Rider Skull Shōtarō Hidari (young) 2024 Pui Pui Molcar The Movie MOLMAX Canon 2025 Dive in Wonderland Tweedledee 2026 Paris ni Saku Étoile Thomas

Original video animation (OVA) Haikyu!! (2014), Shoyo Hinata Yarichin Bitch Club (2018), Kyōsuke Yaguchi

Original net animation (ONA) Sword Gai The Animation (2018), Kuromaru Baki the Grappler (2018), Gaia The Heike Story (2021), Taira no Atsumori Spriggan (2022), Colonel McDougal Record of Ragnarok II (2023), Zerofuku Sand Land: The Series (2024), Muniel

Multimedia Project Paradox live / BAE (2019) (48 / Yeon Hajun) Clock over orquesta (2021) (Tenma Rikka) VS AMBIVALENZ (2021) (Auguri & Futaba)

Video games Puzzle & Dragons (2012) (Suou) Azure Striker Gunvolt (2014) (Nova/Shiden) J-Stars Victory Vs (2014) (Shōyō Hinata) Granblue Fantasy (2014) (Hal, Ulamnuran) THE iDOLM@STER: SideM (2014) (Kanon Himeno) Hamatora: Look at Smoking World (2014) (Pero) I-Chu (2015) (Kokoro Hanabusa) Ensemble Stars! (2015) (Tori Himemiya) Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (2015) (Yuugo Kamishiro) Sword Art Online: Lost Song (2015) (Recon/Shinichi Nagata) Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE (2015) (Gordin) Touken Ranbu (2015) (Sayo Samonji) Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception (2015) (Kiuru) Street Fighter V (2016) (Sean Matsuda) Mighty No. 9 (2016) (Beck) Pokémon Sun and Moon (2016) (Wishiwashi) Final Fantasy XV (2016) (Talcott (teenage)) Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (2016) (Kiuru) Pop'n Music Usagi to Neko to Shōnen no Yume (2016) (NAVI) Cocktail Prince (2017) (Caipirinha & Caipiroska) Fire Emblem Heroes (2017) (Gordin and Soren) Sengoku Night Blood (2017) (Sasuke Sarutobi) Super Bomberman R (2017) (Green Bomberman) Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017) (Corvin/Kamuya) Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory (2017) (Yuugo Kamishiro) Food Fantasy (2018) (Double Scoop & Long Bao) Dragalia Lost (2018) (Irfan) Ikemen Revolution (2016) (Loki Genetta) Chrono Ma:Gia (2018) (Leo Bloomfield) Dragon: Marked for Death (2019) (Shinobi) (Voice D) Bleach: Brave Souls (2018) (Hikone Ubuginu) Alchemia Story (2018) (Als) Grand Chase Dimensional Chaser (2018) (Ronan Erudon) Onmyoji (2019) (Ungaikyou) Edge of Awakening (2019) (Shiou) Pokémon Masters (2019) (Wally) World Flipper (2019) (Adoni) Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku (2019) (Mitile) Ninjala (2020) (Kappei) Genshin Impact (2020) (Venti) Fate/Grand Order (2021) (Setanta) Rune Factory 5 (2021) (Cecile) Arknights (2021) (Mizuki) Identity V (2021) (Victor Grantz) Helios Rising Heroes (2021) (Leonard Wright Jr.) Fuga: Melodies of Steel (2021) (Malt Marzipan) Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team (2017) (Aoi Shingo) Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon (2023) (Lukaon) Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 (2023) (Malt Marzipan) Shuten Order (2025) (Teko Ion)

Live-action films Acma:Game: The Final Key (2024) (voice of Baleia) Meets the World (2025) (voice of an anime character)

Tokusatsu Avataro Sentai Donbrothers Don Murasame (Voice)

Dubbing Live-action The 100 (Monty Green (Christopher Larkin)) Aquaman (Young Arthur (Thirteen Years Old) (Otis Dhanji)) Beasts of No Nation (Agu (Abraham Attah)) Boychoir (Stetson "Stet" Tate (Garrett Wareing)) Daniel Isn't Real (Luke Nightingale (Miles Robbins)) Daredevil (Matt Murdock (young) (Skylar Gaertner)) The Dark Tower (Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor)) Euphoria (Ashtray (Javon "Wanna" Walton)) Falling Skies (season 4 onwards) (Matt Mason (Maxim Knight)) The Flash (Wally West/Kid Flash (Keiynan Lonsdale)) The Games Maker (Ivan Drago (David Mazouz)) How to Train Your Dragon (Fishlegs Ingerman (Julian Dennison)) Insidious: Chapter 2 (Dalton Lambert (Ty Simpkins)) Jurassic World (2017 NTV edition) (Gray Mitchell (Ty Simpkins)) The Last Ship (Ray Diaz (Adam Irigoyen)) The Maze Runner (Chuck (Blake Cooper)) A Minecraft Movie (Henry (Sebastian Hansen)) The Monkey (Hal and Bill Shelburn (young) (Christian Convery)) Once Upon a Time (Baelfire (young) (Dylan Schmid)) Paper Towns (Benjamin "Ben" Starling (Austin Abrams)) Rent (Angel Dumott Schunard (Wilson Jermaine Heredia)) Shazam! (2021 THE CINEMA edition) (Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer)) St. Vincent (Robert Ocinski (Dario Barosso)) Uncharted (Young Nathan Drake (Tiernan Jones))

Animation The Boss Baby: Family Business (Connie, Bad Idea Baby) Dragon Raja: The Blazing Dawn (Lu Mingze) Mechamato (Amato) Sing (Howie) Thunderbirds Are Go (Alan Tracy)