Departures of note

Hiroshi Tsuchida was a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce. He made his acting debut in 1994 as Saizo/Ninja Blue in the Super Sentai series Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, and from the late 1990s worked mainly as a voice actor and narrator. He was best known as the Japanese dub voice of Lightning McQueen in the Disney-Pixar Cars film series and as Grisha Jaeger in the anime Attack on Titan. His extensive voice work spanned anime such as Naruto, One Piece, Steins;Gate and Pocket Monsters, as well as Japanese dubbing roles for actors including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Owen Wilson and Matt Damon. Tsuchida died of heart failure on October 11, 2026, at the age of 54.