Brina Michelle Palencia (born February 13, 1984 in Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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) is an American

United States

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 voice actress, singer, and ADR director who works for Funimation Entertainment

Funimation Entertainment

Funimation is an American entertainment company. Originally founded in 1994 by Gen Fukunaga, the company became a subsidiary of Navarre Corporation on May 11, 2005...

. She has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 films and television series.

Apart from her adult female voices, she has been cast in younger male and female roles as well. Her brother Gino Palencia also works for Funimation as an ADR Engineer and Production assistant.

Palencia attended the University of North Texas

University of North Texas

The University of North Texas is a public institution of higher education and research in Denton. Founded in 1890, UNT is part of the University of North Texas System. As of the fall of 2010, the University of North Texas, Denton campus, had a certified enrollment of 36,067...

. She can also currently be seen as one of the hosts of GameStop TV and has been cast as Dani in the 2011 short film How NOT to Quit Your Day Job.

Anime / Films roles

• Aquarion - Silvia De Alisia
• Baccano!
  Baccano!
  is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Katsumi Enami. The series, often told from multiple points of view, is mostly set within a fictional United States during various time periods, most notably the Prohibition-era. It focuses on various people, including...
  
  - Ennis
• Bamboo Blade
  Bamboo Blade
  is a Japanese manga series written by Masahiro Totsuka, and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Young Gangan starting December 3, 2004. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press. An anime adaptation by...
  
  - Sayako Kuwahara
• Baka and Test - Hideyoshi Kinoshita, Yuuko Kinoshita
• BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad
  BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad
  BECK is a manga by Harold Sakuishi published by Kodansha in Monthly Shōnen Magazine. It was adapted as an anime television series with the title BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad...
  
  - Maho Minami
• Birdy the Mighty Decode - Sayaka Nakasugi
• Black Cat
  Black Cat (manga)
  is a Japanese Shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki. It was originally serialized in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. It was later collected in twenty tankōbon volumes from January 11, 2001 to October 9, 2004. The series was adapted into a twenty-four episode anime...
  
  - Eve, Tearju Lunatique
• Black Blood Brothers
  Black Blood Brothers
  , also known as , is a light novel series written by Kōhei Azano and illustrated by Yuuya Kusaka. In 2006, Studio Live and Group TAC produced an anime based on the series. It is directed by Hiroaki Yoshikawa...
  
  - Yafuri Chao
• Black Butler - Ciel Phantomhive, Rachel Phantomhive
• Case Closed
  Case Closed
  Case Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...
  
  - Vi Graythorn
• Casshern Sins
  Casshern Sins
  is a reboot of the classic anime series Casshan, animated by Madhouse. It premiered in Japan on October 1, 2008, following a sneak preview of the first episode at Otakon 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland....
  
  - Lyuze
• Chrome Shelled Regios
  Chrome Shelled Regios
  is a Japanese light novel series by Shūsuke Amagi, with illustrations by Miyū. A short story light novel series is serialized in Dragon Magazine. A manga adaptation drawn by Miyū is serialized in the shōnen manga magazine Dragon Age Pure. A second manga adaptation drawn by Nodoka Kiyose is...
  
  - Nina Antalk
• Claymore
  Claymore (manga)
  is a dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi. The series initially premiered in the now defunct Monthly Shōnen Jump in the May 2001 issue. When the magazine was canceled in June 2007, the series was temporarily moved to Weekly Shōnen Jump where it was still published...
  
  - Priscilla
• Corpse Princess - Hokuto, Kun Osaki (Ep. 4)
• D.Gray-man
  D.Gray-man
  is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino. The series tells the story of a boy named Allen Walker, a member of an organization of Exorcists who makes use of an ancient substance called Innocence to combat the Millennium Earl and his demonic army of akuma...
  
  - Eliade
• Darker Than Black
  Darker than Black
  is an anime television series, created, directed and written by Tensai Okamura and animated by Bones. It premiered across Japan from April 5, 2007 on MBS, TBS, and its affiliated broadcast stations, with its satellite television premiere in Japan on Animax in May 2007. The music for the series is...
  
  - Yin
• Dragon Ball Z Kai - Chiaotzu, Puar
• Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies - Puar
• Dragonaut - The Resonance - Akira Souya
• El Cazador de la Bruja
  El Cazador de la Bruja
  , is an anime television series directed by Kōichi Mashimo and animated by Bee Train studio. It is a spiritual successor of Noir and Madlax and the final installment of Bee Train's "girls-with-guns" trilogy. The series was aired on TV Tokyo from April to September in 2007...
  
  - Melissa
• Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
  Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
  is a 2007 Japanese animated film written and chief directed by Hideaki Anno. It is the first of four films released in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy based on the original anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was produced and co-distributed by Anno's Studio Khara in partnership with Gainax...
  
  - Rei Ayanami
  Rei Ayanami
  is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, a Japanese anime from Gainax. She is the First Child and pilot of the Evangelion Unit 00....
  
  
• Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance - Rei Ayanami
• Fairy Tail
  Fairy Tail
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 23, 2006, and has been published by Kodansha in 29 tankōbon volumes . An ongoing anime produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight was released in Japan on October 12, 2009,...
  
  - Juvia Loxar
• Fullmetal Alchemist
  Fullmetal Alchemist
  , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution...
  
  - Nina Tucker
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Nina Tucker
• Ga-Rei: Zero - Kazuhiro Mitogawa
• The Galaxy Railways
  The Galaxy Railways
  is a 26 episode science fiction anime series about flying trains set in the far reaches of space. It is licensed by Funimation Production Ltd. and produced by Leiji Matsumoto. It debuted on American TV in a syndicated FUNimation Channel programming block airing on CoLours TV on Monday, June 19,...
  
  - Sarah
• Ghost Hunt
  Ghost Hunt
  , originally titled , is a light novel series written by Fuyumi Ono. It follows the adventures of the Shibuya Psychic Research Center as they investigate mysterious occurrences all over Japan with a team of other spiritualists and clever assistants. Although the last novel was published in 1994,...
  
  - Chiaki Kasai
• Glass Fleet - Ralph
• Gunslinger Girl
  Gunslinger Girl
  Gunslinger Girl is an ongoing manga by Yu Aida. It first premiered in the November 2002 issue of the monthly shōnen magazine Dengeki Daioh. The chapters are also being published in tankōbon volumes by ASCII Media Works. 13 volumes have been released in Japan as of April 2011...
  
  - Elsa
• Hell Girl - Ai Enma
• Heroic Age
  Heroic Age (anime)
  is a science fiction anime directed by Toshimasa Suzuki. It is produced by XEBEC and airs on Japanese television networks. The series first aired on April 1, 2007 and ended on September 30, 2007, with 26 episodes....
  
  - Bee No Bee
• Hetalia: Axis Powers
  Hetalia: Axis Powers
  is a Japanese webcomic, later adapted as a manga and an anime series, by . The series presents an allegorical trivialisation of political and historic events, particularly of the World War II era, in which the various countries are represented by stereotyped anthropomorphic characters...
  
  - Young Veneziano/Chibitalia
• Initial D
  Initial D
  is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno which has been serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine since 1995. It has been adapted into a long-running anime series by OB Planning, Studio Comet, Studio Gallop, Pastel, and A.C.G.T, and a live action film by Avex and Media Asia...
  
  - Natsuki "Natalie" Mogi (Funimation dub)
• Kaze no Stigma
  Kaze no Stigma
  or is a Japanese light novel series written by Takahiro Yamato and illustrated by Hanamaru Nanto. After the death of the author on July 20, 2009, the story remains incomplete at eleven volumes...
  
  - Nanase Kudou
• Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
  Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
  is a Japanese manga by Syun Matsuena serialized in the weekly manga magazine Shōnen Sunday.The first tankōbon was published on August 9, 2002...
  
  - Yuka Izumi
• The Machine Girl
  The Machine Girl
  is a 2008 Japanese action shock/gore film written and directed by Noboru Iguchi with special effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura . The film stars Minase Yashiro in the lead role as Ami, Asami in the role of Miki, Kentarō Shimazu as the yakuza leader Ryūgi Kimura and Honoka as his wife, Mrs. Kimura...
  
  - Ami Hyūga (English voice-over)
• Mamotte! Lollipop
  Mamotte! Lollipop
  is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by . It was serialized in the magazine Nakayoshi and published by Kodansha in Japan between February 2003 and July 2005....
  
  - Aquamarine
• Moon Phase - Kaoru Midou
• Mushishi
  Mushishi
  is a manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara, published in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1999 to August 2008.The manga was adapted into an anime television series in 2005. The Artland production was directed by Hiroshi Nagahama...
  
  - Biki (Ep. 2), Kōrō (Child) (Ep. 7), Nami (Ep. 8), Shige (Ep. 23)
• Nabari no Ou - Miharu Rokujo
• Negima! - Yue Ayase
• Oh! Edo Rocket
  Oh! Edo Rocket
  is a stage play written for the Gekidan Shinkansen theater troupe by Kazuki Nakashima. It was adapted into a TV anime series in April 2007, directed by Seiji Mizushima and produced by Studio Madhouse...
  
  - Sora
• One Piece
  One Piece
  is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 4, 1997; the individual chapters are being published in tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on December 24, 1997, and the 64th volume released as...
  
  - Tony Tony Chopper, Roronoa Zoro (Young), Carmen (Ep. 51), Rongo (Young)
• Ouran High School Host Club
  Ouran High School Host Club
  is a manga series by Bisco Hatori, serialized in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine since August 5, 2003. The series follows Haruhi Fujioka, a scholarship student at Ouran High School, and the other members of the popular host club. The romantic comedy focuses on the relationships within and without the...
  
  - Shiro Takaoji
• Romeo x Juliet
  Romeo x Juliet
  is a TV anime series, loosely based on William Shakespeare's classical play, Romeo and Juliet, along with numerous references and characters from other Shakespearean plays. Though the anime borrows mostly from Shakespeare's story, the manga adaptation differs extensively from the original...
  
  - Juliet
  Juliet
  Juliet is one of the title characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the other being Romeo. She is the daughter of old Capulet, head of the house of Capulet. The story has a long history that precedes Shakespeare himself....
  
  
• Rosario + Vampire
  Rosario + Vampire
  , often shortened to , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihisa Ikeda. The story revolves around Tsukune Aono, a boy who accidentally gets enrolled in a school inhabited by monsters and demons. He quickly befriends Moka Akashiya, a vampire who soon develops an obsession with...
  
  - Kurumu Kurono
• The Sacred Blacksmith - Elsa
• Sasami: Magical Girls Club - Tsukasa Takamine
• School Rumble
  School Rumble
  is a Japanese Shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi. First serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 22, 2002 to July 23, 2008, all 345 chapters were later collected in 22 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. Shōnen Magazine Special published a sequel, School Rumble Z,...
  
  - Mikoto Suō
• Sekirei
  Sekirei
  is a Japanese manga series by Sakurako Gokurakuin. The manga began serialization in the seinen magazine Young Gangan published by Square Enix in December 2004 and the first tankōbon was released on June 25, 2005, with ten volumes available in Japan as of June 25, 2010...
  
  - Yukari Sahashi
• Sgt. Frog
  Sgt. Frog
  Sgt. Frog, known in Japan as , is a manga series by Mine Yoshizaki. It was later serialized into a TV anime series directed by Junichi Sato. Both the anime and manga are comedies that follow the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to conquer Earth...
  
  - Tamama
• Shin-chan - Georgie
• Shuffle!
  Shuffle!
  is a Japanese visual novel developed by Navel. It was originally released as an adult game for Microsoft Windows on January 30, 2004. It was subsequently followed by an all-ages release for the PlayStation 2 and an expanded adult release for Windows...
  
  - Tsubomi
• Spice and Wolf
  Spice and Wolf
  is a Japanese light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura, with illustrations by Jū Ayakura. ASCII Media Works published 17 novels between February 2006 and July 2011 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. ASCII Media Works reported that as of October 2008, over 2.2 million copies of the first nine...
  
  - Holo
• Spice and Wolf II
  Spice and Wolf
  is a Japanese light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura, with illustrations by Jū Ayakura. ASCII Media Works published 17 novels between February 2006 and July 2011 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. ASCII Media Works reported that as of October 2008, over 2.2 million copies of the first nine...
  
  - Holo
• Speed Grapher
  Speed Grapher
  is a 2005 anime series created by Gonzo. The series ran for 24 episodes from April to October 2005 on TV Asahi. In 2006, it was licensed for release in North America by Funimation Entertainment and aired on the Independent Film Channel between March 7 and August 15, 2008...
  
  - Kikukawa
• SoltyRei
  SoltyRei
  is a Japanese anime series by Gonzo and AIC combining attributes of drama and sci-fi, about the inhabitants of a city where an Aurora prevents aerial travel...
  
  - Meryl Tyler (Ep. 4)
• Soul Eater
  Soul Eater (manga)
  is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy," the series revolves around three teams consisting of a weapon meister and human weapon...
  
  - Yumi Azusa
• Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry - Martha Shoebbeypower
• Summer Wars
  Summer Wars
  is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction romance film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, animated by Madhouse and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film's voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji and Ayumu Saitō...
  
  - Natsuki Shinohara
• Suzuka
  Suzuka (manga)
  is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kouji Seo. The series is a character-driven romance story that uses the athletics of track and field as a subplot...
  
  - Honoka Sakurai
• Trinity Blood
  Trinity Blood
  is a series of Japanese light novels written by Sunao Yoshida with illustrations by Thores Shibamoto and originally serialized in The Sneaker. Set 900 years after an apocalyptic war between humans and vampires, the series focuses on the on-going cold war between the Vatican, the human government,...
  
  - Elise Wasmeyer
• The Tower of Druaga - Ahmey
• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
  Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
  is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. It takes place in the same fictional universe as many of Clamp's other manga series, most notably xxxHolic. The plot follows how Sakura, the princess of the Kingdom of Clow, loses her soul and how Syaoran, a young...
  
  - Sumomo
• xxxHolic - Zashiki-warashi, Moro

Video Games roles

• Borderlands
  Borderlands (video game)
  Borderlands is a science fiction based first-person shooter with RPG elements that was developed by Gearbox Software for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It was first revealed in the September 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine...
  
  - Mad Moxxi
• Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley
  Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley
  Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley is an action video game developed by Twisted Pixel Games and co-published with Microsoft Game Studios. It was released for the Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace on October 6, 2010 as part of Microsoft's Game Feast promotion...
  
  - Gerda, Paper Lad, Lolo
• Dragon Ball series - Chiaotzu, Puar (2008 - present), Bulla, Arale
• Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
  Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
  , is a role-playing video game published by Square Enix for the Wii. It is an installment in the Chocobo series that focuses on Chocobo and a Cid character.-Gameplay:...
  
  - Moogle/Dungeon Hero X
• Lux-Pain
  Lux-Pain
  is a visual novel-type adventure video game developed by Killaware and published by Marvelous Entertainment for the Nintendo DS video game console. The game was released in Japan on March 27, 2008...
  
  - Rui Yamase, Lil
• The Maw
  The Maw (video game)
  The Maw received above average ratings from critics. It currently averages 75 out of 100 on Metacritic for both the Xbox 360 and PC versions. GameRankings reports similar scores of 76.06% for the Xbox 360 and 73.33% for the PC. Accolades came from outlets such as Games Radar and GamePro with...
  
  - Frank
• Monster Tale
  Monster Tale
  Monster Tale is a Nintendo DS platformer and virtual pet game developed by DreamRift and published by Majesco in 2011. It was only released in North America. It follows the story of a young girl, named Ellie, and her adventures in Monster World with her monster companion, Chomp...
  
  - Ellie
• One Piece: Unlimited Adventure
  One Piece: Unlimited Adventure
  One Piece: Unlimited Adventure is a video game for the Nintendo Wii based on the manga and anime series One Piece by Eiichiro Oda, released in Japan on April 26, 2007 and in North America on January 22, 2008.A sequel, One Piece: Unlimited Cruise, was released for the Wii in 2008.-Gameplay:Story...
  
  - Tony Tony Chopper

Staff Credits

• Black Blood Brothers
  Black Blood Brothers
  , also known as , is a light novel series written by Kōhei Azano and illustrated by Yuuya Kusaka. In 2006, Studio Live and Group TAC produced an anime based on the series. It is directed by Hiroaki Yoshikawa...
  
  (ADR Director)
• Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley
  Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley
  Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley is an action video game developed by Twisted Pixel Games and co-published with Microsoft Game Studios. It was released for the Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace on October 6, 2010 as part of Microsoft's Game Feast promotion...
  
  ("I Love U" Composer, Lyrics, Vocals)
• D.Gray-man
  D.Gray-man
  is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino. The series tells the story of a boy named Allen Walker, a member of an organization of Exorcists who makes use of an ancient substance called Innocence to combat the Millennium Earl and his demonic army of akuma...
  
  (ADR Director)
• Dragon Ball Z Kai (Music Director)
• Moon Phase (ADR Director)
• Negima!?
  Negima!?
  is an alternate retelling of the manga series Negima! Magister Negi Magi. The anime, directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, aired October 4, 2006 to March 28, 2007 in Japan. It is accompanied by a new monthly manga series by Takuya Fujima called Negima!? neo. Both series feature the same characters and...
  
  (Music Director)
• Sasami: Magical Girls Club (Music Director)
• School Rumble
  School Rumble
  is a Japanese Shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi. First serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 22, 2002 to July 23, 2008, all 345 chapters were later collected in 22 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. Shōnen Magazine Special published a sequel, School Rumble Z,...
  
  (ADR Director)
• The Tower of Druaga (ADR Director)
• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
  Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
  is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. It takes place in the same fictional universe as many of Clamp's other manga series, most notably xxxHolic. The plot follows how Sakura, the princess of the Kingdom of Clow, loses her soul and how Syaoran, a young...
  
  (ADR Director)
• xxxHolic (ADR Director)

External links

• Brina Palencia at CrystalAcids Anime Voice Actor Database