Kirk Thornton

Kirk Thornton is an American voice actor, director and script writer working mainly with English-language versions of Japanese anime shows. His major roles include Brandon Heat in Gungrave, Hotohori in Fushigi Yūgi, Jin in Samurai Champloo, Hajime Saito in Rurouni Kenshin, Jet Link in Cyborg 009, Don Patch in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Ensign Nogami in The Cockpit, and numerous Digimon. Additionally, Thornton co-directed for the popular anime series Bleach alongside Wendee Lee, and also serves as the narrator. In video games, he voices Number VII Organization XIII member Saïx in the Kingdom Hearts series and Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, He is the colonel of a Grand Alliance strike team during the raid of Nolte Geschwefel's Castle and later hunting down James Reid and Nadine Lustre in a operation commenced by Mike Toreno