Casey Mongillo is an American voice actor who has played roles in
animation and video games. Mongillo is best known for portraying lead
character Shinji Ikari in the Netflix English dub of Neon Genesis
Evangelion in 2019 and also played Shou Suzuki in the dub of Mob
Psycho 100's anime adaptation.In 2019, Mongillo voiced the main
character Shinji Ikari in the Netflix dub of the anime series Neon
Genesis Evangelion, replacing Spike Spencer, who played the part in
the original ADV Films dub. Mongillo tweeted that playing Shinji was
"one of the greatest honors of my life".Noel Kirkpatrick of TV Guide
praised Mongillo's portrayal of Shinji, saying they excelled at
switching "between sarcasm and sadness, delight and detachment", and
that they did "a better job of capturing Shinji's pre-teen voice" than
Spencer. Aja Romano of Vox wrote that it was laudable that Netflix
cast a non-binary actor to play Shinji. Carol Grant, in an opinion
piece for Vice, wrote that Shinji being played by a trans actor made
the series feel more queer, saying that "Mongillo's delivery captures
the delicate interplay between the masculine and feminine aspects of
Shinji's voice and personality, bringing his bodily and gendered
anxieties to life".
animation and video games. Mongillo is best known for portraying lead
character Shinji Ikari in the Netflix English dub of Neon Genesis
Evangelion in 2019 and also played Shou Suzuki in the dub of Mob
Psycho 100's anime adaptation.In 2019, Mongillo voiced the main
character Shinji Ikari in the Netflix dub of the anime series Neon
Genesis Evangelion, replacing Spike Spencer, who played the part in
the original ADV Films dub. Mongillo tweeted that playing Shinji was
"one of the greatest honors of my life".Noel Kirkpatrick of TV Guide
praised Mongillo's portrayal of Shinji, saying they excelled at
switching "between sarcasm and sadness, delight and detachment", and
that they did "a better job of capturing Shinji's pre-teen voice" than
Spencer. Aja Romano of Vox wrote that it was laudable that Netflix
cast a non-binary actor to play Shinji. Carol Grant, in an opinion
piece for Vice, wrote that Shinji being played by a trans actor made
the series feel more queer, saying that "Mongillo's delivery captures
the delicate interplay between the masculine and feminine aspects of
Shinji's voice and personality, bringing his bodily and gendered
anxieties to life".
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