is a Japanese voice actor

Seiyu

Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and...

 who was formerly affiliated with I'm Enterprise

I'm Enterprise

is a voice talent management firm in Japan.-Female:*Mayako Nigo*Tomomi Hayasaka*Yōko Hikasa*Hiromi Hirata*Yōko Honda*Akiko Iijima*Asaka Imai*Michi Imase*Momoko Ishikawa*Yui Itsuki*Kumi Kawai*Yukiko Kikuchi*Rie Kugimiya*Natsuko Kuwatani*MAKO...

 and Pro-Fit. He is the only "live-action" character (as he played "himself" in Lucky ☆ Star) in the Newtype Anime magazine to be featured in the Monthly Top-10 Most-Popular Male Character charts. He played himself in Episode 6 of Kiddy Girl-and

Kiddy Girl-and

is a 2009 sequel to the science fiction anime series Kiddy Grade, created by gímik and Satelight and directed by Keiji Gotoh. The manga adaptation , illustrated by Yukari Higa, has been running in Comp Ace since the May 2009 issue, and the first tankōbon was released on 26 September...

as a voice actor in a voice actor cafe.

Minoru got married on August 9, 2011 to a woman in which Minoru chooses to have her remain anonymus.

Notable voice roles

• Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
  Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshio Sawai, published by Shueisha, and serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine...
  
  (Super Rabbit, Chikuwan)
• D.N.Angel
  D.N.Angel
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yukiru Sugisaki. The ongoing manga premiered in Japan in the Kadokawa Shoten shōjo magazine Monthly Asuka in November 1997. The series went on an extended hiatus after the August 2005 issue, returning in the April 2008 issue...
  
  (Takeshi Saehara)
• Fafner of the Azure
  Fafner of the Azure
  is a 26-episode anime series produced by Xebec. The story focuses on a group of children who pilot the titular Fafners in an escalating war against giant aliens called Festum. The anime is subtitled Dead Aggressor...
  
  (Kenji Kondo)
• Mahou Sensei Negima
  Negima! Magister Negi Magi
  Negima! Magister Negi Magi, known in Japan as is a manga and anime series by Ken Akamatsu . The manga is currently being published by Kodansha and serialized in Shōnen Magazine in Japan. Del Rey Manga published the English translated version in the United States and Canada prior to Kodansha...
  
  (Seruhiko-sensei)
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Taniguchi)
• The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya/Nyorōn Churuya-san (Taniguchi/Kimidori-san)
• Lucky ☆ Star (Himself/Sebastian)
• Ga-rei -Zero-
  Ga-rei
  , also simply known as Ga-rei, is a supernatural action manga by . It has been serialized by Kadokawa Shoten in the magazine Monthly Shōnen Ace and collected in twelve tankōbon volumes...
  
  (Kazuki Sakuraba, Kensuke Nimura)
• Saki (Announcer, Vice-president)
• Seitokai Yakuindomo
  Seitokai Yakuindomo
  is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Tozen Ujiie. The series premiered in the June 2007 issue of Magazine Special magazine and is ongoing. Chapters are collected and published in collected volumes by Kodansha, with five volumes released as of October 2011 in Japan...
  
  (Kenji)
• Nichijou
  Nichijou
  is a Japanese comedy manga by . The manga began serialization in the December 2006 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's manga magazine Shōnen Ace, and was also serialized in Comptiq between the March 2007 and July 2008 issues. An anime adaptation by Kyoto Animation aired in Japan between April and September...
  
  (Sakamoto)
• Sid (Steins;Gate
  Steins;Gate
  is a Japanese visual novel developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, and was released on October 15, 2009 for the Xbox 360. This is the two companies' second time collaborating together after Chaos;Head. A port to the Windows operating system on the PC was released on August 26, 2010 and a port for Sony's...
  
  )

External links

• Minoru Shiraishi at Pro-Fit (Japanese)
• Minoru Shiraishi at Ryu's Seiyuu Infos