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Last year, the friends of late voice actor Billy Kametz organized a charity video game stream in his honor. They ultimately raised $16,000 for the Colon Cancer Coalition, beating their fundraising goal over the course of a 12-hour Super Mario 64 stream. Since last year's Billy Kametz 120 Star Challenge was such a success, Billy's friends decided to make it an annual event. Playing Super Mario 64 all day can take a lot out of a player, though, so this year they're mixing it up with more of Billy's favorite games. The event will run from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday, May 25, 2024 , and will be available to stream on YouTube. It all starts with a competitive speedrun of the original Super Mario Bros. on Nes, as each player attempts to beat the game the fastest—with warps allowed—or get the farthest in 10 minutes. After that it's on...

Video game and anime voice actor Billy Kametz has died at the age of 35.

Kametz had a long list of credits that included voicing the main role of Josuke Higashikata in "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable," as well as the characters of Ari in "Vinland Saga," Niccolo in the "Attack on Titan" anime series, Rui in the "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" series, and Shigeru Aoba in the 2019 English re-dub of "Neon Genesis Evangelion." At the 4th annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2020, he won Best Voice Actor Performance (English) for his performance as Naofumi Iwatani in "The Rising of the Shield Hero"...

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Billy Kametz, a popular voice actor best known for his work on anime and video games like “Fire Emblem” and “Pokémon Masters,” died Thursday at age 35, according to the Patriot News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In an April YouTube video, the Hershey, Pennsylvania, native revealed that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer, which he said had spread to his liver, lungs and spine.

Kametz voiced Ferdinand Von Aegir in Nintendo’s “Fire Emblem: Three Houses” and “Fire Emblem Heroes,” as well as Blue in “Pokémon Masters.” He earned a Crunchyroll Award for Best English-Language Voice Acting Performance for playing Naofumi in the anime series “The Rising of the Shield Hero.”

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Kametz, who dreamed of becoming an actor since his early childhood, got his break with Disney as part of the entertainment staff on a Disney cruise line...

Tributes have been paid across social media to voice actor Billy Kametz, following his death from colon cancer.

The 35-year-old actor was well-known within the anime and video game industry. For his role of Naofumi Iwatani in The Rising of the Shield Hero in 2019, Kametz won Best Voice Actor Performance (En) at the 4th Crunchyroll Anime Awards. He also voiced characters in anime series such as Attack on Titan, Boruto, Demon Slayer, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (Josuke Higashkata), Pokémon Journeys (Ren) and Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shigeru Aoba).

Kametz was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and got his break with Disney as part of the entertainment staff on the Disney cruise line. He later moved to California when he was offered the role of Aladdin in Disneyland’s Musical Spectacular.

Earlier this year, he announced he would be taking a break from acting and moving home to Hershey, Pennsylvania, following his cancer diagnosis.

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