On Thursday, June 9th, voice actor, beloved member of the anime community, and Streamily family, Billy Kametz sadly passed away at the age of 35 years old. Our heartfelt and sincere condolences go out to his friends and family members. We were honored to know him and call him a friend.>
In April 2022, Billy revealed in a YouTube video that he had been diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. In a powerful and emotional message to his fans, he noted “It sucks, it’s just a freak of nature thing that happened that I just got to deal with now and we are going to do that.”
Born March 22, 1987 in Lancaster, PA, Billy moved to LA to play Aladdin in the Aladdin Musical Spectacular in Disney’s California Adventure for the final year of the show. Billy was most known for voicing characters such as Josuke in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Naofumi in The Rising of the Shield Hero, Galo in Promare, Ferdinand von Aegir in Fire Emblem 3 Houses, Takuto Maruki in Persona 5 Royal, White Blood Cell in Cells at Work, Osomatsu in Mr. Osomatsu, Anai in Aggretsuko, Blue in Pokemon Masters, Naoto Kurogane in BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Aoba in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nishikata in Teasing Master Takagi-Sand, Kyouya in Konosuba, Hakuno in Fate Extra, and Phil Coulson, Iron Lad, The Collector and Thor Noir in Marvel Avengers Academy.
Donations can be made in his honor at https://coloncancercoalition.org/