Tomura Shigaraki is the main antagonist of Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia, the hit manga and anime that began in 2014. His unstable, scratchy laugh, voiced by Kōki Uchiyama in Japanese and Eric Vale in the English dub, became one of the character's defining traits. As the series grew into a global anime phenomenon, the cackle was ripped into countless anime meme edits and villain compilations, sitting alongside anime staples like the Za Warudo time stop and the classic anime ahh as instant shorthand for unhinged evil.