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Toshiyuki Morikawa. Do not forget this name!
Toshiyuki Morikawa (森川智之)note (born January 26, 1967) is one of the seiyuus who has been around since the old days, and currently still lends his voice to the job. He has quite a huge fanbase too (due in part to being one of the more attractive seiyuu around). He is also the current voice of Sephiroth and attended the same voice acting class with Kotono Mitsuishi. His voice range is versatile, ranging from calm and cool characters to Hot-Blooded young men to psychopathically cold villains. From badass to bishonen, he does them all just fine. Regardless of morality, if the character has White Hair, Black Heart, there's a good chance he's voicing them.Best buds with Nobuyuki Hiyama, went as far as spreading a "Hiyama abandoned me!" mass phone call to other collegues while drunk oncenote , he is also good friends with fellow seiyuu Fumihiko Tachiki and has a lot of co-workings with Nobutoshi Canna and Nozomu Sasaki.Along with Hiyama, the two of of them were involved with the birth of Show Hayami's Super Stylish Doctors Story.Notable alongside seiyuu like Yuuji Ueda and Wataru Takagi in that he did a lot of roles in most of Capcom's old video games.Killer Queen has already touched these tropes:
- Badass Baritone: You should mostly expect said character to have a deep voice.
- Baseball Is Serious Business: Morikawa was infamously known to skip work note whenever his favorite baseball team is playing the finals, and that alone would send his agency totally on flames with him.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Morikawa's the boke, while Nobuyuki Hiyama is the tsukkomi.
- Cool Teacher: Guess what? Morikawa was actually one of the voice instructors of Tomokazu Seki, Katsuyuki Konishi, and Daisuke Hirakawa before they debuted.
- Now, he's opened up his own voice acting school note AND agency note .
- Morikawa has always had a passion for education. Before taking the road of voice acting, he originally wanted to become a PE teacher. But since he was unable to take that route due to a Career-Ending Injury, he made sure to fulfill this part of his dream by training the next generation of voice actors.
- Fan Nickname: Mori-Mori, also 'The Emperor' amongsts Yaoi Fangirls due to his prolific number of appearances in BL Drama CDs.
- Kiai: To prove that he's still got it even at his old age, he screams so hotblooded that everyone thought
he's gonna break a mic again. - Lovable Jock: Coming from a sportsman background (American Football and tennis to be exact), he's a simple-minded sweet guy from cuckooland. A far cry from the characters he usually portrays.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: Takes on an average of 3 characters per anime project.
- The Southpaw
- Surprisingly Good English: He does this a lot in Nioh, though heavily accented, it's surprising that he CAN pull it off.
Notable roles by Toshiyuki Morikawa:
- Aiden Pearce in the Japanese dub of Watch_Dogs
- Akira Inugami in Wolf Guy (the manga from The '70s/ahort OAV from The '90s that would later be remade into the infamous Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest)
- Alfred Gallant in Buddy Complex
- Amari in Joker Game
- Ashiya Doman in Fate/Grand Order Cosmos in the Lostbelt
- Azuma Genkaku in Deadman Wonderland
- Basho (Hun) and Mikuri (Wallace) in Pokémon
- Also the narrator in the ORAS promotional trailer animation.
- Ghris in Pokémon: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages
- Bird #3 in Elegant Yokai Apartment Life
- Bondrewd in Made In Abyss
- Boros in One-Punch Man
- Brad Blackstone in TabooTattoo
- Carla Tsukinami in Diabolik Lovers
- Mr. Chang in Black Lagoon
- Conrad Weller in Kyo Kara Maoh!
- Cyclops in X-Men anime.
- Daiki Ninomiya in Initial D
- Dante in Devil May Cry: The Animated Series (the only time Dante has been voiced by a seiyuu)
- This continues in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition
- Reprised Dante again in Project X Zone which is also a hilarious Casting Gag when they let him partner up with Nobuyuki Hiyama as Demitri.
- Dhaos in Tales of Phantasia (succeeding the late Kaneto Shiozawa)
- Yuan in Tales of Symphonia
- Eizen in Tales of Berseria (He's playable!)
- Dio in Casshern Sins
- Duke in Brave Police J-Decker
- Edgar Allan Poe in Bungou Stray Dogs
- Emmet in the Japanese dub of The LEGO Movie
- Enel and Hatchan in One Piece
- Forbessi, the King of Demons in SHUFFLE!
- Gen'ichiro Tsukuomi in Martian Successor Nadesico, Super Robot Wars Impact and Super Robot Wars Advance Portable
- Gilbert Ross in B: The Beginning
- Goh in Saint Beast
- Gohyaan in Futari Wa Pretty Cure Splash Star
- Goro Saeki in Tokyo Xanadu
- Griffith in Berserk (1997) and Berserk: Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Shō
- Haohmaru in Samurai Spirits: Oni
- Haruto Mikami in Dream Festival!
- Hattori Hanzo in Nioh
- Hayato Kanzaki in Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, and Project X Zone 2 (Replacing Nobutoshi Canna from the first game)
- Heishiro Mitsurugi in Soul Calibur
- Hiroshi Nohara in Crayon Shin-chan (replacing Keiji Fujiwara due to health issues)
- Hiroshi Ozora in Moldiver
- Hon Fu and Bob Wilson in the Fatal Fury franchise
- Isaburo Sasaki in Gintama
- Isshin Kurosaki, Tousen Kaname and Tsubaki in the Bleach franchise
- Jackson 'Jax' Teller (Charlie Hunnam) in the Japanese dub of Sons of Anarchy
- Jeff Bogard in The King of Fighters: Destiny
- Katakura Kojuro in the Sengoku Basara series
- Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler) in the Yu-Gi-Oh! first series anime (succeeded by Hiroki Takahashi)
- Kei/Nate Nanjou in Persona 2 (was also him in the Drama CD of the first game)
- Kimimaro Kaguya and Minato "the Fourth Hokage" Namikaze in the Naruto franchise
- Kisaragi in Vexille
- Kubota Makoto in Wild Adapter
- Kuniharu Ogino in Cuticle Detective Inaba
- Kyousuke Iwaki in Haru wo Daiteita and Akizuki Keiichirou in Winter Cicada
- Kyousuke Munakata in Dangan Ronpa 3
- Kyosuke Nanbu in, Super Robot Wars Impact, Super Robot Wars Original Generations and Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden
- Leon S. Kennedy in the Japanese dub of Resident Evil 6 (as well as in the CGI movies Degeneration and Damnation).
- Leonard Scheitenberg in the infamous yaoi OVA Legend of the Blue Wolves
- Leonardo da Vinci in Assassin's Creed II
- Marco Owen in King of Thorn
- Mard Geer Tartaros in Fairy Tail
- Marshall Lee in the Japanese dub of Adventure Time
- Mummymon, Yukio Oikawa, and BelialVamdemon in Digimon Adventure 02
- Naraku in the InuYasha franchise
- Nick Wilde in the Japanese dub of Zootopia
- Ōkuninushi in Akanesasu Sekai de Kimi to Utau
- Optimus Prime in the Japanese dub of Transformers Prime
- Panda Mama in Shirokuma Cafe, it has to be seen to be believed.
- Radio in the Japanese dub of The Brave Little Toaster
- Rai in the game Lamento - beyond the void
- Ran Shuuei in Saiunkoku Monogatari (fittingly, Nobuyuki Hiyama voices Shuuei's Heterosexual Life-Partner Li Kouyuu)
- Ravage in the Japanese dub of Beast Wars
- Roberto Miura in Rival Schools
- Ryu and Charlie Nash in the Street Fighter Alpha series and the vs. Capcom series pre-Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (sometimes replaces Katashi Ishizuka for the former character during the older games) (Without any ado: "HADOUKEN!" "SONIC BOOM!")
- Hayate in Street Fighter EX2.
- Ryu Suzaku (Rick Wheeler) in F-Zero Falcon Densetsu/GP Legend (CAPTAIN FALCON!)
- Ryuichiro Isaka in Junjou Romantica and Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi
- Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, the Kingdom Hearts series, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and Dissidia: Final Fantasy.
- Seruel in Granblue Fantasy
- Sigurd in Fire Emblem Heroes
- Shagia Frost in Gundam X, Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden and Super Robot Wars Z
- Shigara in Legend of Himiko
- Suitengu in Speed Grapher
- Taiyou Manatsu in Captain Earth
- Takaya Aiba/D-Boy/Tekkaman Blade in the Tekkaman Blade franchise (Not only is this his debut role, this is also the role where he gained a lot of infamy by breaking a recording microphone on two separate occasions while screaming VOLTEKKKKKAAAAAAA!!!!!)
- Takayanagi Mitsuomi in Tenjho Tenge
- Takumi Ichinose in Nana
- Tatsumi Seiichirou in Descendants of Darkness
- Tatsuo Shinada in Yakuza
- Terrific Forelock in Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken
- Wise God Torin/Kyoryu Silver and his Evil Twin in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger and appears before the camera as Torin's human disguise in #43. He even sings Torin's theme song as Kyoryu Silver, Senkou no Brave.
- Toma in Genesis of Aquarion
- Toshizou Hijikata in Bakumatsu Rock
- Tyki Mikk in D.Gray-Man
- Tyrion Lannister in the Japanese dub of Game of Thrones
- Ugo in Magi – Labyrinth of Magic
- Volg Zangief in Hajime no Ippo
- Yoshikage Kira in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Replacing Rikiya Koyama who previously voiced him in the video game adaptations)
- Diavolo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven (who replaced Mitsuru Miyamoto from the PS2 game of Part 6).
- Yamazaki Susumu in Wasurenagusa
- Yukimura Sanada in Brave10
- Yuri (The Man) in Infinite Space
- Yunihiko in Damekko Doubutsu
- The eponymous John Wick in his Japanese dub
SHINKUUUUU HADOOOOOOOOOOOUKEN!!!!! SONIC-SONIC-SONIC-SONIC BREAK! *bzzt!* Oh no! The mic! I should have been the one to fill the mic's dark soul with LIIIIIIGGGHT!!!
