
Describe Mamoru Miyano (宮野 真守, born June 8, 1983 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan) here.
Tall, handsome, gentleman, and he's Gundam.
But, in an industry not known for having men with killer looks, this lad is one of them. While his vocal range is rather low his acting skills are impressive, going from The Chessmaster known as Light Yagami in Death Note, to the Idiot Hero Bishounen Tamaki of Ouran High School Host Club. Basically he's capable of acting as just about any type of character.
Before becoming a voice actor, he was a musical stage actor, having performed in The Prince of Tennis musicals as Fudomine player Tetsu Ishida. His very first voice acting role was Riku of Kingdom Hearts, and his career just kept going from there. Recently, he lends his voice to Gym Leader Cilan of Pokémon and Shin Kamiya in Tekken: Blood Vengeance. In spite of his full-time career as a voice actor, he still lends his performances to musicals every once in a while, most notably as Dio Brando in the Screen-to-Stage Adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood.
He's known to work alongside Maaya Sakamoto as well, and rumors of an offscreen romance between the two of them floated around for years, but he married another girl (she herself married their fellow voice actor Kenichi Suzumura recently). He and Sakamoto most recently appeared together in Tekken: Blood Vengeance. He also appears alongside Miyu Irino, usually as friends or rivals.
Aside from the aforementioned Sakamoto, Suzumura and Irino, he has also worked with Hiroshi Kamiya, Yūichi Nakamura, Jun Fukuyama, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Romi Park, Daisuke Namikawa, Daisuke Ono, Takahiro Sakurai, Kappei Yamaguchi and Yūki Kaji in a few roles.
In December 2008, he announced that he was to be married and his then fiancée was pregnant (a big deal for him, since health problems were this close to rendering poor Miyano sterile). This produced a nerd rage by his rabid Fangirls which was a sight to behold. In 2013 he confessed he can't swim amusing as he voices both Rin from Free! and voices over Percy Jackson in the Japanese dubs of the Percy Jackson films.
Thanks to a few of his roles, he practically is a Fountain of Memes. Just take a look at this trope page for example.
Before we go to his roles, I'll take that potato chip... AND EAT IT!!!
- Abidos in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
- Abner Krill/Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian) in the Japanese dub of The Suicide Squad
- Agnum Bulletheart in Shining Resonance
- Alucard in Castlevania: Judgment (replacing Ryōtarō Okiayu, possibly because of casting Yuri Lowenthal as Alucard in the PSP port of Symphony of the Night, which requires a more 'youngster' voice)
- Amai Mask in One-Punch Man
- Angus "Mac" McGyver (Lucas Till) in the Japanese dub of MacGyver (2016)
- Aoi Kaji, Kei Tsukishiro and Sei Amamiya in La Corda d'Oro
- Arsène Lupin in Undead Girl Murder Farce
- Atsuki Saijo in Lux-Pain
- Atsumu Miya in Haikyuu!!
- Benimaru Shinmon in Fire Force
- Berg Katse in Gatchaman Crowds
- Biba Amatori in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
- Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller) in the Japanese dub of Top Gun: Maverick
- Chaozii Han in D.Gray-Man
- Chrollo Lucilfer in Hunter × Hunter (2011)
- Cinque/Sink/Shinku Izumi in Dog Days
- d'Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino) in the Japanese dub of The Musketeers
- Dagas in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Death the Kid in Soul Eater and Soul Eater Not!
- Dent (Cilan) in Pokémon the Series: Black & White
- Lear in Pokémon Masters
- Dio Brando in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood musical
- Doma in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- Doug Hummer in Blood Blockade Battlefront
- Eiji Kanda in Antique Bakery
- Elza/Zael in The Last Story
- Epsilon in Pluto
- Ferocious Knight D in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger and Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Gaburincho of Music
- Flynn Scifo in Tales of Vesperia and Project × Zone
- Gakushuu Asano in Assassination Classroom and Koro-Sensei Quest!
- Gamma 2 in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
- Gilthunder in The Seven Deadly Sins
- Giryou in Ushio and Tora
- H-neun in Valvrave the Liberator
- Hakuba Saguru in Magic Kaito 1412
- Haru Kato in The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED
- Haruo Sakaki in the Godzilla anime trilogy
- Haruto Sakuraba in Eyeshield 21
- Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde, Charles-Henri Sanson, and Sir Bedivere in Fate/Grand Order
- Hisashi Igou in High School Of The Dead
- Ignis Scientia in Final Fantasy XV
- Illumination Entertainment's Japanese dubs:note
- Antonio Perez in Despicable Me 2
- Clive the Robot in Despicable Me 3
- Eddie Noodleman in Sing!
- Herb Overkill and Dr. Flux in Minions
- Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- The Narrator in The Grinch (2018)
- Tiberius in The Secret Life of Pets and Sergei in the sequel
- Ted Wiggins in The Lorax (2012)
- Iketeru Daga in Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan
- Jean-Jacques Leroy in Yuri!!! on Ice
- Joker in Black Butler Book of Circus
- Juan Díaz in the Captain Tsubasa smartphone game Tatakau Dream Team
- Kairi and Sefir in 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams
- Kamui in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- Tokyo Revelations OVA.
- Kaoru Ijun in Tada Never Falls in Love
- Keigo Tatewaki in Jewelpet (2009)
- Kei Nagai in Ajin
- Kento Miura in Kimi ni Todoke
- Kiba in Wolf's Rain
- Killia in Disgaea 5 (He even sings the opening song!)
- Konoha/Haruka Kokonose and Kuroha in Kagerou Project
- Kotaro Tatsumi and Kiichi Momozaki in Zombie Land Saga
- Kouga Amagi in Zetman
- Kouji Ibuki in The Movie of Cardfight!! Vanguard. He also sings "SHOUT!", the opening theme of G Stride Gate.
- He also voices Kouji Ibuki in Cardfight!! Vanguard G as well as the 2018 reboot series (Also known as the "V series").
- Kuon Sumeragi in Daemon Bride
- Kuro in Kurozuka
- Kurou Sakuragawa in In/Spectre
- Leo in Fire Emblem Fates
- Light Yagami in Death Note
- Ling Yao in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- Madenokōji Arikoto in Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
- Maruo Hyakki in Young Black Jack
- Masaomi Kida in Durarara!!
- Miden in HUGtto! PreCure ♥ Futari wa PreCure: All-Stars Memories
- Moondoggie in Eureka Seven
- Mu Alexius in Magi: Labyrinth of Magic
- Newt Scamander in the Japanese dub of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and its sequels
- Oda Nobunaga in Nobunaga the Fool
- Orochi in Onmyōji
- Osamu Dazai in Bungo Stray Dogs
- Pandora's Actor in Overlord
- Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) in the Japanese dub of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
- Percy Weasley (Chris Rankin) in the Japanese dub of the Harry Potter series
- Peter B. Parker/Spider-Man in the Japanese dub of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Prince Demande in Sailor Moon Crystal (replacing the late Kaneto Shiozawa)
- Raven in Elsword
- Reiji Suwa in Prince of Stride
- Reinhard von Lohengramm in Legend of Galactic Heroes - Die Neue These
- Reo Niiboshi in Sarazanmai
- Rider (Perseus) in Fate/Prototype
- Riku in Kingdom Hearts
- Riku Aoba in Tokimeki Memorial ~ Only Love
- Rin Matsuoka in Free!
- Rintaro Okabe in Steins;Gate
- Rio Nakazawa in Big Windup!
- Rod Baltmar in Macross 30: The Voice that Connects the Galaxy
- Roddick Farrence in Star Ocean: First Departure
- Ronan The Accuser in the Japanese dub of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
- Dr. Rudolph Clown in Levius
- Ryoga Echizen in New Prince of Tennis
- Ryou Masaoka in Fafner in the Azure: Right of Left
- Ryuji Sakamoto in Persona 5 (including The Animation, Dancing in Starlight, Royal, Strikers, and Tactica) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Saburo in Nobunaga Concerto
- Saburou Suzuki in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
- Saruhiko Fushimi in K
- Scott Summers/Cyclops in the Japanese dub of X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- Setsuna F. Seiei in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (
I AM GUNDAM!)
- Shiki Kagurazaka in Starry☆Sky
- Shining Armor in the Japanese dub of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
- Shirou Fubuki and his deceased twin brother Atsuya in Inazuma Eleven. Also voiced several other characters, including Droll, Joe Jones, Karasu and Astaroth.
- Shizuka Homura in Psycho-Pass
- Shou in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
- Shou Fuwa in Skip Beat!
- Shu Tsukiyama in Tokyo Ghoul
- Shuzo in Show by Rock!!
- Shusei Usui in Betrayal Knows My Name
- Shutaro Mendou in Urusei Yatsura All Stars
- Sousou Motoku (Cao Cao) in Souten Kouro (Romance of the Three Kingdoms with Wei as main kingdom, and has Historical Hero Upgrade)
- Sutezo in Blame
- Taichi Mashima in Chihayafuru
- Takeshi Nanase in Magical Warfare
- Takua/Takanuva in the Japanese dub of BIONICLE: Mask of Light
- Takuto Tsunashi in Star Driver
- Tamaki Anzai in Devils' Line
- Tamaki Suoh in Ouran High School Host Club
- Tim Templeton Jr. (adult) in the theatrical Japanese dub of The Boss Baby
- Tokiya Ichinose and his alter-ego, HAYATO, in Uta No Prince Sama. He also sings the opening themes in all four seasons of the anime.
- Tony in the 2019 production of West Side Story and also in the Japanese dub of the 2021 film.
- Tusk in Cross Ange
- Tyler in the second Japanese dubbed version of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Ultraman Zero in the Ultra Series. Hilariously, one of Mamoru's favorite Ultras is Ultraseven (the other being Taro)
- Willy Wonka in the Japanese Dub of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Wooser in Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life
- Wuxian in the Japanese dub of The Legend of Hei
- Yataka in Arata: The Legend
- Yogi and Nyanperona in Karneval
- Yoshiki Hayakawa in RDG: Red Data Girl
- Yu Kaneshiro "The Wizard" in Ben-To
- Zacharias Barnham in Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- Zange Natsume in Inu × Boku SS
- Zero and Ichiru Kiryuu from Vampire Knight
Tropes, COME ON!
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Adorkable: He basically turned JJ into full-on
Sailor Moon. And giggles throughout.
- Alliterative Name: Mamoru Miyano.
- Large Ham: He definitely knows how to ham it up. Ultraman Zero, Okabe and Tamaki are really hammy most of the time, Light and Fushimi also have their moments.
- Very much this in real life. Just go ask Tomokazu Sugita and Yūichi Nakamura when they had him in their show, Tokyo Encounter.
- The Hyena: Very prone to laughing loud.
- The Rival: Plenty of his roles are rivals of the main character. That, or as the The Lancer. Sometimes the two overlaps.
* Ahem*
All according to plan.
If you want to edit this article, try again in 20,000 years.
El, Psy, Kongroo.