Shintarō Asanuma (born January 5, 1976) is an actor, voice actor, scriptwriter, and director from Iwate Prefecture, and is currently affiliated with Office Osawa. Asanuma started voice acting for anime in 2006 usually voicing minor roles. He started gaining popularity in 2009 after voicing Junpei Kousaka from Nyan Koi! and later Takatoshi Tsuda in 2010's Seitokai Yakuindomo. After these two roles he would start appearing in more leading anime roles or as important secondary characters.
His initial popular roles often had him typecast as the Unlucky Everydude but as of recently he has been cast as a variety of different characters. He's one of the few seiyuu that doesn't have a typecast having been cast as characters ranging from teenagers to adults with deep voices. Currently most anime fans recognize him as Izayoi Sakamaki, the lead character of Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?.
Be forewarned that he also looks eerily similar to fellow voice actor Mamoru Miyano.
Notable Voice Acting Roles by Shintarō Asanuma:
- Aiden Field in Violet Evergarden
- Alex in Street Fighter V
- Beast in the Japanese dub of X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse
- Bryce in World Flipper
- Crow Hogan in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time and Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V
- Diego Valentine in The Legendary Hero Is Dead!
- Graham and Superbia in 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams
- Hajime Kujou in One Week Friends
- Hiroto Maehara in Assassination Classroom and Koro-Sensei Quest!
- Itaru Chigasaki in A3!
- Itoya in Snow White with the Red Hair
- Izayoi Sakamaki in Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?
- Junichi Hashiba in My First Girlfriend Is a Gal
- Junpei Kosaka in Nyan Koi!
- Juran/Zenkai Juran in Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger
- Kaito Daimon in Phi-Brain: Puzzle of God
- Kakeru Iimori in Exit Tunes Presents ACTORS
- Kazuki Fujisawa in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou
- Ken Kaido in Mazinkaiser SKL, Super Robot Wars BX and Super Robot Wars UX
- Kou Tokisaka in Tokyo Xanadu
- Kusuo Saiki in The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (flash series, VOMIC and J-Stars Victory VS; darrin'd by Hiroshi Kamiya in the TV anime series)
- Kyo Sogoru in Zegapain
- Leonard in Majin Bone
- Leo Tsukinaga in Ensemble Stars!
- Luca in Dragalia Lost
- Ludos in Matoi the Sacred Slayer
- Kibi no Makibi in Akanesasu Sekai de Kimi to Utau
- Masaki Takigawa in Tsurune
- The Mermaid Sisters in Carole & Tuesday
- Mitsuru Sasayama in Psycho-Pass
- Nagi "Alice" Arisuin in Chivalry of a Failed Knight
- Nakigitsune in Touken Ranbu
- Nishiki Nishio in Tokyo Ghoul
- Owen in Promise of Wizard
- Pod (Chili) in Pokémon Masters
- Recomon in Digimon Universe: App Monsters
- Luke and Regal in Alchemy Stars
- Ryan in Granblue Fantasy
- Sakaki Inui in Place to Place
- Samatoki Aohitsugi in Hypnosis Mic
- Sambaba in Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger
- Young Soumei in Cuticle Detective Inaba
- Susanoo in Akame ga Kill!
- Takatoshi Tsuda in Seitokai Yakuindomo
- Takt in Omega Quintet
- Takumi Hayakawa in Blast of Tempest
- Takumu "Taku" Mayuzumi in Accel World
- Taro Urashima in Ōkami-san
- The unnamed protagonist in The Tatami Galaxy
- Toshikazu Asagi in Majestic Prince
- Ugetsu Murata in given
- Xenoblade Chronicles:
- Shulk and Zanza (the malevolent half of Klaus) in Xenoblade Chronicles 1
- Reprises his role as Shulk in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Ultimate, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3's DLC campaign, Future Redeemed
- One of the player character voice options in Xenoblade Chronicles X
- The Architect (the benevolent half of Klaus) in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Shulk and Zanza (the malevolent half of Klaus) in Xenoblade Chronicles 1
- Youichi Kuramochi in Diamond no Ace
- Yousuke Kirie and Shinichi Kodaka (Kodama's older brother) in Bokurano
- Zena in Ultraman Geed
- Zeo in One Piece
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