But in all seriousness, Show note Hayami (real name Yasushi Ōhama, born August 2, 1958) is one of the better-known veteran seiyuu in the anime world. He is known for the grandiosity of his voice, which often lands him the role of a Large Ham and goes well with charismatic leaders, whether a Big Good or Big Bad. On the other hand, he can also portray complete psychopathic madmen very convincingly, probably best known for his role as Sousuke Aizen of Bleach.
Beware if someone voiced by him seems both good and affable: chances are he will turn out to be a heroic sociopath... and that's assuming he remains a hero at all. Some of the exceptions are the archangel Uriel in the Angel Sanctuary drama CDs, a little emo, but undeniably heroic. Two others are the title character, Exkaiser from Brave Exkaiser, and the title character, Da Garn from The Brave Fighter of Legend Da-Garn.
He's got rather a lot of fangirls, mainly because of his rich, husky baritone, which they find very sexy. Masakazu Morita called him out on this at one live event, where 90% of the audience practically fainted the moment he opened his mouth. Masakazu jokingly asked him to tone it down lest he steal all the attention, and Show apologized, which only made the girls scream louder.
He is married to fellow seiyuu Rei Igarashi, who is best known as Evil Matriarch Precia Testarossa and Alpha Bitch Mira Kagami; perfect match. And has a nephew-turn-adopted son, Hideyuki Hayami who also followed their steps and became a voice actor.
He adores Toshihiko Seki, his junior.
Since Hayami took a liking in the "Dr. Hayami" character he created when on a guest appearance in Toshiyuki Morikawa and Nobuyuki Hiyama's Omaera No Tame Darou live talk show, he organized and produced his own Japanese voice actor performance franchise, Super Stylish Doctors Story rivaling Takehito Koyasu's Weiß Kreuz franchise.
He's unrelated to Saori Hayami (their names aren't written the same in kanji).
Notable roles by Show Hayami:
- Adalbert von Fahrenheit in Legend of Galactic Heroes (a talented strategist who took the wrong bait)
- Adan (Juan) in Pokémon... another good guy!
- Adolf Rätsel, alias Taiki Raioh in Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken
- Akechi Mitsuhide in Sengoku Basara (undeniably his craziest character yet)
- He also voices another incarnation of the same character in Drifters.
- Akira Fudo/Devilman in Devilman: The Birth, Devilman: The Demon Bird, CB Chara Go Nagai World OAV's and Super Robot Wars DD
- The Ark in Kamen Rider Zero-One
- Arvis in Fire Emblem Heroes (a
Magnificent Bastard that kills the main character of his home game.) - Aurien/Heinwald in Dragalia Lost
- Ayanami in 07-Ghost
- Baian in Saint Seiya
- Aquarius Tokisada in Saint Seiya Omega
- Bern Bunnings in Aura Battler Dunbine as well as Rabern Zaramand in the OVA sequel New Story of Aura Battler.
- President Brian Midcrid in Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2: The Inspectors
- Also voices every single general in the Balmar Empire in Super Robot Wars Alpha and these generals happen to be Laodecia clones.
- Commander Laodecia Judecca Gozzo in Shin Super Robot Wars
- Christopher Columbus in Time Bokan 24
- Cruhteo in Aldnoah.Zero
- Eiri Masami in Serial Experiments Lain
- Elfen in 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams
- Archbishop Enrico Maxwell in Hellsing Ultimate
- Azami Nakiri in Food Wars!
- Fortinbras in Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams
- Frank Archer in Fullmetal Alchemist (a Jerkass and minor antagonist).
- Judeau in the first Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA (a Tragic Hero)
- Gakuho Asano in Assassination Classroom
- Ginias Sakhalin in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (it says something when an Ax-Crazy Mad Scientist is probably one of his least monstrous villain roles)
- Gavlet Gablae in Heavy Metal L-Gaim
- Gengo Kuramitsu in Buddy Complex
- Hajime Ichijou in Princess Army OVA and Drama CDs
- Hauer in Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture
- Hellagur in Arknights
- Ice Masho Toryuki in the Ronin Warriors CD drama Suikoden.
- Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki in Fairy Tail (Playing Against Type in spades as a Gonk Butt-Monkey, on top of being a Chivalrous Pervert and a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, whose sexy voice is a source of Vocal Dissonance and Fan Disservice)
- Itsuki Kurogane in Chivalry of a Failed Knight
- Iznario Fareed in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
- Jakurai Jinguji in Hypnosis Mic
- Jaguar in Space Channel 5 (he may be a loner, but he's still a hero dedicated to finding the truth)
- Jhin in League of Legends
- Joze in Kaiketsu Zorro
- Kei Katsuragi in Super Dimension Century Orguss (the protagonist and The Hero of the story)
- King Torture in Samurai Flamenco
- Meister Kirisaki in Yakitate!! Japan
- Kiriyama Eiji in Linebarrels of Iron
- Klein Sandman in Gravion
- Kouji Nanjou in Zetsuai 1989 and Bronze. One of the Yaoi Guys and a Yandere, who also comes from a Big, Screwed-Up Family.
- Kyoukai-sama in Active Raid Second
- Leviathan in Digimon Universe: Applimonsters
- Leviathan the Alchemist in Gosick
- Liam in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray
- Lord Zeoticus Gremory in High School DXD
- Magic in Papuwa
- Makoto Yamamoto in Irresponsible Captain Tylor (Again, Playing Against Type)
- Marco Maldini in The Law of Ueki
- Maximillian "Max" Jenius in Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Macross 7, probably his Star-Making Role.
- Melvin in Odin Sphere
- Multiple characters in the Japanese dub of The Transformers and Transformers: The Movie, including Ironhide, Ultra Magnus, and Spike as a kid.
- Dr. Muraki Kazutaka in Descendants of Darkness
- The Narrator of Neo Nectaris
- Also the narrator in Radiant
- Nicholas D. Wolfwood in Trigun (a good guy! Sorta)
- Nimbus Schterzan in Mobile Suit Gundam Side Stories and Gundam Vs Series
- Nobutsuna Naoe/Yoshiaki Tachibana in Mirage of Blaze
- Nōkanshi in Onmyōji (indisputably good)
- Orson The Berserker and Black Knight Ashram in Record of Lodoss War. Rather curious case, though: Hayami voices Orson in the OAV and is darrin'ed by Nobuyuki Hiyama in the TV series... and then he becomes The Other Darrin by succeeding Akira Kamiya as Ashram. Orson himself is a case of Playing Against Type: he's more or less The Stoic... until he gets pissed off (generally by seeing his partner Shiris in danger) and then goes off his fucking gourd..
- Osamu Sugo/Knight Schumacher in Future GPX Cyber Formula
- Prince Zera in Cutey Honey Flash
- Puss In Boots in Grimms Notes
- Raoul Am in Ai no Kusabi 1990s OVA and CD Dramas (succeeded by Takaya Kuroda).
- Baron Ricks in Red Photon Zillion (First collaboration with Toshihiko Seki)
- Father Remington in Chrono Crusade (yet another good guy!)
- Rommel in Gundam Build Divers
- Captain Zeon in Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE
- Ryuu Hojun in Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer (Drama CD and upcoming remake)
- Shakince in Maho Girls PreCure
- Saoshyant in Emerald Dragon
- Shion Zaites in Please Save My Earth
- Shiva in Granblue Fantasy
- Shousei in Buso Renkin
- Shu in the Suikoden II Drama CD (a good strategist, though starts out as a Jerkass and sometimes enjoys some puppy-punting after being good)
- Shun in Ar Tonelico 2 (a Noble Wolf)
- Sixknight in Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
- Snake of the Festival aka the guy sharing Yuji's body in Shakugan no Shana. Surprisingly, he's the Big Good.
- Sousuke Aizen in Bleach
- Spider Guildy/Arachne Guildy in Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!!
- Takahiro Kafuu in Is the Order a Rabbit??
- Tekkan Amamiya and the narrator in Sakura Wars (2019)
- Tokiomi Tohsaka in Fate/Zero He voices the narrator in the Drama CD adaptation of the light novel, as well.
- Tsukasa Odawara in Exit Tunes Presents ACTORS
- Ukyo Tachibana in Samurai Shodown (Drama CDs)
- Umibozu in Gintama (another good guy! well, more like a good father and currently the Strongest character in-universe)
- Umio in Megadimension Neptunia VII (a... fish)
- Vanilla Ice/Iced/Cool Ice in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure The Animation
- Enrico Pucci in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle
- Vanilla Ice/Cool Ice in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, replacing Hiroyuki Yoshino
- Vector Prime and the narrator in Transformers: Galaxy Force
- Wisemon in Digimon Xros Wars and Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Leaping Through Time (not just a good guy, but something of a mentor!)
- Woodrow/Garr Kelvin in Tales of Destiny (definitely a good guy)
- Yakushiji Tenzen in Basilisk
- Yasha in RG Veda (another of the good guys!)
- Yusaburo Saiga (Tristan Turnbull) in the anime adaptation of Ace Attorney
- Zarbon in Dragon Ball Z
- Zeami in Tengai Makyou
- King Zsigmond III in Shoukoku no Altair
Tropes relating to his roles:
- Anti-Hero: On a good day.
- Anti-Villain: If neither villain nor Anti-Hero.
- Ax-Crazy: Many of his villainous roles.
- Badass Baritone and Evil Sounds Deep
- Big Bad or Big Good: Two of his usual typecastings, the first moreso than the latter.
- Kansai Regional Accent: Being that he's from the Hyogo Prefecture note , expect some of his roles to have his characters speak in this, such as Nicholas D. Wolfwood.
- Large Ham
- Mr. Fanservice
- Older Than He Looks: He's 60 and the man still looks like he can pass for 30.
- Playing Against Type: Adan (Juan) in Pokémon, Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki in Fairy Tail, Umibozu in Gintama, Father Remington in Chrono Crusade, Wisemon in Digimon Xros Wars and Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Leaping Through Time, Judeau in the first Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA, Yasha in RG Veda, Nicholas D. Wolfwood in Trigun, and surprisingly Snake of the Festival aka the guy sharing Yuji's body in Shakugan no Shana. Then there's also Kei Katsuragi, the protagonist.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: The characters he plays are often immaculately dressed.
- Villains: His usual role.
- Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu... Silly troper, since when were you under the impression that you were reading a trope page? You shouldn't have underestimated the power of my parfum.
