I've had my fill of bad futures!
At an earlier age, Takeshi Kusao was one of the go-to seiyuus of goody two shoes heroes. Later on, he starts developing more and more varieties, starting from psychotic villains, or Large Hams with a good dose of hearty laughs. That's the man we call Takeshi Kusao. Interestingly, he has two roles related to the famous Japanese soldier, Sanada Yukimura, playing as him in Samurai Warriors, and his incarnation/descendant Ryo Sanada in Ronin Warriors.
He's Happily Married to his fellow Samurai Warriors cast member, Yuka Saitou with whom he also has a child
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Roles:
- Adol Christin in both of the Ys OVAs.
- American Adol (Bad Box Art Adol from the US Sega Genesis box art for Ys III: Wanderers from Ys) in Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen
- Baba Lamune, Baba Lamunade and First Generation Lamuness in the Lamune & 40 series, as well as Super Robot Wars NEO, Another Century's Episode Portable & Super Robot Wars OE
- Lumford Orisis in the FRESH OVA
- Reprises his role as Lamune in Jewelpet: Attack Travel
- Biskes in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
- Bion Biao from Juken Sentai Gekiranger
- Capricorn Shura and Wolf Nachi in Saint Seiya (He replaced Hideyuki Tanaka as Nachi from episodes 60-114 and Kōji Totani as Shura 4 years before Totani's death.)
- Casshern in Casshan: Robot Hunter
- Clouder/Doubleclouder in Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
- Cless Alvein in Tales of Phantasia
- Also provided the vocal tracks for Chester Barklight in the same game's Super Nintendo version, before Chester got his own seiyuu
- Coco/Cocoda Kouji in Yes! Pretty Cure 5
- Daisuke Fuji in Tiger Mask W
- Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) in the Japanese home video dubs of The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part III, and in the dub of Cobra Kai.
- Dororo in Sgt. Frog
- Enki in Symphogear
- Four/Solo from Dragon Quest IV (from the Dragon Quest series) in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
- Freezen in Futari wa Pretty Cure MaX Heart
- Green Raker in Brave Exkaiser
- Hanamichi Sakuragi in Slam Dunk (A BASKETBALL GENIUS! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!)
- Kabutack in B-Robo Kabutack
- Kai in AKIRA
- Kiriha Aonuma, Ballistamon, Greymon, Cyberdramon and Bagramon in Digimon Fusion
- The Watchmaker, aka Bagramon, in Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time
- Joe Kido in Digimon Adventure: (2020)
- Kougaiji in Saiyuki
- Kousuke Asazuki in Spiral
- Kohza, Jaguar D. Saul, Karasu and young Gol D. Roger in One Piece
- Krad in D.N.Angel
- Ky Kiske in Guilty Gear
- Kyouichi Saionji in Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Ladros in Black Clover
- Lee Jenshin in Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu
- Mao in Code Geass
- Masafumi Shinoda in World Trigger
- Mushitarou Oguri in Bungo Stray Dogs
- Nyar-o in Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!
- Parn in the OVA of Record of Lodoss War. Succeeded by Nobutoshi Canna in the TV series.
- Pickle in Baki the Grappler (2018)
- Pi-tan in Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger
- Reito Hirosue in Captain Earth
- Ricochet (Carlos Alazraqui / Jason Marsden) in the Japanese dub of ¡Mucha Lucha!.
- Ryo Sanada in Ronin Warriors
- Shuugo Aizawa in Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3
- Sly Cooper from Sly Cooper, replacing Tomokazu Seki from the 3rd game onwards (and the first two games' remakes in the HD collection) and for his appearance in Playstation All Stars Battle Royale.
- Smoky the Magical Cat from Mahou Sentai Magiranger.
- Sonic the Hedgehog in SegaSonic the Hedgehog
- Takeshi Tenma/Voicelugger Sapphire in Voicelugger
- Tenka Koganei in Sumomo Mo Momo Mo
- Trunks (both Future Badass form and Bratty Half-Pint form), Pigero note , Lavenda, Adult Upa note in Dragon Ball
- Vigagi in Super Robot Wars 3 and Original Generation series
- Jisperu in Super Robot Wars BX
- Saizou Tokitou in Super Robot Wars T (his first heroic OG role in the franchise)
- Willow in Willow (2022)
- Youta Moteuchi in Video Girl Ai
- Yukimura Sanada in Samurai Warriors
- Zantetsu in World Flipper
