I have a list of the seiyuu I’ve done for my own personal use, and yeah, it is quite helpful.

Again, I can’t apologize enough for the severe lack of updates.  I’ve been horrendously busy with college.  I’m graduating soon, though!

If you want me to spotlight any of the seiyuu from Hakuoki, I’d be glad to!  And of course, anyone else out there, if you have specific seiyuu requests, please send ‘em in the ask box. 

The funny thing is, I have NO idea who Yuuki Kaji and Takuma Terashima are.  Now I don’t doubt that younger seiyuu can be very talented.  But yeah, people need to respect the older seiyuu even if they don’t have the gigantic fanbases that the handsome ones do.

Also, sorry I haven’t been updating, everyone!  I’ve been crazily busy lately.  As always, if you have any specific seiyuu requests or other post requests, please send ‘em to my ask box.

Father (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

and

Nefertari Cobra (One Piece)

This was one of those moments where I went WAIT, those two are the same guy?!  And then I thought about it for two seconds and went HOLY SHIT THEYARETHE SAME GUY.  Like the exact same voice.  The only major difference that probably threw me off was how incredibly different these two characters are with Father being extremely sinister and Cobra being extremely caring and benevolent.

Also, beards.

Tadaaki Kusano (Great Teacher Onizuka)

and

Mythos (Princess Tutu)

Kusano, by the way, was the LEAST MEMORABLE character in all of Great Teacher Onizuka.  Not even in a bad way.  He was just one of Murai’s cronies and happened to be even less interesting than Fujiyoshi.

So I wasn’t expecting that he’d be the same voice for such a major character in Princess Tutu.  From the look of it, Yanagi hasn’t been in a whole lot of shows in general.  Which is too bad.

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That is Kenjirou Tsuda.

Yeah, this is what I get for trying to use kanji to search for images.  My bad.  I’ve fixed it.  And please, let me know, guys, if you see any other mistakes.  Big help.

Also, sorry I haven’t been updating a whole lot!  I’ve been really busy lately.  If anyone out there has any seiyuu requests or any other types of requests though, I would be glad to fulfill them!

Neko-sensei (Princess Tutu)

and

Furuhata (Kaiji)

Yasunori Matsumoto’s great in comedic roles, and Neko-sensei is no exception.  It’s just an absurd, over the top performance that allows Matsumoto to show off his comedic chops.

Furuhata is probably the LEAST REWARDING CHARACTER to play EVER.  Furuhata is BORING, Furuhata is SPINELESS, and Furuhata is FORGETTABLE.  I didn’t even think about who played him, cause I didn’t care.  So it was surprising to find out that Matsumoto of all people played him.

Noriaki Sugiyama

Sugiyama is a seiyuu I’ve always been interested in seeing more from.  I think his voice is very interesting and it has the potential for a pretty large range.  I’ve only seen three shows with him in it, but even from those three alone, I was pretty impressed with what he could do.

My first exposure to him (back when I was, you know, 12) was as Sasuke in Naruto.  Who I personally despise.  But say what you will about the character; Sugiyama played him really well.  Sasuke, back when he wasn’t that much of an idiot, was able to be the butt of a joke when he wasn’t being the OH I’M SO MYSTERIOUS AND SULLEN character.  It was that little glimpse of comedy that got me interested in what Sugiyama was capable of.

Then I watched Bleach back in the day and I heard him play Ishida in Bleach.  At first, I was worried it’d be the same kind of role.  But Ishida almost plays as a parody of the mysterious, sullen character.  He wishes he was really cool and stoic, but he is CONSTANTLY being made fun of and having goofy shit happen to him.  It was a nice surprise for me; I got to hear Sugiyama be more comic and a lot more broad.  I like when a seiyuu gets to subvert my expectations of them.

And finally, as Rivalz in Code Geass, Sugiyama plays a completely non-serious character.  He even got to change the pitch in his voice quite a bit.

Although the only three shows I’ve seen him in are shows I don’t particularly care for, I’ve already got the sense that Sugiyama has a lot of potential in his range.  If he had just been stuck with the brooding, “cool” characters, I wouldn’t care that much about him.  But now that I see he’s got some tricks up his sleeve, I’d love to see him in other things.  I think it’d be GREAT to see him play a One Piece character.  Alas, it was not meant to be.

I’d be glad to, although admittedly I’ve only seen three shows with him.  Still, I will definitely add him to the queue.

If you or anyone else out there have any other specific seiyuu requests, please throw ‘em in my ask box.  I’d be glad to take them.

Blueno (One Piece)

and

Sig Curtis (Fullmetal Alchemist)

This isn’t THAT farfetched, but I had never heard Seiji Sasaki in anything else other than his role as Sig in Fullmetal Alchemist (who is AWESOME by the way, in case you couldn’t tell by the picture).

They’re both big, deep-voiced guys, but Blueno has a lot more range to his voice.  Sig pretty much sounds the same all the time: EXTREMELY deep and EXTREMELY manly. 

It was cool getting to hear Sasaki play a role that’s a little more out there.  Especially in Blueno’s introduction.

Daisuke Namikawa

This is another guy who I COMPLETELY underestimated because I am a dumb-ass.  I always thought I had this guy figured, like “oh, this guy only plays pretty boy characters, mweh mweh mweh.”  But in recent years, he has taken me completely off guard.  He is extremely talented.

One of my favorite roles of his is as Rock in Black Lagoon.  Rock’s the type of character that starts out a little wishy washy and a little naive, but becomes such a strong character in his own way.  And Namikawa played the full range of the character so well from his meeker beginnings to her much more confident and even angry moments. 

And then there’s Ichijou from Kaiji who Namikawa played with such hammy despicablity that I couldn’t help but admire his performance.  Think that Namikawa only plays calm bishounen pretty boys?  WRONG.  Ichijou was a fantastic performance from him for how over the top and skin-crawlingly dickish he was.

He’s the type of seiyuu who is well known for playing a specific character type, but is not trapped in it.  I will admit I often find myself shocked when I hear that he’s THAT character or THIS character?!  If you can get me to do that once, then that’s impressive.  But Namikawa’s done it several times.

Apparently, he’s the new voice of Hisoka in the Hunter x Hunter reboot.  Which is intriguing, because I think Hiroki Takahashi’s performance is iconic.  But I’m sure Namikawa can do it.

Fun fact: I was gonna save this post until I met Namikawa’s One Piece character: Eustass Kid (whom I know nothing about, so shhh shh shh spoilios).  But man, I saw his scene in Black Lagoon where Rock stands up to Revy and I was like damn, he is fucking good.

You really shouldn’t pin seiyuu down in roles you think they’re only gonna do.  Namikawa’s a good lesson in that respect.