Akio Ohtsuka

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Akio Ohtsuka (大塚 明夫, Ōtsuka Akio^?) (November 24, 1959 - ) is a Japanese male actor and seiyū from the Tokyo Metropolitan area affiliated with Mausu Promotion. His height is 182 centimeters (6 feet), his weight is 73 kilograms, and his blood type is B.

He married fellow seiyū Yōko Sōmi on February 11, 2005. His father, also a seiyū, is Chikao Ōtsuka. The astringent and calm quality of his voice has landed him many roles in films, dubbing, animation, and video games.

Contents 1 Voice roles 1.1 Television animation 1.2 Movies 1.3 Dubbing roles 2 Video Game Roles 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Voice roles

[edit] Television animation

• 3x3 Eyes (Benares)
• Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (Cedric)
• Ashita no Nadja (Jose Rodriguez)
• Astro Boy (Pluto)
• Monkey Typhoon (GK)
• Superior Defender Gundam Force (Professor Gerbera)
• NG Knight Lamune & 40 (King Sukasshā)
• Steam Detectives (Night Phantom)
• Cowboy Bebop (Whitney Hagas Matsumoto)
• Ghost Stories (Ouma)
• Patlabor (Tsutomo Gomioka, others)
• Martian Successor Nadesico (Kōichirō Misumaru)
• Kyo Kara Maoh! (Gwendal von Voltaire)
• Banner of the Stars (Samson)
• Kindaichi Case Files (Reo Horinōchi)
• Kurogane Communication (Hōnī)
• Sgt. Frog (Lieutenant Garuru)
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex(Batou)
• Coyote Ragtime Show (Mister)
• Cyborg 009 (005 Geronimo Junior)
• Cromartie High School (Narrator (25th episode))
• Samurai Champloo (Okuru)
• Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger (Eibabu)
• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Narrator, Vice Foreign Minister Darlian)
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Arakawa (6th and 8th episode))
• Stratos 4 (Inquisitor Tsukino)
• Street Fighter II V (Narrator, Chief Barrac, head investigator)
• Magic User's Club (Minowa Minoru)
• Banner of the Stars (Samson)
• Anpanman (Nigauriman, Naganegiman)
• Ninku (Shiu)
• Moomin (Moomin's Papa)
• Chūka Ichiban (Chōyu)
• Trigun (Rai-Dei the Blade)
• Neo Ranga (Seigo Hasegawa)
• Hyper Police (Batanen Fujioka)
• Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick (Ahab Ishmael)
• Phoenix (Patriarch)
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Captain Nemo)
• Black Jack (Black Jack)
• Bleach (Shunsui Kyōraku)
• Blue Seed (Daitetsu Kunikida)
• Full Metal Panic! series (Andrei Sergeivich Kalinin)
• PoPoLoCrois (King Bieto, Gamigami)
• Magic Knight Rayearth (Windom)
• Mahōjin Guru Guru (Fairy Saiko)
• Case Closed (Inspector Yokomizo)
• Monster (Milan Korāshu)
• Montana Jones (Montana Jones)
• Alcatraz Connection (Andy)
• Steal Napoleon's Dictionary! (Makkuram)
• Rurouni Kenshin (Kurogasa)
• Ray the Animation (Black Jack)
• Flame of Recca (Kai)
• One Piece (Blackbeard (Marshall D. Teach))
• The Vision of Escaflowne (King Goau)
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (Anavel Gato)
• The Galaxy Railways (Schwanhert Bulge)
• Blue Seed (Daitetsu Kunikida)
• Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki (Azusa Jurai)

[edit] Movies

• Ghost in the Shell (Batou)
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Batou)
• Porco Rosso (Donald Curtis)
• Kiki's Delivery Service (Dirigible Captain)
• Howl's Moving Castle (Kokuô)
• Inuyasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler (Inu no Taisho)
• Tokyo Godfathers (Doctor)
• Tekken: The Motion Picture (Jack 2/Narrator)
• Paprika (Detective Kogawa Toshimi)

[edit] Dubbing roles

• The Animatrix (Thadeus)
• Avalon (Bishop)
• ER (Peter Benton)
• Executive Decision (Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis)
• Erin Brockovich (George)
• Gone with the Wind (Rhett Butler)
• The Gift (Donnie Barksdale)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Li Mu Bai)
• Spy Kids (Gregorio Cortez)
• DuckTales (Launchpad McQuack)
• Darkwing Duck (Launchpad McQuack)
• K-19: The Widowmaker (Polenin)
• Con Air (Cameron Poe)
• Gone in Sixty Seconds (Randall Raines)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (William T. Riker)
• Desperado (El Mariachi)
• Four Rooms (Man)
• The Mask of Zorro (Zorro)
• Dallas (John Ross "J.R." Ewing, Jr.)
• Blade series (Blade)
• Money Train (John)
• Pearl Harbor (Commander Minoru Genda)
• Hard Target (Chance Boudreaux)
• S.W.A.T. (Hondo)
• Die Hard (Karl)
• Die Hard 2 (Major Grant)
• Taxi series (Daniel)
• D-Tox (Jake Malloy)
• The Replacement Killers (John Lee)
• Dragonheart (Bowen)
• Point Break (Bodhi)
• Lord of War (Yuri Orlov)
• Léon (Léon)
• Under Siege (Casey Ryback)
• Japanese dub voice of Mel Gibson
• Spawn (Spawn/Al Simmons)
• Animaniacs (Bobby of the Goodfeathers)

[edit] Video Game Roles

• Onimusha (Oda Nobunaga/ Fortinbras)
• Metal Gear Solid (Solid Snake)
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Solid Snake/Solidus Snake)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Naked Snake)
• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (Naked Snake/Big Boss)
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Solid Snake)
• The Last Blade (Hyo Amano)
• Final Fantasy XII (Judge Gabranth)
• Kingdom Hearts (Ansem)
• Kingdom Hearts II (Xehanort)
• Time Crisis 4 (William Rush)
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Solid Snake)
• Genji: Dawn of the Samurai (Benkei Musahibo)
• Namco x Capcom (Unknown Soldier 1P)
• Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends (Tadakatsu Honda)
• Tales of Symphonia (Regal Bryant)
• Soul Calibur II (Spawn)
• Shenmue and Shenmue II (Gui Zhang Chen)

[edit] Trivia

• Akio Ohtsuka has appeared in several roles with Tessho Genda where their roles are strongly related:
  • They voiced two Rune-Gods in Magic Knight Rayearth, Akio voiced Windam, Tessho voiced Selece
  • In the crossover Namco X Capcom, they voiced the characters from Forgotten Worlds, Akio as the Unknown Soldier 1P (the blue one), Tessho as Unknown Soldier 2P (the red one).
  • Additionally, they have both voiced Honda Heihachiro Tadakatsu, a famous general in service of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sengoku Period, in different titles. Akio provides Tadakatsu's voice in Sengoku Musou (Samurai Warriors in US), Tessho provides Tadakatsu's voice in Onimusha 3: Demon Siege.
  • The OVA Gundam 0083: Stardust Memories has Ohtsuka playing the lead villain, the Zeon ace Anavel Gato, who briefly meets with a veteran comrade from the One Year War, Kelly Layzner, played by Tessho Genda.
  • In Vision of Escaflowne, Ohtsuka plays the King of Fanelia (and father to both Van and Folken) Goau. In the same anime, Genda plays Balgus, Goau's comrade-in-arms and later teacher of both Van and Allen Schezar.

• He is the Japanese dub voice of Mel Gibson.

• He has voiced two characters with the characteristics of flamboyant playboyish swordsman who liked to wear gaudy pink kimono: Hyo Amano of The Last Blade and Shunsui Kyōraku of Bleach

• Just as his father, Chikao Ohtsuka, voiced the main villain of the first Kinnikuman movie, Akio voiced the main villain of the first Kinnikuman Second Generations movie.

[edit] External links

• Akio Ohtsuka at Mausu Promotion
• Akio Ohtsuka at Anime NFO
• Akio Ohtsuka at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia