Hikaru Midorikawa

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Hikaru Midorikawa
Born May 2, 1968 in Otawara, Tochigi, Japan Age 38
Statistics Occupation Seiyū Gender Male Marital Status Married Notable Credit(s) Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo as Softon Mobile Suit Gundam Wing as Heero Yuy Slam Dunk as Kaede Rukawa Slayers as Zelgadis Greywords Official Website Hikaru's Bar Agent Aoni Production

Hikaru Midorikawa (緑川 光, Midorikawa Hikaru^?) (born May 2, 1968, in Tochigi) is a popular voice actor (seiyū) in Japan. He is 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) tall and weighs 73 kg (160 lbs). Married, he lives in Tokyo.

Contents 1 Profile 2 Career 3 Anime roles 4 Tokusatsu 5 Non-anime roles

[edit] Profile

Apart from having an unusual voice, he plays saxophone, and loves drawing, games and computers. He has been a voice actor since 1988, when he began his career as Murai from Be-Bop High School. Since then, he has participated in many productions, ranging from anime and games to music projects - E.M.U and Zero Phoenix (with another popular voice actor, Nobutoshi Canna).

His favourite anime is Mobile Suit Gundam and he collects Gundam models, as well as Nike running shoes. He is also a gamer. His favourite game is 'Super Robot Taisen F Kanketsu'. As for other personal preferences, Midorikawa likes eating omelettes and stew, but hates sushi. His favourite colors are black, purple and red. He likes playing basketball as well. His personal quote is: Just do it! He also dislikes writers with bad grammar.

He manages his own website: Hikaru's Bar[1]. Additionally, he is one of a handful of people to have a blog on Banpresto's "Supalog" website[2].

He attended Otakon in 2001.

[edit] Career

At one time, Midorikawa and Koyasu Takehito were working together simultaneously in three anime productions as "rivals": The Slayers (Rezo & Zelgadis), Fushigi Yuugi (Hotohori & Tamahome) and Gundam Wing (Zechs & Heero). They also played "rivals" in the Super Robot Wars game series (Masaki Andoh & Shuu Shirakawa). They also collaborated once again as "friends-turned-rivals" when they voiced Shin Kazama (Koyasu) and Satoru Kanzaki (Midorikawa) in the 2004 remake of Area 88. Midorikawa has also worked with Takeshi Kusao simultaneously (in two anime) as "rivals": Dragon Ball Z (Trunks & Android No#16) and Slam Dunk (Sakuragi & Rukawa). They also worked together in Samurai Warriors at the same time, though not as rivals: Sanada Yukimura (Takeshi) and Akechi Mitsuhide (Hikaru). He voiced a character alongside voice actors of the main characters from other Gundam timelines (in the drama CD version of Ouran High School Host Club, where he voices Suoh Tamaki, alongside Hoshi Soichiro (Kira Yamato in Gundam Seed and Hitachiin Hikaru in this drama) and Suzumura Kenichi (who later voiced Shinn Asuka in Gundam Seed Destiny and Hitachiin Kaoru in this drama). He and his best friend Okiayu Ryotaro have played a number of characters in numerous anime and in Kessen III. They either play teammates, friends, rivals, or enemies: Naoki Shinjo (Hikaru) and Franz Heinel (Ryotaro) in the Future GPX Cyber Formula series was their first work together in 1991, followed by Rukawa Kaede (Hikaru) and Mitsui Hisashi (Ryotaro) in Slam Dunk, Schuldig (Hikaru) and Crawford (Ryotaro) in Weiß Kreuz and Gluhen, and Arai Togo (Hikaru) and Shimon Takagi (Ryotaro) in Sotsugyou M. Of their numerous co-appearances, Mitsuhide Akechi (Hikaru) and Oba Nobunaga (Ryotaro) in Kessen III, Mikagami Tokiya (Hikaru) and Kurei (Ryotaro) in Flame of Recca, and Heero Yuy (Hikaru) and Treize Kushrenada (Ryotaro) are among their most notable roles.

[edit] Anime roles

• Softon (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
• Naoki Shinjo (Future GPX Cyber Formula series)
• Hide-san (3×3 Eyes)
• Murai (Be-bop High School)
• Yūsuke Yoshino (Clannad)
• Lin (Cowboy Bebop)
• Android 16 & Paikuhan (Dragon Ball Z)
• Messiah (Earthian ep 4)
• Tokiya Mikagami (Flame of Recca)
• Heero Yuy (Shin Kidosenki Gundam W, also known as Gundam Wing)
• Schuldig (Weiß Kreuz, also known as Weiss Kreuz)
• Soji Mikage (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
• Tamahome & Taka Sukunami (Fushigi Yūgi)
• Reydon (Legend of Crystania series)
• Lieutenant Rail Claymore (Lost Universe)
• Faust (Saber Marionette)
• Ail (Sailor Moon R)
• Fiore (Sailor Moon R: The Movie)
• Toma/Icarus (Saint Seiya Tenkai-Hen)
• Silva (Shaman King)
• Kaede Rukawa (Slam Dunk)
• Seto Kaiba (Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh!, not released outside Japan)
• Zelgadis Greywords (The Slayers)
• Sora Hashiba (Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shōganai!)
• Yoshio Somei (Slow Step)
• Shou Amabane (Burning Rangers)
• Salamandes (Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo-V)
• Angemon (Digimon Frontier)
• Bakuryuu TopGaler (Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger)
• Keiichiro Akasaka (Tokyo Mew Mew)
• Abare (Mirai Sentai Time Ranger, Episode 34)
• Dufaux (Konjiki no Gash Bell! or Zatch Bell)
• Arashi (Naruto)
• Wilhelm (Xenosaga: the animation)
• Yoshito Kikuchi (Great Teacher Onizuka)
• Tochizawa (Here is Greenwood ep 3)
• Wanijima Kaitou (Air Gear)
• Misao Kuramitsu (Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki (OVA 3) and Tenchi Muyo! GXP)
• Kosei Hida (Angel Links)
• Mira Munakata (Papa To Kiss In The Dark OVA)
• Raven (Gravion)
• Raven (Gravion Zwei)
• Shi Seiran/Seien (Saiunkoku Monogatari)
• Migeira (Samurai Deeper Kyo)
• Shazan (Gestalt (anime))
• Youta (Kouryu Densetsu Villgust OVA)
• Misonou Kai (Angel's Feather OVA)
• Zoshonosuke Himekawa (Ayakashi)

[edit] Tokusatsu

• Salamandes (Kyukyu Sentai GoGo-V )
• Abel (Mirai Sentai Timeranger )
• Top Galer (Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger )
• Incubus Belbireji (Mahou Sentai Magiranger )

[edit] Non-anime roles

• Adell (Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories)
• Akechi Mitsuhide (Samurai Warriors and Kessen III)
• Android #16 (Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22)
• Ayane's Uncle (Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate)
• Cain (Shining Force Neo)
• Enn, Ray, Hyu (Advance Guardian Heroes)
• Hayate/Ein (Dead or Alive series)
• Hashiba Sora (Sukisho!! Raido (Radio Show))
• Heero Yuy (Super Robot Wars Scramble Commander)
• Hiro (LUNAR: Eternal Blue)
• Leon Magnus / Judas (Tales of Destiny, Tales of Destiny 2, Namco x Capcom)
• Marth (Super Smash Bros. Melee)
• Masaki Andoh (Various Super Robot Wars series / SRW Gaiden : The Lord of Elemental)
• Master Therion (Kishin Houkou Demonbane)
• Pretty Riki in (Kill Bill vol. 1 - Chapter Three: The Origin of O-Ren Ishii)
• Proto Zero in (Gundam Blood of Zeon Giren's Greed)
• Proto Zero (SD Gundam G Generation F)
• Ramirez (Skies of Arcadia)
• Sigma (Langrisser V ~THE END OF LEGEND~)
• Soma Cruz (Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow)
• Souji Mikage (Shoujo Kakumei Utena ~Itsuka Kakumei Sareru Monogatari)
• Suoh Tamaki (Ouran High School Host Club Drama CDs')
• U-DO (Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra)
• Yuuki (Neo Geo Battle Coliseum)
• Zelgadiss Graywords (Slayers dramas)
• Bertie the Bus, Oliver the Western Engine, & Harvey the Crane Engine in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (Japanese version)
• Llednar Twem in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (radio drama)
• Viscount Mikhial Ramphet in Animamundi