Akio Ohtsuka

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Akio Ohtsuka (大塚明夫, Ōtsuka Akio^?, born November 24, 1959) is a veteran seiyū. He is also the son of veteran seiyū Chikao Ohtsuka. As of November 15, 2005, Akio works for Mausu Promotion, formerly Ezaki Production. He and fellow seiyū Yoko Soumi wed on February 11, 2005.

Although not noted at the Internet Movie Database, according to the Anime News Network and as of April 2006, Akio Ohtsuka is one of the more prolific seiyū with 156 credits to his name. [1]

1 Notable anime and video game voice roles
2 Dubbing roles
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Notable anime and video game voice roles

Black Jack in Black Jack, Black Jack 21, and Ray the Animation
Shunsui Kyōraku in BLEACH
Captain Nemo in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
Batou in Ghost in the Shell
Solid Snake (as well as Solidus Snake and Naked Snake) in the Metal Gear Solid series.
Regal Bryant in Tales Of Symphonia
Windam in Magic Knight Rayearth
The narrator in Gundam Wing
Minoru Minowa in Magic User's Club
Yoichiro Misamaru in Nadesico
Dirigible Captain in Kiki's Delivery Service
Cornelius and the narrator in Fire Emblem (anime)
Curtis in Porco Rosso
Kalinin in Full Metal Panic!
Xehanort and his Heartless in the Kingdom Hearts series
Judge Gabranth (Noah von Rosenberg) in Final Fantasy XII
King Gamigami in Popolocrois Series
Thadeus in The Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris
Anavel Gato in Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
Samson (Samsonn Borgh Tiruser Tirusec) in Banner of the Stars
Inu no Taisho in InuYasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler
Azusa Jurai in Tenchi Muyo! (OVA 2 and GXP)
Honda Tadakatsu in Samurai Warriors (starting from Xtreme Legends)
Musashibou Benkei in Genji: Dawn of the Samurai
Kurogasa in Rurouni Kenshin
Chung Wu-Cheng in Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Damaramu in Dragon Half
Red in Rockman X7
Laike Bogard/Dragonmaster Dyne in LUNAR: Silver Star Story
Benares in 3x3 Eyes (OAV)
Blackbeard (Marshall D. Teach) in One Piece.
Captain William Rush (Japanese Voice) in Time Crisis 4 [2]
King Goau in Vision of Escaflowne
Hyo Amano in The Last Blade
Father in "Heavy Metal Thunder"
Oda Nobunaga/ Fortinbras in Onimusha
Oda Nobunaga in Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
Oda Nobunaga in Onimusha 3: Demon Siege
Fortinbras in Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams
Kokuo in Howl's Moving Castle
Professor Gerbera in Superior Defender Gundam Force
Murobo in Kouryu Densetsu Villgust OVA

[edit] Dubbing roles

The Animatrix (Thadeus)
Desperado (El Mariachi)
Four Rooms (Man)
The Mask of Zorro (Zorro)
Spy Kids (Gregorio Cortez)
ER (Peter Benton)
Dallas (John Ross "J.R." Ewing, Jr.)
Blade series (Blade)
Money Train (John)
Erin Brockovich (George)
Gone with the Wind (Rhett Butler)
The Gift (Donnie Barksdale)
Pearl Harbor (Commander Minoru Genda)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (William T. Riker)
Hard Target (Chance Boudreaux)
Executive Decision (Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis)
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)
Gone in Sixty Seconds (Randall Raines)
Con Air (Cameron Poe)
Lord of War (Yuri Orlov)
Léon (Léon)
K-19: The Widowmaker (Polenin)
Animaniacs (Bobby of the Goodfeathers)
Japanese dub voice of Mel Gibson
Under Siege (Casey Ryback)

[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.