Ryōtarō Okiayu
Ryotaro Okiayu | |
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| Born | November 17, 1969 |
| Occupation | Seiyū |
| Notable credit(s) | Gundam Wing as Treize Khushrenada Slam Dunk as Mitsui Hisashi Jigoku Sensei Nūbē as Meisuke Nueno The Prince of Tennis as Kunimitsu Tezuka Bleach as Byakuya Kuchiki Kinnikuman Nisei as Kevin Mask Fullmetal alchemist as Scar |
Ryōtarō Okiayu (置鮎 龍太郎, Okiayu Ryōtarō) is a seiyū, who was born on November 17, 1969 in Kokura Minami-ku, Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. He is currently affiliated with Aoni Production.
Filmography
Anime
- Bleach (Byakuya Kuchiki)
- Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Tsuru Tsururina the III)
- Buso Renkin (Mita)
- Clannad (Akio Furukawa)
- D.Gray-man (Reever Wenhamm)
- D.N. Angel (Dark Mousy)
- Di Gi Charat (Takuro Kimura/Mr.Longhair)
- Digimon Frontier (RhodoKnightmon)
- El Hazard (Katsuhiko Jinnai)
- Erementar Gerad (Wolx Hound)
- Excel Saga (Watanabe)
- Fire Emblem (Abel)
- Flame of Recca (Kurei)
- Fruits Basket (Shigure Sohma)
- Fujimi Orchestra (Morimura Yuki)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (Scar)
- Future GPX Cyber Formula (Franz Heinel)
- Gakuen Heaven (Shinomiya Kouji)
- Girls Bravo (Kazuharu Fukuyama)
- Gravitation (K)
- Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny (Andrew Waltfeld)
- Gundam Wing ({{Treize Krushrenada]])
- Harukanaru Toki no Naka De or Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō (Akram)
- Here is Greenwood (Masato Ikeda)
- Jigoku Sensei Nūbē (Meisuke Nueno/Nübē)
- Kinnikuman II Sei (Kevin Mask)
- Love Hina and Love Hina Again (Kentaro Sakata)
- Magic Knight Rayearth (Inouva)
- Mahou Sentai Magiranger (Cyclops)
- Marmalade Boy (Yuu Matsuura)
- Nadesico (Nagare Akatsuki)
- Naruto (Aoi Rokusho)
- One Piece (Kaku)
- Please Save My Earth (Issei)
- The Prince of Tennis (Kunimitsu Tezuka)
- Rock Man (Protoman)
- Romeo x Juliet (Tybalt)
- Sailor Moon (Yuuji (2), Achiral (81), and George (108))
- Sailor Moon SuperS (Tiger's Eye)
- Saint Seiya: Hades (Gemini Saga and Gemini Kanon)
- Sister Princess (anime) (Akio Yamagami)
- Slam Dunk (Mitsui Hisashi)
- Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (Hartia)
- Sukisho (Kai Nagase)
- Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Animation and Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars (Raidiese F. Branstein)
- Tekkaman Blade II (David Krugel/Tekkaman Sommer)
- Transformers Superlink (Rodimus Convoy)
- Weiss Kreuz (Brad Crawford)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (Hiroto Honda)
- Konjiki no Gash Bell!! (Vincent Bari and Seitaro Takamine)
Video games
- Animamundi: Dark Alchemist (Georik Zaberisk)
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Alucard)
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Arikado)
- Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (Nero)
- Eternal Arcadia (Alfonso)
- Growlanser and Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice (Ernest Lyell)
- Kessen III (Oda Nobunaga)
- Kingdom Hearts II (Setzer Gabbiani)
- Langrisser IV and Langirsser V (Randius)
- Lunar: Eternal Blue and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (Ronfar)
- Rock man X series (Zero)
- Rock Man 8: Metal Heroes (Blues)
- Metal Gear Solid (Vamp)
- Musou Orochi (Orochi)
- Namco X Capcom (Captain Commando and Taira No Kagekiyo)
- Prince of Tennis (Kunimitsu Tezuka)
- Rival Schools (Roy Bromwell)
- Sengoku Basara 2 (Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
- Shining Force III (Synbios and Julian)
- Shining Force Neo (Baron)
- Super Robot Wars (Raidiese F. Branstein)
- Tales of Destiny (Dymlos and Miktran)
- Tales of Destiny 2 (Dymlos)
- Tekken 5 (Lee Chaolan)
- Xenogears (Krelian)
Dubbing roles
- Crossroads (2002) (known as Not A Girl in Japan)(Ben)
- Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (Rheneas and Fergus)
Drama CD's
Trivia
 | This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. (May 2007) |
- He appeared in 3 animes in a row on the Saturday 6 p.m. timeslot on MBS and TBS, starting from Gundam Seed (GS, FMA, GSD).
- His character in GS (Andrew Waltfeld) was meant to be killed off, but the director kept the character as he's one of the few "cool adults" remaining. Andrew went on to play a significant role in GSD.
- Another coincidence here is that both Scar (Ryotaro's character in FMA) and Andrew were well-known for their scars.
- He has worked twice with Kaya Matsutani where both of their characters belonged to the same group, mostly Ryotaro's character possessed the higher position:
- In Flame of Recca, Ryotaro voiced Kurei, the leader of Uruha, while Kaya voiced Neon, a member of the Uruha Jyushinshuu.
- In Bleach, Ryotaro voiced Byakuya Kuchiki, Captain of 6th Division of Gotei 13, while Kaya voiced Rangiku Matsumoto, vice-captain of 10th Division of Gotei 13.
- There are two occasions where he and Crispin Freeman voices the same character: Oda Nobunaga in Kessen III, and Setzer Gabbiani in Kingdom Hearts II
- He and his best friend Midorikawa Hikaru have played a number of characters in numerous anime and in Kessen III. They either play teammates, friends, or rivals:
- Rukawa Kaede (Hikaru) and Mitsui Hisashi (Ryotaro) in Slam Dunk,
- Schuldig (Hikaru) and Crawford (Ryotaro) in Weiß Kreuz and Gluhen,
- Arai Togo (Hikaru) and Shimon Takagi (Ryotaro) in Sotsugyou M,
- Leon Magnus (Hikaru) and Dymlos (Ryotaro) in Tales of Destiny and Tales of Destiny 2,
- Mitsuhide Akechi (Hikaru) and Oba Nobunaga (Ryotaro) in Kessen III,
- Masaki Andoh (Hikaru) and Raidiese F. Branstein (Ryotaro) in various Super Robot Wars titles,
- Mikagami Tokiya (Hikaru) and Kurei (Ryotaro) in Flame of Recca, and
- Heero Yuy (Hikaru) and Treize Kushrenada (Ryotaro) are among their most notable roles.
External links
- Okiayu Ryoutarou at the Anime News Network
- Okiayu Ryoutarou at Aoni Production
- Okiayu Ryoutarou at the Hitoshi Doi Seiyuu database
- Ryotaro Okiayu at Anime NFO