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Hikaru Midorikawa
| Hikaru Midorikawa | ||
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| Born | May 2 1968 Otawara, Tochigi, Japan |
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| Occupation(s) | Seiyū | |
| Website | Hikaru's Bar | |
Hikaru Midorikawa (緑川 光 Midorikawa Hikaru?) is a male Japanese seiyū who is represented by Aoni Production.
Profile
- Blood type: B
- Height: 1.72m
- Weight: 73 kg
- He is married and now lives in Tokyo.
- Skills and abilities: Plays a saxophone
- Hobbies: Plays basketball, play games, collects Gundam models and Nike sports shoes, drawing
- Favorite colors: Black, purple and red
- Dislike: Sushi and writers with bad grammar
- Likes: Omelettes and stew
- Favourite anime: Mobile Suit Gundam
- Favorite game: Super Robot Taisen F Final
- Personal quote: Just do it!
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).
He manages his own website called Hikaru's Bar. Additionally, he is one of a handful of people to have a blog on Banpresto's "Supalog" website.
Voice roles
TV animation
- Softon (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
- Sir Anubis (Detective School Q)
- 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) (Reprises role for other Gundam based Video Games)
- 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! or just Sukisyo [Sukishou])
- 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)
- Raven (Gravion)
- Raven (Gravion Zwei)
- Shi Seiran/Seien (Saiunkoku Monogatari)
- Migeira (Samurai Deeper Kyo)
- Shazan (Gestalt)
- Youta (Kouryu Densetsu Villgust OVA)
- Misonou Kai (Angel's Feather)
- Zoshonosuke Himekawa (Ayakashi)
- Masaki Andoh (Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Animation)
- Masaki Andoh (Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars)
- Ryuhou (s-CRY-ed)
- Arai Togo (Graduation M)
- Kid (The Animatrix: "Kid's Story", Japanese version)
- Killrain (Shining Tears X Wind)
- Narumi Shizuto (Yakitate!! Japan)
- Icarus Touma (Saint Seiya)
- Sui Minamito (Gintama)
Tokusatsu
- Salamandes (Kyukyu Sentai GoGo-V )
- Abel (Mirai Sentai Timeranger )
- Gridman (Denkou Choujin Gridman)
- Top Galer (Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger )
- Incubus Belbireji (Mahou Sentai Magiranger )
CD-Drama
Aquarius Camus (Saint Seiya Episode G)
Game
- 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, Masaki Andoh (Super Robot Wars series)
- Hiro (LUNAR: Eternal Blue)
- Killrain (Shining Wind)
- 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)
- Might (Psychic Force 2012)
- Nesty (Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2)
- 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)
- Llednar Twem (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance radio drama)
- Viscount Mikhial Ramphet (Animamundi)
- Si Eikei (Teikoku Sensenki)
Dubbing roles
- Bertie the Bus, Oliver the Western Engine, and Harvey the Crane Engine in the Japanese version of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
Voice acting
- There was a moment when Takehito Koyasu & Hikaru were working simultaneously in three anime together as "rivals": The Slayers (Rezo & Zelgadis), Fushigi Yuugi (Hotohori & Tamahome) and Gundam Wing (Zechs & Heero), and they also played "rivals" as well as in the Super Robot Wars game series (Masaki Andoh & Shuu Shirakawa).
Ironically enough, the two of them collaborated once again as friends-turned-rivals when they voiced Shin Kazama (Koyasu) and Satoru Kanzaki (Midorikawa) in the 2004 remake of Area 88.
- Koyasu considers Midorikawa's voice "cute", and invited him to participate in Weiss Kreuz as one of the opposites of Weiss (the Schwarz group); here, Midorikawa plays Schuldig.
- There was also a time when Takeshi Kusao & Hikaru were working simultaneosuly in two anime together as "rivals": Dragon Ball Z (Trunks & Android No#16) and Slam Dunk (Sakuragi & Rukawa). They also works simultaneously in Samurai Warriors, although not as rivals, Sanada Yukimura (Takeshi) and Akechi Mitsuhide (Hikaru).
- Two of Hikaru's roles in video games are noted to be traitors of some of the characters : Leon Magnus (Tales of Destiny) and Akechi Mitsuhide (Samurai Warriors)
- He voiced two video game protagonists that debuted in the age of NES, and were given voice actor when the series evolve into the next generation of gaming: Masaki Andoh (debuted in the 2nd Super Robot Wars in NES, first given voice in the Super Robot Wars 4 Scramble) and Marth (debuted in the first Fire Emblem, given voice in the anime adaptation of Fire Emblem and subsequently Super Smash Bros Melee)
- He is one of the voice actors of Samurai Warriors that returns in Kessen III and plays the same role as Akechi Mitsuhide. The other one is Hiroshi Kamiya as Azai Nagamasa.
- He had once 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 Soichiro Hoshi (Kira Yamato in
Gundam Seed and Hitachiin Hikaru here) and Kenichi Suzumura (who later voiced Shinn Asuka in Gundam Seed Destiny and Hitachiin Kaoru here)). Suoh Tamaki, coincidentally, is later voiced by Mamoru Miyano in the anime adaptation, who would voice Setsuna F. Seiei in Gundam 00.
- He has co-worked with other seiyuu Akiko Hiramatsu where they voiced characters in
the same group, and although unofficial, fans often depicted their characters as couples:
- In Flame of Recca, Hikaru voiced Tokiya Mikagami and Akiko voiced Fuko Kirisawa
- In Tales of Destiny 2, Hikaru voiced Judas and Akiko voiced Harold Berselius.
- He has worked with Jun Fukuyama on at least two occasions, both of which involved the
two as swordsmen:
- In Tales of Destiny 2, Hikaru voiced Judas, while Jun voiced Kyle Dunamis.
- in Super Smash Bros. Melee where Hikaru voiced Marth, while Jun voiced Roy.
- He and his best friend Ryotaro Okiayu have played a number of characters in numerous
anime. They either play teammates, friends, or rivals:
- Kaede Rukawa (Hikaru) and Hisashi Mitsui (Ryotaro) in Slam Dunk,
- Michael Grant(Hikaru) and Yuu Matsura(Ryotaro) in Marmalade Boy,
- Schuldig (Hikaru) and Crawford (Ryotaro) in Weiß Kreuz and Gluhen,
- Togo Arai (Hikaru) and Takagi Shimon (Ryotaro) in Sotsugyou M,
- Tokiya Mikagami (Hikaru) and Kurei (Ryotaro) in Flame of Recca, and
- Heero Yuy (Hikaru) and Treize Kushrenada (Ryotaro) are among their most notable roles.
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