RYōTARō OKIAYU

is a seiyū, who was born on November 17, 1969 in Kokura Minami-ku, Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. His blood type is O. He is currently affiliated with Aoni Production.

Contents

Filmography

Anime

Video games

Dubbing roles

Drama CD's

Trivia

External links

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 Khushrenada)

★ Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō (Akram)

★ Here is Greenwood (Masato Ikeda)

★ Jigoku Sensei Nūbē (Meisuke Nueno/Nübē)

★ Kinnikuman Nisei (Kevin Mask)

★ Kizuna (Samejima Ranmaru)

★ Koutetsu Sangokushi (Kiso Motoaki)

★ 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)

★ Okane ga nai (Toranosuke Gion)

★ Onegai My Melody (Usamimi Kamen)

★ One Piece (Kaku)

★ Please Save My Earth (Issei)

★ The Prince of Tennis (Kunimitsu Tezuka, Ichiuma Kita)

★ Rock Man (Blues)

★ 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)

★ Shining Tears X Wind (Saionji)

★ Sister Princess (anime) (Akio Yamagami)

★ Slam Dunk (Mitsui Hisashi)

★ Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (Hartia)

★ Sukisho (Kai Nagase)

★ and (Raidiese F. Branstein)

★ Tekkaman Blade II (David Krugel/Tekkaman Sommer)

★ (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)

★ , '' and '' (Alucard)

★ and (Arikado)

★ (Nero)

★ Eternal Arcadia (Alfonso)

★ Granado Espada (Japanese version) (Male Wizard)

★ Growlanser and (Ernest Lyell)

★ Harukanaru Toki no Naka De (Akram)

★ Kessen III (Oda Nobunaga)

★ Kingdom Hearts II (Setzer Gabbiani)

★ Langrisser IV and Langirsser V (Randius)

★ and (Ronfar)

★ Rock man X series (Zero)

★ Rock Man 8: Metal Heroes (Blues)

★ (Vamp)

★ Musou Orochi (Orochi)

★ Namco X Capcom (Captain Commando and Taira No Kagekiyo)

★ Prince of Tennis (Kunimitsu Tezuka)

★ Rival Schools (Roy Bromwell)

★ Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends (Chosokabe Motochika)

★ 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

★ Samurai Deeper Kyo (Yuan)

★ Rockman Kiki Ippatsu!! (Blues)

Trivia

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★ He appeared in 3 anime in a row on the Saturday 6 p.m. timeslot on MBS and TBS, starting from Gundam Seed (GS, FMA, GSD).

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★ 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.

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★ 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:

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★ In Flame of Recca, Ryotaro voiced Kurei, the leader of Uruha, while Kaya voiced Neon, a member of the Uruha Jyushinshuu.

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★ 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:

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★ Naoki Shinjo (Hikaru) and Franz Heinel (Ryotaro), them first big step roles, in Cyber Formula (1991),

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★ Kaede Rukawa (Hikaru) and Hisashi Mitsui (Ryotaro) in Slam Dunk (1993),

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★ Arai Togo (Hikaru) and Shimon Takagi (Ryotaro) in Sotsugyou M (1995),

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★ Heero Yuy (Hikaru) and Treize Kushrenada (Ryotaro) in Gundam Wing (1995),

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★ Mikagami Tokiya (Hikaru) and Kurei (Ryotaro) in Flame of Recca (1997),

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★ Leon Magnus (Hikaru) and Dymlos (Ryotaro) in Tales of Destiny (1997) and Tales of Destiny 2 (2002),

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★ Schuldig (Hikaru) and Crawford (Ryotaro) in Weiß Kreuz (1998) and Weiß Kreuz Glühen (2002),

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★ Mitsuhide Akechi (Hikaru) and Oba Nobunaga (Ryotaro) in Kessen III (2005), and

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★ Masaki Andoh (Hikaru) and Raidiese F. Branstein (Ryotaro) in various Super Robot Wars titles are among their most notable roles.

★ He has voiced three different famous figures from the Sengoku period in different medias: Oda Nobunaga in Kessen III, Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Sengoku Basara 2, and Chosokabe Motochika in Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends.

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