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Kenichi Suzumura! I am describing you! Right here! Right now!
Kenichi Suzumura is one of the upcoming seiyuus usually known for his young, brash voice, which makes him quite fit for voicing young boys with the most notable trait of either being a Jerkass, or just rowdy and rude. Unfortunately, the characters he voiced seems to have very bad luck. He originally wanted to become a chef and was this close to apply to a culinary school, but one of his friends roped him into going together to some voice acting auditions instead, and then everything changed.
Suzumura gained noticeable fame when he voiced Shinn Asuka from Gundam Seed Destiny. Rumor has it that since the show was... rather not-well received by some of the hardcore fans despite having good sales, while he was out walking, he was approached by die hard SEED fans who probably didn't like Destiny much and who... spat in his face. Ouch, poor guy's just doing his job, now his characters' bad luck is rubbing off on him. For real Irony, Suzumura himself acknowledges the problems with Destiny, and has said he prefers the Super Robot Wars Z version of Shinn to the anime version. Still, Suzumura's career has more or less kept going, and fans later stopped being annoying to him.
He is best friends with Takahiro Sakurai (the two have formed a singing duo named R16, and he tried to more or less keep order after Sakurai's massive Role Ending Misdemeanor) and has a good relationship with Soichiro Hoshi (how's that for irony, SEED fans?). Also, had a short semi-romantic relationship with Hitomi Nabatame. He also has romantic connections to Maaya Sakamoto's characters in a few series, then it became an official romance resulting in marriage with Maaya in 2011 and the birth of their first kid in April 2022. Congratulations to them! Still, as of 2024 Suzumura's health took a big hit so he announced that he'd go into hiatus for some time.
Notable roles by Kenichi Suzumura:[]
- Demyx in Kingdom Hearts
- Zack Fair in the Final Fantasy VII franchise.
- Eiji Shigure in Gravion
- George Ushiromiya in Umineko no Naku Koro ni
- Hajiki Sanada in Gad Guard
- Hikaru Hitachiin in Ouran High School Host Club
- Kaoru in the pre-anime drama CDs, while Hoshi does Hikaru. To add further to the irony, they belong to the same company.
- Hiroki Segawa in Witchblade
- Atori in Noein
- Dietrich von Lohengrin in Trinity Blood
- Kamui in X 1999
- Kilik Lunge in Soul Eater
- Kouichi/Duskmon in Digimon Frontier
- Lavi in D Gray Man
- Mikiya Kokutou in Karano Kyoukai
- Sougo Okita in Gintama aka King of Planet Sadist
- Rudy Roughnight in Wild Arms Alter Code F
- Ryutaros/Den-O Gun Form in Kamen Rider Den-O, and Kamen Rider X in Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Great Shocker
- And he played a minor role in Kamen Rider Kiva.
- He's also a co-commentator (with Narutaki) for the Decade Super Spinoff online movies.
- Whenever Kenichi appears in a Kamen Rider series, expect to hear a variation of "Kotae wa kiitenai!" ("Can't hear you!") from him.
- Senel Coolidge in Tales of Legendia (STELLAAAAAAAA!!!!)
- Tir McDohl in the Suikoden I Radio Drama
- Shiki Tohno in Tsukihime anime.
- Shinn Asuka in Gundam Seed Destiny (series, Remastered Versions, and the FREEDOM movie), the Gundam vs. Series, Gundam Musou 2 and 3, Super Robot Wars Scramble Commander the 2nd, the Super Robot Wars Z timeline, and Another Century's Episode: R (STELLAAAAAAAA!!!!)
- Shinichiro Isumi in Hikaru no Go
- Simon Belmont in Castlevania Judgment
- Soular in Fresh Pretty Cure
- Ginshu in Amatsuki.
- Tora Igarashi in Kaichou wa Maid-sama
- Tsubasa Amaha in Starry Sky
- Cheerful doormat Himoi in Yondemasuyo, Azazel-san.
- Jack in Final Fantasy Type-0
- Maya in Saint Beast
- Yoshitake in Daily Lives of High School Boys
- Cayenne Suzushiro in Aquarion Evol
- Yakumo Mouri in Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate
- Lionel von Hanen in Granado Espada
- Florian 'Flo' Thomas (Tobias Schenke) in the Japanese dub of the German movie Harte Jungs (Better know as Ants In My Pants in the U.S.)
- Atsushi Murasakibara in Kuroko no Basuke
- Quan and his son Leif in Fire Emblem: Heroes
- Obanai Iguro aka Serpent Hashira in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
- Dr. Romani Archaman in Fate:Grand Order, plus the real King Solomon aka Romani's former self (the fake one aka Goetia is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita)
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