Subaru Kimura
Subaru Kimura (木村 昴 Kimura Subaru, b. June 19, 1990), born Subaru Samuel Bartsch (昴・サミュエル・バーチュ Subaru Samyueru Bāchu) is a German-born Japanese actor, rapper and soccer coach who worked for Atomic Monkey. His most notable roles include Gian/Gouda Takeshi from Doraemon, Kamen Rider Vice (and as a fictional iteration of himself) from Kamen Rider Revice, Ichiro Yamada from Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima, Aoi Todo from Jujutsu Kaisen, King Shark from Suicide Squad Isekai, and (sigh) the new voice for Cutty Flam Franky from One Piece, succeeding Kazuki Yao.
In the world of dubbing, he played Winston Duke's role as M'Baku in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Knuckles the Echidna in the live-action film adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog, Dorn from Bad Boys: For Life, and Hobie Brown/Spider-Punk from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Kimura is known for dressing up in [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}blackface|{{#if:||blackface}}]] on social media. This distasteful habit is compounded by the fact that Kimura is often typecast as "foreign" characters when acting in animation, and is also frequently the actor of choice for dubbing black celebrities when Hollywood films are brought to Japan.
Voice roles
[edit]External links
[edit]- Atomic Monkey profile (defunct)