TesshÅ Genda
Tesshō Genda (玄田 哲章 Genda Tesshō born May 20, 1948) is a Japanese voice actor who was born as Mitsuo Yokoi (横居 光雄 Yokoi Mitsuo). Some of his most famous roles include Umibōzu in City Hunter and Angel Heart, the original voice of Guile in many of the Street Fighter video games and anime (and M. Bison in the Soft dub of the 1994 film), Agent Shu, Bojack and Janemba across the Dragon Ball franchise, Kazumi Araiwa in Cooking Papa, Blastoise (Kamex) in Pokémon, the Nine tailed Fox Demon in Naruto, Dan Dastun in The Big O, Sourman in Dr. Slump, Taurus Aldebaran in Saint Seiya, the Younger Toguro Brother in Yu Yu Hakusho, Action Bastard in Shin Chan, The Punisher in the Marvel Anime films and the Impostor Captain Tennille in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Genda is also no stranger to Toei's Super Sentai franchise, his most recent role from said franchise being Buddyroid Gorisaki Banana from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.
In terms of dubbing, some of his roles include Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, a number of animated incarnations of Batman since the DC Animated Universe, Cable in the TV Tokyo dub of Saban's X-Men, the current voice for Foghorn Leghorn in Looney Tunes, Kratos in the God of War series, Mace Windu in Star Wars, Hiro in Thomas & Friends, the slumbering dragon in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Good Cop/Bad Cop (but not Batman!) in The LEGO Movie. He's also the official Japanese dub over voices for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal and, uh, Dan Aykroyd.
Roles
[edit]- Convoy
- Convoy
- Convoy
TF Telephone audio adventures: The Battlestars
[edit]The Transformers
[edit]- Convoy
- Convoy
- Primus
- Convoy
- Optimus Prime
- Omega Supreme
- Generation 1 Optimus Prime (pre-title sequence gag for "TransWarped, Part 1")
- Optimus Prime
- Optimus Prime
Q-Transformers: The Road to Additional Popularity
[edit]Earth Wars
[edit]Movie The Best
[edit]- Leader Class Optimus Prime
- Leader Class Optimus Prime (Revenge Version)
- Optimus Prime
Turbo Change Series
[edit]- Battle Command Optimus Prime
- Optimus Prime
Transformers: Alliance
[edit]- Optimus Prime
Convention appearances
[edit]Fiction
[edit]Legends World
[edit]Tesshō Genda was the voice of Optimus Prime. When the organisers of Transformers Celebration 2014 played a recording of his voice to hype up the crowd for the official start of the event, Rhinox cried tears of nostalgic joy. Legends Bonus Vol.
Notes
[edit]- Because of his healthy background in ballet, one of his popular nicknames is "Pirouette Genda".
- Genda played a parody of his Optimus Prime character named "Osutimus Surprise" (オスティマス・サプライズ, "Cocktimus Prime" in the dub) in the seventh episode of 2010's Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, "Trans-homers". Seizō Katō, despite having retired from the role, played a parody of Megatron in that same episode.
External links
[edit]- Tesshō Genda at the Internet Movie Database
- [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Tesshō Genda|{{#if:Tesshō Genda at Wikipedia|Tesshō Genda at Wikipedia|Tesshō Genda}}]]
- [[wikipedia:{{#if:ja|ja:}}玄田哲章|{{#if:Tesshō Genda at Japanese Wikipedia|Tesshō Genda at Japanese Wikipedia|玄田哲章}}]]
- 81 Produce profile
- ANN Profile