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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

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

Scramble City: Mobilization

Convoy

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010

Convoy

Transformers: The Headmasters

Convoy

The Transformers: The Movie

Convoy

TF Telephone audio adventures: The Battlestars

Star Convoy

The Transformers

The Rebirth was released in Japan in 1996 with the American The Transformers branding to distinguish it from the continuity of the Japanese Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers.

Convoy

DreamMix TV World Fighters

Convoy

Super Link

Primus

Galaxy Force

Primus

Transformers: Kiss Players

Convoy

Transformers (2007)

Optimus Prime

Transformers: Revenge

Optimus Prime

Transformers Animated

Omega Supreme
Generation 1 Optimus Prime (pre-title sequence gag for "TransWarped, Part 1")

Transformers: Darkside Moon

Optimus Prime

Transformers: Lost Age

Optimus Prime

Q-Transformers: The Road to Additional Popularity

Kazumi Araiwa ("The Road to Borrowing Popularity from Cooking Papa")

Earth Wars

Convoy

Movie The Best

Leader Class Optimus Prime
Leader Class Optimus Prime (Revenge Version)

Transformers: The Last Knight-King

Optimus Prime

Turbo Change Series

Battle Command Optimus Prime

Bumblebee

Optimus Prime

Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy

Transformers: Alliance

Convoy

Transformers: Beast Awakening

Optimus Prime

Transformers: EarthSpark

Optimus Prime

Transformers One

Alpha Trion

Convention appearances

BotCon Japan 2000

Fiction

Legends World

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

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

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-[[File:Tesshogenda.jpg|130px|thumb|Japan's own cowboy!]]
+[[File:Tesshogenda.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Japan's own cowboy!]]
-'''Tesshō Genda''' (玄田 哲章 ''Genda Tesshō'') is a Japanese voice actor. He was born in Okayama, Japan on [[May 20]], [[1948]], as Mitsuo Yokoi (横居 光雄 ''Yokoi Mitsuo'').
+'''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 II × Transformers|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 [[Kurama|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'', [[Punisher|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''.
-Some of his most famous roles include Umibōzu in ''City Hunter'' and ''Angel Heart'', Guile in many of the ''Street Fighter'' video games and anime, Shū in ''Dragon Ball'', Dan Dastun in ''The Big O'', Suppaman in ''Dr. Slump'', the Younger Toguro Brother in ''Yu Yu Hakusho'' and Action Bastard in ''Shin Chan''.
+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 Entertainment|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 (franchise)|Star Wars]]'', Hiro in ''Thomas & Friends'', the slumbering dragon in ''[[My Little Pony|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 [[Arnie|Arnold Schwarzenegger]], Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal and, uh, ''[[Ray Stantz|Dan Aykroyd]]''.
-In terms of dubbing, some of his roles include Tigger in ''Winnie the Pooh'', almost every ''[[Batman]]'' since ''the Animated Series'', Cable in the [[TV Tokyo]] dub of [[Saban]]'s ''[[X-Men]]'', the current voice for Foghorn Leghorn in ''Looney Tunes'', Steven Magnet in ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'', and Bad Cop (but ''not'' Batman!) in ''The LEGO Movie''.  He's also the official Japanese dub-voice for [[Arnie|Arnold Schwarzenegger]], Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal and, uh, ''Dan Aykroyd''.
 ==Roles==
-===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
+===''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]''===
 *[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Convoy/Orion Pax]]
 *[[Halonix Maximus|Giant]]
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 *[[Wulf]]
-===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010''===
+===''[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]''===
+*Convoy
+===''[[The Transformers (cartoon)#Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010]]''===
 *Convoy
-===''The Headmasters''===
+===''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''===
 *[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Convoy]]
-===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
+===''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''===
 *Convoy
 ===''TF Telephone audio adventures: The Battlestars''===
-*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Star Convoy]]
+*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]]
 ===''The Transformers''===
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 *Convoy
-===''DreamMix TV World Fighters'' video game===
+===''[[DreamMix TV World Fighters]]''===
 *Convoy
-===''Super Link''===
+===''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Super Link]]''===
 *[[Primus]]
-===''Galaxy Force''===
+===''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Galaxy Force]]''===
 *Primus
-===''Kiss Players''===
+===''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)|Transformers: Kiss Players]]''===
 *Convoy
-===''Transformers'' (2007) movie===
+===[[Transformers (film)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]===
 *[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]
-===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
+===''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Transformers: Revenge]]''===
 *Optimus Prime
-===''Animated''===
+===''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]''===
 *[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]
-*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Generation 1 Optimus Prime]] (pre-[[title sequence]] gag for "[[TransWarped#Part I|TransWarped, Part 1]]")
+*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 Optimus Prime]] (pre-[[title sequence]] gag for "[[TransWarped#Part I|TransWarped, Part 1]]")
-===''Dark of the Moon'' movie===
+===''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Transformers: Darkside Moon]]'' ===
 *Optimus Prime
-===''Age of Extinction'' movie===
+===''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Transformers: Lost Age]]''===
 *Optimus Prime
+===''Q-Transformers: The Road to Additional Popularity''===
+*[[Kazumi Araiwa]] ("[[The Road to Borrowing Popularity from Cooking Papa]]")
+===''Earth Wars''===
+*[[Optimus Prime (G1)#Transformers: Earth Wars|Convoy]]
+===''Movie The Best''===
+*Leader Class Optimus Prime
+*Leader Class Optimus Prime (Revenge Version)
+===''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight-King]]''===
+*Optimus Prime
+===''Turbo Change Series''===
+*Battle Command Optimus Prime
+===''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]''===
+*Optimus Prime
+===''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''===
+*[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]
+*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]
+===Transformers: Alliance===
+*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Convoy]]
+===''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Transformers: Beast Awakening]]''===
+*Optimus Prime
+===''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]''===
+*[[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]]
+===''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]''===
+* [[Alpha Trion]]
+==Convention appearances==
+*[[BotCon Japan 2000]]
+==Fiction==
+===Legends World===
+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 (Legends)|Rhinox]] cried tears of nostalgic joy. {{storylink|Legends Bonus Vol.}}
 ==Notes==
-*Because of his healthy background in ''ballet'', one of his popular nicknames is "Pirouette Genda". *snicker*
+*Because of his healthy background in ballet, one of his popular nicknames is "Pirouette Genda".
+*Genda played a parody of his [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|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 ''[[Studio Trigger|Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]]'', "Trans-homers".  [[Seizō Katō]], despite having retired from the role, played a parody of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] in that same episode.
-*Genda played a parody of his [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] character (named "Ostimus Surprise") in episode 7 of the series ''[[Wikipedia:Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt]]''.  [[Seizō Katō]], despite having retired from the role, played a parody of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] in that same episode.
 ==External links==
 *[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312656/ Tesshō Genda at the Internet Movie Database]
-*[[wikipedia:Tesshō Genda|Tesshō Genda]] at Wikipedia
+*{{w|Tesshō Genda|Tesshō Genda at Wikipedia}}
-*[[wikipedia:ja:玄田哲章|Tesshō Genda at Japanese Wikipedia]]
+*{{w|lang=ja|玄田哲章|Tesshō Genda at Japanese Wikipedia}}
 *[http://www.81produce.co.jp/list.cgi?man+1499313433220 81 Produce profile]
 *[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1250 ANN Profile]
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 [[Category:Japanese voice actors]]
 [[Category:Convention guests]]
+[[Category:Legends World humans]]

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