Yoshikazu Iwanami
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Yoshikazu Iwanami (岩浪美和 Iwanami Yoshikazu, born May 19, 1962) is a Japanese voice director and story editor. He is responsible for the radically altered Japanese edits of all imported Western Transformers cartoons from Beast Wars thru Prime and continuing with Cyberverse.
Some other American cartoons Iwanami has been head of localization on include the '80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV Tokyo version), Saban's X-Men (TV Tokyo version), Biker Mice from Mars, the '60s Dick Tracy Show (during its 1991 rebroadcast) and the '90s Iron Man cartoon.
Director of Japanese dubbing and script localization
Director of audiography
Notes
- Iwanami is particularly fond of adlibbing and has employed it in many of his dubs. In addition to extensive adlibbing in all of his Transformers localizations, the TV Tokyo versions of X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which he directed) were also notorious for their adlibbing. The Legends Convobat comic, via a fictional Beast Wars film, actually poked fun of the constant adlibbing of the "actors" as a reference to Iwanami's dubbing style.
- Iwanami appeared for a special extended interview (conducted by Toshiyuki Morikawa) in the "Transformers: Prime Perfect Transformation Late Night 2-Hour Special" to discuss his long-time history with the Transformers franchise. Some of the cast are then treated to a compare/contrast experience as they watch the original English version of "Predatory" (a slasher movie parody) alongside the Iwanami-localized Japanese version of the episode (a Pepe Le Pew parody) and proceed to comment with bewilderment over how different the two versions of the same episode are.
