Kenyū Horiuchi

Kenyū Horiuchi (堀内賢雄 Horiuchi Ken'yū born July 30, 1957) is a Japanese voice actor. Some might recognize him as Raiden from the Metal Gear Solid Series, Pain from Naruto Shippuden, Hokushin from Yu Yu Hakusho, Martin Leibert from Spice & Wolf, Barazo Mankanshoku from Kill la Kill, Leon Riviere from Jormungand, Mashymre Cello in ZZ Gundam, Jamil Neate in After War Gundam X and the goofy Narrator from Kyattou Ninden Teyandē, otherwise known as Samurai Pizza Cats in the US. In late 2018, he later took over for Unshō Ishizuka as both the narrator and Professor Oak in the Pokémon anime.

In the world of dubbing, Horiuchi voiced Fancy Pants in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove, Master Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) in The Truman Show, XR in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Mr. Whiskers in Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, Victor "Animal" Pallotti (Hank Azaria's character) in both the home video and TV dubs of Roland Emmerich's Godzilla, then voiced Nick Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick's character) in Godzilla: The Series later on, Gustavo "Gus" Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) in Breaking Bad, Maxwell Lord in Wonder Woman 1984 and is one of the dub over voices of Brad Pitt, Charlie Sheen, Ben Affleck, and Ben Stiller as well Jerry in Seinfeld.

In 2002 he founded his own voice acting management office, Kenyū Office.

Roles

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

• Air Rider
• Blitzwing ("Triple Takeover")
• Dirge ("Dinobot Island, Part 2")
• First Aid
• Grapple
• Guardian
• Hot Spot
• Hound
• Inferno ("The Search for Alpha Trion")
• Lambor ("Divide and Conquer", "The Immobilizer", "The Revenge of Bruticus")
• Ligier ("Traitor", "Enter the Nightbird", "The Golden Lagoon", "The Core", "The Ultimate Doom, Part 3")
• Meister ("The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2")
• Mok
• Powerglide ("A Prime Problem")
• Ramjet ("The Girl Who Loved Powerglide")
• Raoul
• Sling ("Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2", "War Dawn")
• Sludge
• Smokescreen ("The Secret of Omega Supreme")
• Streak ("Trans-Europe Express")
• Sunstreaker
• Doctor Soji Yoshikawa

Scramble City

• Guardian

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010

• Blast Off ("Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4")
• Dimebomb
• Drag Stripe
• Firebolt
• First Aid
• Guardian
• Octone
• Pipes
• Rippersnapper
• Sharkticons
• Sling
• Sprung

The Transformers: The Movie

• Sprung

External links

• Kenyu Horiuchi profile at Kenyu Office