Tomokazu Seki
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-->Tomokazu Seki (関 智一 Seki Tomokazu, born September 8,1972) is a popular voice actor (seiyū) in Japan.Two of his most notable roles include Toya Kinomoto, Sakura Kinomoto's older brother in Cardcaptor Sakura, and Ken Hidaka from Weiss Kreuz alongside Koyasu Takehito, Hiro Yuuki, and Shinichiro Miki. His most recent role is Gilgamesh in Fate/stay night.
He is considered very versatile in his industry and has portrayed a wide variety of characters, ranging from comical to dramatic. Very often, the characters he voiced have very comical sides to their seriousness, such Sagara Sousuke in the Full Metal Panic series and Toji Suzuhara in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
He was born in Tokyo and his blood type is AB. He works for Haikyou.
Roles
- Bart Garsus (Vandread)
- Ethan (Last Exile)
- Miroku Natsuhiko (Get Backers)
- Eduard (Meine Liebe)
- Gouda Jouji (Muv-Luv Supplement) and (Akane Maniax)
- Gilgamesh (Fate/stay night) (2006)
- Toya Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura) (1998)
- Toji Suzuhara (Neon Genesis Evangelion) (1995)
- Virgil () (2006)
- Hiromu Shimbo (Chobits)
- Virgil () (2004)
- Yuuichi Tate (Mai-HiME) (2005)
- Virgil () (2002)
- Vyse (Skies of Arcadia) (2000)
- Kyo Sohma (Fruits Basket) (2001)
- Tomache Massarik (Mobile Suit Victory Gundam) (1993)
- Domon Kasshu (G Gundam) (1994)
- Van Fanel (Vision of Escaflowne) (1996) and (Escaflowne Movie) (2000)
- Keisuke Takahashi (Initial D) (1998)
- Shuichi Shindou (Gravitation) (2000)
- Graham Rivers (Kenran Butoh Sai - The Mars Daybreak) (2004)
- Reiji Kageyama (Gate Keepers) (2000)
- Takashiro Kazuna (Hitsuji no Uta) (2003)
- Seikai (Gad Guard) (2003)
- Yzak Joule (Gundam SEED) (2002) and (Gundam SEED Destiny) (2004)
- Junpei (Those Who Hunt Elves) (1995)
- Menōmaru (InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time) (2001)
- Tsukuro Shiratori and Jiro Yamada (Martian Successor Nadesico) (1996)
- Masaharu Ogata (Angelic Layer) (2001)
- Chichiri, Kouji (Fushigi Yūgi) (1995)
- Ikumi Oze (Infinite Ryvius) (1999)
- Burn Grifiths (Psychic Force (Anime, videogame)) (1996)
- Takashi Ryugasaki a.k.a. Shooting Star (Akihabara Dennō Gumi) (1998)
- Kamui Shirō (X/1999 the movie) (1996)
- Lead Phoenix (Burning Rangers)
- Jiro/Kikaider (Kikaider the Animation)
- Joe (Viewtiful Joe)
- Haru Glory (Rave Master)
- Sosuke Sagara (Full Metal Panic!) (2002), (Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu) (2004) and (Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid) (2005)
- Masataka Takayanagi (Tenjho Tenge)
- Stahn Aileron (Tales of Destiny) (1997) and (Namco X Capcom)
- Sapphirus Hawthorne (Apocripha/0) (2001)
- Kenji (Tracey Sketchit) (Pokémon) (1999)
- Kunio Murai (Great Teacher Onizuka) (1999)
- Dee Laytner (FAKE)
- Rob Lucci (One Piece)
- Shoji Tokairin(''Taiho Shichauzo)
- Pierrot Bolneze (Yakitate! Japan)
- Sagi (Naruto)
- Ken Hidaka (from Weiss Kruez)
- Neon (Digimon Savers episode 8) (2006)
- Rentarou Futaba (Futakoi Alternative)
- Alexander O. Howell (Ayashi no Ceres)
Drama CDs
- Rath Eryuser (Dragon Knights)
- Satoshi Hiwatari (D.N.Angel Wink)
Trivia
- Often, Seki has been involved with projects that have included members of the Weiss Kreuz band, in some cases resulted in interaction between the characters portrayed. One very striking example occurs in Neon Genesis Evangelion, with Seki as Toji Suzuhara, and Koyasu Takehito and Hiro Yuuki as the two male operators of MAGI.
- Seki and Shinichiro Miki are reportedly good friends, with their first collaborations happening even before Weiss Kruez. Ironically, while Seki voiced Toya Kinomoto in Cardcaptor Sakura, Miki portrayed an incarnation of the same character in .
- In the Fate/stay night anime series, Seki and Shinichiro Miki reunite, with Seki voicing Gilgamesh and Miki voicing Assassin. Ironically, Gilgamesh's introduction in episode 19 is just moments after Assasin's death.
- The same occurrence can be said with fellow seiyū Megumi Ogata, who voices Yukito Tsukishiro in Cardcaptor Sakura, where their characters share a close relationship. Ironically, their characters are good friends again in Evangelion with Ogata as Shinji Ikari and enemies in GetBackers with Seki as Natsuhiko Miroku and Ogata as Clayman, plus a mother-and-son (albeit somewhat close to Oedipal) relationship in Great Teacher Onizuka with Seki as Kunio Murai and Ogata as his young mother Julia.
- This close friends/comrades relationship is also found with his works with Ishida Akira. In Gundam Seed, both men voiced elite pilots of ZAFT (with Tomokazu as Yzak Jule and Akira as Athrun Zala). In the anime version of Nana, both voiced band members of Blast (Akira voices Shin while Tomokazu does Nobu). In Neon Genesis Evangelion, though their characters have no dialogue together, both are chosen as pilots of the Evangelions. Also coincidently, both men once voiced the same character (though in different settings): Satoshi Hiwatari in D.N.Angel. (Tomokazu voiced Satoshi in the drama CD while Akira was Satoshi's voice in the anime version.)
- He has at least 2 roles whereby his character is a rival of the character voiced by Hoshi Soichiro: In Gundam Seed, Yzak Jule (Tomokazu) was once slashed by Kira Yamato (Soichiro); in the drama CD version of D.N Angel, Soichiro voices Niwa Daisuke while Tomokazu voices Hiwatari Satoshi; in Groove Adventure Rave, Seki is the Rave Master Haru Glory while Hoshi is the franchise's primary antagonist and Haru's extreme opposite Lucia Raregroove.
- To the unwary, he is sometimes mistaken for Toshihiko Seki (They have the same surname but are unrelated.).
External links
- ["関智一オフィシャルファンクラブ" (Official Fanclub)]
- [Tomokazu Seki] at the Anime News Network
- [Tomokazu Seki Shrine] in English and Spanish
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