Ryōhei Kimura
Description
Ryōhei Kimura is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and singer born on July 30, 1984, in Tokyo. He began his career in entertainment at the age of three in 1987, joining the Himawari Theatre Group where he trained as a child actor. His early work included minor roles in television dramas, commercials, and stage productions, with his professional voice acting debut occurring in 1996. He remains affiliated with the Himawari Theatre Group throughout his career.
Kimura has built a prolific career with a wide range of voice roles in anime, video games, and foreign language dubbing. He is known for his versatility, convincingly portraying characters that range from affable and kind to extreme and unstable, often within the bishōnen archetype. His performance as Kodaka Hasegawa in the anime series Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, among other roles, earned him the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 6th Seiyu Awards in 2012.
His extensive filmography includes many prominent roles. He voices Ryouta Kise in the Kuroko's Basketball series, Kōtarō Bokuto in Haikyū!!, and Satoru Nishimura in the long-running Natsume Yūjin-Chō series. Other significant anime roles include Kohei Imamura in Grand Blue, Yugo Hachiken in Silver Spoon, Kaoru Nishimi in Kids on the Slope, Shōma Takakura in Mawaru Penguindrum, Hideki Hinata in Angel Beats!, Akira Takizawa in Eden of the East, and L-Elf Karlstein in Valvrave the Liberator. He also voices Alice Asmodeus in Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, Leon in the ONA Good Night World, and has taken on roles such as Abe no Seimei in Onmyō Kaiten Re:verse. His work extends to video games where he is known for voicing Tartaglia in Genshin Impact, Sorey in Tales of Zestiria, and Joshua Kiryu in The World Ends with You series.
Beyond anime, Kimura is also a singer and is part of the musical unit Trignal, formed under the Kiramune label alongside fellow voice actors Takuya Eguchi and Tsubasa Yonaga. He has also co-hosted radio shows with other voice actors, including Nobuhiko Okamoto for Dengeki Girl's Smile.
Kimura has built a prolific career with a wide range of voice roles in anime, video games, and foreign language dubbing. He is known for his versatility, convincingly portraying characters that range from affable and kind to extreme and unstable, often within the bishōnen archetype. His performance as Kodaka Hasegawa in the anime series Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, among other roles, earned him the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 6th Seiyu Awards in 2012.
His extensive filmography includes many prominent roles. He voices Ryouta Kise in the Kuroko's Basketball series, Kōtarō Bokuto in Haikyū!!, and Satoru Nishimura in the long-running Natsume Yūjin-Chō series. Other significant anime roles include Kohei Imamura in Grand Blue, Yugo Hachiken in Silver Spoon, Kaoru Nishimi in Kids on the Slope, Shōma Takakura in Mawaru Penguindrum, Hideki Hinata in Angel Beats!, Akira Takizawa in Eden of the East, and L-Elf Karlstein in Valvrave the Liberator. He also voices Alice Asmodeus in Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, Leon in the ONA Good Night World, and has taken on roles such as Abe no Seimei in Onmyō Kaiten Re:verse. His work extends to video games where he is known for voicing Tartaglia in Genshin Impact, Sorey in Tales of Zestiria, and Joshua Kiryu in The World Ends with You series.
Beyond anime, Kimura is also a singer and is part of the musical unit Trignal, formed under the Kiramune label alongside fellow voice actors Takuya Eguchi and Tsubasa Yonaga. He has also co-hosted radio shows with other voice actors, including Nobuhiko Okamoto for Dengeki Girl's Smile.
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Good Night World
- JapaneseAnime overview: Grand Blue Dreaming
- JapaneseAnime overview: Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy - Earthrise
- JapaneseAnime overview: Ultraman
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Ultraman
- JapaneseAnime overview: Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Dorohedoro
- JapaneseAnime overview: Bumblebee
- JapaneseAnime overview: My Happy Marriage
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Gibiate
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun
- JapaneseAnime overview: Hell's Paradise
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Bibliophile Princess
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Grand Blue Dreaming
- JapaneseAnime overview: Natsume Yūjin-Chō
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Hybrid Child
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Psychic School Wars
- JapaneseAnime overview: Kids on the Slope
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Eden of the East: The King of Eden
- JapaneseAnime overview: Neo Angelique Abyss -Second Age-
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Natsume's Book of Friends
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Tales of Zestiria the X
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Macross Delta
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Valvrave the Liberator
- JapaneseAnime overview: Joker Game
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Neo Angelique Abyss
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Haganai
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Red Data Girl
- JapaneseAnime overview: Chaos Dragon
- JapaneseAnime overview: Aoharu x Machinegun
- JapaneseAnime overview: Cencoroll 2
- JapaneseAnime overview: RIN-NE
- JapaneseAnime overview: Nanatsu no Taizai
- JapaneseAnime overview: Kuroko's Basketball
- JapaneseAnime overview: BONJOUR Sweet Love Patisserie
- JapaneseAnime overview: Psycho-Pass 2
- JapaneseAnime overview: The Seven Deadly Sins
- JapaneseAnime overview: Nobunaga Concerto
- JapaneseAnime overview: Love Stage!!
- JapaneseAnime overview: Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
- JapaneseAnime overview: Akame ga KILL!
- JapaneseAnime overview: The irregular at magic high school
- JapaneseAnime overview: Silver Spoon
- JapaneseAnime overview: Buddy Complex
- JapaneseAnime overview: Tokyo Ravens
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Skip and Loafer
- JapaneseAnime overview: Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!
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- JapaneseAnime overview: A Couple of Cuckoos
- JapaneseAnime overview: Betrothed to My Sister's Ex
- JapaneseAnime overview: Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer!
- JapaneseAnime overview: Secrets of the Silent Witch
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Sengoku Youko
- JapaneseAnime overview: A Condition Called Love
- JapaneseAnime overview: Hell's Paradise
- JapaneseAnime overview: My Happy Marriage
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Sengoku Youko
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- JapaneseAnime overview: My Happy Marriage
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Q Transformers: Kaettekita Convoy no Nazo
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Q Transformers: Saranaru Ninkimono e no Michi
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: Oni-ō no Fukkatsu
- JapaneseAnime overview: ReLIFE: Final Arc
- JapaneseAnime overview: Haikyu!! To The Top
- JapaneseAnime overview: Junji Ito "Collection": Tomie
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