Takehito Koyasu!


Following information taken from Koyasu Takehito-san ga daisuki!


Name: Takehito (first) Koyasu (last)
Birthdate: May 5, 1967
Birthplace: Yokohama in Kanagawa prefecture
Zodiac sign: Taurus
Blood type: A
Hobbies: Writing, video games, jump rope
Favorite colors: Black, white, blue
His type of girl: Sympathetic, with a small butt. (hahaha!)
Marital status: married (with two kids...damnit, i wish i was his kids....or his wife)
Goal as a voice actor: Conquest of the top!
Reason for becoming a voice actor: He wanted to make the two-dimensional three-dimensional.
Job other than voice actor he'd like to try: Video game creator, author of children's stories

Personal History

Takehito Koyasu was a "yakyuu shounen" (baseball boy), playing Little League when he was in elementary school, but in the fifth grade, the stability of his world was shattered by the untimely death of his father, and he drifted into juvenile delinquency in junior high school. He says he draws upon his experiences of that time to play his "villain" roles; he thinks that even bad guys must have some reason why they're bad. Eventually, he decided he wanted to become a seiyuu and began voice training. (I think it was Koyasu-san who said he didn't do any extracurricular activities in high school because he was going to seiyuu lessons after school, although I might be thinking of some other famous male seiyuu.) Cold, dark characters still come to him more naturally, but sometimes when he's drawing or writing or thinking about something, he reverts to the innocent happiness of his early childhood.

He attended a Buddhist preschool as a child, and graduated from a technical high school in the data processing division.

Side note: After he became a professional voice actor, Koyasu-san, worried about his image, burned all the photographs of himself in his JD days, even going so far as to collect old photos from his friends. It's actually not an unfounded fear, though, I recently saw a popular singer confronted with old photos of herself in gangster-girl getup on a TV talk show.




Takehito has done the following roles in anime.

Angel Links Warren Phatom
Angel Sanctuary Kira Sakuya
Betterman Betterman
Betterman Ramia
Cowboy Bebop Bull
DNA^2 Sugashita Ryuuji
Evangelion Aoba Shigeru
Final Fantasy: Unlimited Fist
Fushigi Yuugi Hotohori
G Gundam Beruiman
Gatekeepers Banba Choutarou
Gravitation Sakano
Gundam 0083 Operator
Gundam F-91 Dwight Camry
Gundam Wing Zechs Merquise
Hellsing Luke Valentine
Initial D Takahashi Ryousuke
Juubei Ninpouchou [Ninja Scroll] (TV) Joshi
Ranma 1/2 Daisuke
Ranma 1/2 {movie 1} Daikokusei
Rurouni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- Jinpuu
Rurouni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- Jinpu
Rurouni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- {Ishinshishi he no Requiem} Kajiki Sadashiro
Saber Marionette J Hanagata
Saber Marionette J Again Hanagata Mitsurugi
Saber Marionette J to X Hanagata
Samurai Deeper Kyo Hattori Hanzou
Samurai Deeper Kyo Hotaru
SD Gundam Knight Sazabi
SD Gundam Gaiden Seikihei Monogatari GP01
Shaman King Faust Diethel
Shoujo Kakumei Utena Kiryuu Touga
Slayers Rezo
Slayers Copy Rezo
Slayers Sanaffa
Slayers {Great} Huey
Tenchi Muyou Yosyo
V Gundam Raior Sabato
Wedding Peach Sandra
Weiss kreuz Fujimiya Aya
Yuuyuu Hakusho Kido