Kazuya Nakai
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| Kazuya Nakai | ||
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| Born | November 25, 1967 Hyōgo-ku, Kobe, Japan |
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| Occupation(s) | Seiyū | |
Kazuya Nakai (中井 和哉 Nakai Kazuya?, born November 25, 1967) is a seiyū who was born in Hyōgo-ku, Kobe. He is represented by Aoni Production.
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[edit] Overview
Kazuya Nakai debuted in After War Gundam X as Witz Sou.
He is best known as Zoro from One Piece, Mugen from Samurai Champloo, Moses Sandor from Tales of Legendia and Ultraman Max in Ultraman Max (voice only).
Many of Kazuya’s characters have rowdy personalities. In contrast, he played those who are modest and calm. In addition, many of them are swordsmen (Mugen, Hijikata and Zoro).
[edit] Notable voice roles
[edit] Anime
- After War Gundam X (Witz Sou)
- Battle Programmer Shirase (Akira Shirase)
- Black Jack (Gori)
- Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Keseran Paseran)
- D.Gray-man (Gozu)
- Death Note (Kanzo Mogi)
- Detective Conan (Shun Kotegawa)
- Digimon Savers (Gaomon)
- Gintama (Hijikata Toshirou)
- Grenadier - The Senshi of Smiles (Yajiro Kojima)
- Hataraki Man (Fumiya Sugawara)
- Hellsing (Jan Valentine)
- Immortal Grand Prix (River Marque)
- InuYasha (Hoshiyomi)
- Jyu Oh Sei (Zagi)
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Reverend Malchio)
- Nodame Cantabile (Kouzou Etoh)
- Naruto Shippuden (Furido)
- Noein (Karasu, Noein)
- One Piece (Roronoa Zoro, Pierre, Jigoroh)
- Pokémon (Morio, Shintaro, Naoshi)
- Ragnarok the Animation (Iruga)
- Samurai Champloo (Mugen)
- Scrapped Princess (Galil, Socom)
- Trinity Blood (Tres Iqus)
- xxxHolic (Shizuka Dômeki)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (First Series) (Shido-sensei, Student B ep. 10)
[edit] OVAs and films
- Blue Submarine No. 6 (Captain of the Shang)
- Saint Seiya films and OVAs (Worm Raimi)
- xxxHolic films (Shizuka Dômeki)
[edit] Video games
- Dynasty Warriors series (Xiahou Dun, Dian Wei)
- Ehrgeiz (Najimu)
- Everybody's Golf series (Musatsu)
- Final Fantasy X (Wakka)
- Final Fantasy X-2 (Wakka)
- Fullmetal Alchemist 3: Kami o Tsugu Shōjo (Zerugiu)
- Kingdom Hearts (Wakka)
- Kingdom Hearts II (Rai)
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series (Bari Bo)
- Mr. Driller series (Kiru Saku, Kowasu)
- Ninety-Nine Nights (Klarrann)
- One Piece series (Roronoa Zoro)
- Revelations: Persona (Sinzirou)
- Rockman Zero series (Fafnir)
- Rockman X4 (Frost Kibatodos, Storm Fukuroul)
- Sengoku Basara (Date Masamune)
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (Shinjiro Aragaki)
- Super Robot Wars series (Witz Sou, Jika Arutorito)
- Tales of Legendia (Moses Sandor)
- Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Kiss (Katsumi Shiba)
- Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (Assistant Scott)
[edit] Tokusatsu
- Engine Sentai Go-onger (Hiramechimedes)
- Kamen Rider Hibiki (Narrator, Eiki)
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (Igaroid, Uniga)
- Ultraman Max (Ultraman Max)
[edit] Trivia
- He has on two occasions voiced characters in anime whose voice in the OVA version was done by Wataru Takagi.
- Zoro from One Piece
- Jan Valentine from Hellsing
- Likes driving and archery
- Married; father of one child
- Enjoys going to Disneyland
[edit] External links
- Kazuya Nakai at Aoni Production
- Kazuya Nakai at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
