Kenichi Suzumura
鈴村 健一
Born 鈴村 健一 (Suzumura Ken'ichi)
September 12, 1974
Niigata, Osaka Prefecture
Other name(s) Suzu, Muraken, Suzuken
Occupation Seiyū

Kenichi Suzumura (鈴村 健一 Suzumura Ken'ichi?, born September 12, 1974) is a male seiyū from Osaka Prefecture, currently affiliated with Arts Vision. His blood type is A. He made his television animation debut on Macross 7 in 1994. He is most known for the role of Hikaru Hitachiin from Ouran Host Club, Sogo Okita from Gintama and Lavi from D.Gray-Man. He is called Suzu, Muraken by Soichiro Hoshi and his fans, and Suzuken by other seiyū and fans. He is currently in the group STA MEN with Junichi Suwabe, Daisuke Kishio, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Makoto Yasumura, and Kosuke Toriumi. As of April 19, 2008, Suzumura has 102 voice roles (not including staff work) credited to his name (per the Anime News Network).


Contents

Voice roles

Leading roles in bold

Television animation

Drama CDs

Other roles


Nominations & Awards

  • 2008:
  1. "Best Radio Personality" - 2nd Seiyu Awards (won)
  • 2007:
  1. "Best Actor in supporting role" - 1st Seiyu Awards
  2. "Best Radio Personality" - 1st Seiyu Awards

Trivia

  • He has worked with Takahiro Sakurai on various occasions, in the animations and BL Drama CDs. Currently, they host a radio show together with Miyu Matsuki called Cherry Bell. He is also a friend of seiyū Hiroki Takahashi.
  • His younger brother, Masaki Suzumura works in film production and has featured with Kenichi Suzumura several times on seiyu radio shows, such as Cherry Bell. Many fans were surprised as his voice was very similar to Kenichi Suzumura's but is a little higher in pitch.
  • Suzumura is excellent at cooking. He was going to get a license to become a chef before he went along to a seiyu audition, for which he unexpectedly got picked.
  • He loves the ice cream 'pino'.
  • He has been brought up moving constantly to different areas of Japan. During his childhood years he has lived in Niigata, Osaka, Okayama, Fukuoka and other areas. Therefore, he admits his Kansai-ben is not perfect, but he still uses it heavily in normal speech.
  • He has two dogs, Ivy and Momo. He frequently orders clothes for them on the internet.
  • In December 2003, Suzumura cycled a distance of about 200km from Nagoya to Osaka in 24 hours 30 minutes approximately (including time for sleep, rest, eating) with Radio Osaka. The moment he arrived was broadcasted live on radio.

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi_Suzumura"


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