Kenichi Suzumura

Kenichi Suzumura (鈴村 健一) is a voice actor from Niigata, Osaka Prefecture. He is currently affiliated with Arts Vision. He made his television animation debut on Macross 7 in 1994. He is most known for the roles of Hikaru Hitachiin from Ouran High School Host Club, Shinn Asuka from Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Sogo Okita from Gintama, Lavi from D.Gray-Man, and Ryutaros from Kamen Rider Den-O. He is called Suzu and Muraken by Soichiro Hoshi and his fans and Suzuken by other voice actors and fans. He is currently part of the group STA MEN alongside Junichi Suwabe, Daisuke Kishio, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Makoto Yasumura, and Kosuke Toriumi.

Voice roles
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TV Anime

 * Gakuen Alice: Reo Mouri
 * Amatsuki: Ginshu
 * Ashita no Nadja (Leonardo Cardinale)
 * Astro Boy (Yukio Nishino)
 * Atashin'chi (Mizushima)
 * Avenger (Teo)
 * Babel II (Kōichi Kamiya)
 * Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!! MAX (Sakyō Majima)
 * Beyblade (Fuji, Steve, Bartholomew)
 * Bokurano (Kai Hata)
 * Boys Be... (Kyōichi Kanzaki)
 * Bucky - The Incredible Kid (Might, Ranmaru)
 * Bus Gamer (Toki Mishiba)
 * Captain Tsubasa (Road to 2002) (Genzō Wakabayashi)
 * Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran (Chief brewer)
 * Chibi Maruko-chan (Yamaguchi)
 * Crayon Shin-chan (Naoki)
 * Cromartie High School (Makio Tanaka)
 * D.Gray-man (Lavi)
 * Descendants of Darkness (Yamashita)
 * Detective School Q (Kamiuchi)
 * Digimon Frontier (Koichi Kimura, Duskmon, JagerLoewemon, Velgemon)
 * Divergence Eve (Nodera, Lieutenant Azevedo, Operator)
 * Dragon Drive (Hikaru)
 * Fresh Pretty Cure! (Souler)
 * Gad Guard (Hajiki Sanada)
 * Gakuen Heaven (Taki Shunsuke)
 * Galaxy Angel (Minister's secretary Katō)
 * Gals! (Yūya Asō)
 * Gear Fighter Dendoh (Subaru)
 * Gintama (Sōgo Okita)
 * Gokusen (Shin Sawada)
 * Gravion Zwei (Eiji Shigure)
 * Gravion (Eiji Shigure)
 * Gundam Seed Destiny (Shinn Asuka)
 * Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora (Yūichi Ezaki)
 * Hikaru no Go (Shin'ichirō Isumi)
 * Hungry Heart: Wild Striker (Yūki Kagami, Yūya Kiba)
 * Ichigo 100% (Junpei Manaka)
 * Imagin Anime (Ryutaros)
 * Jyūshin Enbu - Hero Tales (Taitō)
 * Kaikan Phrase (Atsuro Kiryuu)
 * Kaleido Star (Dio)
 * Kemono no Souja (Iaru)
 * Kokoro Library (Aigame)
 * Kujibiki Unbalance (Mugio Rokuhara)
 * Macross 7 (Morley) (debut)
 * Macross Zero (Shin Kudo)
 * Maid-sama! (Tora Igarashi)
 * Mizuiro Jidai (Haruhiko Shibasaki)
 * Nazca (Kyoji Miura/Bilka)
 * Nanaka 6/17 (Nenji Nagihara)
 * Naruto Shippuden (Utakata)
 * Nintama Rantarou (Seihachi)
 * Noein (Atori)
 * Ouran High School Host Club (Hikaru Hitachiin)
 * PaRappa Rappa (Matt)
 * Peach Girl (Kairi Okayasu)
 * Please Twins! (Kōsei Shimazaki)
 * Pokémon Advanced Generation (Kachinuki Ryūhei)
 * Pokémon (Hisashi, Saiga, Chīko)
 * Popotan (Daichi [adult])
 * Saint Beast (Fuga no Maya)
 * Sensitive Pornograph (Seiji Yamada)
 * Shounen Onmyouji (Suzaku)
 * Slap Up Party Arad Senki (Cabensis)
 * Soul Eater (Kilik Lunge)
 * Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna (Ayumu Narumi)
 * Steam Detectives (Laborer, Narutaki)
 * The Twelve Kingdoms (Rakushun)
 * Tokko (Ranmaru Shindo)
 * Trinity Blood (Dietrich von Lohengrin)
 * Tsukihime, Lunar Legend (Shiki Tohno)
 * UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie (Kazuto Tokino)
 * Umineko no Naku Koro ni - (George Ushiromiya)
 * Witchblade (Hiroki Segawa)
 * X (Kamui Shirō)
 * Zombie-Loan (Chika Akatsuki)
 * Locke the Superman in the "Mirror Ring" OVA
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Drama CDs

 * Amatsuki as Ginshu
 * Balettstar as Endō Akira
 * Bus Gamer as Mishiba Toki
 * Cherry Boy Sakuzen as Matsuoka Akira
 * Gundam Seed Destiny as Shinn Asuka
 * Dolls as Shota Mikoshiba
 * Eigoku Yoidan as Yuri Fordum
 * Fruits Basket as Kakeru Manabe
 * Fusatsugi as Tokura Hijiri, Kidōmaru, Shiten Hōji
 * Gate as Minamiyama Shigeru
 * Genso Suikoden as Tir McDohl
 * Gintama as Okita Sougo
 * Hana to Akuma as Klaus
 * Hanayoi Romanesque as Hōshō Sumire
 * Kimi to Boku as Tsukahara Kaname
 * Only the Ring Finger Knows as Fujii Wataru
 * Ouran High School Host Club as Hikaru Hitachiin, Kaoru Hitachiin (early drama CDs)
 * Parfait Tic! as Daiya Shinpo
 * Saint Beast as Fuga no Maya
 * Shōnen Bride as Matsūra Shinobu
 * Shōnen Onmyōji as Suzaku
 * Special A as Kei Takishima
 * Tenki Yohou no Koibito as Amasawa Chitose
 * Zombie Loan as Akatsuki Chika
 * Renai Trap as Tsuji Shinobu

Other roles

 * Zack Fair in Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep
 * Gippal in Final Fantasy X-2
 * Demyx in Kingdom Hearts series
 * Leo Stenbuck in Anubis: Zone of the Enders
 * Darc in Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
 * Rudy Roughnight in Wild Arms: Alter Code F (Japanese version only)
 * Senel Coolidge in Tales of Legendia
 * Shin Kudo in Macross Zero
 * Taki Shunsuke in the Gakuen Heaven: Yaoi Scramble PC Game
 * Hariya Kounoshin in Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Kiss
 * Naoto Tsukioka in Gigantic Drive
 * Might in Silver Chaos : Yaoi RPG PC Game
 * Mighty in Thomas and Friends
 * Saisho Hajime in Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro : (H-Anime series)
 * Shinn Asuka, Eiji Shigure in Super Robot Wars Z
 * Simon Belmont in Castlevania Judgment
 * Kokutou Mikiya in Kara no Kyoukai series
 * Ryutaros, Gecko Imagin (ep. 40) in Kamen Rider Den-O
 * Soccer Player in Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World
 * Kamen Rider X in Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
 * Amaha Tsubasa in Starry Sky ~in Winter~
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Nominations and 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

CDs
In addition to performing many different character songs in his seiyuu career Suzumura has recently become a singer signed under the Lantis label. Below are his current non-character song releases.

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.
 * He has appeared in several works with Maaya Sakamoto where his character is romantically interested in her character (Gundam Seed Destiny, Ouran High School Host Club, Final Fantasy VII, Kara no Kyoukai).
 * 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 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. He admits his Kansai-ben is not perfect, but 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 200 km from Nagoya to Osaka in 24 hours 30 minutes approximately (including time for sleep, rest, eating) with Radio Osaka. The moment he arrived was broadcast live on radio.
 * He made a guest appearance in ghostnote's PV of the song '櫻道' (sakuramichi) in 2009.
 * Because of his feeble health he practiced aikido for five years in order to control his breathing.
 * In January 2010 he gave his first solo concert tour in Osaka (January 10), Nagoya (January 11), Yokohama (January 23) and Tokyo (January 30).
 * A national survey on the popularity of seiyū conducted in March 2010 has revealed Suzumura and Miyano Mamoru as the most famous male seiyū.