Hikaru Midorikawa



Describe Hikaru Midorikawa here or I will kill you.

Hikaru Midorikawa is one of the well-known seiyuus in the business, though not as prolific (according to Anime News Network). He's most known for his distinctly cold voice, best suited for Bishonen characters, which often lands him the roles of The Lancer, The Smart Guy, The Rival, Deadpan Snarker, etc. He occasionally breaks the routine, though, and goes along to voice silly characters just as good. But, seriously, even if he's voicing silly characters, there will be moments of Angst for his character, so long as the character isn't completely a minor one.

Truly a Man of a Thousand Voices.

Roles comes very cheap. Especially Hikaru Midorikawa's.
(For some reason, the characters he voiced has a tendency to be captured and then restrained/tied up)


 * Adell in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
 * Akechi Mitsuhide in the Samurai Warriors franchise (Probably the only time he ever played a Hot Shoujo Dad) (While not directly seen, he's presumably restrained in Warriors Orochi 2 by Sun Wukong)
 * Akihiko Sanada in Persona 3 (Was crucified along with his team members)
 * Alexei in Ninja Gaiden 2 (Xbox360)
 * Android #16 in the Dragonball Z
 * Also Tenshinhan in Dragon Ball Kai (succeeds the late Hirotaka Suzuoki)
 * Bertie the Bus and Oliver, in the Japanese dub of Thomas the Tank Engine, for something completely different from other entries here.
 * Clear in Final Fantasy Unlimited (who was )
 * Dune in Heartcatch Pretty Cure
 * Gridman in Denkou Choujin Gridman
 * Ein/Hayate in the Dead or Alive franchise
 * Ail in Sailor Moon R
 * Fiore in Sailor Moon R The Movie: Promise of the Rose.
 * Firion/Firionel in Final Fantasy II and Dissidia Final Fantasy
 * Fish Saitou in Angel Beats!!
 * Fuminori Sakisaka in Saya no Uta
 * Gerhaldt von Faust in Saber Marionette J
 * Heero Yuy in New Mobile Report Gundam Wing, New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz and the Super Robot Wars franchise. (Early episodes has him put in mechanical restraining device)
 * Hippogriffomon and Angemon in Digimon Frontier
 * Splashmon in Digimon Xros Wars
 * Hiro in Lunar: Eternal Blue
 * Kaede Rukawa in the Slam Dunk franchise
 * Kash Gyustan/Hellstinger in Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer
 * Keiichiro Akasaka in the Tokyo Mew Mew franchise
 * Knight Valentine in Shinkon Gattai Godannar
 * Kyouya Takamachi in Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～ and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
 * Kyousuke Natsume in Little Busters!
 * Lancer in Fate/Zero
 * Leon Magnus and Judas in Tales of Destiny (In Tales of Versus,
 * Li Xingke in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (The Grand Finale had him restrained and put in parade by the orders of )
 * Llednar Twem in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
 * Lowe in Legend of Heroes VI
 * Luca in Saint Beast
 * Makoto Alo and Lulu in Brigadoon Marin and Melan
 * Marth in the Fire Emblem OAV and the Super Smash Bros. franchise
 * Masaki Andoh and Asakim Dowin in the Super Robot Wars franchise (Subverted: Asakim is wearing a bondage gear)
 * Might in Psychic Force 2012
 * Mikagami Tokiya in the Flame of Recca franchise (Crucified, and in the next arc, drugged and put in a contraption device. Good Is Dumb?)
 * Mirror Knight in Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
 * Naoki Shinjyo in the Future GPX Cyber Formula franchise
 * Pegasus Kouga in Saint Seiya Omega
 * Ramirez in Skies of Arcadia
 * Ryuhou in the S-Cry-ed franchise
 * Salamandes in Rescue Sentai Go Go Five
 * Schuldig in Weiss Kreuz
 * Seiran Shi in Saiunkoku Monogatari
 * Seto Kaiba in the first Yu-Gi-Oh! series (the one with green hair)
 * Shiki in Togainu no Chi (In both PC version and Playstation 2 version)
 * Souji Mikage in Revolutionary Girl Utena
 * Soma Cruz in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow
 * Softon in Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo
 * Tamahome in the Fushigi Yuugi franchise (Once taken prisoner by Nakago and gets tied up while naked and whipped. The first OVA repeats this, though not by Nakago)
 * U-do in Xenosaga episode 3.
 * Vidaldus Taka in Fairy Tail.
 * Yoh Tomoe in Starry Sky
 * Yoshino Yuusuke in the Clannad franchise
 * Zelgadis Greywords in the Slayers franchise. Gets locked up inside a glass-like container (while not conscious) in one Slayers: NEXT episode.

Though born in 1968 and already married, he manages other activities other than being a seiyuu, such as website managing (he's got one) and playing video games. Apparently, he's a big fan of Super Robot Wars, having a blog entry on the SRW site, contacts Banpresto and happily does extra lines for his characters (especially Masaki) for free, and usually becomes a beta tester for the games. He also have a habit to turn the characters he voices into one man armies in the SRWs (namely Heero and Masaki; he'll probably do the same to Xingke when he shows up in Z2, or Asakim )

He's friends with several other seiyuus like Ryotaro Okiayu, who also somehow shares a bit of his SRW passion (he voices Raidiese F. Branstein) and sometimes plays together. He was also a member of a music group with Nobutoshi Canna, but his greatest, most known relationship with other actors is definitely Takehito Koyasu. They often play roles that rivals each others, and Koyasu has once teased that Midorikawa's voice sounded cute; on the other hand, Midorikawa teased that Koyasu's voice sounded sexy.

Well these tropes are just Hikaru Midorikawa's style

 * Ascended Fanboy (He might as well make Ryusei Date of Super Robot Wars look harmless)
 * Bishonen (The majority of his characters)
 * Cosplay Otaku Girl: Not him, but his wife.
 * Face Heel Turn (Two of his roles are noted to be traitorous)
 * Man of a Thousand Voices
 * One of Us And How!
 * Relationship Voice Actor (With... Takehito Koyasu, Ryotaro Okiayu, Nobutoshi Canna, Jun Fukuyama, Takeshi Kusao and Yukari Tamura. Guy got a lot of relationship going.)

Mission Complete.