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One of the most revered veteran seiyuus ever. Tessho Genda is known for his gruff, heavy voice which makes him quite the go guy for gung-ho, big guy roles or at least those fulfilling the Mighty Glacier role. He's also quite the Memetic Badass, mostly due to his dub roles as two very very famous Western Animation roles: Batman and Optimus Prime. In his seiyuu career, he is often landed with roles that shares relationship with Akio Ohtsuka.

He's also into ballet, and is popularly known as "Pirouette Genda."

Roles done by Tessho Genda:

Sleggar Law in Mobile Suit Gundam
- Dozle Zabi in the more recent video games such as Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 and Gundam Memories (succeeding the late Daisuke Gouri)
Daijirou Go in Voltes V
Umibozu in City Hunter
Taurus Aldebaran in Saint Seiya
Younger Toguro in Yu Yu Hakusho
The Kyuubi no Yoko/Nine-Tailed Fox in Naruto
Kelly Layzner in Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory
Rune God Selece in Magic Knight Rayearth
Kratos in the Japanese version of the God of War series
Takeda Shingen in Sengoku Basara ("YUKI MURAAA!!!!")
- Also, Moloch in Yondemasu Yo Azazelsan, spawning a number of fanart of Moloch in Shingen's outfit.
Guile in the Street Fighter II anime movie and Street Fighter EX
- Zangief in SNK vs. Capcom
  - Mike Haggar and Unknown Soldier 2P in Namco X Capcom
    - General Bison (Raul Julia) in the VHS/DVD dub of the Street Fighter film (where he kept his Dub Name Change from the overseas versions of the games).
Mighty Kongman/Bruiser Khang in Tales of Destiny
Largo the Black Lion in Tales of the Abyss
Yang Fang Leiden in Final Fantasy IV DS
Batman in any Batman cartoons.
- In The Batman, he's the voice of Mister Freeze.
Convoy (Optimus Prime) in The Transformers (also reprising his role to dub him in the live-action films.)
- Also, Primus in the Unicron Trilogy. Who better than the voice of the first Optimus Prime to play the god of all Transformers?
- Omega Supreme in the Japanese dub of Transformers Animated.
Kensaku Kira in God Sigma
Tsuyoshi Mokoyama in Yakitate!! Japan
James Links in Zone of the Enders: Dolores, i
Bobby (Goodfeathers) in Animaniacs
Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) in the Japanese dub of Pulp Fiction
The HAMMY Narrator and Cross in Shin Mazinger
- Possibly a Shout-Out to the earlier Go Nagai OVA Abashiri Ikka (The Abashiri Family), where he is both the HAMMY Narrator and voice of Naojiro Abashiri, a cyborg who Cross very much resembles...
Sergei Dragunov in Tekken
Emperor Daibazaal in GoLion; he was also the narrator.
Master Chief in the Japanese dub of "The Package" from Halo Legends
Garfield in the mid-nineties WOWOW dub of Garfield and Friends (Darrined by Chafurin in the 2003 Cartoon Network dub)
Muk and Luk in the Japanese dub of Balto
Tigger in the Kingdom Hearts series
Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) in the TV Asahi dub of the Back to The Future trilogy
Ludo the Yeti in the Japanese dub of Labyrinth
Edgar the Bug and Frank the Pug in the Nippon TV and DVD/VHS dubs of Men in Black respectively
George Costanza (Jason Alexander) in the Japanese television dub of Seinfeld (Darrined by Hiroshi Iwasaki in the DVD dub)
Teisel Bonne in the Mega Man Legends series
Masculimus in Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt
Lunar's Papa in Seto no Hanayome (I'll be back!)
Gorisaki Banana in Tokumei Sentai Gobusters
YAPOOL in Ultraman Ace and Ultraman Mebius

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 One of the most revered veteran seiyuus ever. Tessho Genda is known for his gruff, heavy voice which makes him quite the go guy for gung-ho, big guy roles or at least those fulfilling the [[Mighty Glacier]] role. He's also quite the [[Memetic Badass]], mostly due to his dub roles as two very very famous Western Animation roles: [[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman]] and [[The Transformers (animation)|Optimus Prime]]. In his seiyuu career, he is often landed with roles that shares [[Relationship Voice Actor|relationship]] with [[Akio Ohtsuka]].