Tessho Genda
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.
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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 ("YUKIMURAAA!!!!")
- 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).
- Mike Haggar and Unknown Soldier 2P in Namco X Capcom
- Zangief in SNK vs. Capcom
- 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 Shougeki! Z-hen
- 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