| Ryūzaburō Ōtomo |
| Born | May 18, 1952 (1952-05-18) (age 57)
Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Seiyū, actor |
| Years active | 1979-present |
Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (大友 龍三郎, Ōtomo Ryūzaburō?, born May 18, 1952) is a Japanese seiyū and actor from Tokyo. He is currently affiliated with Aoni Production as of December 2006, and was formerly affiliated with 81 Produce and the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He stands at 186 centimeters (6'1") and his blood type is A.
He is best known for the roles in Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! (as Doctor Ōgami), Digimon Adventure (as Myotismon), Mahōjin Guru Guru (as the second voice of Lord Giri), Dragon Ball Z (as Dabura), Mirai Sentai Timeranger (as Don Dornelo) and One Piece (as Sir Crocodile).
[edit] Overview
Ōtomo possesses a low voice and shrill laugh, and so often voices characters who are either calm, violent, treacherous, or sneaky. Examples including the sorcerer Lord Giri in Mahōjin Guru Guru and Jūsan Saejima in Brave Police J-Decker. He took over the ongoing roles of seiyūs Shigezō Sasaoka and Eiji Kanie after their deaths. In addition, he took over for Shinji Nakae as the narrator of variety show Hey! Spring of Trivia as of May 12, 2007. A number of his foreign film-dubbing roles are occupied by Tesshō Genda in different editions of those films.
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- Aris Tantei Kyoku (Urufu-san)
- Ashita no Nadja (Gérard)
- Astro Boy (Gafu)
- AWOL -Absent Without Leave- (Zack Landis)
- Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! series (Doctor Ōgami)
- Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! WGP (Principal)
- Beet the Vandel Buster (Grunide)
- Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Gunkan, a.k.a. Captain Battleship)
- Brave Command Dagwon (Genocide)
- Brave Police J-Decker (Jūsan Saejima)
- Case Closed (Okita, Shōji Mutsuda, Atsushi Mori practitioner, Shirō Hiraoka, criminal A, Hiruta, Michiaki Okuda, arson offender, Saguru Itakura, detective)
- Cowboy Bebop (Hakimu)
- Digimon Adventure (Myotismon, VenomMyotismon)
- Digimon Frontier (Cherubimon)
- Dragon Ball GT (Liu Xing Long)
- Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy (The Monster King Yōmaō)
- Dragon Ball Z (Dabra)
- Dragon Drive (Saizō Toki)
- Dr. Slump (Unmō, Yama)
- Excel Saga (Doctor Kabapu)
- Fist of the Blue Sky (Ke-Rong Jin)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Buccaneer)
- Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu (Daimon, Darius the Seventeenth)
- Gals! (Mami's father)
- Gregory Horror Show (Chef of Hell)
- Gungrave (Bear Walken)
- Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick (Barba)
- Himawari! (Businessman)
- Initial D Fourth Stage (Kōzō Hoshino)
- InuYasha (Hōsenko ogre)
- Kiba (J Rock)
- Kindaichi Case Files (Zensuke Ōkōchi)
- King of Bandit Jing (Baffle D'Ice)
- Mahōjin Guru Guru series
- Mahōjin Guru Guru (Lord Giri (second voice))
- Doki Doki Densetsu Mahōjin Guru Guru (Lord Giri)
- Mitsume Gatōru (Macbeth)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Homer Katagiri)
- Montana Jones (Lord Zero)
- Nintama Rantarō (Fūki (second season))
- O~i! Ryoma (Gurabā)
- One Piece (Sir Crocodile)
- Pani Poni Dash! (Animal School Gang Leader Hirosuke)
- Planetes (Hakim Ashmead)
- Pokémon (Venusaur, hillman, Muramusa)
- Samurai 7 (Genzō)
- Samurai Champloo (Ishimatsu)
- Speed Grapher (Father Kanda)
- Tenjho Tenge (Kaiba Natsume)
- Toonsylvania (Phil)
- Virtua Fighter (Jeffry McWild)
- Weiß Kreuz (Yokō)
- Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi (Dong Zhuo)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (Ushio)
- Zatch Bell! (Demolt)
- Zenderman (Musashi)
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[edit] Dubbing roles
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[edit] Other roles
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