Kenichirou Matsuda

Kenichirou Matsuda
松田 健一郎
Born (1978-01-22) 22 January 1978 (age 46)
Saitama Prefecture, Japan
OccupationVoice actor
Notable work

Kenichirou Matsuda (Japanese: 松田 健一郎, Hepburn: Matsuda Ken'ichirō, born 22 January 1978) is a Japanese voice actor from Saitama Prefecture, affiliated with Arts Vision.[1] He is known for starring as Batou in Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Vainney Halter in Clockwork Planet, Jacques Yvain in RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time, Thors in Vinland Saga, Gordon Agrippa in Black Clover, Arnold in Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst, Miles Morgan in Engage Kiss, the narrator and Bond Forger in Spy x Family, Richard Parker in Highspeed Etoile, and Marcella Nuvolari in Dahlia in Bloom.

Biography

Kenichirou Matsuda, a native of Saitama Prefecture, was born on 22 January 1978.[1][2] As an elementary school student, he learned about voice acting after hearing his two older sisters were interested in such a career, but stopped watching anime because he thought it was "something for kids to watch", so he instead wanted to be a baseball player or a police officer.[3] During his early adulthood, he attended a legal vocational school with the goal of becoming a civil servant, but dropped out after not being able to keep up with a higher class he was moved into.[3] Enrolled into the Japan Narration Acting Institute [ja],[1][3] he considered quitting after three years and a third failed audition, but instead continued, and the following year he was accepted into Arts Vision.[3]

In February 2013, it was announced that he would voice Batou in Ghost in the Shell: Arise.[4] Jaclyn Appelgate of Comic Book Resources said Matsuda "captures Batou's rough personality and does especially well with expressing the character's rage".[5] He later reprised his role in the 2015 movie Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie,[6] and he later starred as Vainney Halter in Clockwork Planet and Jacques Yvain in RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time.[7][8]

In February 2019, Matsuda was cast as Thors, a major character in Vinland Saga.[9] Regarding his performance of Thors, Appelgate said "Kenichiro may have not had many lines with Thors since the character is a man of few words, but the voice actor managed to balance Thors' strong appearance with his massive compassion, using a deep masculine voice with soft undertones."[5] He later starred as Arnold in Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst and Miles Morgan in Engage Kiss.[10][11]

Matsuda originally considering retirement after several unsuccessful auditions, but in April 2022, he began voicing the narrator of Spy x Family, and in October 2022, he started voicing main character Bond Forger.[12][13] Matsuda uses several different barks to express Bond's emotions, with different ones to express happiness and sadness.[12] Appelgate said of his performance of Bond: "when it comes to how the dog sounds when he does open his mouth, Kenichiro adds a nice, subtle layer of charm to this gentle giant with his iconic "borf" speech."[5] In 2024, he starred as Richard Parker in Highspeed Etoile and Marcella Nuvolari in Dahlia in Bloom.[14][15]

Filmography

Animated television

Year Title Role(s) Ref
2007 Darker than Black [1]
2007 Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit [1]
2013 Ghost in the Shell: Arise Batou [4]
2014 D-Frag! Hiroshi Nagayama [16]
2014 Dramatical Murder Mink [17]
2014 Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers The Hulk [18]
2016 Reikenzan: Hoshikuzu-tachi no Utage Iemoto [19]
2016 Soul Buster Wei Yan [20]
2017 Black Clover Narrator, Gordon Agrippa [1][21]
2017 Clockwork Planet Vainney Halter [7]
2017 ēlDLIVE Riggs [22]
2017 Kino's Journey Riku [23]
2017 Marvel Future Avengers The Hulk [24]
2018 Conception Shangri-la [25]
2018 RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time Jacques Yvain [8]
2019 Kemono Michi: Rise Up Wolfgang von Kraftman [26]
2019 Kengan Ashura Hollis Kure [27]
2019 Kochoki Hayashi Hidesada [28]
2019 Vinland Saga Thors [9]
2020 Healin' Good Pretty Cure Teruhiko Hiramitsu [29]
2020 Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst Arnold [10]
2020 My Hero Academia Yū Hōjō [30]
2020 The Day I Became a God Raita Oguma [31]
2021 Bakuten!! Shūji Mabuchi [32]
2021 Kingdom Kaioku [33]
2021 Rumble Garanndoll Ukai [34]
2021 Shaman King Luchist [35]
2022 Engage Kiss Miles Morgan [11]
2022 Spy x Family Narrator, Bond Forger [13]
2022 The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt Bartholorush [36]
2022 Tribe Nine Roku Saigo [37]
2023 Dog Signal Woolson [38]
2023 The Faraway Paladin Gelrays [39]
2024 The Unwanted Undead Adventurer Clope [40]
2024 Dahlia in Bloom Marcella Nuvolari [15]
2024 Highspeed Etoile Richard Parker [14]
2024 Quality Assurance in Another World Sumida [41]
2024 Tower of God Kosuke/Kang Horyang [42]

Animated film

Year Title Role(s) Ref
2015 Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie Batou [6]
2015 Sleep Tight My Baby, Cradled in the Sky Yasunori Shionoha [43]
2017 Blade Runner Black Out 2022 Iggy [44]
2017 Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower Bull [45]
2019 Human Lost Shibuta [46]
2022 Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru: Setsugetsuka Nenekirimaru [47]
2022 The First Slam Dunk Chuichirou Noma [45]
2024 Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Takarada [48]

Original video animation

Year Title Role(s) Ref
2016 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Ortega [49]

Video games

Year Title Role(s) Ref
2012 Street Fighter X Tekken Raven, Jack-X [45]
2019 Our World is Ended Shiro Deguchi [50]
2019 Life Is Strange 2 Jonathan Merrill [51]
2025 Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Marco Rodrigues [52]

Dubbing

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