Toru Sakurai

Toru Sakurai

Toru Sakurai (Japanese: 櫻井トオル Toru Sakurai) is a Japanese voice actor for the Pokémon anime.

Biography

Sakurai was born on November 10, 1987 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. He joined the Pokémon anime during the Sun & Moon series and voiced a number of characters during that time, with his most important role being Gladion's Silvally. He also replaced Takaaki Uchino as recurring Team Skull Grunt Tupp, starting in SM024. Sakurai is currently affiliated with Ken Production.

Pokémon roles

Anime

Humans

Major

• Tupp (SM024-present)
• Nina's husband
• Hiker A (SM034, SM095, SM103)

Minor

• Assistant Director (SM061, SM098)
• One of Viren's henchmen
• Receptionist (SM086)

Pokémon

Major

• Kiawe's Charizard (SM106-present)
• Gladion's Type: Null and Silvally
• Professor Kukui's Litten and Incineroar
• Nanu's Krookodile
• Ryuki's Druddigon

Minor

• Police Officer's Machamp (SM064)
• Dewpider (SM071)
• Murkrow (SM073)
• Tyranitar (SM080)
• Passimian (anime; SM121)

Video games

• Keith Norman (Detective Pikachu)

Other non-Pokémon roles

• Yamada (Ishida & Asakura)
• Ichirō Komaba (Silver Spoon)
• Bureikin (Brave Beats)
• Kumonosuke Sakagami (Tribe Cool Crew)
• Araki (Ajin: Demi-Human)
• Imusa (Kuromukuro)
• Tonbokiri (Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu)
• Dōdanuki Masakuni, Tonbokiri, Yamabushi Kunihiro (Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru)
• Shūgetsu Suiren (Basilisk: The Ōka Ninja Scrolls)
• Moore (Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Kaikō)
• Dao (Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory)

External links

• Ken Production profile
• Twitter

This article is part of Project VA, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on voice actors in Pokémon animation and Pokémon games.