Ryūzaburō Ōtomo

Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (Japanese: 大友龍三郎 Ōtomo Ryūzaburō) is a Japanese voice actor for the Pokémon anime.

Biography

Ōtomo was born on May 18, 1952, in Tokyo, Japan. As an adult, he became a voice actor and led a long voice acting career since the mid-1970s. For the Pokémon anime, Ōtomo initially voiced Muramasa, a character of the day who appeared in the original series; and Corey's Venusaur, nicknamed Bruteroot, in the first movie. He then voiced Snowbelle City Gym Leader Wulfric during the XY series. He has affiliations with the talent agencies Aoni Production and 81 Produce, as well as the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society.

Pokémon roles

Humans

• Muramasa
• Wulfric

Pokémon

• Bruteroot

Other non-Pokémon roles

• Macbeth (The Three-Eyed One)
• Pippen (Crayon Shin-chan)
• Dabra (Dragon Ball Z)
• Suren Rangu (Macross 7)
• Jeffry McWild (Virtua Fighter)
• Doctor Ōgami (Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!!)
• Liu Xing Long, Giant (Dragon Ball GT)
• Okita, Shōji Mutsuda, Shirō Hiraoka, Hiruta, Michiaki Okuda (Case Closed)
• Barba (Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick)
• Darkmazā, Dark Emperor (Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden)
• Ushio (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Vamdemon, VenomVamdemon (Digimon Adventure)
• Doctor Kabapu (Excel Saga)
• Chef of Hell (Gregory Horror Show)
• Hōsenki (Inuyasha)
• Cherubimon (Digimon Frontier)
• Crocodile (One Piece)
• Gafu (Astro Boy: Mighty Atom)
• Tessai (Ninja Scroll: The Series)
• Kōzō Hoshino (Initial D Fourth Stage)
• Kichizō Kumada (Kaiketsu Zorori)
• Hirosuke (Pani Poni Dash!)
• Aaroniero Arruruerie (Bleach)
• Homer Katagiri (Mobile Suit Gundam 00)
• Buccaneer (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
• Porunga, Gyū-Maō, King Cold, Dabra, Shenlong (Dragon Ball Z Kai)
• Sethmon (Digimon Fusion)
• Fezarl Ezelcant (Mobile Suit Gundam AGE)
• Capricorn Ionia (Saint Seiya Omega)
• Narain Wiseman-Bose (Fafner in the Azure: EXODUS)
• Shenlong, Gyū-Maō (Dragon Ball Super)
• Deusmon (Digimon Universe: App Monsters)

Video game roles

• Uka Uka (Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Crash Team Racing, Crash Bash, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Crash Nitro Kart, Crash Twinsanity)
• Black Doom (Shadow the Hedgehog)
• Astaroth (Soulcalibur II, Soulcalibur III, Soulcalibur Legends, Soulcalibur IV, Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny, Soulcalibur VI)
• Shingen Takeda (Samurai Warriors 3 Xtreme Legend, Samurai Warriors 4)
• Jiao (Tales of Xillia, Tales of Xillia 2)

This article is part of Project VA, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each voice actor of the Pokémon anime.