Biography: Toru Furuya

Toru Furuya is a Japanese Voice Actor and Narrator. He was born on 31st July 1953, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. When he was young, he was a member of Sunflower, the children’s performance company troupe. He is currently employed by Aoni Production, a talent management company.

Furuya’s most famous characters are Amuro Ray (in the original Mobile Suit Gundam and subsequent Gundam sequels), Hyūma Hoshi (Giant Star), Pegasus Seiya (Saint Seiya), Yamcha (Dragon Ball), Kyōsuke Kasuga (Kimagure Orange Road) ) and tuxedo mask (Sailor Moon). He also used the stage name Noboru Sōgetsu in the cast of Mobile Suit Gundam to play the role of Ribbons Almark. The narrative character and Ribbons Almark are the first characters in the Century Gundam series to not belong to the universe. Ikeda Shuichi, who plays Char, was with Gilbert Durandal (Gilbert Durandal) at the Gundam SEED destination previously.

His television animation works include; 1960s: Kaizoku Ōji (1966) as a Kid, Star of the Giants (1968) as Hyūma Hoshi; 1970s: Steel Jeeg (1975) as Hiroshi Shiba, Groizer X (1976) as Jō Umisaka, Hyōga Senshi Gaisragger (1977) as Ken Shiki, Yakyūkyō no Uta (1977) as Yamai, Gordian Warrior (1979) as Ryōma Okamoto Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) as Amuro Ray, Space Battleship Yamato III (1979) as Daisuke Tokugawa, Space Carrier Blue Noah (1979) as Shin Himoto; 1980s: Maeterlinck’s Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl’s Adventurous, Journey (1980) as Tyltyl, Marine Snow no Densetsu (1980) as Hiro Umino, Queen Millennia (1981) as Daisuke Yomori, The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island (1981) as Franz Robinson, Akūdai Taisakusen Scramble (1983) as Jet, Nanako SOS (1983) as Shūichi Iidabashi, Nine (1983) as Katsuya Niimi, Plawres Sanshiro (1983) as Shingu Narita, Special Armored Battalion Dorvack (1983) as Mugen Shinjin, Stop!! Hibari-kun! (1983) as Kōsaku Sakamoto, Katri, Girl of the Meadows (1984) as Martti, Twin Hawks (1984) as Taka Sawatari, Video Warrior Laserion (1984) as Takashi Katori, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) as Amuro Ray, Urusei Yatsura (1985) as Shingo Oniwaban and (Tobimaro Mizukonoji, Dragon Ball (1986) as Yamcha and Kogamera, Highschool! Kimen-gumi (1986) as Harumage Don, Saint Seiya (1986) as Pegasus Seiya, Kimagure Orange Road (1987) as Kyōsuke Kasuga, Dragon Ball Z (1989) as Yamcha, Saibaman, Dragon Quest (1989) as Abel; 1990s: 21-emon (1991) as Wantonaku Kōshaku, Cooking Papa (1992) as Toshio Nekkota, Sailor Moon (1992) as Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Kamen/King Endymion, Marmalade Boy (1994) as Shinichi Namura, Dr. Slump (1997) as Suppaman, Dragon Ball GT (1997) as Puck, The Big O (1999) as Bonnie Fraser, Detective Conan (1999) as Tohru Amuro/Bourbon/Rei Furuya, GTO (1999) as Suguru Teshigawara; 2000s: Detective School Q (2003) as Hitoshi Shinoda, Akagi (2005) as Narration, Black Jack (2005) as Dr. Daigo Ōedo, Ultimate Girls (2005) as UFOman, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007) as Narrator and Ribbons Almark, Casshern Sins (2008) as Casshern, Mōryō no Hako (2008) as Mysterious Man (Shunkō Kubo), Dragon Ball Z Kai (2009) as Yamcha and Saibaman, Kūchū Buranko (2009) as Hideo Tsuda; 2010s: InuYasha: The Final Act (2010) as Shikon no Tama, Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! (2011) as Burgh, Un-Go (2011) as Jirou Shimada, Saint Seiya Omega (2012) as Sagittarius Seiya and Narration, Mobile Suit Gundam-san (2014) as Narrator, One Piece (2014) as Sabo, and Dragon Ball Super (2015-2017) as Yamcha.