As usual a typhoon, no wait, two typhoons, are coming to Japan and I am queitly sitting in my room looking, or rather not looking, at Sky Tree hidden behind the clouds. Also, I took part in this article on Beneath the Tangles so go check it out!
Was it poetic? I thought it was the perfect way to introduce Norio Wakamoto, am I right?
My favorite: Karakuriko Matsudaira (Gintama)
When I started writing this article I also started to wonder, why the hell didn’t I write it earlier? I mean, Wakamoto is one power house on the world of seiyuu all by himself. I mean, have you just looked at the list of the characters he voiced? It’s huge, it’s massive. And while many of those have been minor roles, a lot of them have also been major. And even if they were minor roles I am sure you have identified him the very first time he spoke. He is just that noticeable.
So why did it take me so long to write about him? Well, I think he might have been too noticeable so I didn’t think necessary to talk about him. Now I am hoping to make people forget about my mistake and give back to Caesar what’s his. Or give back to Wakamoto what’s his because it’s basically the same thing.
You probably all have watched Code Geass (and if you didn’t you should) so you probably remember Wakamoto as the big bad emperor of Britannia. And you also might remember how awesome and powerful he sounded as Charles. He sounded the same as he sounded in Sengoku Basara where he voiced the infamous Oda Nobunaga.
Both of these characters have the same type of voice, powerful and commanding. The kind of voice an emperor, king or general of this caliber should have. Wakamoto does that wonderfully, you all know it.
What you might not have seen though is Ga-rei Zero where he voices a pair of really muscled brothers and that fact alone is enough to trigger a laughing crisis. Or at least it did for me when I watched it.
If after all this you don’t find him awesome it just means you’ve not listened to him enough.