#Akio Ōtsuka

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

Director - Mamoru Oshii, Cinematography - Miki Sakuma

"There's loyalty that protects secrets and loyalty that projects the truth. You cannot serve both masters, so which loyalty is yours?"

[frankencanon]

Was anyone gonna tell me that the original voice actor for Gol D. Roger (Ōtsuka Chikao) was the father of Blackbeard's voice actor (Ōtsuka Akio)?

Blackbeard's seiyū is the son of Gol D. Roger's seiyū...huh.

That's a bit ironic.

[small-witch-big-hat]

It has come to my attention that some of you may be unaware that the anime Shangri-La Frontier has a bunny daddy voiced by Akio Ōtsuka.

And he SINGS.

[lupincentral]

The upcoming live-action spin-off film, Jigen Daisuke 「次元大介」, has a brand-new action-packed trailer!

Narrated by the current Japanese voice actor of the animated Jigen, Akio Ōtsuka, the trailer gives a better look at what we can expect from the film, along with a glimpse at its supporting cast.

Yōko Maki is due to play Jigen's arch-enemy, Adel, an assassin who has lost both a leg and her voice - neither of which stop her from being a formidable foe for our hero.

Kotoka Maki features as Oto, a young girl targeted by the villainous Adel's organization.

Masatoshi Nagase stars as Takeshi Kawashima, an assassin and right-hand man of Adel who possesses impressive mimicry and disguise abilities.

Honami Satō plays Ruri, Kawashima's lover, and Mitsuko Kusabue plays Chiharu Yaguchi, the world's best gunsmith whose run-down watch repair shop serves as a front for her services.

The film is releasing “worldwide” (exact locations to be revealed) on October 13th, 2023, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Tetsuji Tamayama, who previously portrayed the character in the 2014 released feature film, will be returning to the role of Jigen. He is the second actor to take the role of Jigen in a live action Lupin III film, with Kunie Tanaka being the first in 1974’s Strange Psychokinetic Strategy.

Yoshimasa Akamatsu (BD ~Akechi Tantei Jimusho, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows) has produced the script for the upcoming film, and Hajime Hashimoto (The Detective Is in the Bar franchise, AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo, Shimauma, Signal) is on directing duties.

Watch the trailer on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/UD13qp8-LfE

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I realized now that as All for one gets younger his voice should change along with it, so probably in the anime he will have a different voice actor when he is young, but I confess that it would be funny if Akio Ōtsuka voiced Baby AFO ���

I wish they would keep his regular voice because that would be hilarious seeing pre-teen afo with that deep voice 😂

but yeah it's most likely they're going to have younger voice actors play him as he rewinds, I don't mind too much because I'm interested to hear how they would cast a younger afo.

[demifiendrsa]

Onimusha | Official Trailer

Onimusha will stream on Netflix on November 2, 2023.

Key visual

Cast

Akio Ōtsuka as Musashi Miyamoto

Toshihiko Seki as Kojiro Sasaki

Houchu Ohtsuka as Kensuke Matsui

Daiki Yamashita as Sahei

Subaru Kimura as Goro-Maru

Katsuyuki Konishi as Heikuro

Kazuyuki Okitsu as Kaizen

Makoto Furukawa as Gensai

Aya Yamane as Sayo

Ryohei Kimura as Iemon

Staff

Chief Director: Takashi Miike

Director: Shin'ya Sugai

Script: Hideyuki Kurata

Music: Koji Endo

Character Design: Jung Gi Kim, Manilyn Toledana (Musashi Miyamoto)

Character Reference Model: Toshirō Mifune (Musashi Miyamoto)

Stunt Coordination: Keiji Tsujii

Theme Song Performance: Måneskin

Animation Production: Sublimation

Historical Supervision: Shochiku Studio Co., Ltd.

Original Creator: CAPCOM

[ragingpothead]

“I don’t give a rat’s ass about going to hell. I guess it’s because I feel like I’m already there.”

- Mugen

circa 2005

Director

Manglobe

Starring

Steve Blum.

Ayako Kawasumi.

Akio Ōtsuka.

Sayuri Yamauchi.

Takayuki Sugō.

Kiyoyurki Yanada.

8.6/10

IMDb

fav anime by far, style 10/10 , music 10/10, animation style 10/10, story line 10/10

over all rating

100/10 ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

no like srsly I love this sm n if u don’t ur kinda weird.

[studio-ghibli-miyazaki-hayao]

🐷 PORCO ROSSO 🐽 KURENAI NO BUTA 🐽 CRIMSON PIG

In Early 1930's era Italy air pirates, bounty hunters and high fliers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso. A former Ace, he now makes a living flying contract jobs, such as rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival in the air and in catching the affections of women, provides a constant challenge to the hero, culminating in a hilarious, action packed finale.

Also a beautiful love story about Fio and Marco. After all, we're in Italy 💋

Porco Rosso is a 1992 Japanese animated adventure-fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is based on Hikōtei Jidai, a three-part 1989 watercolor manga by Miyazaki. It stars the voices of Shūichirō Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Akemi Okamura and Akio Ōtsuka.

[adamwatchesmovies]

Paprika (2006)

Paprika is a fever dream blast of inspiration that is simultaneously wonderful to behold and nightmare-inducing. It ends on a low note but the trip to that conclusion ensorcels you so completely you may not even care.

In the near future, Doctor Atsuko Chiba (voiced by Megumi Hayashibara) uses the experimental DC Mini device to hop into her patients’ dreams and treat their subconscious using her alter-ego, Paprika. When people exposed to the device, including her boss, Doctor Toratarō Shima (Katsunosuke Hori), start exhibiting erratic behaviour culminating in suicide attempts, Paprika must explore the increasingly bizarre dreams they collectively share to find out who is responsible. How does the strange parade of creatures and living objects connect to her patient, Detective Toshimi Konakawa (Akio Ōtsuka), the scientists responsible for creating the DC Mini, Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Tōru Furuya), and Kei Himuro (Daisuke Sakaguchi). More importantly, why is this happening?

The medium of animation is perfect for this kind of story. You would need so many special effects to bring the otherworldly sights of the dream world to life it would’ve basically turned into an animated movie anyway. Director Satoshi Kon has so many visual tricks up their sleeve. Paprika’s movements are inhibited only by her imagination. This is shown in the mind-blowing opening scene in which she moves from reflections on windows, to pictures on T-shirts to billboards and anything you could think of to get from one place to another. Many scenes show characters morphing or changing as their consciousness gets sucked into the never-ending parade of weird objects invading everyone’s dreams. When you see it, you don’t know whether to run for the hills screaming or force your eyes open so you don’t miss a second. The colours and creativity in these visuals are so dazzling it doesn’t even matter that sometimes you'll have difficulty understanding the plot.

The film ensnares you in this whirlwind of wonder and unease. You have difficulty differentiating reality from dreams, except when someone wakes up and points out how crazy things were a second ago. That’s the power of this story. And then, we get to the conclusion, which is a major letdown. Not only can you decipher the mastermind behind this big thing based on the character's design, the reason for everything doesn’t really make much sense. You’re left wondering if maybe the translation was bad, or if this story really wasn’t all that good and you were just swept up in all the razzle-dazzle. Ultimately, I say there is more to the film than just what you see. The mystery is compelling and the twist keep you guessing. It’s just everything before the conclusion was so great that when this generic ending comes around, it feels even worse than it is.

The last few minutes of Paprika will split audiences. Either you’ll love it and it’ll become a new favourite, or it’ll leave you with mixed feelings, meaning you’ll be blown away by the movie but content with just seeing it once... maybe two or three times. The sights within are nothing short of incredible so regardless of how you may feel about that finale, it’s worth seeing. (English Dub on DVD, May 24 2019)

[twstrhythm]

“Prosperity? Is that something you really believe in?”

Technical Information:

Name: Xiaoshi Ren Nicknames: Tigerfish (Floyd); Monsieur Protecteur (Rook); Tiger (Aaron); Big Cat (Shi Yin) Voice Actor: Akio Ōtsuka (Shunsui Kyōraku, Bleach)

Biological Information:

Gender: Male Pronouns: He/Him Age: 18 Birthday: December 15 Star Sign: Sagittarius Height: 177 cm Hair color: Orange with black tips Eye color: Gold Homeland: Xianglong Zhigong Family: Mother; Father; 3 younger siblings

Professional Status:

School: Night Raven College Dorm: Savanaclaw School Year: Third Class: 3-D Student Number: 30 Occupation: Student Club: Track and Field Best Subject: Ancient Incantations

Fun facts:

Dominant hand: Right Favorite Food: Peking Roasted Duck Least Favorite Food: Banana Dislikes: People making dumb choices Hobbies: Going for walks Talents: Can distinguish voices

Appearance:

Xiaoshi is a tall individual with long orange hair that is tipped black. He has a pair of tiger ears on the top of his head. He also has a tiger tail. On his face, he has several black stripes below his golden eyes. He wears the stand school uniform for Night Raven College.

Personality:

Xiaoshi is a reserved and level headed individual. He keeps watch of people he has spoken to and does his best to remember them. Even if he dislikes a person, he is willing to step forward to help them. However, he has been known to lose his cool when he sees other people doing things he deems foolish.

Background:

Xiaoshi comes from a well off family in Xianglong Zhigong. He helps his family with their restaurant from time to time and looks out for his younger siblings. As the eldest, he believed he needed to set an example for them to follow. However, he could not control what any of them chose to do.

One day, his siblings had left the home and had not come back even when night fell, so he had gone out to find them. He found them being bullied by some older kids and was quick to step in. However, Xiaoshi had ended up injuring the older kids resulting in him getting into trouble with his parents and the authorities.

Skills and Abilities:

Intelligence: Xiaoshi is a very smart person, and he is very capable of thinking his way through different situations.

Amazing Memory: He is able to remember many things that can help him in certain situations. This allows him to remember what things had worked and what did not.

Facial Memory: He remembers a person’s face after meeting them once.

Botanical Knowledge: He knows a lot about different kinds of plants. He is aware of which plants are poisonous and which ones are not. He knows how to determine the ones that are safe for consumption.

Magical Skill: He is skilled in magic, particularly flora magic. He has great control over his magic, and he is able to minimize damage done to his surroundings.

Enhanced sense of hearing: He has an enhanced sense of hearing.

Enhanced sense of smell: He has an enhanced sense of smell.

Unique Magic:

Xiaoshi’s Unique Magic is called Nature’s Fury. It allows him to control plants. With this ability, he can make plants in his surrounding area grow faster and bigger than they normally would. He is also able to command them to move. He usually makes the plants move to grab someone or something, or to create a protective shield to protect them. However, making the plants move uses up a large amount of his magic which comes with a higher risk to overblot.

Chant: "The world around us is beautiful, but one wrong move can be deadly. Nature's Fury."

Trivia:

Xiǎo (小) meaning little.

Shì (事) meaning matter/thing.

Ren (任) meaning of uncertain meaning.

Xianglong Zhigong (翔龙之宫) literally meaning Kingdom/palace of flying dragons.

He will protect other people even if he dislikes them.

Did small edit on the image because the picrew did not have an option to add extra color to the hair. And edited in the stripes on his face.

[kurosawa-family]

I hope I’m not imposing. I have a suggestion for August’s japanese speaking voice, I think Akio Ōtsuka would fit him well. Here’s a video of his role as Shunsui in the Bleach mobile game Bleach Brave Souls.

https://youtu.be/8PdUiaIolT0

If the link doesn’t work you can search “BBS Shunsui Kyoraku CFYOW - Quotes” in youtube’s search bar and it should show up :)

Ok Akio Ōtsuka is doing a great job here! I can definitely hear August with this voice when he's angry.

Thank you so much for this, really! Unfortunately I already deleted the video of August voices on my phone :') but I think this one's it a great Japanese voice for him!

[pidayforpi]

[Written on Monday/15th. Feeling slightly better now, but the facts still hold true.]

(So...for the past few days, I have been browsing Netflix for...children's cartoon animation movies to (re-)watch.

Today, I came across something called..."Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank"?

(which, by the way, I thought was a comic/cartoon-adapted movie, but apparently it's an original one)

[This thing. Don't know what image to attach, so here is the thumbnail of the trailer.]

Like a mature adult, I decided to watch it.

And, like a definitely non-weeb (and because it's available, otherwise it would be very hard to find), I decided to watch it in Japanese.

The first voice I 100% recognised was Jimbo's: Tesshō Genda （玄田哲章） [Younger Toguro, Sengoku Basara's Takeda, City Hunter's Umibozu] (Samuel L Jackson in the original voice, by the way). Which...okay, I know Genda-san does dubs. He's the voice of Foghorn Leghorn, after all. His voice is very iconic, too. You can't miss it when he does a "battle cry" thingie (maybe it's because I first knew him as Toguro).

But the second one I kinda recognised was Ika Chu's (yes that's the character's name apparently), and I was like:

"Wait, is that Tomokazu Sugita （杉田智和）???" [Gintoki Sakata, Kyon, Escanor, Joseph Joestar and much more]

And I immediately thought: "No way, Sugita doesn't do dubs..."

"But I also cannot not recognise that voice, his voice is very iconic too (and I have known him for a considerable number of roles, starting from Gintoki)."

After the movie, I checked the (Japanese) Wikipedia page, and literally did Joseph's "Naisu!" pose:

It really is Tomokazu Sugita.

And, to add on Sugita's role as Joseph Joestar: Apparently Hank's voice is Yū Hayashi （林勇）, who voices Smokey Brown.

Not gonna lie, I somehow found that very funny.

"NIGERUNDAYO, SMOKEY!!!!!"

There are also apparently other (JoJo) casts, like Tomokazu Seki （関智一） [Enrico Pucci] and Junichi Suwabe （諏訪部順一） [Leone Abbacchio/Younger D'Arby], who voice Chuck and Ichirou respectively. But I couldn't recognise them while I was watching (probably because they are using some silly voices, instead of the ones you hear shouting "Whitesnake!!!" or "Moody Blues!!!")

And of course, Tesshō Genda voices Impostor Captain Tennille/Dark Blue Moon from Stardust Crusaders...if you remember who that is.

(the "Onii-chan!" guy if that helps)

Also also, I may write another entry about this later on...but I would like to meet whoever decided to hire Akio fucking Ōtsuka （大塚明夫） [Wamuu, All For One, Uvogin, Saint Seiya's Hades] to voice Jimmy Crystal.)

[Shits and giggles end here. Much more personal stuff below.]

Maybe because I am still a student, I divide periods of my life into school years (instead of...you know, "real years").

Truth be told: This school year has been very bad for me.

Not because something bad happened (not something sudden and catastrophic), but because...nothing happened. I did nothing...outside school.

(Well, I had an internship interview during my very bad time in January, which was my first "job interview", and which was also my first unsuccessful "job interview").

And school is so super damn busy and stressful, that it is hard to do anything outside school.

I mentioned in my last...personal post, that I have been feeling mood swings. Some days are better (which are the days you see me liking and sharing posts, such as mid-February to early-March), and some days are absolutely bad (which are the days you don't see me at all).

Such as now. The reason why I am watching random stupid shit on Netflix is because, otherwise, I would be lying on my bed doing nothing. So I might as well be lying on my bed doing something. I can't sleep, because I have been sleeping too much already. I did try reading too, but I guess my mind is a bit too exhausted/overwhelmed to do that.

(I know I also should be spending at least some time socialising (a massive sorry to all my Discord server-mate seeing this), which is a "how to feel better" self-help tip I see in every single article. But whenever I am feeling bad, I just tend to...disappear. I know I should stop doing that, and I have been saying I will stop doing that. Sorry.)

Honestly, I shouldn't even be watching something on a Monday (it's my day off, but it's still a weekday, and I still have homework to do). I did go to school (to get out of home, at least), but I really had no energy to work today.

Okay, I actually have no energy nor interest to do...anything at all. I know it's waterfowl breeding season soon, and I haven't been to a park in...months. Which is definitely a sign that something is wrong with me.

This "on-and-off but constantly feeling bad on average" pattern reminds me of another past school year. A year I still dread and regret whenever I think about it.

Moreover, now that the Undertale cringe is one-year-old, I have successfully failed to create anything for a year.

Which is not ideal, and I have been saying this since last summer vacation. Because things have not been okay since then. My WIPs are becoming four years old.

I also didn't do any "active" stuff at all since school started, like gaming. My Brok the InvestiGator progress is still around 50%, so I have been dodging spoilers like mad. I tried to mod and play Skyrim a bit, but no big progress whatsoever (Vilja is still waiting for me to complete her quest). I know DD2 just dropped last month, but I haven't even bought it yet.

The only things I have done were "passive" things like watching shows/movies and reading fics. And sometimes even those stopped, when I am feeling really bad.

The reason why I am writing this is because "writing your feelings down" is another "how to feel better" self-help tip I see in every single article. I used to keep a diary where I did exactly this every day, but the habit sort of...faded away (during the aforementioned bad past school year, probably because I was too sad to write down how sad I was every day).

I don't have a cool/motivational ending to this, so I will just end it abruptly here.

(15-4-2024)

[lupincentral]

Anyone here playing the new Like A Dragon game? Did you know that Jigen's new Japanese voice actor, Akio Ōtsuka, stars as Adachi in the Japanese dub? Here he is rocking it with Machine Gun Kiss, a classic karaoke track!

Video credit to: https://youtu.be/0CFK8e-9hBM

[byneddiedingo]

Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006)

Cast: Voices of Megumi Hayashibara, Tōru Furuya, Tōru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Akio Ōtsuka, Kōichi Yamadera, Hideyuki Tanaka, Satomi Kōrogi, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Mitsuo Iwata, Rikako Aikawa, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Satoshi Kon. Screenplay: Seishi Minakami, Satoishi Kon, based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Cinematography: Michiya Katô. Art direction: Nobutaka Ike. Film editing: Takeshi Seyama. Music: Susumu Hirasawa. 

Almost from the beginning, motion pictures, with their ability to move rapidly through time and space and their frequent embrace of the irrational, have been associated with dreams. The development of animated movies only heightened the identification, and makers of animated films have always been ready to embrace the dreamlike. Satoshi Kon's extraordinary anime Paprika is not only dreamlike, it's also about the dream state and its psychological potential. The word "psychology" etymologically means "the study of the soul," and nothing gets closer to the soul -- whatever that is -- than dreams, unfettered by reason and mundane actuality. So Kon's film is about an invasion of the dream state, predicated on the idea that technology might eventually allow one to enter other people's dreams -- an invasion of the soul. Kon finds the dreamlike not only in movies or television, but also in other manifestations of the imagination like circuses and parades and toys, and ultimately in the internet, which Paprika herself identifies as one of the "areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes." Paprika is an avatar in the dream world of Atsuko Chiba, a psychiatrist who is using the newly developed DC Mini, technology that allows her, as Paprika, to enter the dreams of her patients. But when one of the developers of the DC Mini begins using it for his own nefarious purposes, the boundary between dreams and waking life is breached, with phantasmagorical consequences. Dr. Chiba and Paprika have to find a way to repair the breach. Any summary of the film is inadequate because there's something recursive about Paprika, a dreamlike movie about movies (and other things) as dreams.            

[demifiendrsa]

Vinland Saga season 2 - Opening theme PV (with English captions)

Anonymouz will perform the opening theme song "River."

Season 2 of Vinland Saga will premiere on January 9, 2023. Netflix will be streaming the season worldwide except in China and Crunchyroll as streaming the season worldwide except in Asia.

Cast

Yuto Uemura as Thorfinn

Shunsuke Takeuchi as Einar

Kensho Ono as Canute

Mayumi Sako as Arnheid

Fuminori Komatsu as Snake

Yu Hayashi as Olmar

Taiten Kusunoki as Thorgil

Akio Ōtsuka as Thorkell

Staff

Director: Shūhei Yabuta

Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko

Character Design / Animation Director: Takahiko Abiru

Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda, Kentaro Ohnuki, Izumi Hirabayashi

Color Design: Satoshi Hashimoto, Minori Nishita

Filming Director: Yūki Kawashita, Hisashi Matsumukō

Editor: Kashiko Kimura

3DCGI Director: Kōhei Ogawa

Sound Effect Director: Shōji Hata

Sound Effect: Takuya Hasegawa

Sound Production: Sound Team Don Juan

Music: Yutaka Yamada

Animation Production: MAPPA