Keiji Fujiwara (藤原 啓治, Fujiwara Keiji, October 5, 1964 – April 12, 2020) was a *anese actor and voice actor.

His best known works are voicing Shinnosuke's father Hiroshi Nohara in the long-running anime series Crayon Shin-chan, Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist, Holland in Eureka Seven, Axel in Kingdom Hearts, Leorio in Hunter × Hunter, Shiro Fujimoto in Ao no Exorcist, Shingo Shoji in Initial D, Zenzo Hattori in Gintama and Esidisi in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency.

In the live-action field, he was most known for dubbing actor Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man/Tony Stark.

Fujiwara founded his own talent management and production company, Air Agency, in 2006.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Filmography
  • 2.1 Television animation
  • 2.2 Theatrical animation
  • 2.3 Original video animation (OVA)
  • 2.4 Video games
  • 2.5 Tokusatsu
  • 2.6 Dubbing roles
    • 2.6.1 Live-action
    • 2.6.2 Animated
  • 2.7 Narration
  • 2.8 Live-Action
• 3 Discography
  • 3.1 Drama CD roles
  • 3.2 Character songs
• 4 Video / Events
• 5 Web radio hosting
• 6 Sound direction
• 7 Subs*utes
• 8 References
• 9 External links

Biography

Fujiwara was born in Tokyo. He spent the majority of his childhood in Iwate Prefecture. In high school, he handled vocals in a band he formed with his friend Kotaro Furuichi, future guitarist of rock band The Collectors.

Around 18, he moved back to Tokyo on his own and joined the Bungakuza acting school. He spent the 1980s performing in several theater troupes while working odd jobs. Fujiwara was introduced to his first voice acting agency, Ken Production, in the early 1990s. The first TV anime in which he appeared as a regular was Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi, but his breakout role was Hiroshi Nohara in Crayon Shin-chan.

In November 2006, he left Ken Production and founded his own agency, Air Agency. Aside from talent management, the company went on to release original drama and situation CDs through its child company Air Label, as well as produce live events. in 2010, Fujiwara made his own sound directorial debut in Kakkokawaii Sengen!

Fujiwara was a regular lecturer at the *an Newart College since 2008.

In August 2016, Air Agency announced that he was going on hiatus in order to undergo medical treatment for a then-unspecified illness. He officially resumed work in June 2017. Fujiwara died of cancer on April 12, 2020.

Filmography

Television animation

Theatrical animation

Original video animation (OVA)

Video games

Tokusatsu

Dubbing roles

Live-action

Animated

Narration

The below is a selection.

Live-Action

The following are physical appearances as opposed to voice work.

Discography

Drama CD roles

Character songs

Video / Events

Web radio hosting

Sound direction

Subs*utes

Below is a list of voice actors who stood in for him during his health-related hiatus (2016–2017), and after his death in 2020.

• Kenyū Horiuchi – Pokémon Generations: Handsome/Looker
• Hiroaki Hirata – Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga: Shirō Fujimoto
• Kenjirō Tsuda – Attack on *an 2nd Season: Hannes, Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love, Isami Enomoto
• Toshiyuki Morikawa – Crayon Shin-chan series: Hiroshi Nohara, Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution: Holland Novak, Zenonzard the Animation:: Hughtlom Aubreykahn, Marvel Cinematic Universe:Iron Man/Tony Stark
• Mitsuru Ogata – Macross Delta: Berger Stone
• Yasunori Matsumoto – Mr. Robot: Mr. Robot
• Kazuya Nakai – The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl: Seitaro Higuchi
• Kanehira Yamamoto – Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash: Mr. K (Kiriya)
• Jin Yamanoi – The Strain: Vasiliy Fet
• Kazuhiro Yamaji – Granblue Fantasy: Eugen (originally only on the first season of the anime)
• Rikiya Koyama – Dance with Devils: Fortuna: Nesta
• Kazuhiko Inoue – Scream Queens: Wes Gardner
• Tomokazu Seki – Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- Death or Kiss: Aldebaran
• Tōru Ōkawa - Laughing Under the Clouds: Taiko *ou
• Fuminori Komatsu - Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link:: Travis Kirkland

References

External links

• Official agency profile (in *anese)
• Keiji Fujiwara at Anime News Network's encyclopedia