Daisuke Namikawa


Daisuke Namikawa is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer associated with Stay Luck. He began acting as a child and is sometimes mistaken with Daisuke Hirakawa, as their names only differ by one character when written in kanji. Despite his wide range of voice casting, he is usually cast as young, kind heroes, such as Mikage in 07-Ghost, Fay D. Flourite in , Jellal Fernandes and his counterpart Mystogan in Fairy Tail, Rokuro "Rock" Okajima in Black Lagoon, Keita Ibuki in Black God, and Yu Narukami in Persona 4. He also played anti-heroes or villains, such as Ulquiorra Cifer in Bleach, Hisoka Morow in Hunter x Hunter , Kei Kurono in Gantz, Eustass Kid in One Piece, Dr. Genus in One Punch Man and Toutaku Chuuei in Ikki Tousen.
He is the official Japanese dub-over voice artist for American actor Elijah Wood and Canadian actor Hayden Christensen. He has also dubbed over some roles that were performed by other fellow actors such as: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tony Jaa, Edward Furlong and Kevin Zegers in Japanese. He made his directorial debut for Wonderful World, a live-action film that opened in Japan in early summer of 2010. He also starred in the film itself, alongside Mamoru Miyano, Tomokazu Sugita, Tomokazu Seki, Rikiya Koyama, Yuka Hirata, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Koichi Yamadera, Showtaro Morikubo and Yuko Kaida. He won for Best Actor in supporting roles in the 4th Seiyu Awards.

Personal life

Namikawa married in 2001. In 2017, Shukan Bunshun reported that Namikawa had been involved in an on-and-off extramarital affair with a female employee from his previous agency since 2004, who he met when she had still been a teenager. Namikawa later confirmed the report and apologized.

Filmography

Television animation

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Live action films