Tesshō Genda
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Tesshō Genda (玄田 哲章 Genda Tesshō born May 20, 1948) is a Japanese voice actor who was born as Mitsuo Yokoi (横居 光雄 Yokoi Mitsuo). Some of his most famous roles include Umibōzu in City Hunter and Angel Heart, the original voice of Guile in many of the Street Fighter video games and anime (and M. Bison in the Soft dub of the 1994 film), Agent Shu, Bojack and Janemba across the Dragon Ball franchise, Kazumi Araiwa in Cooking Papa, Blastoise (Kamex) in Pokémon, the Nine tailed Fox Demon in Naruto, Dan Dastun in The Big O, Sourman in Dr. Slump, Taurus Aldebaran in Saint Seiya, the Younger Toguro Brother in Yu Yu Hakusho, Action Bastard in Shin Chan, The Punisher in the Marvel Anime films and the Impostor Captain Tennille in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Genda is also no stranger to Toei's Super Sentai franchise, his most recent role from said franchise being Buddyroid Gorisaki Banana from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.
In terms of dubbing, some of his roles include Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, a number of animated incarnations of Batman since the DC Animated Universe, Cable in the TV Tokyo dub of Saban's X-Men, the current voice for Foghorn Leghorn in Looney Tunes, Kratos in the God of War series, Mace Windu in Star Wars, Hiro in Thomas & Friends, the slumbering dragon in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Good Cop/Bad Cop (but not Batman!) in The LEGO Movie. He's also the official Japanese dub over voices for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal and, uh, Dan Aykroyd.
Roles
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
Scramble City: Mobilization
- Convoy
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010
- Convoy
Transformers: The Headmasters
The Transformers: The Movie
- Convoy
TF Telephone audio adventures: The Battlestars
The Transformers
- Convoy
DreamMix TV World Fighters
- Convoy
Super Link
Galaxy Force
- Primus
Transformers: Kiss Players
- Convoy
Transformers (2007)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Optimus Prime
Transformers Animated
- Omega Supreme
- Generation 1 Optimus Prime (pre-title sequence gag for "TransWarped, Part 1")
Dark of the Moon
- Optimus Prime
Transformers: Lost Age
- Optimus Prime
Q-Transformers: The Road to Additional Popularity
Earth Wars
Movie The Best
- Leader Class Optimus Prime
- Leader Class Optimus Prime (Revenge Version)
Transformers: The Last Knight
- Optimus Prime
Turbo Change Series
- Battle Command Optimus Prime
Bumblebee
- Optimus Prime
Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy
Transformers: Alliance
Transformers: Beast Awakening
- Optimus Prime
Transformers: EarthSpark
Transformers One
Convention appearances
Notes
- Because of his healthy background in ballet, one of his popular nicknames is "Pirouette Genda".
- Genda played a parody of his Optimus Prime character named "Osutimus Surprise" (オスティマス・サプライズ, "Cocktimus Prime" in the dub) in the seventh episode of 2010's Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, "Trans-homers". Seizō Katō, despite having retired from the role, played a parody of Megatron in that same episode.
