Actor famous for voicing Gundam's Amuro gets to play
character supposedly named after him
[News via AnimeNewsNetwork]
Minami Takayama, the voice of the title character in the
Detective Conan (Case Closed) anime, revealed with a laughing emoticon on
Friday that the character Tohru Amuro will debut in the anime in September —
voiced by none other than Tohru Furuya.
Tohru Amuro appears in Gosho Aoyama's original manga as a
member of the feared Black Organization. Not coincidentally, the voice actor
Tohru Furuya happens to be best known for playing the lead character Amuro Ray
in the classic robotic mecha anime Mobile Suit Gundam. (The spellings are
different, but the pronunciations are the same.)
Update: For decades, Japanese television hosts have noted
the coincidental similarity in names between the fictional Amuro Ray (debuted
in 1979) and still another Amuro — the real-life singer Namie Amuro (born in
1977). Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino told Ai Ijima in an interview that he
coined the name Amuro because he though it was a strange name that did not
exist in the world.
Three months after the first Gundam anime series
premiered, Tomino found out that there is a real island named Amuro in Okinawa,
and he visited the island after the series ended. (Namie Amuro comes from
Okinawa.) On Gundam's 30th anniversary, Namie Amuro and Amuro Ray starred in an
animated Gundam music video together, and Furuya naturally played Amuro Ray in
the video.[News via AnimeNewsNetwork]
Yeah Amuro freakin'Ray! Tohru Furuya is the man! Will actually watch Detective Conan because of this. Hail to the greatest Gundam pilot VA! YEAHHHHH!!!!!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately Akai Shuichi was dead already in Detective Conan, maybe they'll become rival again if Akai still alive XD
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