Toshiyuki Morikawa

Toshiyuki Morikawa (森川 智之) is a Japanese voice actor. He is the voice actor for Yoshikage Kira in the anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically its third season, Diamond is Unbreakable.

He additionally voiced Diavolo in All-Star Battle and Eyes of Heaven.

He is well known for his several other roles such as Naraku in, Sephiroth in the and  series, Dante in the  series, Isshin Kurosaki in , Enel and Hatchan in , Minato Namikaze in , Griffith in the 1997  anime, Katsuya Jonouchi in , Boros in , Julius Novachrono in , Bondrewd in , and Kagaya Ubuyashiki in.

Biography
Toshiyuki Morikawa was born in in 1967 but grew up in  and. Morikawa was initially interested in sports. He entered the in the hopes of becoming a professional physical education teacher and practiced American football. However, Morikawa was injured in the neck, which dashed his hopes of a career in sports.

A friend recommended Morikawa to work with his voice instead because he was "talkative and loud". Morikawa thus found and entered the in which he trained alongside other future famous voice actors such as Wataru Takagi. Morikawa was also notably appointed to be a teacher during his studies, training other students at vocalization, an activity he continued for five years alongside his main activity as a voice actor. He trained several other notable voice actors such as Tomokazu Seki, Katsuyuki Konishi, and Daisuke Hirakawa.

Morikawa debuted as a voice actor in 1987. He first narrated Japanese language teaching lessons for foreigners. His first named role was that of Hayashi Kato in the TV anime.

On April 1, 2011, Morikawa stopped his affiliation with the Arts Vision talent agency and established his own agency named, of which he is the representative director.

In 2015, Morikawa won the award in the Supporting Actor category at the 9th. He also won a second award at the 13th Seiyu Awards in 2019.

On January 9, 2017, Morikawa ranked 12th among a list of 200 popular voice actors presented by.

Trivia

 * During the 20th session of Morioh RADIO 4 GREAT, Morikawa mentions that he received an amulet from Hirohiko Araki himself at the recording site. Yuki Ono jokingly questions why he would meet Kira, but not the main protagonists.