Subaru Kimura
Subaru Kimura (木村 昴, Kimura Subaru) is a German-born Japanese voice actor and singer who voices Pesci in the fourth season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation, Golden Wind.
He is also well known for his roles as Aoi Todo in Jujutsu Kaisen, Takeshi Goda in Doraemon since 2005, Ryoma Terasaka in Assassination Classroom, Free in Beastars, Aikawa in Dorohedoro, Satori Tendo in Haikyu!!, Hanamichi Sakuragi in The First Slam Dunk, Vice in Kamen Rider Revice, Franky in One Piece since 2025, and Knuckles the Echidna in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series.
Biography
Subaru Kimura was born on June 29, 1990 in Leipzig, Germany, to a German father, an opera singer, and a Japanese mother who was a soloist in baroque music and a vocalist.[2] Because of this background, his parents were strict when it came to classical music. At the age of five, he began learning violin, but due to these influences, he eventually came to dislike classical music.[3]
Kimura spent his early childhood in Germany and moved to Japan at the age of seven.[4] At the time, he could not speak Japanese at all, but he enrolled in a local public elementary school, communicating with teachers and classmates to learn the language. [3]
As a child, he was cheerful and outgoing, often entertaining friends, especially girls, with his lively personality.[4] On the other hand, his mother described him as a "straightforward and well-behaved child" at the time.[4] Since his household lacked television and manga, he had almost no exposure to anime as a child and had no interest in voice acting.[4] At the age of 14, he took over as the voice of Takeshi "Gian" Goda in Doraemon, succeeding the previous actor, Kazuya Tatekabe. He admitted that he decided to audition for the role because he loved bragging about meeting certain people to his friends and seeing them happy; sometimes they wouldn't know who he was referring to, but he knew everyone in his class would know about Doraemon.[5]
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Roles
| Title | Media | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Wind | Anime | 2018-2019 |
| Stardust Shooters | Video Game | 2018 |
| Diamond Records | Video Game | 2019 |
| JoJo's Pitter-Patter Pop! | Video Game | 2019 |
| All-Star Battle R | Video Game | 2022 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 VIP Times - Biography
- ↑ "Nikkei Entertainment! Anime Special Voice Actor Bible 2020", p. 40, Nikkei BP, 2019. ISBN: 978-4296104536
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yu Ishibashi (March 28, 2019), "How to Create a Theater Company and Actor Vitality – Subaru Kimura", FUN'S PROJECT.
- ↑ "Voice Actor for Gian in Doraemon Shares His Audition Motive: 'Because of My Classmates…'", Sponichi Annex, March 26, 2022.
