is a Japanese voice actor from Saitama Prefecture, affiliated with Arts Vision. He is known for starring as Batou in Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Vainney Halter in Clockwork Planet, Jacques Yvain in RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time, Thors in Vinland Saga, Gordon Agrippa in Black Clover, Arnold in Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst, Miles Morgan in Engage Kiss, the narrator and Bond Forger in Spy x Family, Richard Parker in Highspeed Etoile, and Marcella Nuvolari in Dahlia in Bloom.
Biography Kenichirou Matsuda, a native of Saitama Prefecture, was born on 22 January 1978. As an elementary school student, he learned about voice acting after hearing his two older sisters were interested in such a career, but stopped watching anime because he thought it was "something for kids to watch", so he instead wanted to be a baseball player or a police officer. During his early adulthood, he attended a legal vocational school with the goal of becoming a civil servant, but dropped out after not being able to keep up with a higher class he was moved into. Enrolled into the , he considered quitting after three years and a third failed audition, but instead continued, and the following year he was accepted into Arts Vision.
In February 2013, it was announced that he would voice Batou in Ghost in the Shell: Arise. Jaclyn Appelgate of Comic Book Resources said Matsuda "captures Batou's rough personality and does especially well with expressing the character's rage". He later reprised his role in the 2015 movie Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie, and he later starred as Vainney Halter in Clockwork Planet and Jacques Yvain in RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time.
In February 2019, Matsuda was cast as Thors, a major character in Vinland Saga. Regarding his performance of Thors, Appelgate said "Kenichiro may have not had many lines with Thors since the character is a man of few words, but the voice actor managed to balance Thors' strong appearance with his massive compassion, using a deep masculine voice with soft undertones." He later starred as Arnold in Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst and Miles Morgan in Engage Kiss.
Matsuda originally considering retirement after several unsuccessful auditions, but in April 2022, he began voicing the narrator of Spy x Family, and in October 2022, he started voicing main character Bond Forger. Matsuda uses several different barks to express Bond's emotions, with different ones to express happiness and sadness. Appelgate said of his performance of Bond: "when it comes to how the dog sounds when he does open his mouth, Kenichiro adds a nice, subtle layer of charm to this gentle giant with his iconic "borf" speech." In 2024, he starred as Richard Parker in Highspeed Etoile and Marcella Nuvolari in Dahlia in Bloom.
Filmography Animated television +YearTitleRole(s)Ref 2007 Darker than Black 2007 Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit 2013 Ghost in the Shell: Arise Batou 2014 D-Frag! Hiroshi Nagayama 2014 Dramatical Murder Mink 2014 Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers The Hulk 2016 Reikenzan: Hoshikuzu-tachi no Utage Iemoto 2016 Soul Buster Wei Yan 2017 Black Clover Narrator, Gordon Agrippa 2017 Clockwork Planet Vainney Halter 2017 ēlDLIVE Riggs 2017 Kino's Journey Riku 2017 Marvel Future Avengers The Hulk 2018 Conception Shangri-la 2018 RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time Jacques Yvain 2019 Kemono Michi: Rise Up Wolfgang von Kraftman 2019 Kochoki Hayashi Hidesada 2019 Vinland Saga Thors 2020 Healin' Good Pretty Cure Teruhiko Hiramitsu 2020 Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst Arnold 2020 My Hero Academia Yū Hōjō 2020 The Day I Became a God Raita Oguma 2021 Bakuten!! Shūji Mabuchi 2021 Kingdom Kaioku 2021 Rumble Garanndoll Ukai 2021 Shaman King Luchist 2022 Engage Kiss Miles Morgan 2022 Spy x Family Narrator, Bond Forger 2022 The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt Bartholorush 2022 Tribe Nine Roku Saigo 2023 Dog Signal Woolson 2023 The Faraway Paladin Gelrays 2024 The Unwanted Undead Adventurer Clope 2024 Dahlia in Bloom Marcella Nuvolari 2024 Highspeed Etoile Richard Parker 2024 Quality Assurance in Another World Sumida 2024 Tower of God Kosuke/Kang Horyang 2025 Übel Blatt Geranpen 2025 Let's Play Edgar 2026 Eren the Southpaw Ifū Sakuma 2026 The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects Dias 2027 Tenkaichi: The Greatest Warrior Under the Rising Sun Honda Tadakatsu
Animated film +YearTitleRole(s)Ref 2015 Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie Batou 2015 Sleep Tight My Baby, Cradled in the Sky Yasunori Shionoha 2017 Blade Runner Black Out 2022 Iggy 2017 Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower Bull 2019 Human Lost Shibuta 2022 Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru: Setsugetsuka Nenekirimaru 2022 The First Slam Dunk Chuichirou Noma 2024 Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Takarada
Original video animation +YearTitleRole(s)Ref 2016 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Ortega
Original net animation +YearTitleRole(s)Ref 2019 Kengan Ashura Hollis Kure 2026 Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pocoloco
Video games +YearTitleRole(s)Ref2012DRAMAtical MurderMink 2012 Street Fighter X Tekken Raven, Jack-X 2019 Our World is Ended Shiro Deguchi 2019 Life Is Strange 2 Jonathan Merrill 2025 Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Marco Rodrigues
Dubbing The Beckoning Silence (Toni Kurtz (Roger Schäli)) BlacKkKlansman (Detective Ron Stallworth (John David Washington)) Blood Ties (Chris Pierzynski (Clive Owen)) Deep Blue Sea 3 (Eugene Shaw (Emerson Brooks)) Doomsday (Sergeant Norton (Adrian Lester)) Fast & Furious (Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson)) Fireproof (Wayne Floyd (Stephen Dervan)) Jersey Boys (Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda)) The Maze Runner (Alby (Aml Ameen)) The Night Before (Chris Roberts (Anthony Mackie)) The Perfect Host (Detective Morton (Nathaniel Parker)) Rogue Hostage (Kyle Snowden (Tyrese Gibson)) Young Justice, Kaldur'ahm
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Arts Vision profile