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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1967-11-25 (57 years old)

Place of Birth

Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Kazuya Nakai

Biography:

Kazuya Nakai (中井 和哉, born November 25, 1967) is an award-winning Japanese voice actor and narrator who was born in Kobe, Japan. From a young age, he was interested in anime. Growing up he had interests like volleyball and archery. He was working as a civil servant in a technical field at 25 when he decided that's not how he wanted to live his life, so he enrolled into a voice acting school he attended on his days off and on weekends while still working. Despite starting his career as a narrator, he took off as a voice actor and became a big name when he got the role of Roronoa Zoro, a character he definitely wanted to voice.

He narrates programs including information and news programs and voices many iconic characters such as Roronoa Zoro from One Piece, Toshiro Hijikata from Gintama, Date Masamune from Sengoku Basara, Mugen from Samurai Champloo and Jin Sakai in the Japanese dub of the video game Ghost of Tsushima. He loves driving, practicing archery and spending time with his dog and cat.

Known For

Acting

2024

Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation as Roronoa Zoro / Dragon / Narration (voice)
DAN DA DAN: First Encounter as Serpoian A / Serpoian B / Serpoian C (voice)
Dan Da Dan as Serpoians (voice)
Puniru Is a Kawaii Slime as Hiroshi Mado (voice)
Dan Da Dan as Serpoian A / Serpoian B / Serpoian C (voice)

2023

Gintama on Theater 2D: Baragaki-hen as Toushirou Hijikata (voice)
Pokémon Horizons as Colza (voice)
Tengoku Daimakyo as Robin Inazaki (voice)
MF GHOST as Ryuji Ikeda (voice)
Rurouni Kenshin as Shakku Arai (voice)

2022

The Tatami Time Machine Blues as Master Higuchi (voice)
One Piece Film Red as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
The Tatami Time Machine Blues as Master Higuchi (voice)
Love All Play as Hitoshi Ebihara (voice)
Parallel World Pharmacy as Camus (voice)

2021

Gintama: The Very Final as Toushirou Hijikata (voice)
The Journey as Musab (voice)
Battle Game in 5 Seconds as Madoka Kirisaki (voice)
Tesla Note as Kyohei Himi (voice)
Star Wars: Visions as Roden (voice)
Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan as Furitsuke Capellini (voice)
Digimon Ghost Game as Angoramon (voice)
Gintama: The Semi-Final as Toshiro Hijikata (voice)

2020

2019

Lupinranger vs Patranger vs Kyuranger as Garu / Ookami Blue (Voice)
One Piece: Stampede as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
RobiHachi as Robby Yarge (voice)
Fire Force as Akitaru Obi (voice)
Stars Align as Kenji Kyōbate (voice)
Ahiru no Sora as Shinichi Chiba (voice)

2018

Uchu Sentai Kyuranger vs. Space Squad as Garu / Ookami Blue (Voice)
Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple as Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (voice)
One Piece: Episode of Skypiea as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Godzilla: The Planet Eater as Halu-Elu Dolu-Do (voice)
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle as Halu-Elu Dolu-Do (voice)
Super Dragon Ball Heroes as Salsa (voice)
B: The Beginning as Kamui (voice)
Gakuen Basara: Samurai High School as Date Masamune (voice)

2017

Kuroko's Basketball the Movie: Last Game as Shoichi Imayoshi (voice)
One Piece Episode of East Blue as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl as Seitarō Higuchi (voice)
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters as Halu-Elu Dolu-do (voice)
Altair: A Record of Battles as Balaban Al-Kaphan (voice)
RAPSTAR as Narration
Uchu Sentai Kyuranger as Garu / Ookami Blue (voice)
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations as Urashiki Ootsutsuki

2016

One Piece Film Gold: Episode 0 as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
One Piece Film: GOLD as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
One Piece: Heart of Gold as Zoro Roronoa (voice)
JOKER GAME as Fukumoto (voice)
JOKER GAME as Fukumoto (Hajime Shiozuka & Yukito Kusanagi) (voice)
Girlish Number as Kuzu-P
One Piece Characters Log as Roronoa Zoro
Bungo Stray Dogs as Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
ALL OUT!! as Renpei Sukura

2015

One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia as Roronoa Zoro / Kinoconda (voice)
God Eater as Soma Schiksal (voice)
Death Parade as Takashi (voice)

2014

Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper as Timothy Hunter (voice)
Sengoku BASARA - End of Judgement as Date Masamune (voice)
Aldnoah.Zero as Koichiro Marito (voice)
Hero Bank as Fukuta Kanemaru (voice)

2013

PERSONA3 THE MOVIE #1 Spring of Birth as Shinjiro Aragaki (voice)
Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman as Manjiro "Roman" Tasukeya (voice)
Danganronpa: The Animation as Mondo Owada (voice)

2012

Blue Exorcist: The Movie as Ryuji Suguro (voice)
One Piece Film: Z as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
One Piece: Glorious Island as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Rainbow Fireflies as Kenzō – Adult (voice)
No More Heroes 1.5 as Travis Touchdown
Gintama: The Best of Gintama on Theater 2D as Toushirou Hijikata (voice)
Brave 10 as Jinpachi Nezu (voice)
Shining Hearts as Dyran Rowen (voice)

2011

Sengoku Basara: The Last Party as Date Masamune (voice)
One Piece 3D: Straw Hat Chase as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
One Piece 3D: Gekisou! Trap Coaster as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Fate/Prototype as Lancer (voice)
Chihayafuru as Hiro Kinashi (voice)
You're Being Summoned, Azazel-san as Salamander (voice)
Blue Exorcist as Suguro Ryuuji (voice)

2010

Gintama: The Movie as Hijikata Toushirou (voice)
xxxHolic: Rō as Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)

2009

One Piece Film: Strong World as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
God Eater Prologue as Soma Schicksal
White Album as Tamaru (voice)
Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings as Date Masamune (voice)
07-Ghost as Katsuragi
Asura Cryin' as Takaya Kagakagari
Samurai Harem as Ryo Washizu (voice)
Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee as Jiggy Pepper (voice)
Hatsukoi Limited. as Gengorou Takei (voice)

2008

One Piece: Romance Dawn Story as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Antique Bakery as Tachibana's abductor (voice)
Switch! as 梶山庆护
King Of Conte as Narration
Blade of the Immortal as Taito Magatsu (voice)

2007

One Piece: Ice Hunter as Zoro (voice)
Nodame Cantabile as Kouzou Etou (voice)

2006

Jyu-Oh-Sei as Zagi
xxxHOLiC as Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Digimon Data Squad as Gaomon (voice)
Gintama as Toushirou Hijikata (voice)
Death Note as Kanzo Mogi (voice)
Hataraki Man as Sugawara, Fumiya

2005

Noein: To Your Other Self as Karasu (voice)
Noein: To Your Other Self as Noein (voice)
Trinity Blood as Tres Iqus (voice)
IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix as River Marque (voice)
Ultraman Max as Ultraman Max

2004

One Piece: Curse of the Sacred Sword as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Samurai Champloo as Mugen (voice)
Grenadier: The Beautiful Warrior as Yajiro Kajima (voice)
Ragnarok The Animation as Iruga (voice)
Samurai Gun as Matsuzaki
Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger as Gedonian Uniga (voice), Igaroids (voice)
Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger as Igaroids (voice)

2003

One Piece: Dead End Adventure as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Battle Programmer Shirase as Satoshi Shirase (BPS) (voice)

2002

One Piece: Dream Soccer King! as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Mirage of Blaze as Sinya Asaoka (voice)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED as Reverend Malchio (voice)
Ai Yori Aoshi as Suzuki

2001

One Piece: Jango's Dance Carnival as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
Hellsing as Jan Valentine (voice)

2000

One Piece: The Movie as Roronoa Zoro (voice)

1999

Angel Links as Sergei (voice)
One Piece as Roronoa Zoro (voice)

1998

Initial D as Ryuji Ikeda (voice)

1997

1996

After War Gundam X as Witz Sou (voice)

1995

1971

Kamen Rider as Eiki (voice)

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3-nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei as Toushirou Hijikata (voice)

Sound

2012

Ixion Saga: Dimension Transfer as Theme Song Performance