Ken'ichirō Matsuda

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. He later reprised his role in the 2015 movie Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie,

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 2022 Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru: Setsugetsuka Nenekirimaru 2022 The First Slam Dunk Chuichirou Noma

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

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