Keiji Fujiwara

Keiji Fujiwara (藤原 啓治) was a Japanese actor and voice actor.

His best known works are voicing Shinnosuke's father Hiroshi Nohara in the long-running anime series Crayon Shin-chan, Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist, Holland in Eureka Seven, Axel in Kingdom Hearts, Leorio in Hunter × Hunter, Shiro Fujimoto in Blue Exorcist, Shingo Shoji in Initial D, Zenzo Hattori in Gintama, and Esidisi in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency.

In the live-action field, he was most known for dubbing actor Robert Downey Jr.. as Iron Man/Tony Stark.

He spent the 1980s performing in several theater troupes while working odd jobs.

Fujiwara was introduced to his first voice acting agency, Ken Production, in the early 1990s.

The first TV anime in which he appeared as a regular was Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi, but his breakout role was Hiroshi Nohara in Crayon Shin-chan.

Fujiwara founded his own talent management and production company, Air Agency, in 2006.

Fujiwara was born in Tokyo.

He spent the majority of his childhood in Iwate Prefecture.

In high school, he handled vocals in a band he formed with his friend Kotaro Furuichi, future guitarist of rock band The Collectors.

Around 18, he moved back to Tokyo on his own and joined the Bungakuza acting school.

In November 2006, he left Ken Production and founded his own agency, Air Agency.

Aside from talent management, the company went on to release original drama and situation CDs through its child company Air Label, as well as produce live events.

Fujiwara was a regular lecturer at the Japan Newart College since 2008.

In 2010, Fujiwara made his own sound directorial debut in Kakkokawaii Sengen!

In August 2016, Fujiwara was diagnosed with cancer, even though he continued to work for Air Agency and various dubbing for long as he was able to undergo medical treatment.

Below is a list of voice actors who stood in for him during his health-related hiatus (2016–2017), and after his death in 2020.

He officially resumed work in June 2017.

Fujiwara died at the Tokyo Medical Hospital from heart failure caused by the disease on April 12, 2020, aged 55 years old.

The below is a selection.

The following are physical appearances as opposed to voice work.