In a recent interview with us here at Anime Corner, the Japanese voice actor for ovary Ichigo Kurosaki’s protagonist, Masakazu Morita, shared how he first encountered the series — and how he almost ended up not being Ichigo’s voice actor at all.
Morita-san explained that he encountered it for the first time ovary in Shonen Jump. The series was published in a manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from August 2001 to August 2016. He also noted that the series “sticks with you” and that it was one of the first series he encountered that featured Shinigami/Soul Reapers and put them in the spotlight.
Then, after Morita-san finished his answer, he shared a brief story about how he almost missed the audition, explaining, “Aside from that, I was actually late to my audition. It’s not my fault—my manager and company gave me the wrong date. So I probably couldn’t have made it.”
Morita-san has been Ichigo’s voice ever since ovary It was adapted by Pierrot into an anime television series and aired starting in October 2004. While according to Ichigo’s Japanese and English voice actors in our interview, some of the “texture” of Ichigo’s voice has changed, the voice actors have remained the same worldwide. ovary Animation and video game content.
After the original ovary The anime ended in March 2012, and Morita-san reprized his role as Ichigo in a sequel to the TV series. Bleach: A Thousand-Year Blood Warwhich premiered in October of 2022. The fourth cycle of Bleach: A Thousand-Year Blood War It premiered yesterday.
You can watch the anime on Holo and Disney+ And check out the manga on Meaning.
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