Yasunori Matsumoto
Born: 1960-02-07 in Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
Yasunori Matsumoto is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with Sigma Seven. Some of Matsumoto's most notable roles are Wataru Akiyama in Initial D, Jean Havoc in Fullmetal Alchemist, Magnum Ace in Shippū! Iron Leaguer, Gourry Gabriev in Slayers and Ryo Hibiki in Sonic Soldier Borgman. His wife was voice actress Junko Sakuma, who died in March 2011.
Filmography
2026
- An Adventurer's Daily Grind at Age 29 as Cockdole (voice)
2025
- Anne Shirley as Matthew Cuthbert (voice)
- Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback as Yutaka Ochi (voice)
- SK8 the Infinity EXTRA PART as Joe (voice)
2023
- MF GHOST as Akiyama (voice)
- Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Sky Utopia as Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
2021
- SK8 the Infinity as Joe (voice)
- The Faraway Paladin as Chimera (voice)
- Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger as Halloween World (voice)
- HOME! as Christopher Newton (voice)
2020
- Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW as Ichirō Maebara (voice)
2019
- My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising as Mahoro & Katsuma's Father (voice)
- Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration as Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
2018
- Violet Evergarden as Iris's Father (voice)
- Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island as Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
2017
- URAHARA as Ebifuruya (voice)
- Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi as Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
2016
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan as Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- Ultraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman as Guruman (voice)
2015
- Go! Princess PreCure as Ibuki Haruno (voice)
- Ultraman X as Narrator / Guruman (voice)
2014
- Ressha Sentai ToQger as Type Shadow (voice)
- Stand by Me Doraemon as Nobisuki Nobi (voice)
- Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace as Kenjo Kurihara (voice)
- Kingdom Hearts Re:coded as Hercules (voice)
2013
- Attack on Titan as Eren Kruger (voice)
- Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak as Ichirou Maebara (voice)
2012
- Sword Art Online as Hans (voice)
- Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters as Danganloid (voice)
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles – Animal Adventure as Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
2011
- Showa Monogatari as Yuzou Yamazaki (voice)
- Tales of Gekijou as Guy Cecil
2010
- Tensou Sentai Goseiger as Powereddark of the Mutation (voice)
- Halo Legends as Captain
- HEROMAN as Minami (voice)
- Halo Legends as Captain
2009
- Monogatari as Mayoi's Father (voice)
- Fresh Precure! as Wester (voice)
- Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers as Stoner (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition I: Celestial Being as Alejandro Corner (voice)
2008
- Natsume's Book of Friends as Kaname's Father (voice)
- Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne as Tamotsu Yanagisawa (voice)
- Tales of the Abyss as Guy Cecil (voice)
2007
- Kaiji as Furuhata (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 as Alejandro Corner (voice)
- Ghost Hound as Takahito Komagusa (voice)
- Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users as Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- The Flowers of Hard Blood as Shinji Yasuoka
- GR -GIANT ROBO- as Roscoe Heinscare (voice)
2006
- Higurashi: When They Cry as Ichiro Maebara (voice)
- Le Chevalier D'Eon as Earl St. Germain
- Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur as Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- ドラえもん誕生日スペシャル 「のび太くん、さようなら！ ドラえもん、未来へ帰る…」 as Nobisuke Nobi (Nobita's Father) (voice)
2005
- Doraemon as Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance as Galian
- Hell Girl
- Eureka Seven as Stoner (voice)
- Trinity Blood as Virgil Walsh (voice)
- Emma: A Victorian Romance as Lionel (voice)
- Zoids: Genesis as Major Zairin
- Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor as Archanfel (voice)
- Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa as Jean Havoc (voice)
- Rockman.EXE: The Program of Light and Darkness as Charlie Airstar
- Street Fighter Alpha: Generations as Gouki (young) (voice)
- ドラえもん誕生日スペシャル 「ご先祖さまがんばれ」 as Nobita's Father (voice)
2004
- Pretty Cure as Juna
- Paranoia Agent as Zebra (voice)
- Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama as Shuten Doji (voice)
- Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple as Franklin Clarke (voice)
- Destiny of the Shrine Maiden as ツバサ / Tsubasa
2003
- E's Otherwise
- Croket!
- The Song of Saya as Kouji Tonoo
- Inuyasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler as Setsuna no Takemaru (voice)
- Shadow Skill: Secret of the Kurudan Style
2002
- GetBackers as Paul Wong (voice)
- Princess Tutu as Mr. Cat (voice)
- Cheeky Angel as Yanagisawa
- Mirage of Blaze as Shuhei Chiaki (voice)
- Initial D: Battle Stage as Wataru Akiyama (voice)
- Guilstein
2001
- Hellsing as Boz (voice)
- Star Ocean EX
- Vampiyan Kids as Vampire Hunter
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves as Babylon (voice)
- Slayers Premium as Gourry Gabriev (voice)
2000
- Gravitation as Hiroshi Nakano (voice)
- Love Hina as Noriyasu Seta (voice)
- The Truth of Japanese Fairy Tales as Unosuke (voice)
1999
- Steel Angel Kurumi as Kamihito Kagura
- Bucky - The Incredible Kid as En (voice)
- Angel Links as Marcotte (voice)
- Legend of Himiko as Chosa
- Gravitation: Lyrics of Love as Hiroshi Nakano
- Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko as Curtis Lawson (voice)
- Vampiyan Kids as Vampire Hunter (voice)
1998
- Initial D as Wataru Akiyama (voice)
- Silent Möbius as Ralph Bowmers
- Lost Universe as Dark Seeder
- Shadow Skill as Scarface (voice)
- Getter Robo: Armageddon as Gai (voice)
- Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness as Genpachiro Akiyama (voice)
- Gandalla: The King of Burning Desert as Yuuki Saijou
- Gekiganger 3 - The Movie as Tetsuya Ryuzaki (voice)
- Ganbare Goemon: Global Rescue Operation as Goemon
1997
- Vampire Princess Miyu as Ryu (voice)
- Legend of the Mystical Ninja as Impact
- Jungle Emperor Leo as Ramune (voice)
- The Wave of Rage
- Undersea Fleet Submarine 707F as Senta Umino (voice)
- Tournament of the Gods: Title Match as Vilnus
1996
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Martian Successor Nadesico as Genpachiro Akiyama (voice)
- Midori no Makibaō as Amago Wakuchin
- VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire as Narciss Dandy
- Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring as (voice)
- Sonic the Hedgehog as Knuckles the Echidna (voice)
- Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko as カーティス・ローソン
- Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman as Kosuke Matsumoto (voice)
- Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie as Knuckles the Echidna (voice)
- Hurricane Polymar: Holy Blood as Sukamuugu (voice)
- New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning as Mitsuru Hayakawa (voice)
- KI・ME・RA as Osamu (voice)
- The Legend of Zorro
- Shadow Skill: The Movie as Vai Low
- The Hard: Bounty Hunter as Hard (voice)
- The End of the Century Darling as Kohsaku Ogata (voice)
- Nuumamonjaa: Time and Space Adventures as Monster (voice)
- Karakuri Ninja Girl as Tsukikage
1995
- Slayers as Gourry Gabriev (voice)
- Virtua Fighter
- Jura Tripper as Mosaru
- H2 as Fujio Koga (voice)
- Saber Marionette R as Bureaucrat (voice)
- Super Atragon as Masahi Hyuga (voice)
- Ninku the Movie as Basara Ninku
- Elementalors
- Shadow Skill: Epilogue as Vy Low (voice)
- Pipi the Flightless Firefly
1994
- New Cutey Honey as Virtual Hacker (voice)
- Darkside Blues as Tatsuya (voice)
- Captain Tsubasa Movie 05: The Most Powerful Opponent! Holland Youth as Hiroshi Jitou (voice)
- Tokyo Babylon 2 as Subway Killer
1993
- Shippuu! Iron Leaguer as Magnum Ace
- Please Save My Earth as Shukaido (voice)
- From Today, It's My Turn!! as Takashi Mitsuhashi (voice)
- Urotsukidōji III: Return of the Overfiend as Buju (voice)
- Dragon Half as Dick Saucer (voice)
- The Legacy of Al Caral as Seto (voice)
- Singles as Kaname Kazama (voice)
- Fight!! Spirit of the Sword as Sakyo (voice)
- Mellow as Akira Hajima (male) (voice)
1992
- Tekkaman Blade as Noal Vereuse
- Black Lion as Shishimaru (voice)
- Ellcia as Elri
- Tokyo Babylon as Subway Killer (voice)
- Kyuukyoku no Sex Adventure Kamasutra as Aikawa Ryū (voice)
- Ruriiro Princess
- OZ as You Mutou / 武藤 洋 (voice)
- Princess Army: Wedding Combat as Shinobu Oda
- Delinquent in Drag as Rentan (voice)
- JOKER: Marginal City as Rikudou Rin
- OZ
- Seikima II - Humane Society as Odr (Voice)
- Raven Tengu Kabuto: The Golden-Eyed Beast
- La Blue Girl as Kyoshiro (voice)
1991
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms as Cao Cao
- The Brave of the Sun Fighbird as Yuutarou Katori / Fighbird (voice)
- Dragon Knight as Japanese
- Madara as Kaos (voice)
- Sangokushi
- RG Veda as Kujaku (voice)
- Urotsukidōji II: Legend of the Demon Womb as Takeaki Kiryu (voice)
- Jingi as 神林仁
- DRAGON FIST as Sanetsugu Sugiura
- Kamasutra The Ultimate Sex Adventure as Aikawa Ryuu (voice)
- Ziggy: Soreyuke! R&R Band as Sownin
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - The Motion Picture as Eiko Villan (voice)
- Trusty Ginjiro as Kinta Sasa (voice)
- Shizukanaru Don: Yakuza Side Story as (voice)
- Ushiro no Hyakutarou
- Princess Connection
- Dragon Knight as Takeru Yamato
1990
- Samurai Pizza Cats as Zankaa
- Cyber City Oedo 808 as Rider A (voice)
- Mad Bull 34 as Daizaburō "Eddie" Ban
- Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko as Yukata Tokudaiji
- Karasu Tengu Kabuto as Kabuto (voice)
- Cyber City Oedo 808 as Rider A (voice)
- Ajin Senshi as Zero (voice)
- Sonic Soldier Borgman: Lover's Rain
- Heavy as Guy Hyuga (voice)
- The Demonic Beast Front
- Fukuyama Theater: Summer Secret
1989
- Assemble Insert as 部下壱
- Riki-Oh: The Wall of Hell as Wakamatsu (voice)
- Bucchigiri
- Sonic Soldier Borgman: Last Battle
- Bad Boys Boogie as 御子柴
1988
- Ronin Warriors as Anubis
- Sonic Soldier Borgman as Ryou
- Armor Hunter Merowlink as Cpl. Merowlink Ality
- Starship Troopers as Juan "Johnnie" Rico
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis as (voice)
1987
- Kimagure Orange Road as Mitsuru Hayakawa
- Bubblegum Crisis as Kou (voice)
- Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 as Kouji Sugimoto
- Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend as Bujuu