Shunsaku Ban

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Shunsaku Ban (Ban Shunsaku), also known as Higeoyaji ("Daddy Mustache"), Daddy Walrus in the English versions of the 1963 and 1980 Astro Boy anime, Mustachio in the English version of the Astro Boy manga and as Wally Kisagiri in the English version of the 2003 anime, is a recurrent character in the works of Osamu Tezuka, especially Astro Boy and Metropolis, and a part of Osamu Tezuka's Star System. He has had many voice actors in many of his anime appearances, but his most famous seiyuu is Kazuo Kamukura.

[edit] Appearance

Higeoyaji is a middle-aged Japanese man (actually 42 years old, as he said in the 1st volume of the Astro Boy manga), is from Tokyo, and is prematurely bald, portly, and has, his most distinguishing feature, a large moustache (which resembles a walrus's tusks, and is the reason for his nickname in the english version of the anime).

In most of his manga/anime appearances, Higeoyaji is a private investigator, but sometimes plays a teacher (especially in Astro Boy), a judo expert, and a flower arranger.

[edit] Manga/Anime Appearances

(The following is a list of the manga/anime he has appeared in. This list will expand soon.)

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