Kaneto Shiozawa

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Kaneto Shiozawa
Birth name Toshikazu Shiozawa
Born January 28, 1954(1954-01-28)
Tokyo, Japan
Died May 10, 2000 (aged 46) (Cerebral contusion)
Shinjuku, Tokyo
Occupation(s) Seiyū

Kaneto Shiozawa (塩沢 兼人 Shiozawa Kaneto?, January 28, 1954 - May 10, 2000) (Real name: Toshikazu Shiozawa (塩沢 敏一 Shiozawa Toshikazu?) was a seiyū from Tokyo affiliated with Aoni Production. His height was 171 centimeters (5 feet, 8 inches), his weight was 53 kilograms (116 pounds), and his blood type was A. He had a distinctive cold, calm voice which usually typecast him in roles as villains or anti-heroes.

His stage name originated from the Japanese director Kaneto Shindō.

[edit] History

Shiozawa yearned to be a performer since his boyhood. He graduated from Nihon University Second Senior High School, where he learned to perform in its art department. On May 9, 2000, at around 4:00, Shiozawa fell down the stairway of his home. At that time, he had no external wounds, and insisted that he was all right, but his condition changed suddenly at around 10:00 that afternoon; he fell unconscious, and was conveyed to the hospital. The next day, at 12:54 AM, Kaneto Shiozawa died of a cerebral contusion. He was 46 years old. Seiyū Hidekatsu Shibata was one of the attendees at his funeral.

Successors

After Shiozawa's death, the following seiyū took over his ongoing roles:

In the Guilty Gear series, Shiozawa's character Zato-1 dies sometime between the events of Guilty Gear X and Guilty Gear XX. As a replacement, the video games now instead feature Zato-1's shadow-like forbidden beast Eddie, who uses the same body but has a different voice (played by Takehito Koyasu). Coincidentally, in the Rival Schools series, Kaneto's character Hyo is the twin brother of Isshin's character Kyosuke, and Isshin succeeded Kaneto as Rei in Fist of the North Star video games.

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