Kaneto Shiozawa - History and Death

History and Death

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 4pm, Shiozawa fell down the stairway of his home; he later fell unconscious, and died of a cerebral contusion the next day. Fellow voice actor Hidekatsu Shibata was one of the attendees at his funeral.

Successors

After Shiozawa's death, the following voice actors replaced his ongoing roles:

• Takumi Yamazaki (Saint Seiya: Aries Mu, Baldios (in Super Robot Wars Z): Marin, Metal Gear Solid (in Metal Gear Solid 2: Bande Dessinée): Cyborg Ninja)
• Kazuhiko Inoue (Case Closed: Inspector Shiratori)
• Daisuke Sakaguchi (Anpanman)
• Masahiko Tanaka (Mobile Suit Gundam: M'Quve)
• Isshin Chiba (Fist of the North Star: Rei (video games), Armored Trooper Votoms (in 2nd Super Robot Wars Z): Byman Hagard)
• Shinichirō Miki (Fist of the North Star: Rei (movies and OVAs))
• Kōsuke Okano (High School! Kimengumi: Monohoshi Dai)
• Yasuyuki Kase (Blue Comet SPT Layzner: Le-Cain)
• Jun Fukuyama (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops: Null (young Frank Jaeger))
• Hideyuki Tanaka (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust: 'D', Angelique: Clavis)
• Toshiyuki Morikawa (Tales of Phantasia: Dhaos)
• Bin Shimada (Japanese dub of Star Wars original trilogy: Luke Skywalker)
• Eiji Miyashita (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Raphael)

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). Incidentally, in the Rival Schools series, Kaneto's character Hyo is the twin brother of Isshin's character Kyosuke, and Isshin replaced Kaneto as the voice Rei in the Fist of the North Star fighting game by Arc System Works. His character, Buriburizaemon in the Crayon Shin-chan series, was left voiceless and has never spoken.