Shin-ichiro Miki

Shin-ichiro Miki (三木 眞一郎, Miki Shin'ichirō, born March 18, 1968 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor. He is a member of 81 Produce.

Miki is most known for the roles of Kojirō ("James") (Pokémon), Takumi Fujiwara ("Tak") (Initial D), Kisuke Urahara (Bleach), Akira Yuki (Virtua Fighter), Lockon Stratos (Mobile Suit Gundam 00), and Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood).

Overview

Miki is also a singer with the four-man band Weiß, along with Takehito Koyasu, Tomokazu Seki, and Hiro Yūki, the four main voice actors of Weiß Kreuz. Miki is also very active in BL dramas. He won Best Actors in supporting roles in the 4th Seiyu Awards. He often gets cast as handsome, young men in anime roles, the most notable being Kojirō ("James") in the Pokémon anime.

As well as voicing Kojirō ("James") in the Japanese language version of Pokémon, Miki, like most of the Japanese voice actors, including Mika Kanai, Satomi Kōrogi, and Unshō Ishizuka, also appears in the Japanese and English language versions, where he plays Misty's Staryu, Brock's Zubat/Golbat, Crobat, and also Ash's Charizard.