Keiji Fujiwara

Keiji Fujiwara (藤原 啓治) was a Japanese actor and voice actor.

His best known works are voicing Shinnosuke's father Hiroshi Nohara in the long-running anime series Crayon Shin-chan, Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist, Holland in Eureka Seven, Axel in Kingdom Hearts, Leorio in Hunter × Hunter, Shiro Fujimoto in Blue Exorcist, Shingo Shoji in Initial D, Zenzo Hattori in Gintama, and Esidisi in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency.

In the live-action field, he was most known for dubbing actor Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man/Tony Stark.

Fujiwara founded his own talent management and production company, Air Agency, in 2006.

Biography
Fujiwara was born in Tokyo. He spent the majority of his childhood in Iwate Prefecture. In high school, he handled vocals in a band he formed with his friend Kotaro Furuichi, future guitarist of rock band The Collectors.

Around 18, he moved back to Tokyo on his own and joined the Bungakuza acting school. He spent the 1980s performing in several theater troupes while working odd jobs. Fujiwara was introduced to his first voice acting agency, Ken Production, in the early 1990s. The first TV anime in which he appeared as a regular was Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi, but his breakout role was Hiroshi Nohara in Crayon Shin-chan.

In November 2006, he left Ken Production and founded his own agency, Air Agency. Aside from talent management, the company went on to release original drama and situation CDs through its child company Air Label, as well as produce live events. In 2010, Fujiwara made his own sound directorial debut in Kakkokawaii Sengen!

Fujiwara was a regular lecturer at the Japan Newart College since 2008.

Illness and death
In August 2016, Fujiwara was diagnosed with cancer, even though he continued to work for Air Agency and various dubbing for long as he was able to undergo medical treatment. He officially resumed work in June 2017. Fujiwara died at the Tokyo Medical Hospital from heart failure caused by the disease on April 12, 2020, aged 55 years old.

Narration
The below is a selection.

Live-Action
The following are physical appearances as opposed to voice work.

Substitutes
Below is a list of voice actors who stood in for him during his health-related hiatus (2016–2017), and after his death in 2020.
 * Kenyū Horiuchi – Pokémon Generations: Handsome/Looker
 * Hiroaki Hirata – Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga: Shirō Fujimoto
 * Kenjirō Tsuda – Attack on Titan 2nd Season: Hannes, Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love, Isami Enomoto
 * Toshiyuki Morikawa – Crayon Shin-chan series: Hiroshi Nohara, Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution: Holland Novak, Zenonzard the Animation: Hughtlom Aubreykahn, Marvel Cinematic Universe:Iron Man/Tony Stark
 * Mitsuru Ogata – Macross Delta: Berger Stone
 * Yasunori Matsumoto – Mr. Robot: Mr. Robot
 * Kazuya Nakai – The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl: Seitaro Higuchi
 * Kanehira Yamamoto – Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash: Mr. K (Kiriya)
 * Jin Yamanoi – The Strain: Vasiliy Fet
 * Kazuhiro Yamaji – Granblue Fantasy: Eugen (originally only on the first season of the anime)
 * Rikiya Koyama – Dance with Devils: Fortuna: Nesta
 * Kazuhiko Inoue – Scream Queens: Wes Gardner
 * Tomokazu Seki – Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- Death or Kiss: Aldebaran
 * Tōru Ōkawa - Laughing Under the Clouds: Taiko Kumou
 * Fuminori Komatsu - Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link: Travis Kirkland''
 * Kentarō Tone - Utawarerumono: Haku (Used for extra scenes new to Utawarerumono ZAN 2/replaced entirely for the anime adaptation of Utawarerumono Futari no Hakuoro. Also used for other character variants in Utawarerumono: Lost Frag.)