Show Hayami
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Show/Sho/Shou Hayami (real name Yasushi Ōhama) is one of the better-known veteran seiyuu in the anime world. He is known for the grandiosity of his voice, which often gives him the role of a Large Ham and goes well with charismatic leaders, whether a Big Good or Big Bad. On the other hand, he can also portray complete psychopathic madmen very convincingly. He is married to fellow seiyuu Rei Igarashi, who is best known as Evil Matriarch Precia Testarossa and Alpha Bitch Mira Kagami. Perfect match.
Beware if someone voiced by him seems both good and affable: chances are he will turn out to be a heroic sociopath... and that's assuming he remains a hero at all. Some of the exceptions are the archangel Uriel in the Angel Sanctuary drama CDs, a little emo, but undeniably heroic. Three others are the title character, Exkaiser from Brave Exkaiser, the title character, Da Garn from The Brave Fighter of Legend Da Garn, and the main robot, Gaine from The Brave Express Might Gaine.
He's got rather a lot of fangirls, mainly because of his rich baritone voice, which they find very sexy. Masakazu Morita called him out on this at one live event, where 90% of the audience practically fainted the moment he opened his mouth. Masakazu jokingly told him to tone it down lest he steal all the attention, and Show apologized, which only made the girls scream louder.
Notable roles by Show Hayami:
- Maximillian "Max" Jenius in Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Macross 7
- Kei Katsuragi in Super Dimension Century Orguss
- Sousuke Aizen in Bleach
- Yakushiji Tenzen in Basilisk
- Dr. Muraki Kazutaka in Yami no Matsuei
- Ayanami in Zero Seven Ghost
- Ginias Sakhalin in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (it says something when an Ax Crazy Mad Scientist is probably one of his least monstrous villain roles)
- Klein Sandman in Gravion
- Eiri Masami in Serial Experiments Lain
- Woodrow/Garr Kelvin in Tales of Destiny
- Akechi Mitsuhide in Sengoku Basara (undeniably his craziest character yet)
- Zarbon in Dragon Ball Z
- Vanilla Ice/Iced in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Fighting Game
- Meister Kirisaki in Yakitate!! Japan
- Shousei in Busou Renkin
- Shion Zaites in Please Save My Earth
- Kouji Nanjou in Zetsuai 1989 and Bronze. One of the Yaoi Guys and a Yandere, who also comes from a Big Screwed-Up Family.
- Orson The Berserker and Black Knight Ashram in Record of Lodoss War. Rather curious case, though: Hayami voices Orson in the OAV and is darrin'ed by Nobuyuki Hiyama in the TV series... and then he becomes The Other Darrin by succeeding Akira Kamiya as Ashram. Orson himself is more or less The Stoic... until he gets pissed off (generally by seeing his partner Shiris in danger) and then goes off his fucking gourd.
- Bain in Saint Seiya
- Nicholas D. Wolfwood in Trigun
- Osamu Sugo/Knight Schumacher in Future GPX Cyber Formula
- Juan/Adan in Pokémon... a good guy!
- Umibozu in Gintama (another good guy! Well, more like a good father and currently the Strongest character in-universe)
- Father Remington in Chrono Crusade (yet another good guy!)
- Archbishop Enrico Maxwell in Hellsing Ultimate
- Kiriyama Eiji in Kurogane no Linebarrel
- Tokiomi Tohsaka in Fate/Zero
- Fortinbras in Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams
- Marco Maldini in The Law of Ueki
- President Brian Midcrid in Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2: The Inspectors
- Also voices every single general in the Balmar Empire in Super Robot Wars Alpha.
- Ichiya Wanderlei Kotobuki in Fairy Tail (Playing Against Type in one of the strangest ways)
- Adalbert von Fahrenheit in Legend of Galactic Heroes (a talented strategist who took the wrong bait)
- Jaguar in Space Channel 5 (he may be a loner, but he's still a hero dedicated to finding the truth)
- Ice Masho Toryuki in the Ronin Warriors CD drama Suikoden.
- Ryuu Hojun in Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer (Drama CD and upcoming remake)
- Leviathan the Alchemist in Gosick
- Shu in the Suikoden II Drama CD (A good strategist, though starts out as a Jerkass and sometimes enjoys some puppy-punting after being good)
- Shun in Ar Tonelico 2 (A Big Badass Wolf)
- Adolf Rätsel, alias Taiki Raioh in Lightning Legend Daigo no Daibouken
- Snake of the Festival aka the guy sharing Yuji's body in Shakugan no Shana. Surprisingly, he's the Big Good.
- Wisemon in Digimon Xros Wars and Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Leaping Through Time (not just a good guy, but something of a mentor!)
- Frank Archer in Fullmetal Alchemist (a Jerkass and minor antagonist).
- Judo in the first special of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (a Tragic Hero)
- Multiple characters in the Japanese dub of The Transformers and Transformers the Movie, including Ironhide, Ultra Magnus, and Spike as a kid.
- Sixknight in Transformers Super God Masterforce
- Vector Prime and the narrator in Transformers: Galaxy Force