Akira Kamiya

Kamiya was born in Yokohama. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shiba Commercial High School and became a freelancer after being affiliated with Theatre Echo, Aoni Production, Production Baobab, Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society and Ups. Kamiya then founded Saeba Shoji, a talent agency.

His father ran a furniture manufacturing factory, but it suddenly closed and his parents divorced. After that, Kamiya's mother raised him and his brother. As a result of his mother's search for work, he attended many schools over the years, from Aoki Elementary School in Yokohama to Higashidai Elementary School in Tsurumi and Aioi elementary school in Ota-ku, Tokyo. The presence of actor Shoichi Ozawa as the eldest of Aioi Ko led Kamiya on the road to drama.

After that, he entered the Tokyo Metropolitan Tateshiba Commercial High School via Misono Junior High School. Kamiya's friend invited him to join the drama club, saying that, "I think Kamiya has a good voice." At that time, it was more difficult to become an actor than previously and difficult to advance in the field. Kamiya told his mother, "I want to be an actor. I will do my best because it is the path I chose myself." Later, he recalled, "If [I] were [my] mother, [I] might have stopped crying." After graduating from high school, he joined the amateur theater company Kanza in Yokohama.

In 1970, Kamiya debuted as an anime voice actor playing the role of Senkichi in the TV anime Mahō no Mako-chan during the Theatre Echo study period. The first regular role was Sasuke Yashima in Akakichi no Eleven. He appeared as Koichi Furumi in Babel II, and also learned his trademark "scream" with this work. Since then, he has been in charge of several prominent roles chiefly in robot animation works, such as Ryoma Nagare in Getter Robo. He was called "Screaming Kamiya" because he kept screaming his special moves. One of the notable voice actors in the Super Robot Wars video game series, Kamiya himself appeared on TV commercials when Super Robot Wars F was released.

In the 1980s, he appeared in several animated manga series serialised in Weekly Shōnen Jump. He appeared in Kinnikuman, Fist of the North Star, and City Hunter, and was also known as one of the voice actors familiar with Jump anime. Since many of these Shōnen Jump anime have become long-running series, the works that appeared during this time are often introduced as Akira Kamiya's masterpiece.

He often narrates commercials and variety shows, including the hero show commercial of Tokyo Dome City Attractions (former Korakuen Yuenchi), which is primarily broadcast on the Super Sentai series frame, and has been in charge of narration for over 20 years since 1986.

He became the recipient of Animage's Grand Prix prize.

On January 9, 2017, the program was broadcast on TV Asahi and was ranked 22nd in "200 Popular Voice Actors Seriously Selected! Voice Actor General Election! 3 Hours SP".{{cite news |title=声優200人が本気で選んだ「声優総選挙2017」結果発表 {{!}} アニメイトタイムズ |url=https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1483964110 |access-date=January 25, 2020 |date=January 9, 2017 |language=ja}}

Kamiya was initially a bass player with the popular voice actor's musical group Slapstick, which was active in the 1970s and 1980s. However, he expressed his concern that his schedule was busy, and the performance activities he had enjoyed as an amateur band in a harmonious manner would be produced as professional singer activities, and he offered to withdraw.

He has worked as a radio personality for All Night Nippon. He is the first regular personality as a voice actor. In the same program, he made a corner called "Guinness!". He knew what he was doing at MBS Young Town, and he still has friends.

In 1979, he played personality with Mitsuko Horie on a Sunday afternoon radio program called "Mitsuko and Akira's Deadly Handgun," and released a duet single, "Oh! Sunday Youth is Sunday."

In addition to working as a singer in Purin Purin Monogatari and Fist of the North Star, he also performed in the early 1980s with Kazuyuki Sogabe, Ryūsei Nakao and Naoya Uchida.

In the aftermath of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, he formed a charity unit "WITH YOU". He was also active in the Fureai Concert.

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|+ List of voice performances in film

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable"| Notes

! class="unsortable"| Source

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| {{dts|1975|03|21|format=y}} || Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo || Ryoma Nagare || ||

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| {{dts|1975|04|09|format=y}} || Boy Tokugawa Ieyasu
:ja:少年徳川家康 || 又五郎 || ||

|-

| {{dts|1975|07|26|format=y}} || Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo G: Kuchu Daigekitotsu || Ryoma Nagare || ||

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| {{dts|1976|07|25|format=y}} || Grendizer, Getter Robo G, Great Mazinger: Kessen! Daikaijuu || Ryoma Nagare || ||

|-

| {{dts|1977|07|17|format=y}} || Wakusei Robo Danguard Ace tai Konchu Robo Gundan
惑星ロボ ダンガードA対昆虫ロボット軍団 || Takuma Ichimonji || ||

|-

| {{dts|1978|03|11|format=y}} || Ringing Bell || Chirin || ||

|-

| {{dts|1978|08|05|format=y}} || Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato || Saburo Kato || ||

|-

| {{dts|1980|04|26|format=y}} || Toward the Terra || Seki Ray Shiroe || ||

|-

| {{dts|1980|08|02|format=y}} || Be Forever Yamato || Shiro Kato || ||

|-

| {{dts|1981|03|20|format=y}} || Devil and Princess Mimi
:ja:悪魔と姫ぎみ || Heathcliff
ヒースクリフ || ||

|-

| {{dts|1983|02|13|format=y}} || Urusei Yatsura: Only You || Shutaro Mendou || ||

|-

| {{dts|1983|03|19|format=y}} || Final Yamato || Shiro Kato || ||

|-

| {{dts|1983|04|29|format=y}} || How to enjoy professional baseball 10 times fun
:ja:プロ野球を10倍楽しく見る方法 || Hala
ハラ || ||

|-

| {{dts|1984|02|11|format=y}} || Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer || Shutaro Mendou || ||

|-

| {{dts|1984|03|17|format=y}} || Ninja Huttiraku + Perman Superpowers Wars
:ja:忍者ハットリくん+パーマン 超能力ウォーズ || Psychoman || ||

|-

| {{dts|1984|07|07|format=y}} || Macross: Do You Remember Love? || Roy Focker || ||

|-

| {{dts|1984|07|14|format=y}} || Kinnikuman || Kinnikuman || ||

|-

| {{dts|1984|12|22|format=y}} || Great Riot! Seigi Choujin || Kinnikuman || ||

|-

| {{dts|1985|01|26|format=y}} || Urusei Yatsura 3: Remember My Love || Shutaro Mendou || ||

|-

| {{dts|1985|03|16|format=y}} || Seigi Choujin vs. Ancient Choujin || Kinnikuman || ||

|-

| {{dts|1985|07|13|format=y}} || Kinnikuman: Counterattack! The Underground Space Choujins || Kinnikuman || ||

|-

| {{dts|1985|12|21|format=y}} || Kinnikuman: Hour of Triumph! Justice Superman || Kinnikuman || ||

|-

| {{dts|1986|02|22|format=y}} || Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever || Shutaro Mendou || ||

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| {{dts|1986|03|08|format=y}} || Fist of the North Star || Kenshiro || ||

|-

| {{dts|1986|03|15|format=y}} || Kinnikuman: Crisis in New York! || Kinnikuman || ||

|-

| {{dts|1986|11|01|format=y}} || They Were Eleven || Tadatos Lane
タダトス・レーン || ||

|-

| {{dts|1986|12|20|format=y}} || Kinnikuman: Justice Supermen vs. Fighter Supermen || Kinnikuman || ||

|-

| {{dts|1988|02|06|format=y}} || Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter || Shutaro Mendou || ||

|-

| {{dts|1988|07|23|format=y}} || Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth || Atlas of Karina
カリナのアトラス || ||

|-

| {{dts|1989|06|17|format=y}} || City Hunter: .357 Magnum || Ryo Saeba || ||

|-

| {{dts|1989|07|01|format=y}} || Peacock King 2 Phantom Castle
孔雀王2 幻影城 || sunlight
日光 || ||

|-

| {{dts|1989|07|15|format=y}} || Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone || Garlic Jr. || ||

|-

| {{dts|1989|10|21|format=y}} || Garaga
:ja:ギャラガ || On Boo / Robo
オンブー／ロボ || || {{cite web|url=http://www.silveremulsion.com/2014/04/02/stephen-reviews-garaga-1989/|title=Stephen reviews: Garaga (1989)|date=April 2, 2014|work=silveremulsion.com|access-date=April 27, 2017}}

|-

| {{dts|1990|08|25|format=y}} || City Hunter: Bay City Wars || Ryo Saeba || ||

|-

| {{dts|1990|08|25|format=y}} || City Hunter: Million Dollar Conspiracy || Ryo Saeba || ||

|-

| {{dts|1991|11|02|format=y}} || Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling || Shutaro Mendou || ||

|-

| {{dts|1993|07|10|format=y}} || Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! From Penguin Village with Love || Dr. Mashirito || ||

|-

| {{dts|1993|12|11|format=y}} || Tōi Umi kara Kita Coo || Tony Bottoms
トニー・ボトムズ || ||

|-

| {{dts|1994|06|11|format=y}} || How to enjoy the J league 100 times fun!!
:ja:Jリーグを100倍楽しく見る方法!! || Ramos Wu Wei
ラモス瑠偉 || ||

|-

| {{dts|1994|07|09|format=y}} || Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha!! Excited Heart of Summer Vacation || Dr. Mashirito || ||

|-

| {{dts|1994|07|16|format=y}} || Pom Poko || Tamasaburo || ||

|-

| {{dts|1995|07|29|format=y}} || Legend of Crystania || Ashram || ||

|-

| {{dts|1997|03|08|format=y}} || The Puzzling Challenge Letter of the Mysterious Thief Dorapan || Dorapan || ||

|-

| {{dts|1997|04|19|format=y}} || Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|1998|04|18|format=y}} || Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|1998|08|01|format=y}} || Slayers Gorgeous || Lord Culvert || ||

|-

| {{dts|1999|04|17|format=y}} || Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2000|04|22|format=y}} || Case Closed: Captured in Her Eyes || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2000|08|05|format=y}} || The Aurora
:ja:The AURORA 海のオーロラ || Ou Dragon
王玉竜 || ||

|-

| {{dts|2001|04|21|format=y}} || Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2001|07|14|format=y}} || Kinnikuman Second Generations || First Kinnikuman (Suguru)
初代キン肉マン（スグル） || ||

|-

| {{dts|2002|04|20|format=y}} || Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2003|04|19|format=y}} || Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2004|04|17|format=y}} || Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2005|04|09|format=y}} || Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2006|04|15|format=y}} || Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2007|04|21|format=y}} || Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2008|04|19|format=y}} || Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear || Kogoro Mori || ||

|-

| {{dts|2009|03|27|format=y}} || Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan || Kogoro Mori || TV film ||

|-

| {{dts|2009|04|18|format=y}} || Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser || Kogoro Mori || Final Detective Conan film role as Kogoro Mori || {{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-08/detective-conan/the-lost-ship-in-the-sky-revealed|title=Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky Revealed (Updated)|work=animenewsnetwork.com|access-date=April 27, 2017}}

|-

| {{dts|2013|07|06|format=y}} || Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya || Future Elizabeth || ||

|-

| {{dts|2019|format=y}} || City Hunter the Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes || Ryo Saeba || || {{cite web |url= https://natalie.mu/comic/news/274180|title=「シティーハンター」劇場アニメ新作決定！キャスト＆監督は"あの頃のまま"|access-date= March 20, 2018|work= Natalie}}

|-

| 2021 || Child of Kamiari Month || Ōkuninushi || || {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/93033/|title= 神在月のこども|access-date= August 19, 2021|work= eiga.com}}

|-

| {{dts|2023|09|08|format=y}} || City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust || Ryo Saeba || || {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/96975/|title= 劇場版シティーハンター|access-date= December 9, 2022|work= eiga.com}}

|-

|}

• Anime Grand Prix: Most Popular Voice Actor of the Year (11 times): 1979–1981, 1983–1985, 1987–1990

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