Nobuyuki Hiyama
Japanese voice actor
Nobuyuki Hiyama (檜山 修之, Hiyama Nobuyuki; born 25 August 1967) is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and radio personality currently affiliated with Arts Vision.
His vocal register is described as a metallic lyric tenor suitable to voice a mature variation of coming of age young men. Combined with an impactful execution of battle cries, he earned his reputation in voicing heroic protagonists commonly found in works of the mecha, fighting, and fantasy genres. Hiyama is recognized for his portrayal of Hiei from YuYu Hakusho, starring twice within the Brave Series franchise as Maito Senpuuji in The Brave Express Might Gaine and Gai Shishioh in King of Braves GaoGaiGar, and playing Link in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Biography
Hiyama was born in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima at the Red Cross Hospital, and grew up enjoying casual amateur baseball with friends. His mother was of Japanese descent, born in Taiwan during the end of World War II and resettling back in Japan after the war.
Greatly influenced by his father, Hiyama flourished in history and social studies class since middle school, but was not fond of the idea of participating in extracurricular activities. Despite this, Hiyama had no choice but to pick up at least one activity for each semester due to school regulations, and ended up trying out Go, Shogi, and his school's Radio Club by his second year of middle school. According to Hiyama, his middle school radio club experience was "in all honesty, awful." and he "was bored to the point of resigning from the club" by his third year, ending his middle school club life with Japanese calligraphy.
Upon entering high school, Hiyama believed he could "finally start pursuing his dream of not participating in any school clubs," but ended up being reluctantly dragged into his high school's radio club due to a close schoolmate of his wanting to join the club, yet not wanting to enter the club alone.
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