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Yūto Kazama

Japanese voice actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ2778788
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Atsushi Niino (新野 敦史, Niino Atsushi; born September 30, 1970), known professionally as

Yūto Kazama (風間 勇刀, Kazama Yūto), is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aksent. He is most well known for his role in Digimon Adventure, in which he voiced the character Yamato Ishida, and the protagonist of the Mega Man Zero series, Zero.

Filmography

Anime

Ask Dr. Rin! (Takashi Tokiwa)

Bakuman 2 (Soichi Aida)

Buso Renkin (Hideyuki Okakura)

Cromartie High School (Noboru Yamaguchi)

Digimon Adventure (Yamato Ishida, Gazimon, MetalSeadramon)

Digimon Adventure 02 (Yamato Ishida, Oldest Boi Brother, Kuwagamon, Mr. Washington)

Digimon Adventure (2020) (Valdurmon)

Kanokon (Saku Ezomori)

LINE TOWN (James)

Pocket Monsters (Homura)

The Prince of Tennis (Billy Cassidy)

Psychic Academy (Jyuo)

Rockman EXE Axess (SparkMan)

Rockman EXE Beast (Zoano SparkMan)

Shooting Star Rockman Tribe (Yeti)

To Love-Ru (Decamarron)

Transformers: Galaxy Force (FangWolf/Snarl)

Wangan Midnight (Yasuhiko Miki)

Video games

Mega Man Zero series (Zero, Copy X)

Mega Man ZX (Girouette, Model Z)

Rockman ZX Advent (Model Z)

SNK vs.

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The public source identifies “Yūto Kazama” as japanese voice actor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yūto, Kazama and Japanese.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-09-30. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yūto, Kazama and Japanese providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2778788. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from Yūto Kazama” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.