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Toshio Furukawa (古川 登志夫, Furukawa Toshio, born July 16, 1946 in Tochigi [2]) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator affiliated with Aoni Production. He is married to fellow voice actress Shino Kakinuma. [3]
Toshio Furukawa was born on 16 July 1946 in Ôhira, Shimotsuga [now Tochigi], Tochigi, Japan. He is an actor, known for Urusei yatsura (1981), Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013) and Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984). He is married to Shino Kakinuma.
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In the year 1991, he married voice actress Shino Kakinuma. Furukawa owns a pet dog named Asuma (遊馬), a Shih Tzu that was named after Asuma Shinohara of Patlabor. His former pet was Ataru (あたる), which was named after Ataru Moroboshi of Urusei Yatsura.
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Toshio Furukawa (古川 登志夫; born on July 16, 1946, in Ōhira, Tochigi) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator, playwright, and guitarist. He is affiliated with Aoni Production, and is best known for being the voice of Piccolo in the Dragon Ball franchise.
Toshio Furukawa lives in Tochigi, and is married to fellow voice actress Shino Kakinuma (the voice actress of Naru Osaka in the Sailor Moon franchise and Videl in Dragon Ball Z Kai). His height is 164 cm (5 ft 4.5 in), and his blood type is B. He love collecting action figures, making diorama, reading, and sports fishing. He owns a Shih Tzu pet dog named Asuma (遊馬), after Asuma Shinohara of Patlabor. His former pet dog died in 2008 at age fifteen and was a Shih Tzu dog named Ataru (あたる), after Ataru Moroboshi of Urusei Yatsura.
His debut voice role was a soldier in the 1975-1976 anime Brave Raideen. He is now a veteran who has played a variety of characters, from comedians like Ataru Moroboshi of Urusei Yatsura and Inumaru Yomota of Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! and Maroko, to calm, serious ones like Shin from the Fist of the North Star franchise and Piccolo from the Dragon Ball franchise. Toshio is also capable of performing with a "boy voice" and has played noble hot-blooded heroes such as Prince Mito of Saikyō Robo Daiōja and Kento Tate of Future Robo Daltanius. From 1977 to 1986, he was a member of the Japanese band SLAPSTICK (スラップスティック), on rhythm guitar, with the other voice actors Yūji Mitsuya (keyboards; replaced by Hirotaka Suzuoki in 1984), Tōru Furuya (drums), Akira Kamiya (bass), Kazuyuki Sogabe (lead guitar), and Akio Nojima (Saga in Saint Seiya and KITT in Knight Rider). In 2007, SLAPSTICK got together to pay tribute to former band members Hirotaka Suzuoki and Kazuyuki Sogabe.
1.Asuma on Toshio Furukawa's personal website
2.Tribute page was made for Ataru on Toshio Furukawa's personal website
Toshio Furukawa was born on 16 July 1946 in Ôhira, Shimotsuga [now Tochigi], Tochigi, Japan. He is an actor, known for Urusei yatsura (1981), Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013) and Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984). He is married to Shino Kakinuma.
- July 16, 1946
Toshio Furukawa (古川 登志夫, born on July 16, 1946 in what is now part of the city of Tochigi) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator affiliated with Aoni Production. He married Shino Kakinuma and appeared at Anime Expo as a guest in July 2011.
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Furukawa Toshio is a veteran seiyuu who was born on July 16, 1946 in Tochigi. He works at Aoni Production and is married to fellow seiyuu Kakinuma Shino.
