Kazuya Nakai (中井 和哉, born November 25, 1967) is an award-winning Japanese voice actor and narrator who was born in Kobe, Japan. From a young age, he was interested in anime. Growing up he had interests like volleyball and archery. He was working as a civil servant in a technical field at 25 when he decided that’s not how he wanted to live his life, so he enrolled into a voice acting school he attended on his days off and on weekends while still working. Despite starting his career as a narrator, he took off as a voice actor and became a big name when he got the role of Roronoa Zoro, a character he definitely wanted to voice.
He narrates programs including information and news programs and voices many iconic characters such as Roronoa Zoro from One Piece, Toshiro Hijikata from Gintama, Date Masamune from Sengoku Basara, Mugen from Samurai Champloo and Jin Sakai in the Japanese dub of the video game Ghost of Tsushima. He loves driving, practicing archery and spending time with his dog and cat.
1971 • TV
1999 • TV
2011 • TV
1998 • TV
2014 • Movie
2001 • Movie
as Timothy Hunter (voice)
as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
as Ryuji Suguro (voice)
as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
as Borcuse (voice)
as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
as Kozo Ryuga (voice)
as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
as Shell Septinos
as Master Higuchi (voice)
as Shell Septinos
as Kenzō – Adult (voice)
as Date Masamune (voice)
as Shell Septinos
as Soma Schicksal
as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
as General Borcuse
as Eiki (voice)
2 episodes
as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
1155 episodes
as Hiro Kinashi (voice)
28 episodes
as Ryuji Ikeda (voice)
10 episodes
as Miles (voice)
14 episodes
as Roden (voice)
1 episodes
as Reverend Malchio (voice)
100 episodes
as Gedonian Uniga (voice), Igaroids (voice)
2 episodes
as Igaroids (voice)
5 episodes
as Jiggy Pepper (voice)
50 episodes
as Angoramon (voice)
67 episodes
as Mugen (voice)
26 episodes
as Karasu (voice)
24 episodes
as Noein (voice)
24 episodes
as Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
37 episodes
as Fukumoto (voice)
2 episodes
as Fukumoto (Hajime Shiozuka & Yukito Kusanagi) (voice)
1 episodes
as Gaomon (voice)
48 episodes
as Soma Schiksal (voice)
13 episodes
as Zapp Renfro
24 episodes
