Daisuke Namikawa
is the Elric brothers' estranged father with a keen knowledge of alchemy processes. He left them and his wife Trisha several years before the start of the series. It is later revealed that Hohenheim is several centuries old. He is voiced in the first series by Masashi Ebara in Japanese and by Scott McNeil in the English dub. In the second series, he is voiced by Unshō Ishizuka and Daisuke Namikawa (Young) in Japanese and John Swasey and Aaron Dismuke (Young) in the English dub.