Toru Furuya

Tōru Furuya (古谷 徹, Furuya Tōru?, born July 31, 1953 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese narrator and voice actor.[1][2] As a child, he was a member of Gekidan Himawari,[2] a children's acting troupe. He is currently employed by the talent management firm Aoni Production.[1][2]
Furuya is most known for the roles of Amuro Ray (both in the original Mobile Suit Gundam and its following Gundam sequels), Hyūma Hoshi (Star of the Giants), Pegasus Seiya (Saint Seiya), Yamcha (Dragon Ball), Kyōsuke Kasuga (Kimagure Orange Road), and Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon). He is also the first and only voice actor who has provided a Japanese voice for Mario.
He also used a pseudonym Noboru Sōgetsu (蒼月 昇, Sōgetsu Noboru?) in the cast of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 for Ribbons Almark's role (but used his real name in the narration role). Both the narration role and Ribbons mark Furuya's first role in a non-Universal Century Gundam series. Shuichi Ikeda who played Char had his earlier with Gilbert Durandal in Gundam SEED Destiny.
He was a best friend of the late Hirotaka Suzuoki and is noted to be friends with Ikeda. He was at one time married Mami Koyama but amicably divorced in 1983. He later married Satomi Majima, who was the other main character of Stop!! Hibari-kun!.
==Role in MSGoR==
Like all of the Universal Century Gundam shows, Furuya portrays the legendary pilot, Amuro Ray. His voice over was used from video games, and other Gundam media like all Japanese voices for the Japanese dub of Mobile Suit Gundam on ROBLOX, taking the correspondant of English voice actor, Nick De Leon.
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