Easily recognizable by his huge, bristly mustache, Shunsaku Ban, also affectionately known as “Higeoyaji” and/or “Mustachio”, is one of Tezuka’s longest-running characters.  Most often cast in the role of a spirited, if not particularly sophisticated, middle-aged man, he has appeared in many of Tezuka’s most important series, including (but not limited to): Lost World (1948), Metropolis (1949), Next World (1951), Astro Boy (1952-68), The Adventure of Rock (1952-54), Lion Books (1956-57), Black Jack (1973-83), The Three-Eyed One (1974-78), MW (1976-78), Rainbow Parakeet (1981-82), among many others. Short-tempered and rough, he is also warm-hearted with a burning sense of justice – perfect for his usual occupation as a plucky detective.

It is interesting to note that, even though Shunsaku Ban appears in so many of Tezuka’s series, he didn’t really create him.  As Tezuka confesses in his book I am a Manga Artist, Higeoyagi’s character design is in fact based on a doodle that a good friend of Tezuka’s drew of his own father, when both were in middle school.  Tezuka swiped it and used it in Old Man Detective, one of his early amateur works, and he soon became an indispensable part of Tezuka’s work.

Don’t miss a rare appearance by Shunsaku Ban as a young man, with jet-black hair and sans his famous mustache, in the Lion Books (1956-57) chapter entitled “The Green Cat” (1956).

(Source: Tezuka in English)

In the great city of Metropolis, severe community structures and prejudice dominate a world where humans and robots live together. Unrest and violence increase with each new day. 
Searching for the scientist Dr. Laughton, suspected to violate human rights by trading organs, the Japanese detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi arrive at Metropolis. In the scientist's laboratory, Kenichi discovers a girl without any memory of her past life. He decides to help her, so they run away together. His uncle follows him and penetrates the dark secrets of the city to find Duke Red, the man ruling from the shadows. Meanwhile, Kenichi desperately tries to protect the mysterious girl from the people hunting her. However, Duke Red and his adoptive son have their own deep reasons for chasing the girl. These reasons are connected to her true identity and the struggle for the domination of Metropolis... 
[Written by MAL Rewrite]

__Birth name:__ Koukichi Tomita (富田 耕吉)
__Hobbies:__ reading, traveling
__Skills & Abilities:__ table tennis (national competition level)

[Profile (Pro BAOBAB)](http://pro-baobab.jp/men/tomita_k/index.html) | [Wiki (en)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōsei_Tomita) | [Wiki (jp)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/富田耕生)

born and currently living in Munich, Germany

Júlio de Souza Chaves was a Brazilian actor, voice actor, and dubbing director. He is the father of the late voice actor [Márcio Chaves](https://anilist.co/staff/322335/).

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Mel Gibson, Tommy Lee Jones, Andy Garcia, Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Irons, James Woods, David Hasselhoff, Rowan Atkinson, Richard Jenkins, Sam Neill, Chazz Palminteri, Ted Danson, Billy Dee Williams, Paul Michael Glaser, Eric del Castillo, Manuel Saval, Gastón Tuset, Jonathan Pryce, Alan Thicke, Alastair Duncan and Brad Dourif (Most of the productions)
- Alfred Pennyworth (2013-2021; Official voice in DC Animations and Games)
- Oliver Queen / Green Arrow (2004-2021; Official voice in DC Animations and Games)
- Spike (2002-2021; Tom & Jerry franchise)
- Maxwell "Max" Tennyson (2008-2021; Ben 10 franchise)
- Waylon Smithers, Jr. (9th voice - 13th-32nd season; The Simpsons)
- Marlin (Finding Nemo and Finding Dory)
- The Lorax (Dr. Seuss' The Lorax)
- Kassadin, The Void Walker and Xin Zhao, The Seneschal of Demacia (League of Legends)
- Aslam (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)
- Fergus Roderick MacLeod / Crowley (Supernatural)
- Lando Calrissian (Star Wars franchise)
- Brother Blood (Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go! and Teen Titans: The Judas Contract)
- Luiz (Rio and Rio 2)
- Master Wang Fu (2nd voice - 2nd-4th season; Miraculous: Les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir)
- Whitey (Flushed Away)
- Vernon Dursley (Harry Potter franchise)
- Vitruvius (The Lego Movie)
- Gilbert Huph  (The Incredibles)
- Tom (2nd dub; Tom and Jerry: The Movie)
- Dr. Delbert Doppler (Treasure Planet)
- Adult Copper (1st dub; The Fox and the Hound)
- Agent K "Kay" (Men in Black trilogy)
- Max Rockatansky / Mad Max (2nd dub; Mad Max)
- Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon)
- Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
-  Harvey Dent / Two-Face (Batman Forever)
- Mr. Bean (Mr. Bean 1990 and Mr. Bean: The Animated Series)
- Johnny English (Johnny English 3.0)
- Melvin - Alien Dad (Chicken Little)
- Grandpa Pig (1st voice - 1st-9th season; Peppa Pig)
- Francis Joseph "Frank" Underwood (House of Cards)
- Emile Mondavarious (Scooby-Doo 2002)
- Owl (Christopher Robin)
- Bill (The Last of Us Part I and II)
- Weatherby Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise)
- Charlie Swan (2nd dub; Twilight franchise)
- Gurney Halleck (Duna)
- Jonah Hex (Jonah Hex)
- Frank Stevens (Ted 1 and 2)
- William "Willie" Francis Tanner (2nd dub; ALF)
- Vlad (Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation)
- Melephant Brooks (Toy Story 4 and Forky Asks a Question)
- Billy Batson / Shazam (1st dub; Shazam! 1981)
- Nero Blackstone (Call of Duty: Black Ops III)
- Plo Koon (Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures)
- Dr. Aaron Glassman (1st voice; The Good Doctor)
- Hermes (Hercules movie and series)
- Joker (The Batman 2004 and The Batman vs. Dracula)
- Pops Returno Elfowitz (Disenchantment)
- Gerard Argent (2nd dub; Teen Wolf)
- Pops (The Secret Life of Pets 2)
- Papa Smurf (Smurfs: The Lost Village)
- Luis Sánchez (The Book of Life)
- Pop Pop Thunderman (The Thundermans)
- General Tsin [1st voice], Jong Sung Jai Kai Chow [2nd voice] and Master Kweng (Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness)
- Raul (Sitting Ducks)
- Thaler (The Witcher 3)
- Bow (She-Ra: Princess of Power 1985)
- Ratchet (Transformers 2007, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Transformers: Age of Extinction)
- Captain William "Buck" Rogers (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century)
- Murray Franklin (Joker 2019)
- Detective David "Dave" Starsky (Starsky and Hutch)
- Beldar Conehead / Donald R. DeCicco (Coneheads)
!~

He was known for providing the voice of Furby, as well as the voice of Newton Gimmick and other voices in the popular toy series The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin in the 1980s. He died on February 11, 2004 from complications following leg surgery at 56 in Burbank, California. 

Older brother of Massimo Lopez and is father to Andrea and [Gabriele](https://anilist.co/staff/172903)

Among adult readers in Japan Black Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s most popular achievement, and perhaps the most close to the creator’s heart, as Tezuka considered entering the medical field—majoring in medicine in college—before devoting his life to comics. Black Jack is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner. But as readers will soon discover, that is not the whole story.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 Note: Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1977.

Osamu Tezuka’s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his epic volumes on Siddhartha’s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha’s ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questions Hindu practices such as ascetic self-mutilation and caste oppression. Rather than recommend resignation and impassivity, Tezuka’s Buddha predicates enlightenment upon recognizing the interconnectedness of life, having compassion for the suffering, and ordering one’s life sensibly. Philosophical segments are threaded into interpersonal situations with ground-breaking visual dynamism by an artist who makes sure never to lose his readers’ attention.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 
Note: Won the Bungei Shunju Manga Award in 1975 and the Best U.S. Edition of International Material for the Eisner Award in 2004 and 2005.

Young Black Jack is a prequel to Osamu Tezuka's classic manga series about a brilliant maverick doctor who practices without a license.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations.
 
During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island’s inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness—one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate.
 
Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night—perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he’s killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience.
 
There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki’s past—and frequently his bed. 
(Source: Vertical)

In the distant year 2003, Japan is a technological utopia, and robots are everywhere. One such robot, Tobio, was built by the brilliant Dr. Tenma to replace his dead son. But when it soon becomes apparent that Tobio is an imperfect copy of his departed child, Dr. Tenma throws him out. He is rescued from the scrap heap by the benevolent Professor Ochanomizu, a crusader for robot civil rights. Now the little robot, renamed Astro Boy, is given a mission to defend Japan and the world from all manner of sinister threats. Using his seven super-abilities and 100,000 horsepower worth of strength to battle evil, Astro hopes to set an example to the world of the good which all robots are capable of.

With no investor funding, Umatarou Tenma and Hiroshi Ochanomizu must turn to odd jobs to fund their project: to build a humanoid robot that thinks and feels like a human being. When the two geniuses succeed in building A106, they start experimenting with his emotional capabilities right away. As they test to see if they truly can build a sentient robot, one question remains: will this robot become a god or a friend? 
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Voice actor from München, Bayern, Germany.  The younger brother of [Jacqueline Belle](https://anilist.co/staff/156076/Jacqueline-Belle) and nephew of [Ekkehardt Belle](https://anilist.co/staff/149615/Ekkehardt-Belle).

Japan in the near future suffers an unexplained major disaster. Five years later, reconstruction is well underway. Two young researchers at a university are pinning all their hopes on robot development. Now their new interpretation of the eternal hero Astro Boy up until his birth is just about to start! 
 
(Source: Showgate, translated)

Midnight is the story of a taxi driver named Shinya Mito (whose name is literally Japanese for "mid" and "night") and his various passengers, each of whom he helps in various ways. Shinya drives a taxi as a way to earn money for the treatment of a young woman named Mari, whose brain was injured sometime earlier as the result of an accident Shinya was responsible for causing. The taxi Shinya drives is equipped with a fifth wheel which makes the car more maneuverable under any kind of road conditions.


In a jungle in Africa right on the equator there was a white lion, Panja, who was called the "Emperor of the Jungle." But Panja is killed by a hunter. His wife, the Queen of Jungle, who has been caught by the hunter, gives birth to the son of Panja on a ship bringing them to a zoo. She names her son "Leo" and has him escape from the ship, saying, "Go back to Africa and become the successor of your father." Then a storm comes and the ship is overturned, and sinks with the Queen on it. Leo is washed up on the beach of a port town in the Arabian Peninsula, not Africa. This is where Leo's long adventure begins.


This movie focuses on the last half of Osamu Tezuka's revered saga of a white lion's quest to become king of the jungle. Leo's newborn cub, Lune, takes an interest to humans after discovering a music box in the wreckage of an airplane. At the same time, a greedy treasure hunter known as Ham Egg is leading an expedition team of rough-looking men on a trek for the fabled Moonlight Stones, which can supposedly save the world from an energy crisis. Two other humans, (who go by the rather wacky names of Dr. Moustache and Lemonade) try to stop Ham Egg's mad destruction of the jungle. Later, a terrible virus sweeps through the jungle, poisoning many of the animals. Dr. Moustache comes to save them with a cure. The film culminates with a treacherous journey up the legendary Mt. Moon in search of the stones....
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Michael B. Pollock is an American voice actor, best known as the current voice of Doctor Eggman in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, as well as many characters in various anime English-language dubs and video games. He provided voices for the narrator, Raoul Contesta, and Drayden in the Pokémon series, Adon Coborlwitz from Berserk, Meat from Ultimate Muscle, Langston Lickatoad from Viva Piñata, Suikyou from the Ikki Tousen series and Beast in the motion comic adaptation of Astonishing X-Men.

[Synchronkartei](https://www.synchronkartei.de/sprecher/880/2)

Nuclear testing has resulted in the abrupt evolution of the Fumoon, a tiny but highly intelligent humanoid race on a small island, who are detected by Dr. Yamadano. Except for a few witnesses including the detective Shinsaku Ban, and the young men Rock and Kenichi and Kenichi&rsquo;s sister Pichi (Pinoko), no one believes him. The Fumoon are kidnapping animals from around the world to bring with them as they use their space ships to evacuate the earth, because they know Earth is shortly to be destroyed by an enveloping cloud of black gas created by a stellar explosion. The Fumoon intend to abandon mankind, but one Fumoon, Rokoko, who becomes good friends with Kenichi, tries to help Dr. Yamadano and the others to develop a space ship to allow a few humans to escape, with the help of Dr. Ochanomizu and Dr. Frankenstein. 
(Source: Tezukainenglish.com)