Hiroshi Tsuchida died of heart failure on October 11 at age 54, his agency 81 Produce announced on October 20. Toei marked the death by streaming Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: Middle-Aged Struggle Edition free from October 21 to October 23.
Hiroshi Tsuchida died of heart failure on October 11 at age 54. His agency 81 Produce announced the death on October 20 and said a private funeral was held with close relatives only, in line with the family's wishes. He was born in Tokyo on February 8, 1972. He played Saizou, also called NinjaBlue, in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger and voiced Grisha Yeager in Attack on Titan. His dubbing work included Lightning McQueen in Cars and Cade Yeager in the Transformers live-action films.
His final anime roles were Shippo Marimo in Mebius Dust, which premiered on July 9, and King Lionel in The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom, which premiered on October 3. Mebius Dust had announced him among six additional cast members on June 18, ahead of its July 9 premiere on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji and July 10 start on MBS. The role is the last one the stories tie to him.
Toei responded by making Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: Middle-Aged Struggle Edition, a sequel it produced for Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club, free for three days on the Toei Tokusatsu YouTube Official channel. The stream ran from 1:00 p.m. on October 21 to 11:59 p.m. on October 23. The work reunites the original cast as middle-aged versions of their roles 30 years after the series, which aired from 1994 to 1995, and streamed on TTFC in 2024. TTFC said it wanted as many people as possible to see his work and to give viewers a chance to remember him, and thanked the parties who consented to the stream.
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Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club posted a memorial comment on its official X account on October 21 and put its original production Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Part 3: Middle-Aged Struggle Edition on the Toei Tokusatsu YouTube Official channel free for three days. The stream runs from 1:00 p.m. on October 21 until 11:59 p.m. on October 23. The work is an official sequel made for the 30th anniversary of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, the 18th Super Sentai series, which aired from 1994 to 1995. It streamed on TTFC in 2024 and reunites the original cast 30 years later as middle-aged versions of their roles. Hiroshi Tsuchida, who played Saizou, also called NinjaBlue, died of heart failure on October 11 at age 54, a death his agency 81 Produce announced on October 20. TTFC said it wanted as many people as possible to see his work and to give viewers a chance to remember him, and thanked the parties who consented to the stream.
Oct 20
Talent agency 81 Produce announced on Tuesday that screen and voice actor Hiroshi Tsuchida died on October 11 due to heart failure. He was 54. A private funeral was held with close relatives only, in line with the family's wishes. Tsuchida was born in Tokyo on February 8, 1972. He played Ninja Blue in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger and voiced Grisha Yeager in Attack on Titan, along with Kōichirō Iketani in the Initial D: Legend film series and J.J. Sexton in the four-episode Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt net anime. He voiced Trainer Okita in the 2023 Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top net series and its 2024 compilation film. His most recent anime roles were Shippo Marimo in Mebius Dust, which premiered on July 9, and King Lionel in The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom, which premiered on October 3. In dubbing, he was the Japanese voice for Lightning McQueen in Cars and Cade Yeager in the Transformers live-action films.
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The official website for the original television anime Mebius Dust announced six additional cast members on Thursday. The new additions include Hiroshi Tsuchida, Ryōhei Shioguchi, Ryō Hirohashi, Yūki Kuwahara, Mari Hino, and Hiromichi Tezuka. The anime is set to premiere on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji on July 9, and on MBS on July 10, airing for one cour.