Birth name: Shiozawa Toshikazu (塩沢敏一)
Blood type: A
Date of death: 2000/5/10 12:54 AM
Shiozawa Kaneto was a seiyuu affiliated with Aoni Production. He died of a cerebral contusion caused by an accident. His real name was Shiozawa Toshikazu. He had a distinctive cold, calm voice which usually typecast him in roles as villains or anti-heroes.
(Source: AniDB)
Fell down from stairs at home at ~4 PM (2000/5/9); no sign of serious injury. Lost conscience at 10 PM and was hospitalized immediately. Died next day, 2000/5/10 at 12:54 AM at Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Propably i never heard anything from his production, because these kind of old school anime is not that satisfying to watch for me - don't get me wrong i am not saying that there are no masterpieces, but art of characters there are not that much kawaii as we have nowadays, so i don't look so much for this old skul pieces. Even though i said what i saw (wrote...) i have deep respect to all Nippojins who could bring happines to hearts of all ppl around the world (even though i dunno Nihojin). Anyway SENSEI thanks a lot for ur hard work and rest in ease, we appreciated ur hard work! God 18 years since he died, my Dear God, that time flies!!!!
Too bad the world lost such beautiful voice so early. :( But we should be grateful to Kaneto Shiozawa for everything he has done in his career. I can't imagine somebody else to voice Rei from "Hokuto no Ken". Rest in Peace.
