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Voice Actor Tatsuhisa Suzuki Resumes Musical Activities With New Music Project 'SHINKIRO&Co.'

Japanese entertainment news websites reported on Monday that voice actor Tatsuhisa Suzuki is set to fully resume his musical career with a music project called "SHINKIRO&Co.," and will hold a band-style solo concert titled "cantabile con anima" on October 13 at the Shinagawa Intercity Hall in Tokyo. Suzuki will also release a five-track new album exclusively at the concert venue and through mail order. Suzuki will still use the name Ta_2, the same name he used as vocalist of the musical unit OLDCODEX.

Suzuki first announced the SHINKIRO&Co. music project on June 18, and describes that the project will center around vocalist Ta_2, and various friends and composers will be invited to embark on a new musical journey. Suzuki has been performing acoustic mini-live shows at fan meetings since the end of last year, and will now pursue full-fledged musical activities through SHINKIRO&Co.

Suzuki took a hiatus from "all entertainment industry activities" in August 2021. His musical unit OLDCODEX and Suzuki's agency made the announcement shortly after singer LiSA, Suzuki's wife, also announced a hiatus "from some of her activities" due to mental and physical fatigue.

Suzuki and LiSA announced their marriage in January 2020. The Weekly Bunshun magazine reported in July 2021 on an alleged extramarital affair between Suzuki and a female work associate.

OLDCODEX announced its disbandment in December 2021. The musical unit still contributed the theme song for the second Free! The Final Stroke film, which opened in Japan in April 2022.

Suzuki had been gradually returning to work since the end of 2021, and had fully returned from his work hiatus in March 2022.

Suzuki offered in August 2021 to step down from the role of Kōtarō Higashi/Ultraman Taro in The Ultraman anime's second season, due to his hiatus. The series replaced Tatsuhisa Suzuki with Tomoaki Maeno. However, he continued voicing the character Makoto Tachibana in the Free! anime franchise.

Toei's 45th live-action Super Sentai series Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger replaced Suzuki with Masaya Fukunishi as the voice of the bird robot Gege, as of the 25th episode in August 2021. The Otome Game no Hametsu Flag Shika Nai Akuyaku Reijō ni Tensei Shiteshimatta... ~Haran o Yobu Kaizoku~ (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! The Pirate Known as "Trouble") game replaced Suzuki with Yūki Itō in the game's bonus drama CDs. Suzuki voices the character Alan Stuart in the game and the anime adaptations of the novels. Pokémon Journeys: The Series, the Pokémon television anime that was airing in 2021, replaced Tatsuhisa Suzuki with Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as the voice of Kibana (Raihan in English). The Chinese smartphone game Alchemy Stars replaced Suzuki with Shintarō Asanuma as the Japanese voice of the character Regal.

The television anime of Shu's The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History's Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants (Maō Gakuin no Futekigōsha ~Shijō Saikyō no Maō no Shiso, Tensei Shite Shison-tachi no Gakkō e Kayō) light novel series announced in December 2021 that it replaced Tatsuhisa Suzuki with Yūichirō Umehara as the voice of Anos.

The Tokyo Revengers anime replaced Suzuki with Masaya Fukunishi as the voice of Ken "Doraken/Draken" Ryūgūji.

Suzuki's prolific career has included such characters as The Seven Deadly Sins' Ban, Prince of Stride: Alternative's Tasuku Senoo, Seraph of the End's Shinya Hiragi, Kuroko's Basketball's Kazunari Takao, Dagashi Kashi's Tō Endo, and Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts' Yūji Sakamoto. In recent years, he voiced roles in Somali and the Forest Spirit, The Misfit of Demon King Academy, and My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

Source: Comic Natalie