[Voice Casting] Zenithman M/L/V & Zenithman Tachyon
Liam Mick for Sotatsu Fujiwara / Male Background Character 10
The current Top Commander of the USCDF. Fujiwara is an elderly man who has been Top Commander for 7 years by the time of the series's first episode. He is predominantly identifiable by his battle-hardened nature and near-lack of an ability to “sugarcoat” his thoughts: if he disagrees with a character’s actions, that character will most likely get talked to in a very stern and often hyper-aggressive manner. This latter trait will mostly be shown via ‘over the intercom’ or ‘over the phone’ moments where he is directing, at Team MLV or specific, small sectors of ESIDARS-JP, his frustrations over loss of mass amounts of infrastructure or lives in battles that, in his eyes, should not have resulted in such large casualties. He will not fret, or at least not as much, however, over smaller scale battles.
Furthermore, for voice acting purposes, the tone used in Fujiwara’s over-the-intercom/over-the-phone moments should be carefully considered: his hyper-aggression should not come off as a form of verbal abuse towards his subordinates, but rather as a form of bluntness driven by his values and dutiful nature. Fujiwara earned his rank not through his innate ability to beat sense into his subordinates, but through a combination of traits. While his virtual lack of sugarcoating when criticizing those under his wing is certainly part of how he became Top Commander, the main traits that led to his rank are his deep compassion, sense of duty, strategic mind, and social speaking skills. Fujiwara has a deep compassion for all life in the Intergalactic Civilizations Federation, a fact observable in any circumstance when he fails to sugarcoat his feelings: he is not mad at a failure to protect infrastructure, but rather at the lives that were lost or could have been lost in the failure to protect said infrastructure.
- animation
- authoritative
- professional
- Passionate
- male senior
*Say something you think would fit* "[Flashback Sequence] Commander Kumagai, I’d hope you understand this is not something that can be described as simply ‘over’ or ‘done’. This war with the Typhonian Project has dealt us a massive blow. Not just physically, but symbolically. The Intergalactic Civilizations Federation has survived three federation-scale 'Galaxy Wars' since its founding in 3468. Three massive wars with a collective toll of over twenty billion. Yet, somehow, this exceeded even that combined death toll. Seventy-six billion, two hundred seventy-one million, seven hundred sixty-eight thousand and four. Do you even fathom how many people that is?"
*Say something you think would fit* "In light of the recent incident regarding Zenithdroid Theta-One, it has been unanimously decided that the USCDF will no longer be involved in the operation, development, or maintenance of the technology used to create the Dimensional Railgun.”