Kenyu Horiuchi

Kenyū Horiuchi is a veteran Japanese voice actor, and as of 2002, the manager of his own recording studio. He was formerly married to voice actress Naoko Matsui, but it ended in divorce, although he is still friends with her. Horiuchi is famous for his roles as Emperor Mateus from the Dissidia subseries of the Final Fantasy franchise, Gren in Cowboy Bepop, and the dub voice for Captain America in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Role in the Metal Gear franchise
Horiuchi was most well known as the voice actor for the character Raiden in the Japanese versions of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and its online supplement, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and in Raiden's appearance in the crossover fighting game PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale. Regarding his role as Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 4, Horiuchi claimed he empathized with the character's pained existence as a cyborg.

He also portrayed the Raiden-parody character Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov, a GRU major and second-in-command to the main antagonist of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Colonel Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin. Coincidentally, Horiuchi would later played a similar role of second-in-command in Dissidia: Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy, via the character Emperor Mateus Palamecia, who acted as the second in command to Garland (voiced by Kenji Utsumi, who had voiced Volgin in Metal Gear Solid 3). He later reprised the role in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus.

Roles in the series

 * Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty; Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus; Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots; Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance; PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale)
 * Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater; Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops; Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus)