Biography

June 10, 1968 · Tokyo, Japan

Nobutoshi Hayashi

5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

On a very basic level, both live-action tokusatsu and anime are very similar. The technical differences that we have are things like, for example, the recording in anime being separated into A role and B role, so we go through the roles in order, but in tokusatsu, it's split up into many smaller sections. However, when I'm in a Super Sentai series, I often play bad guys, so there's this kind of certain feeling that you get when you're playing a bad guy that you don't really get to have in other roles. Because of that, I really enjoy playing the bad guys in Sentai series!

A message to his viewers from beyond Japan: I feel very humbled that people overseas know about me, and I feel very close to my heart that they cherish these roles that I have been in and are so passionate about the things they love, so let's keep this relation borderless, without hindrances like distance or anything. I love you guys, and you love me; it's a mutual thing!

On portraying Lancer: I feel that the coolest ones are probably in Fate/stay night (2006) and the canon parts of the Fate stories. Alternatively, the Carnival Phantasm (2011) and Today's Menu for the Emiya Family (2018) Lancers, I feel like those Lancers go from heroic spirit to a "big brother" type of character that certainly feels more realistic, someone who you might see in real life. In that sense, I kinda feel like the Lancers from the side stories of the Fate series are a bit more relatable and a bit easier to do for me, since they require less of that "cool" Lancer feel.

On playing video games: I actually don't play too many games in general, so I haven't played them. It's not that I don't like them, but I'm not too good at games! There's just too many difficult things that I can't clear within the games, so I haven't really played them. Sorry!

[August 31 2018] When I was young, I did get a lot of hot-blooded characters, and I was kind of a hot-blooded character myself, too, so I thought that was kind of natural. It was a great time to be in it. In recent years, now that I'm getting older, I've come to play more bad guys, characters with a wider range. I've noticed I play a lot of characters with glasses now. I don't know why!