But now it turns out that Gackt is going to have another voice role-- and not as himself. He'll play a character named Seishirou Kirishiki in the new anime series Shiki, based on Twelve Kingdoms author Fuyumi Ono's novel series. The series revolves around an isolated village in Japan which buries its dead, rather than cremating them as is more customary in Japan, where villagers suddenly begin dying one by one. I'm not usually much for this kind of thing, but I love Ono's other horror series Ghost Hunt, so I'm really looking forward to this one. I'm guessing Higurashi fans might as well.
Of course, it's not like even these are Gackt's first voice roles; he played the baddie in the Japanese dub of Arthur and the Invisibles, and of course there's an entire Gackt-based Vocaloid singer. And he even played Genesis Rhapsodos in Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus.
Still and all, it'll be interesting to hear him in a full-fledged anime role. What do you guys think? Any Gackt fanatics out there?
He did a decent job as Riderman, well what ridiculously little there was to play.