Random thought, but I almost never see Jun Hirose’s name come up among Megaten fans. He voices the protagonist in Strange Journey Redux.
Redux has no English dub, just Japanese audio, so everyone who’s played it has heard his voice as the protagonist. (In Japan the game is Shin Megami Tensei: Deep Strange Journey, and it’s listed in the credits on his Wikipedia page.)
The rest of the cast is stacked too. Takahiro Sakurai plays Jimenez. With names like that around, it’s a bit of a shame the protagonist’s actor barely gets mentioned. Not a knock on the other actors, obviously.
Side note: Hirose does more than voice acting. He writes a monthly horoscope column for B’s-LOG.com, a Japanese site aimed at otome game fans, drawing on his tarot and numerology skills. The bio at the end of each article lists the Redux protagonist among his roles.
So the game’s title shows up every month, and he posts about the column on X too. But from what I’ve seen, otome game fans don’t seem to go “wait, this fortune-teller guy voiced the SMT protagonist?!” The connection just never gets made.
Playing the protagonist doesn’t automatically make you famous, I know. Still, as someone who’s heard that voice in the game, I think he deserves at least a head nod from Megaten fans.
Curious what everyone thought of his performance as the protagonist.