Hiroyuki Amano

Hiroyuki Amano is one of those performers whose job title keeps quietly expanding. Most Japanese viewers know him as the tsukkomi half of the comedy duo Kyaeen, the composed one standing beside Udo Suzuki. But look at how he is actually catalogued: comedian, actor, voice actor, film director, film critic. That is not a novelty side hustle list; it is a career that kept widening because the man clearly could not sit still. What interests me is the role he plays in a duo. The straight man rarely gets the laugh, but he decides whether the laugh happens at all. Someone has to shape the chaos into something an audience can follow, and Amano has been doing that job since the 1990s. Longevity in comedy usually belongs to the person doing the unglamorous structural work. Born in 1970 in Okazaki, Aichi, and a Nihon University graduate, he stands 163 cm. I like that a working comedian ended up being taken seriously as a film critic. It suggests the curiosity was always there, underneath the timing.

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Name (English)

Hiroyuki Amano

Name (Japanese)

天野ひろゆき

Reading

あまの ひろゆき

Born

March 24, 1970 (age 56)

Origin

Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

163 cm

Occupation

actor / seiyū / film director / owarai tarento / film critic

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dog

Blood type

A

Agency

Asai Kikaku

University

Nihon University

Works summary

Appearances

118 (1995–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

1995: 1, 1999: 1, 2000: 1, 2003: 2, 2004: 2, 2006: 4, 2007: 6, 2008: 6, 2009: 4, 2010: 7, 2011: 7, 2012: 4, 2013: 7, 2014: 12, 2015: 5, 2016: 5, 2017: 6, 2018: 7, 2019: 4, 2020: 4, 2021: 2, 2022: 3, 2023: 3, 2024: 3, 2026: 2, year unknown: 10

Debut work

キャイ〜ン天野ひろゆきのMEGAうま!ラジオバーガー

Filmography / notable works

• Xhttps://x.com/1ribottiamano
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki%20Amano
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E9%87%8E%E3%81%B2%E3%82%8D%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13365033

Tags

• Aichi Prefecture
• actor
• seiyū
• film director

Last updated

September 29, 2026

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