the best sasuke announcer

[dyer]

i thought it was best to do another topic on this after a little over 6 years since the last thread, so anyways the announcers are one of the best things that SASUKE has to offer, without them, well the show would be quite boring to be honest, who wants to watch a show without any commentary?

if you were around for the previous one (and i wasn't), maybe your opinion has changed since then. maybe you still think that furutachi is the greatest announcer ever, maybe you think hatsuta is actually, and perhaps maybe, there are announcers that you think are better than both of them.

unlike the previous one this will include all announcers including the ones that were only around for 1 tournament so here they are listed below, there's 9 of them, in order

sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Furutachi_Ichiro
sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Tosaki_Takahiro
sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hatsuta_Keisuke
sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Komada_Kengo
sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ogasawara_Wataru
sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Satō_Fumiyasu
sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Itō_Ryūsuke
sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ishii_Tomohiro
sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Sugiyama_Shinya

so looking back, i actually think hatsuta was pretty good, maybe the best. sure furutachi had those numerous amounts of motivational insults that i found to be pretty funny, but hatsuta just has that voice that captures your attention, and he added to the suspense and drama during some of the competitors runs. i think his voice was made for announcing so that's why i think he's the best announcer.

[LusitaniaAngel313]

Sato Fumiyasa sticks out to me mostly because that's the voice I usually heard when watching 23. Seriously if I voted Ogasawara someone would have my head but he did commentate Shingo's 1st stage run and that's what I'm caught rewatching the most...

[dyer]

pretty sure someone would , now that i think about it ogasawara really wasn't that bad, sure he had a raspy voice and all but he was okay, you don't just get to announce SASUKE for no reason after all

[RiderLeangle]

I'm not sure if you realize this but people dislike Ogasawara because of the content he said, not his voice, let's just say if you knew what he was saying he doesn't say the nicest things about competitors lol

[dyer]

i mean in terms of announcing he wasn't bad, obviously some things he said weren't great but as i said he must have done a good job announcing otherwise he wouldn't have gotten the job between sasuke 14 to 27

[VenusHeadTrap]

It's Ichiro. Most energy, most intensity, an easily identifiable and iconic voice. He just made everything seem more epic.


But any idea why he left ssk?

[yamfriend]

Ichiro is almost certainly the most memorable and iconic announcer when it comes to SASUKE (not sure why he left, curious though), but I personally felt he was a bit "over the top" at times. I'm not saying in any regard that he was a bad announcer; in fact, to me he is only passed in greatness by Hatsuda. I find that his voice captures the atmosphere of the competition better as a whole, not to mention how he was an announcer for more tournaments than any other one by quite a landslide.

[RiderLeangle]

I assume probably money, he got a job as a newscaster at TV Asahi around the time he stopped commentating Sasuke so probably related.

Also fun fact, if you watch some old NJPW matches, he did commentary for them, so keeping the SMF Law of Wrestling alive

[arsenette]

Hatsuda is by far my favorite. He's not over the top and he exudes class. Ichiro is the most spastic but that was his style. His ego got overblown but that was indicative of a lot of that time period. He still has the issue now which is why we can't ever have physical copies of Sasuke. Anything that has his voice he demands 100% royalties. I liked his commenting but I could care less about his ego.

[PsychoDelusion]

Wataru, just because I know how much everyone loves him in here

[skythenewark]

I mean, Kengo is my favorite right now, but nothing will ever replace hatsuda. Has commentated 3 GCs during his lucky career. And I think his commentary on Nagano 17 final stage has partially made it nostalgic to me.

[Sierrae]

Sugiyama Shinya was annoying.

[carson]

Furatachi, no question. His deep voice suited the course at night so well!

[Lachlan]

Furutachi and Hatsuda, by far.