Epel Felmier is voiced by Tsuchiya Simba, who has explained that his mother named him after Simba from The Lion King. ( Interview Source )
In Twisted Wonderland he voices a character who idolizes Leona Kingscholar, who was based on Scar.
Tsuchiya was inspired to begin voice acting after meeting Miyano Mamoru, voice of Death Note’s Light Yagami. Miyano has appeared in the “Ultraman Zero” TV series with Tsuchiya’s second-oldest sister, Tsuchiya Tao. His oldest sister, Tsuchiya Honoka, is Miss Japan 2019.
Tsuchiya and his older sister Tao both provided voices in the Japanese-language dub of “Bumblebee.”
Tsuchiya has a pet dog that he has named Epel. ( Source )
In an August, 2025 episode of Good Boy (source) Tsuchiya revealed that he did not audition for the role of Epel and had actually hoped to voice Ruggie, as he’d wanted to be a character in Savanaclaw to connect to having been named after the Lion King’s “Simba.”
Tsuchiya won a “Best New Voice Actor” award in 2021 and his past roles include:
・Ao no Orchestra
・Backflip!!
・BURN THE WITCH #0.8
・Delico’s Nursery (with VAs for Yuuken, Idia, Lilia)
・Fanfare of Adolescence (with VAs for Deuce, Rook, Riddle, Crowley)
・Gridman Universe (with VAs for Leona, Lilia, Crewel)
・Haikyu!! (with VAs for Ruggie, Azul, Floyd, Riddle, Idia, Silver, Vargas, Rollo, Mickey)
・Hibike! Euphonium 3 (with Sebek’s VA)
・HIGH CARD (with VAs for Leona, Ortho, Silver)
・In/Spectre
・La belle Hélène
・Love All Play (with VAs for Riddle, Yuuken, Swing)
・Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (with VAs for Ace, Fellow, Idia)
・Platonic Body Scrum
・Pokemon (with Deuce’s VA)
・Shinkalion: Change the World
・Shoot! Goal to the Future
・Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Doom of Dragon’s Sanctuary
・Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
・Tasuketsu: Fate of the Majority (with Sebek’s Ishiya)
・Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
・The Aquatope
・The Seven Voice Museum (with VAs for Ortho and Vargas)
・Wait Until the Storm Comes
・Welcome to the Ballroom
Twisted Wonderland Reference Note 