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Roronoa Zoro
, also known as , is a Character (arts), fictional character in the ''One Piece'' franchise created by Eiichiro Oda. In the story, Zoro is the first crewmate to join Monkey D. Luffy's crew after he is saved (by Luffy and Koby (One Piece), Koby) from being executed at the Marine Base by Morgan (One Piece), Captain Morgan. He is the crew's combatant, and one of the two swordsmen of the Straw Hat Pirates, the other being List of One Piece characters#Brook, Brook. He also has an extremely poor sense of direction, which is a running gag throughout the whole series. Creation and conception Zoro originally used two swords instead of three. Zoro was originally planned to be part of Buggy the Clown’s pirate crew and would have been recruited by Luffy away from Buggy. Zoro's surname was based on the Japanese pronunciation of French pirate François l'Olonnais. In several Western localizations, his name was changed to Zolo. Design Zoro commonly wears a plain white shirt (though he ...
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One Piece
''One Piece'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 1997, with its individual chapters compiled into 104 ''tankōbon'' volumes . The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a boy whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. With his pirate crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the deceased King of the Pirates Gol D. Roger's ultimate treasure known as the "One Piece" in order to become the next King of the Pirates. The manga spawned a media franchise, having been adapted into a festival film produced by Production I.G, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999. Additionally, Toei has developed fourteen animated feature films, one original video animation, and thirteen television specials. ...
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Dracule Mihawk
The ''One Piece'' manga features an extensive cast of characters created by Eiichiro Oda. The series takes place in a fictional universe where vast numbers of pirates, soldiers, revolutionaries, and other adventurers fight each other, using various superhuman abilities. The majority of the characters are human, but the cast also includes Dwarf (folklore), dwarfs, giants, Merman, mermen and mermaids, List of piscine and amphibian humanoids, fishmen, sky people, and minks, and many others. Many of the characters possess abilities gained by eating "Devil Fruits". The series' storyline follows the adventures of a group of pirates as they search for the mythical "One Piece" treasure. #Luffy, Monkey D. Luffy is the series' main protagonist, a young pirate who wishes to succeed #Gol D. Roger, Gol D. Roger, the deceased King of the Pirates, by finding his treasure, the "One Piece". Throughout the series, Luffy gathers himself a diverse crew, named the #The Straw Hat Pirates, Straw Hat P ...
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Christopher Sabat
Christopher Robin Sabat is an American voice actor, voice director, ADR engineer, and line producer working for Funimation, and OkraTron 5000. Some of his prominent roles in animations and anime include Vegeta and Piccolo in '' Dragon Ball'', Roronoa Zoro in ''One Piece'', All Might in ''My Hero Academia'' and Daisuke Jigen in ''Lupin the Third''. Career Sabat has provided voices for English-versions of Japanese anime and video games, including a variety of '' Dragon Ball'' characters, such as Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Shenron and others. Besides voicing in ''Dragon Ball '' he has lent his voice to several other anime characters including Daisuke Jigen in ''Lupin the Third'', Kazuma Kuwabara in ''Yu Yu Hakusho'', Alex Louis Armstrong in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', Tatsumi Saiga in '' Speed Grapher'', Kurogane in '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'', All Might in ''My Hero Academia'', Roronoa Zoro in the Funimation dub of ''One Piece'', Yami Sukehiro in '' Black Clover'', Elf ...
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Funimation Entertainment
Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes in the dubbing and distribution of East Asian media, with a long history of working with Japanese anime. The company was founded in May 1994 as Funimation Productions by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy Brennan in Silicon Valley, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, who became investors in the company, which then relocated to North Richland Hills, later to Flower Mound, Texas, and after that in Coppell, Texas. Funimation was one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America. It licensed popular series, such as ''Dragon Ball'', ''One Piece'', ''Yu Yu Hakusho'', ''My Hero Academia'', ''Attack on Titan'', ''Fairy Tail'', '' Black Clover'', ''Fruits Basket'', '' Assassination Cl ...
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Marc Diraison
Marc R. Diraison (born February 7, 1975) is an American voice actor, Dubbing (filmmaking), ADR director, and screenwriter, script writer who has worked for Bang Zoom! Entertainment, NYAV Post, 4Kids Entertainment and DuArt Film and Video. He is best known as the voice of List of Berserk characters#Guts, Guts in ''Berserk (manga), Berserk'' and Tokiomi Tohsaka in ''Fate/Zero.'' Filmography Anime Animation Films Video games References External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diraison, Marc Living people People from California Actors from California American male voice actors American voice directors American male video game actors 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors 1975 births ...
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4kids Entertainment
4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (formerly known as Leisure Concepts, Inc. and later known as 4Licensing Corporation) was an American licensing company. The company was previously also a film and television production company that produced English- dubbed Japanese anime through its subsidiary 4Kids Productions between 1992 and 2012; it specialized in the acquisition, production and licensing of children's entertainment around the United States. The first anime that 4Kids Productions dubbed was the first eight seasons of ''Pokémon'' that originally began airing on first run syndication and then it later moved to exclusively air on Kids' WB! in the United States. The company is most well known for its range of television licenses, which has included the multibillion-dollar ''Pokémon'' and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' Japanese anime franchises. They also ran two program blocks: Toonzai (originally The CW4Kids) on The CW, and 4Kids TV (originally FoxBox) on Fox, both aimed at children. The 4KidsTV bloc ...
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Odex
Odex Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based company that licenses and releases anime for local and regional Southeast Asian consumption. Odex was established in 1987 and set up its Anime Distribution department in 2000, selling anime in Singapore. It works with Japanese licensors such as Sunrise Inc., TV Tokyo, Yomiuri TV, D-Rights, TMS, Showgate Inc and Aniplex Inc. Odex also sells programs to television stations in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, such as TV3, NTV7, Astro, MediaCorp TV and StarHub TV. Other than licensing, Odex also does English dubbing, translation and subtitling for other companies. Odex also deals in anime merchandise sales. Odex is most well known for taking legal action in 2007–2008 against home users who were allegedly downloading copyrighted anime videos from the Internet. The actions received extensive press and blog coverage, especially as they roughly coincided with similar attempts in the United States by the music industry RIAA to enforce against ...
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Wataru Takagi
is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Chiba Prefecture. He is affiliated with Arts Vision. He is best known for his roles in ''Detective Conan'' (as Genta Kojima and Wataru Takagi), ''After War Gundam X'' (as Garrod Ran), '' Slayers Try'' (as Valgaav), the '' Beast Wars: Transformers'' series (as Cheetor), ''Great Teacher Onizuka'' (as Eikichi Onizuka), ''Hajime no Ippo'' (as Masaru Aoki), ''Naruto'' (as Obito Uchiha), the fifth series of ''GeGeGe no Kitarō'' (as Nezumi Otoko), ''Yes! PreCure 5'' (as Bunbee), and more recently, '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable'' (as Okuyasu Nijimura). Takagi is the official Japanese voice of Daffy Duck. Career He was a member of Katsuta Voice Actor's Academy. In 2014, he performed the voice of John H. Watson in the puppetry ''Sherlock Holmes'' written by Kōki Mitani. 2 years later, he played Oyamada Shigemasa in the NHK Taiga drama ''Sanada Maru'' through Mitani's connection. It was his first appearance in a telev ...
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Megumi Urawa
is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aoni Production. Filmography Television animation *''Chibi Maruko-chan'' (1990), Tomiko Tomita, Midori Yoshikawa, Hiromi Maeda, Maki Makimura, Yamada's mother, Yoshiko's Mother, Taguchi, Tarō, Himeko, Yoshida *'' Goldfish Warning!'' (1991), Piko, Bunta *'' 21 Emon'' (1992), Girl *'' Super Bikkuriman'' (1992), Asuka/Izana Asuka *'' The Laughing Salesman'' (1992), Naoko *''Aoki Densetsu Shoot!'' (1993), Kiyotaka Hirose, Shinobu *'' Dragon Ball Z'' (1993), Erasa, Oob *'' Heisei Inu Monogatari Bow'' (1993), Madoka *''Marmalade Boy'' (1994), Ryouko Momoi *''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'' (1995), Iria Winner *''Dr. Slump'' (1997), Peasuke Soramame *''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' (1998), Imori *''One Piece'' (1999), Roronoa Zoro (child), Koala's Mother *'' Digimon Adventure 02'' (2000), Iori Hida, Armadillomon, Noriko Kawada *''Atashin'chi'' (2002), Arisa Kohei, Bread Owner *''Zatch Bell!'' (2003), Hyde *'' Planetes'', (2003), Mother *'' Black Jack'', (2005) Candy ...
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Kazuya Nakai
is a Japanese voice actor and narrator who was born in Kobe, Japan. He is affiliated with Aoni Production. His most notable role is Roronoa Zoro from ''One Piece''. Other major voice roles include Toshiro Hijikata from ''Gintama'', Date Masamune from ''Sengoku Basara'', Xiahou Dun and Dian Wei from ''Dynasty Warriors'' and ''Warriors Orochi'' series, Shinjiro Aragaki from the ''Persona'' series, Mugen from ''Samurai Champloo'', Mondo Owada from the ''Danganronpa'' series, Ultraman Max in ''Ultraman Max'' and Jin Sakai in the Japanese dub of the video game ''Ghost of Tsushima''. He won a Best Supporting Actor award at the 5th Seiyu Awards in 2011 for his roles in ''One Piece'' and ''Gin Tama''. Filmography Anime Films Video games Drama CDs Tokusatsu Dubbing References Notes External links Official agency profile * * * Kazuya Nakaiat Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statis ...
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Christopher Sabat By Gage Skidmore
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", "Topher", and sometimes " Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. People with the given name Antiquity and Middle Ages * Saint Christopher (died 251), saint venerated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians * Christopher (Domestic of the Schools) (fl. 870s), Byzantine general * Christopher Lekapenos (died 931), ...
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Japanese People
The are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago."人類学上は,旧石器時代あるいは縄文時代以来,現在の北海道〜沖縄諸島(南西諸島)に住んだ集団を祖先にもつ人々。" () Japanese people constitute 97.9% of the population of the country of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 129 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 122.5 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live outside Japan are referred to as , the Japanese diaspora. Depending on the context, the term may be limited or not to mainland Japanese people, specifically the Yamato (as opposed to Ryukyuan and Ainu people). Japanese people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world. In recent decades, there has also been an increase in the number of multiracial people with both Japanese and non-Japanese roots, including half Japanese people. History Theories of origins Archaeological evidence indi ...
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