is a Japanese
voice actor
Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ...
and narrator who was born in
Kobe
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...
, Japan. He is affiliated with
Aoni Production
is a Japanese talent agency representing a fair number of voice actors and other Japanese entertainers.
Voice actors currently affiliated with Aoni
All names are in Western order (given name followed by family/last name).
*Mai Aizawa
*Kenj ...
. His most notable role is
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 ''
One Piece
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''. Other major voice roles include
Toshiro Hijikata from ''
Gintama
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'',
Date Masamune from ''
Sengoku Basara
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'', Xiahou Dun and Dian Wei from ''
Dynasty Warriors
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'' and ''
Warriors Orochi
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'' series, Shinjiro Aragaki from the ''
Persona
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'' series,
Mugen from ''
Samurai Champloo
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'', Mondo Owada from the ''
Danganronpa
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'' series, Ultraman Max in ''
Ultraman Max
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'' and Jin Sakai in the Japanese dub of the video game ''
Ghost of Tsushima
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''. 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
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Kazuya Nakaiat
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...
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1967 births
Living people
Male voice actors from Kobe
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
Aoni Production voice actors