Kaiji Tang (pronounced "Kai-jee"; born January 25, 1984) is a Chinese voice actor who is based in
Los Angeles
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.
Biography
Tang was born in Shanghai, China on January 25, 1984.
He graduated from the
University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...
with a degree in
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
.
He comes from a theatrical background and moved to
Los Angeles
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in 2007 to do commercial work. He starred in commercials for Garmin GPS and
The Discovery Channel
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. After appearing in a cult-classic movie called ''
Zombie Strippers'' as a zombie, he auditioned for a podcast for a
dubbing
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studio and was eventually hired. Ever since then, he has found success in finding roles for anime and video game characters. Tang has stated that he never set out to do voice work and it all came later on in his life.
Tang enjoys his profession and likes contributing to the video game industry as he compares video games to novels.
Tang hosts the
YouTube
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channel ''Voices of Gaming''.
Career
In anime, Tang is known as the voice of Big G from ''
Doraemon
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'',
Satoru Gojo from ''
Jujutsu Kaisen'', Kashin Koji from ''
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations '', Hendrickson from ''
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Seven deadly sins may also refer to:
Art
* ''The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things'', a 1485 painting by Hieronymus Bosch
* '' The Seven Deadly Sins of Moder ...
'', Guts from ''
Berserk'', Tsumugu Kinagase from ''
Kill La Kill'', Archer from ''
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works'', Joe from ''
Megalo Box'' and recently as
Jin Kazama
is a fictional character of the ''Tekken'' fighting game series created by Bandai Namco Entertainment. He was introduced as the protagonist in the 1997 game ''Tekken 3'' and has been the central character of the series from that game onwards. T ...
, lead character in
Tekken: Bloodline. In video games, he is known for his performances as Wingul from ''
Tales of Xillia
is an action role-playing game released exclusively for the PlayStation 3. It is the thirteenth main installment of the ''Tales'' series and is developed by Namco Tales Studio with Namco Bandai Games as the publisher. The game was released in ...
'', Fang from ''
Fairy Fencer F
is a 2013 fantasy role-playing game under Compile Heart's Galapagos RPG brand for the PlayStation 3 and Windows. The game uses a modified version of ''Hyperdimension Neptunia'' battle system. The Windows version was released on August 4, 2015.
...
'', Yasuhiro Hagakure and Gonta Gokuhara from the ''
Danganronpa'' series,
Osamu Dazai
was a Japanese author. A number of his most popular works, such as ''The Setting Sun'' (''Shayō'') and ''No Longer Human'' (''Ningen Shikkaku''), are considered modern-day classics.
His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shiki ...
from ''
Bungo Stray Dogs'', and
Ichiban Kasuga
, also nicknamed , is a character from Sega's ''Ryu ga Gotoku'' media franchise, known internationally as ''Yakuza''. Ichiban is first introduced in the 2018 mobile game ''Ryu ga Gotoku ONLINE'', a freemium collectible card game spin-off which is ...
in the ''
Yakuza
, also known as , are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media, by request of the police, call them , while the ''yakuza'' call themselves . The English equivalent for the ter ...
'' series.
He is also known for voicing Owain/Odin in the
Fire Emblem
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series, as well as the
titular character in ''
Detective Pikachu'' and voiced
Tom Cat
Thomas Jasper "Tom" Cat Sr. is a fictional character and one of the two titular main protagonists (the other being Jerry Mouse) in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of ''Tom and Jerry'' theatrical animated short films. Created by William Hanna and J ...
in the 2021 film ''
Tom & Jerry''.
Personal life
Tang revealed on Twitter in 2021 that he had no desire to work in any environment that does not recognize
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
as a country, and that he and his family fled his birth country of China
due to their shared opposition of the country's ruling communist party
A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...
. He married voice actress Marcy Edwards on June 24, 2017. He has a sister named Katherine.
Filmography
Films
Video games
Live action
Webseries
Anime
References
External links
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1984 births
Living people
American agnostics
American anti-communists
American male video game actors
American male voice actors
American podcasters
Animal impersonators
Chinese anti-communists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Chinese male voice actors
Male actors from Los Angeles
Male actors from Shanghai
Twitch (service) streamers
University of California, Riverside alumni
21st-century American male actors
21st-century Chinese male actors