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Daigunder
is a Japanese anime television series about humans using robots in tournaments. Created by Aeon and Takara and animated by Brain's Base, the studio’s first television production, the series aired on TV Tokyo from April to December 2002. A series of ''Daigunder'' toys were produced that could interact with TV screens. Plot Set in a futuristic time where talking robots are common, there is a tournament where robot teams pit off against each other in. The Battle Robots look like humans and transforming animals. A boy named Akira Akebono plans to win the Titan Belt with his robots Bulion, Eaglearrow, Drimog, Bonerex, Despector, Trihorn, Ryugu and also Daigu who form the mighty Daigunder. The Daigunder unit was a creation of Akira's grandfather Professor Hajime Akebono. Managed by a girl named Haruka Hoshi (later spelled "Haruka" in the closed captioning of the dub), Team Akira enters many tournaments for Akira to reach his goal. However, there are many occasions when a Battle Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sorich
Michael John Sorich ( , born March 23, 1958) is an American actor, writer and director. Biography Sorich has been a prominent and ever-present voice actor for many different characters in the ''Power Rangers'' franchise (until the end of the '' Wild Force'' series), as well as related or similar Saban series such as '' Masked Rider'', '' VR Troopers'', and '' Big Bad Beetleborgs/Beetleborgs Metallix''. Some of his more well-known roles included the voices of Squatt in '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'', Decimator and Zelton in '' VR Troopers'', Roboborg in '' Beetleborgs Metallix'', and Double Face in '' Masked Rider''. He has also had some on-screen roles, with the best-known of those being the role of Woody Stocker on ''VR Troopers''. Sorich is currently known for his voice roles in the popular anime series ''Bleach''. He directed the dubs for '' Idaten Jump'' and for ''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo''. He had also co-directed the ADR for '' VR Troopers'' with Scott Page-Pagter and Wendee Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Kaida
is a Japanese voice actress. Although she has an extensive vocal range, voicing a large variety of characters throughout her career, she is commonly typecasted as young males, achieving mainstream success as her roles in ''Hunter × Hunter'' as Kurapika, ''The Prince of Tennis'' as Shusuke Fuji, '' Shōnen Onmyōji'' as Abe no Masahiro. and '' Hetalia: Axis Powers'' and ''Hetalia World Series'' as China or Yao Wang. She was formerly affiliated with the talent management agency Toritori Office, but is currently freelance. She is one of the few Japanese voice actors to have completed their formal education in the United States. Consequently, she can speak multiple languages with varying degrees of fluency outside of Japanese. She is affectionately nicknamed by her Japanese fans. Biography Career Kaida was born in Tokyo, Japan, and was raised in the Shinjuku ward of the city. Shortly following her graduation from Shinjuku High School, she enrolled in the International Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Jill Miller
Lara Jill Miller (born April 20, 1967) is an American actress. She plays Samantha "Sam" Kanisky on the 1980s sitcom ''Gimme a Break!'' and as Kathy on ''The Amanda Show''. She voices the title characters in ''Clifford's Puppy Days'', ''The Life and Times of Juniper Lee'' and ''Henry Hugglemonster'', respectively. She voices the character Widget in ''Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!'', Lambie in ''Doc McStuffins'', Fink in '' OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'', Lisa Loud in ''The Loud House'', and Libby Stein-Torres in ''The Ghost and Molly McGee'', in addition to Izzie in ''SciGirls'', Allie in '' Curious George'', and Cat in ''If You Give a Mouse a Cookie'' Early life and education Miller was born April 20, 1967, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Lois (née Noll; 1937-2014) and Stanley Miller. She is Jewish. She first started acting in a dinner theater she found in a newspaper ad, and she did not know what the word audition meant. She asked her Dad what that meant and he told her. She graduated from Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takara
Takara Co., Ltd. (株式会社タカラ) was a Japanese toy company founded in 1955. In March 2006, the company merged with Tomy Co., Ltd. to form Takara Tomy. The Takara motto was 遊びは文化」("playing is culture"). Products Toys In 1967, Takara produced the first generation of the Licca-chan doll, which was 21 centimeters tall and had the last name of Kayama, inspired by the musician Yuzo Kayama and actress Yoshiko Kayama. In 1975, Takara produced the Diaclone and Microman Micro Change toys. In 1984, the toy line was rebranded by Hasbro as " Transformers", which made Takara waste no time joining in. Takara continued to sell Microman and used it as the basis for the Micronauts toy line. Micronauts were sold internationally by the Mego Corporation. Other transforming toys made by Takara include Brave, Dennō Bōkenki Webdiver, and Daigunder. Both Webdiver and Daigunder toys could interact with TV screens, which proved only but a fad in the early 2000s. Takara also in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Blum
Steven Jay Blum (; born April 29, 1960) is an American voice actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, his most well-known roles include Spike Spiegel from the anime series '' Cowboy Bebop'', Garazeb Orrelios from the animated series '' Star Wars Rebels'', Wolverine from various Marvel projects, TOM (Toonami Operations Module) as the second and current host of Toonami and the current host of Toonami Latin America (2000–2008; 2012–present), Terence and Bomb on Angry Birds Live Action and Sub-Zero from the video game franchise ''Mortal Kombat''. He is sometimes credited as David Lucas, Richard Cardona, Roger Canfield, Tom Baron and Daniel Andrews in various anime and other live-action appearances. Early life Steven Jay Blum was born on April 29, 1960 to a Jewish family in Santa Monica, California. Career Blum began his career in 1992. His credits include the voice of Spike Spiegel in '' Cowboy Bebop'', Zeb Orrelios in '' Star Wars Rebels'', Mugen in '' Samurai Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Goodson
Barbara Goodson is an American voice actress who has done voice-over work in cartoons and shows. Her best-known role was providing the English dub voice of the main villain Empress Rita Repulsa in the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, starting with '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'', and including '' Power Rangers Zeo'', '' Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie'', and '' Power Rangers in Space''. Other ''Power Rangers'' characters she has played include Prince Sprocket and Orbus in ''Power Rangers Zeo'', and Mandilok in '' Power Rangers Wild Force''. She also voiced Red Fraggle and Wingnut in Jim Henson's cartoon '' Fraggle Rock'', Ladyborg in '' Beetleborgs Metallix'', and Mother Talzin on '' Star Wars: The Clone Wars'', the last of which she won a Best Actress award from the website Behind The Voice Actors. She also voiced in HBO's ''Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' as Tom and '' FLCL'' as Naota. For her work in the series ''CloudBread'', in which she is a cast member as Wooley, Ruiz, Grandma, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Epcar
Richard Epcar is an American voice actor, voice director, and writer who has voiced over 1,200 characters in animation, video games and anime. Some of his major roles include Raiden in the ''Mortal Kombat'' franchise, The Joker in several projects (including ''Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe'', '' Injustice: Gods Among Us'', '' Injustice 2'' and ''Mortal Kombat 11''), Zangetsu in ''Bleach'', Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo in '' Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'', Etemon and Myotismon in ''Digimon'', Batou in '' Ghost in the Shell'', Xehanort/Ansem in ''Kingdom Hearts'', Joseph Joestar in '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders'' and '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable'', Black Ghost/Skull in ''Cyborg 009'', Akuma in ''Street Fighter V'', Daisuke Jigen in '' Lupin the Third'' and Andrall in '' Gormiti Nature Unleashed''. He and fellow voice actress Ellyn Stern own and operate Epcar Entertainment, a voice-over production service company based in Los Angeles. Filmography Anime Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isshin Chiba
is a Japanese voice actor who appeared in 35 films since he first started acting in 1990 and is best known for doing the voice of Jin Kazama from the ''Tekken'' series. Biography Isshin Chiba was born in Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan. He graduated from Miyagi Prefecture Kesennuma High School. After graduating from high school, he had the idea to become a stage actor. However, because he had no experience in such extracurricular activities in particular, he attended Katsuma Voice Actor's Academy in Tokyo. He started his career as a voice actor at age 22 in 1990. In 1997, he landed the role for which he is best known, the role of Jin Kazama from the ''Tekken'' fighting game series. Starting from '' Tekken 3'', he voiced Jin in all other ''Tekken'' games, including crossovers ''Namco × Capcom'', ''Street Fighter X Tekken'', '' Project X Zone'', '' Project X Zone 2'', ''The King of Fighters All Star'' and adaptations '' Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' and the Japanese dub of the live-action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Schrier
Paul Schrier II (born June 1, 1970) is an American actor, director, and artist. He is known for his role of Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier in the ''Power Rangers'' series. He portrayed the character for seven seasons from 1993–1999, returning in 2011 for the eighteenth season of '' Power Rangers Samurai'', and was the last original cast member to leave the show. Schrier has also done some directing work, directing a few ''Power Rangers'' episodes, 16 episodes of the '' Hello Kitty'' animated series, and a short film, "An Easy Thing". He is also an artist, having worked on the comic book ''The Red Star''. In 2017, he starred in his first animation voice role as Flonk in Cartoon Network's ''Mighty Magiswords''. Filmography Anime roles * '' Daigunder'' – Bone Rex * ''Eagle Riders'' – Ollie Keeawani * '' Teknoman'' – Teknoman Saber / Cain Carter Live action / TV roles * ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' (1993-1996) – Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier (main role, credited) / Primator (vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Papenbrook
Robert DeWayne Papenbrook (September 18, 1955 – March 17, 2006) was an American voice actor. Career Fellow voice actors often nicknamed him "Pappy". He was very well known in the worlds of anime and video game voice-overs for his voice acting of "gruff" characters. However, he was especially well known in his various live action voice-overs which, most notably, included the ''Power Rangers'' franchise. He was discovered by filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, which got him his very first voice acting role in the hit film '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981) as the voices of all the Hovito natives who pursue Indiana Jones in the beginning of the film. His best-known roles included the voices of Rito Revolto in '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' and '' Power Rangers Zeo'', Shadowborg in '' Big Bad Beetleborgs'', Scorpix in '' Beetleborgs Metallix'' and Deviot in '' Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy''. Personal life Aside from acting, he also taught kickboxing and other martial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsu Inada
is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Aoni Production. Biography Filmography Anime Films Video games Tokusatsu Dubbing Drama CDs References External linksOfficial agency profileTetsu Inadaat Ryu's Seiyuu Infos * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Inada, Tetsu 1972 births Living people Aoni Production voice actors Japanese male video game actors Japanese male voice actors Male voice actors from Tokyo Metropolis Voice actors from Hachiōji, Tokyo 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Seth
Joshua Seth is an American voice actor, comedian, and author. Biography Seth was born in Kent, Ohio, and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. As a child, Seth attended several experimental programs at Kent State University where he was admitted at the age of eight. Later, he attended Hampshire College and the New York University's film school Tisch School of the Arts where he trained as a performing artist. He has voiced many popular anime characters, including Taichi "Tai" Kamiya in ''Digimon Adventure'' series. He was the announcer of "Kids WB's Aftertoons Show" block and "Saturdays: Unleashed" block. He retired from voice acting in 2006 to focus on his other works. From 2006 to 2020, Seth toured the world as a mentalist and magician. He has won awards from Hollywoodʼs Magic Castle, appeared in five of his own TV specials in Japan and South Korea and performed at over 2,000 events in over 30 countries. Between 2016 and 2018, he came out of voice ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |