Minami Takayama (高山 みなみ Takayama Minami, born Izumi Arai (新井 泉 Arai Izumi), May 5, 1964 in Adachi, Tokyo) is a popular Japanese singer and voice actress. She was married to manga artist Gosho Aoyama on May 5, 2005 but they divorced on December 10, 2007.Minami is also a member of the pop group Two-Mix, and a part of DoCo when it was active.
She is best known for her roles in Kiki's Delivery Service as both Kiki and Ursula, Ranma ½ as Nabiki Tendo, Moomin as Moomin, Yaiba as Yaiba Kurogane, Nintama Rantarō as Rantarō Inadera, and Case Closed as Conan Edogawa. Minami and Shiina Nagano, the other member of Two-Mix, also appeared as themselves in a case in her former husband's manga, Detective Conan.
The voice of Shinichi Kudo are Kappei Yamaguchi
Mitsuo Yamaguchi (山口 光雄 Yamaguchi Mitsuo, born May 23, 1965), better known by his stage name of Kappei Yamaguchi (山口 勝平 Yamaguchi Kappei), is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Fukuoka, affiliated with Gokū and 21st Century Fox.
He is best known for the roles of Ranma Saotome (Ranma ½), Jackson Neil (Miracle Girls), Tombo (Kiki's Delivery Service), Yattaro (Kyattou Ninden Teyandee), InuYasha (InuYasha), Ryuichi Sakuma (Gravitation), L (Death Note), Usopp (One Piece), Hideyoshi (Law of Ueki), and Kaito Kid and Shinichi Kudo (Detective Conan). His current starring roles include that of Raimon "Monta" Taro, the Deimon Devil Bats' ace receiver in Eyeshield 21. Yamaguchi is also best known as the Japanese voice of Bugs Bunny and Crash Bandicoot.
Yamaguchi has appeared in eroge as Kyōya Ushihisa (牛久 京也 Ushihisa Kyōya).He made his first public appearance in North America at Otakon 2008;and was also a guest at Sakura-Con 2009.Yamaguchi's third appearance to date has been at Animazement in 2010.He is married and has a son.
The voice of Ran Mouri are Wakana YamazakiWakana Yamazaki (山崎 和佳奈 Yamazaki Wakana, born on March 21, 1965 in Yokohama) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aoni Production.
The voice of Ai Haibara/Shiho Miyano are Megumi Hayashibara
Megumi Hayashibara (林原 めぐみ Hayashibara Megumi) (born March 30, 1967) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, radio personality, and lyricist fromTokyo. She is currently affiliated with Aksent. Her nicknames include: Megu-san, Megu-nee, Bara-san, Kakka, and Daijin. She is best known for her roles inRanma ½, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Slayers, Detective Conan, Pokémon, All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku and Shaman King. She is also a fully qualified and registered nurse.
Biography
Megumi Hayashibara was born on March 30, 1967 in Tokyo, Japan.She studied at a Catholic school, and at one point was bullied in fifth grade.She was an active club member and participated in the Badminton, Biology, Broadcasting, Drama, and English clubs. She played the role of Alice in an English language production of Alice in Wonderland. Despite qualifying as a nurse, she has never been employed in a nursing position.On March 30, 1998, she married.On January 10, 2004, she announced on her radio show that she was pregnant with her first child.On June 28 of the same year, she gave birth to a daughter.Voice Acting
On the same day as submitting the application for nursing school, she went to a book store and found an advert offering free anime voice acting auditions at Arts Vision. Several months after submitting a demo tape, she received a confirmation of passing the first stage of the audition, and eventually decided to continue training as a nurse while doing voice acting.After a year of voice actor training, Hayashibara was chosen to voice small roles on Maison Ikkoku.Initially, she had difficulty with her lines and had to redo many lines after the main recording sessions.Hayashibara later auditioned for Ranma ½ expecting to be cast as Akane Tendo, but was cast as the female half of Ranma Saotome instead.In 1993 and 1995, Hayashibara was a guest at Anime America.At the 1995 event, she decided to give a speech in English after believing the translation at the 1993 event did not reflect what she had said.In 1995, Hayashibara provided the voice of Rei Ayanami in Neon Genesis Evangelion, a role referred to as "innovative casting".
In addition to voicing Musashi/Jessie of Team Rocket in Pokémon, Hayashibara has also voiced Ash's Pidgeotto and Pidgeot, May's Skitty, Whitney's Miltank, Clair's Dratini and Dragonair as well as Anabel's Espeon in both the Japanese and English-language versions of the anime.
DJ
While at nursing school, she started a temporary job as a DJ at a local ice skating rink. After becoming better known as a voice actress, she was given her own Radio show, "Heartful Station".After 17 shows, the broadcasting station cancelled the show and other anime related programming to concentrate on traditional music. However, 6 months later, Hayashibara started a new radio show at another broadcaster.
Writing
Hayashibara wrote a series of comics for Anime V magazine, with artwork by Sakura Asagi. The comics, known as "Megumi Toons", talked about her personal life and career. The individual chapters were collected into the book Ashita ga aru sa (明日があるさ, "There is always Tomorrow"), which has been reprinted several times.Hayashibara has also contributed two columns to Newtypemagazine; Aitakute Aitakue, and Speaking in Character. Aitakute Aitakute is a series of interviews conducted by Hayashibara with people from all walks of life. Three compilations of the column have been published. Speaking in Character has been translated into English for Newtype USA.
The voice of Ayumi Yoshida are Yukiko IwaiFor the singer and actress, see Yukiko Iwai (Onyanko Club).
Yukiko Iwai (岩居 由希子 Iwai Yukiko, born January 13, 1972, in Chiba) is a Japanese voice actress who is best known for her voice role as Ayumi Yoshida in Detective Conan.
The voice of Mitsuhiko Tsubaraya are Ikue Otani
Ikue Ōtani (大谷 育江 Ōtani Ikue, born August 18, 1965) is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo, best known for being the voice of Pikachuin the Japanese and English language Pokémon anime series and products. She is also the voice of Tony Tony Chopper in the manga and anime seriesOne Piece. She is currently attached to Mausu Promotion. Her pet name is "Iku-chan".
She is known for playing both male and female roles, and sometimes plays multiple roles in one production.
Pregnancy LeaveIn January 2006, Ōtani took a temporarily leave of absence from her work due to her pregnancy.The following voice actress took over her ongoing roles during her absence.
The voice of Genta Kojima are Wataru Takagi
Wataru Takagi (高木 渉 Takagi Wataru) (July 25, 1966 - ) is a Japanese seiyū and stage actor from Chiba Prefecture. He is currently affiliated with Arts Vision.
He is best known for his roles in Detective Conan (as Genta Kojima and Officer Wataru Takagi), After War Gundam X (as Garrod Ran), Slayers Try (as Valgaav), the Beast Wars: Transformers series (as Cheetas), GTO (Eikichi Onizuka), Hajime no Ippo (as Masaru Aoki), the fifth series of GeGeGe no Kitarō (as Nezumi-Otoko), Yes! PreCure 5 (as Bunbee) and the Super Robot Wars series (as Senshi Roa). Takagi is the official Japanese voice of Daffy
He is same voice of Wataru Takagi(is an officer who works with Meguire and has feelings for his fellow officer Miwako Sato.)
The voice of Sato Miwako are Atsuko YuyaAtsuko Yuya (湯屋 敦子 Yuya Atsuko, born September 1, 1970) is a Japanese voice actress who works for Gekidan Subaru. Atsuko Yuya is originally from Nagasaki. She is the official Japanese voice dub-over artist for actresses: Angelina Jolie and Natasha Henstridge.
The voice of Ninzaburo Santos
Kazuhiko Inoue (井上和彦 Inoue Kazuhiko, born March 26, 1954) is a veteran voice actor from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Biography
Since his debut in 1973, Kazuhiko Inoue has become one of Japan's most well established voice actors. His early roles from the 1970s include Anthony in Candy Candy, and later as Joe in the 1979 remake of Cyborg 009. In the 1980s, Inoue's work ranged from the adult-oriented Oishinbo (The Gourmet) to the popular Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato for the younger generation.
More recently, Inoue is known internationally for roles such as Kakashi Hatake in Naruto, Eiri Yuki in Gravitation, Aion in Chrono Crusade, Hatori Sohma in Fruits Basket, and Nyanko-sensei/Madara inNatsume Yūjin Chō. Inoue's voice performance is often described as natural and relaxed.
This wide and versatile vocal range allows Kazuhiko Inoue to voice roles of varying personality types: hot-blooded, righteous main characters such as Joe in Cyborg 009, Akira Kogane in Golion, and Kusanagi in Blue Seed; cold and indifferent Eiri Yuki; always fussing, hilarious, yet truly powerful mazoku (demon), Guenter in Kyo Kara Maoh!; dangerously seductive Aion; and sexy Chi no Byakko, Tachibana no Tomomasa in Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō. Inoue is also well-known for more unusual roles such as the transvestite Nagisa Sawa in Haru wo Daiteita, and Shiron the Windragon in Legendz, who spends half his time as a screeching hamster.
Kazuhiko Inoue not only voices for anime, but also lends his voice to video games, drama CDs, Japanese-dubbed movies, and audio books. He has put out many LP and CD albums and has sung in various anime character albums. His most well-known songs are the ones related to the Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō series, which he performs live on stage at the annual NeoRomancevoice acting events in Japan. In recent years, Inoue has also tried his hand in backstage work such as sound directing. He has set up his own voice acting agency and school, B-Box, to teach the next generation voice talents.
Being a "Hibakusha Nisei" (Second-generation of A-Bomb Survivors), Kazuhiko Inoue feels strongly against wars. In his autobiographical piece, "Ai ni Tsuite", (爱について About Love, from his CD album Ai, 2003) Inoue expresses his longings for world peace and his love and respect for the ocean and Mother Earth. Similar thoughts can often be seen in the entries he writes in his Kazufan Blog.
He was also a close friend of the late fellow voice actor Daisuke Gori.
Recently, Inoue won as "Best Supporting Actor" in the Third Seiyu Awards for his role as Nyanko-sensei in Natsume Yūjin Chō.
The voice of Kogoro Mouri
are Akira Kamiya
Akira Kamiya (神谷 明 Kamiya Akira, born September 18, 1946 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama) is a Japanese voice actor. He has been represented by Theater Echo, Aoni Production, and others. He is currently represented by Saeba Shoji.
Career
Kamiya made his debut on Mahou no Mako-chan in 1970 while working for Theater Echo. He went on to have a regular role on Akaki Chi no Eleven as Sasuke Yatsume and later co-starred with Kei Tomiyama in Fushigi na Merumo.
In 1973 he played the title character in Babel II, and then went on to play the lead role in many Super Robot anime, such as Nagare Ryou in Getter Robo, Akira Hibiki in Yuusha Raideen, Jimmy Orion in Mechander Robo, and Takuma Ichimonji in Wakusei Danguard Ace. Because of his tendency to shout dramatically, he earned the nickname Sakebi no Kamiya (叫びの神谷, Screaming Kamiya).
Kamiya has also played many playboy lady-killer types, including pretty-boy pitcher Satoru Satonaka in Dokaben, Godai's tennis-coach rival Shun Mitaka in Maison Ikkoku, and rich and arrogant characters such as Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri in Yawara! and Mendou Shuutaro in Urusei Yatsura. (When Urusei Yatsura creator Rumiko Takahashi's later work Ranma 1/2 was adapted to anime, Takahashi had Kamiya in mind for the role of another rich and arrogant playboy character, Tatewaki Kuno, but the directors chose Hirotaka Suzuoki for the role instead.) In addition to this he has also played goofier roles, like Tosaka-senpai in Kyuukyoku Choujin R and Nyarome in Mouretsu Atarou. Until 2009, he was playing the lazy, washed-up private detective Kogoro Mori in the long runningDetective Conan anime.
The 1980s would see a string of memorable performances from Kamiya, including Shutaro Mendou in Urusei Yatsura, Suguru Kinniku in Kinnikuman, Kenshirou in Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), Roy Focker in Macross and Ryo Saeba in City Hunter.
Apart from anime, Kamiya has done some dub work, most notably dubbing Pierce Brosnan in Remington Steele and 2 James Bond movies (Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies).
In recent years, he has lectured at the Nihon Kogakuin Vocational School. Some of his students include Megumi Toyoguchi, Ryoko Shintani, and Ai Shimizu.
The voice of Shuichi Akai are Shuichi IkedaShūichi Ikeda (池田 秀一 Ikeda Shūichi) is a veteran seiyū born on December 2, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan. Ikeda is married to Sakiko Tamagawa, although he was once married to Keiko Toda. He currently works for Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He is best known for his role as Char Aznable in multiple Gundam series.
