Takahiro Fujiwara

Description
Takahiro Fujiwara is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with the talent management firm Ken Production. He was born in Hokkaido, Japan, on July 15, 1980.

Fujiwara's career in anime began in the early 2010s, with his initial roles often consisting of minor characters and ensemble cast members in series such as Bleach, Future Diary, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. During this period, he gained experience voicing a wide variety of supporting characters, including soldiers, villagers, and antagonists, in shows like The Unlimited: Hyobu Kyosuke, Mushibugyo, and Gingitsune. A significant early role was providing the voice of Pippin in the Berserk: The Golden Age Arc film trilogy from 2012 to 2013.

As his career progressed, Fujiwara began to secure more prominent and recurring character roles. In 2014, he was cast as Zenzō Inukai in the television anime Donten ni Warau. He would later reprise this role for the series' OVA sequels, Donten ni Warau Gaiden: Shukumei, Sōtō no Fūma and Donten ni Warau Gaiden: Ōka, Tenbō no Kakehashi. In 2015, he voiced the character根武谷永吉 (Neneya Eikichi) in the third season of Kuroko's Basketball.

Fujiwara has taken on roles in several major long-running and high-profile series. He voices the character Kan Jou in the historical manga adaptation Kingdom. He is the voice of the villainous Kurogiri in the superhero franchise My Hero Academia, a role he began in 2016. He also joined the cast of One Piece, voicing characters such as Baam Mūsama and Charlotte Raulin.

In addition to these, Fujiwara's filmography from the late 2010s onward includes a diverse range of roles. He played Fogel in the 2018 series The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These. In 2021, he was cast as the veteran mechanic Goichi Shima in Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z. He voiced Takamine in the 2015 theatrical film The Laws of the Universe Part 0. More recently, he voiced the Quincy Stern Ritter Jerome Guizbatt in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, which began airing in 2022. He also appears in the series The Journey Home as the character Geroppa.