Tarusuke Shingaki

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Tarusuke Shingaki is a Japanese voice actor born on June 18, 1976, in Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture. His real name is Masaaki Shingaki, and he adopted the stage name Tarusuke, which was the former name of his late grandfather. He is affiliated with the talent agency Mausu Promotion.

Shingaki's path to voice acting began after he moved to Saitama. While taking a gap year following unsuccessful university entrance exams, he discovered an audition magazine that sparked his interest in the profession. Despite initial objections from his parents, he saved money through part-time work during university to attend a voice acting vocational school, balancing his studies, work, and training. His first professional role was dubbing a prison guard in a foreign drama. After graduating from Eizo Techno Academia in 2001, he joined Mausu Promotion. For many years, he built a career with numerous supporting roles in anime and a significant amount of work dubbing foreign films and dramas.

Shingaki has portrayed a wide array of characters across various anime series. One of his early notable roles was Eishirō Kite in The Prince of Tennis II, a character he has voiced across multiple OVAs and television series, including The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup. He gained wider recognition for his role as the tragic Kariya Matou in the 2011 series Fate/Zero. Another prominent and long-running role is that of Mirio Togata, also known as the hero Lemillion, in My Hero Academia, a part he has played since 2018. In the film and drama CD series Twittering Birds Never Fly, he voices the complex character Yashiro. He also provided the voice for Togusa in the Ghost in the Shell: Arise series and the 2015 film Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie. In 2020, he landed his first leading role in a television anime as the noble Cadis Etrama di Raizel in Noblesse. His filmography also includes roles such as Yugo Kakitani in Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-, Seiroku Inukawa in Orient, and Heshikiri Hasebe in the Touken Ranbu anime adaptations. More recently, he has been cast as Genau in Frieren and as Katō in Under Ninja.

In addition to anime, Shingaki has an extensive career in video games and dubbing foreign media. He is the Japanese voice of the character Rashid in the Street Fighter V and Street Fighter VI fighting games. He has also voiced Caramia in OZMAFIA!! and Frost in 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams. His dubbing work is prolific; he is well-known as the regular Japanese voice for actor Daniel Dae Kim, including the role of Chin Ho Kelly in the television series Hawaii Five-0. Other notable dubbing roles include Albert Narracott in War Horse, Rob Cole in The Physician, and Ryan Choi in Zack Snyder's Justice League.

Beyond performance, Shingaki has utilized his Okinawan heritage to work as a dialect coach, most notably for the stage musical adaptation of The Prince of Tennis. He has also demonstrated his musical talent by writing and composing some of the character songs for his roles, such as for Eishirō Kite. He is active in a music unit called Tarunyu or Tarunama with other artists. In 2024, he was part of a group of prominent voice actors who formed an association to protest the unauthorized use of their voices and images by generative AI.
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