Hirofumi Tanaka
Description
Hirofumi Tanaka is a Japanese voice actor associated with the talent agency Aoni Production. He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and is a graduate of the Aoni Juku Tokyo School, having completed the 19th term. His career encompasses a wide range of voice work in anime, video games, and original video animations.
Tanaka's filmography is extensive, largely consisting of supporting and guest characters across numerous long-running and popular series. In the 1990s and 2000s, he appeared in shows such as One Piece, where he voiced various incidental characters like fishmen and marines, and in Hikaru no Go, he played a supporting player as the deputy general of Kaiou Middle School. He also had roles in Shaman King as Cheru and in the comedy series Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, voicing characters including Ambaga-Nosuke and Kintada Tetsuji.
In his later career, Tanaka has taken on more prominent, named roles. He voiced the character Kuniharu Kakizaki in the anime series World Trigger. He also played Ryuta Hoshikawa in the 2006 anime film The Laws of Eternity. Another notable role is Eita Nadaka, an operator on the spaceship Hagane, in the Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Animation and related sound dramas.
Beyond anime, Tanaka has an extensive body of work in video games, particularly with the publisher Koei. He provided the Japanese voice for the character Zhang Liao in several titles, including Dynasty Warriors 3 and 4, as well as Warriors Orochi. His other game credits include Xu Huang and Cai Yong in Sangokushi Senki and Takuo Yabe in Tokimeki Memorial 3. He has also contributed voice work to the tokusatsu genre, such as providing the voice for Kamen Rider V3 in the film Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker.
Tanaka's filmography is extensive, largely consisting of supporting and guest characters across numerous long-running and popular series. In the 1990s and 2000s, he appeared in shows such as One Piece, where he voiced various incidental characters like fishmen and marines, and in Hikaru no Go, he played a supporting player as the deputy general of Kaiou Middle School. He also had roles in Shaman King as Cheru and in the comedy series Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, voicing characters including Ambaga-Nosuke and Kintada Tetsuji.
In his later career, Tanaka has taken on more prominent, named roles. He voiced the character Kuniharu Kakizaki in the anime series World Trigger. He also played Ryuta Hoshikawa in the 2006 anime film The Laws of Eternity. Another notable role is Eita Nadaka, an operator on the spaceship Hagane, in the Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Animation and related sound dramas.
Beyond anime, Tanaka has an extensive body of work in video games, particularly with the publisher Koei. He provided the Japanese voice for the character Zhang Liao in several titles, including Dynasty Warriors 3 and 4, as well as Warriors Orochi. His other game credits include Xu Huang and Cai Yong in Sangokushi Senki and Takuo Yabe in Tokimeki Memorial 3. He has also contributed voice work to the tokusatsu genre, such as providing the voice for Kamen Rider V3 in the film Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker.
All Characters
- JapaneseAnime overview: World Trigger
- JapaneseAnime overview: The Laws of Eternity
- JapaneseAnime overview: Super Robot Wars Original Generation - The Animation
- JapaneseAnime overview: One Piece: Into the Grand Line