Minoru Inaba is a veteran Japanese voice actor born on November 8, 1951, in Shizuoka Prefecture. He began his career in the mid-1970s and has been active in the industry for over five decades. He is affiliated with the talent agency Ken Production, having previously been associated with groups such as Groupe Eight and Production Baobab.

Inaba possesses a high baritone voice, which has allowed him to portray a wide spectrum of characters, ranging from kind-hearted father figures and dignified authority figures to terrifying villains and comedic, bumbling antagonists. His extensive filmography includes numerous roles in anime television series, original video animations, theatrical films, and video games, demonstrating his versatility and enduring presence in the industry.

His anime roles span decades and cover many major franchises. In the 1980s, he was part of seminal series such as The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, and he voiced multiple characters in the Japanese dub of the original Transformers series, including Cyclonus and Razorclaw. He continued through the 1990s with roles in Yu Yu Hakusho as Iwamoto, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing as Dr. J. He has also had recurring roles in long-running franchises, appearing in multiple installments of One Piece as Neptune, Naguri, and Monjii, as well as in the Gundam metaseries with parts in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Gundam Build Fighters, and Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. He is also recognized for his long-running role as Gaogao-san, the lion scientist in the children's anime and film series Shimajirō.

In more recent years, his work includes Emperor Friedrich IV in The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These, Dr. Kyudai Garaki (credited as Dr. Tsubasa) in My Hero Academia, Khajiit Dale Badantel in Overlord, Boris Meyer in B: The Beginning Succession, and Bagley in The Faraway Paladin. He also voiced Old Man Fuji in the miniseries Pokémon Origins. Many of the specific roles listed by the user, including Hans Andrei in RErideD, Frank Land in Zoids Wild Zero, Dotten Whomp in Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori, and various others, are part of his extensive and varied body of work, though they may not be individually highlighted in standard career summaries.

Beyond anime, Inaba is highly accomplished in voice dubbing for foreign films and television series. He is the regular Japanese voice of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story franchise and Dale in the Chip 'n' Dale series. His other notable dubbing roles include Ned Flanders and Moe Szyslak in The Simpsons, various characters in the Star Wars franchise, and Glóin in The Hobbit film trilogy. His work in dubbing, narration, and anime has solidified his reputation as one of the foundational and most recognizable voices in the Japanese entertainment industry.