Hiroki Maeda
Description
Hiroki Maeda is a Japanese voice actor born on August 4, 1983, in Kochi Prefecture. He is affiliated with the talent agency AIR AGENCY. He stands 164 centimeters tall and has A-type blood. Maeda is a native speaker of the Tosa dialect, a regional variant of Japanese from his home prefecture. His personal interests include karaoke, reading manga, and getting massages, and he holds a special skill in tate, the art of stylized stage combat.
Maeda pursued formal training to enter the voice acting industry, graduating from the 81 Actors Studio as a junior research student, followed by the Amusement Media Academy, and finally the training school affiliated with his current agency, AIR AGENCY. He began his professional career in 2012, taking on minor and supporting roles in a wide variety of anime television series. His early work included appearances in popular shows such as Initial D Fifth Stage, Attack on Titan, and Gundam Build Fighters. Throughout the 2010s and into the 2020s, he has built a career largely as a character actor, providing voices for numerous配角 across many different series. His filmography includes roles in Working Cells, Dr. STONE, A Certain Scientific Railgun T, Fruits Basket prelude, and Villainess Level 99.
While he has voiced a wide array of characters, many of his roles are for individual episodes or as part of an ensemble cast. For example, he has taken on small parts in long-running and popular franchises such as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, One Punch Man (second season), and Golden Kamuy. His role as Amadeus Yoshinaka Nishina in the 2022 original anime series Shinobi no Ittoki is one of his more prominent credits. In the series, he was cast as a member of the Upper Ninja Council, the governing body of the ninja world. This role placed him alongside other well-known voice actors in a series produced by TROYCA and DMM Pictures.
In addition to his anime work, Maeda has also been active in the video game industry. A significant early achievement was landing the role of the male protagonist in the 2014 PlayStation Vita game Judas Code. This represents one of his few main character roles. His voice can also be heard in various other media, including dubbed versions of foreign films and television series, as well as web animations and commercials. His career is characterized by high productivity and versatility, consistently contributing to the Japanese voice acting industry across multiple formats.
Maeda pursued formal training to enter the voice acting industry, graduating from the 81 Actors Studio as a junior research student, followed by the Amusement Media Academy, and finally the training school affiliated with his current agency, AIR AGENCY. He began his professional career in 2012, taking on minor and supporting roles in a wide variety of anime television series. His early work included appearances in popular shows such as Initial D Fifth Stage, Attack on Titan, and Gundam Build Fighters. Throughout the 2010s and into the 2020s, he has built a career largely as a character actor, providing voices for numerous配角 across many different series. His filmography includes roles in Working Cells, Dr. STONE, A Certain Scientific Railgun T, Fruits Basket prelude, and Villainess Level 99.
While he has voiced a wide array of characters, many of his roles are for individual episodes or as part of an ensemble cast. For example, he has taken on small parts in long-running and popular franchises such as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, One Punch Man (second season), and Golden Kamuy. His role as Amadeus Yoshinaka Nishina in the 2022 original anime series Shinobi no Ittoki is one of his more prominent credits. In the series, he was cast as a member of the Upper Ninja Council, the governing body of the ninja world. This role placed him alongside other well-known voice actors in a series produced by TROYCA and DMM Pictures.
In addition to his anime work, Maeda has also been active in the video game industry. A significant early achievement was landing the role of the male protagonist in the 2014 PlayStation Vita game Judas Code. This represents one of his few main character roles. His voice can also be heard in various other media, including dubbed versions of foreign films and television series, as well as web animations and commercials. His career is characterized by high productivity and versatility, consistently contributing to the Japanese voice acting industry across multiple formats.
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- JapaneseAnime overview: Shinobi no Ittoki