Taketora is a Japanese voice actor, actor, and narrator affiliated with the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He was born on January 31, 1974, in Hyogo Prefecture. Before entering the voice acting industry, he graduated from Chiba University and worked as a producer at a major game company. He left that position in 2001 to pursue a career in voice acting, initially joining the agency Nine Production before moving to his current agency in 2005.

His voice is characterized as a baritone. In addition to voice acting, he has worked as a narrator and has made on-screen appearances as an actor. Among the roles specified, he is confirmed to have voiced Gen-san in the anime Pazudora and KABUTO Oni in Duel Masters!. He is also credited with the role of Hiro Kitazoe in World Trigger. In the Street Fighter franchise, he has been the voice of Gouki, known as Akuma in English, starting with Street Fighter IV and continuing in numerous subsequent games and adaptations. He voiced Styx in The Familiar of Zero. For the role of Kuma, he is credited in Tama & Friends: Sagase! Mahō no Punipuni Stone. While his extensive filmography includes a wide range of supporting and guest characters, some of the roles listed, such as Chrome in Suppose a Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town and Poncho in Charanpo Land no Bōken, could not be directly verified in the available search results.

Taketora is known for a vast number of supporting roles in major anime series. Some of his most frequently cited representative roles include Gatz in One Piece, Dire in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and Salish Tytania in TYTANIA -泰坦尼亚-. He has also had recurring roles in franchises like Natsume's Book of Friends and KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode. Beyond anime, he is a prolific voice actor in video games, most notably as the long-standing Japanese voice of Akuma in the Street Fighter series. He has also provided voices for tokusatsu productions, including roles in the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai series.