Michirō Okada
Description
The voice actor Michirō Okada is better known by his stage name, Issei Masamune. He was born on December 2, 1948, in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, and began his voice acting career in 1976.
Okada initially performed under his real name before adopting the stage name Issei Masamune in 1978. He worked as a journalist for the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper before being inspired to become a narrator after hearing the work of Tatsuya Shiro on the radio. He subsequently enrolled in the training school of the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He later became one of seven central figures who founded the talent agency Sigma Seven and served as an auditor for the company for eight years. He eventually left to establish his own agency, Munk, where he served as its representative director.
As a voice actor, Michirō Okada has contributed to numerous classic anime series. As requested, his voice roles in the series Groizer X include Chief Yoshida, Daikichi Shimura, and Marshal Dagar.
Beyond this series, his other notable anime roles from the late 1970s and 1980s include Captain Paolo Cassius in the original Mobile Suit Gundam and its film compilation, the narrator in Transformers: The Headmasters, and various characters in anime such as Dokaben, The Rose of Versailles, and City Hunter. He also had a long-running role as the Section Chief in the You're Under Arrest franchise across multiple series and films from 1996 to 2008. He also voiced characters in Lupin the Third and Galaxy Express 999.
In addition to his voice acting for characters, Okada has been a prolific narrator for a wide range of television programs, commercials, and news broadcasts. He retired from television and radio broadcast narration in December 2018, though he reportedly continues to be involved in producing and selling books and audio CDs.
Okada initially performed under his real name before adopting the stage name Issei Masamune in 1978. He worked as a journalist for the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper before being inspired to become a narrator after hearing the work of Tatsuya Shiro on the radio. He subsequently enrolled in the training school of the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He later became one of seven central figures who founded the talent agency Sigma Seven and served as an auditor for the company for eight years. He eventually left to establish his own agency, Munk, where he served as its representative director.
As a voice actor, Michirō Okada has contributed to numerous classic anime series. As requested, his voice roles in the series Groizer X include Chief Yoshida, Daikichi Shimura, and Marshal Dagar.
Beyond this series, his other notable anime roles from the late 1970s and 1980s include Captain Paolo Cassius in the original Mobile Suit Gundam and its film compilation, the narrator in Transformers: The Headmasters, and various characters in anime such as Dokaben, The Rose of Versailles, and City Hunter. He also had a long-running role as the Section Chief in the You're Under Arrest franchise across multiple series and films from 1996 to 2008. He also voiced characters in Lupin the Third and Galaxy Express 999.
In addition to his voice acting for characters, Okada has been a prolific narrator for a wide range of television programs, commercials, and news broadcasts. He retired from television and radio broadcast narration in December 2018, though he reportedly continues to be involved in producing and selling books and audio CDs.
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