Wataru Takagi
Wataru Takagi (高木 渉 Takagi Wataru) is a Japanese voice actor born July 25, 1966 in Chiba, Japan. He works for the talent agency Arts Vision, and in terms of anime, he has played various roles such as Garrod Ran in Mobile Suit Gundam X, Crimson Rubeus in Sailor Moon R, Eikichi Onidzuka in GTO, Valgaav in Slayers Try and Genta Kojima (and himself) in Case Closed/Detective Conan. In video games, he was formerly the voice of Zangief and is currently the voice of Hugo in Capcom's Street Fighter franchise and reprised his role as Garrod Ran for the Super Robot Wars franchise.
He is very popular when it comes to dubbing American films and TV shows, primarily because of he can pull off an American accent. Takagi is the official dub voice for Chris Rock, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Jack Black (in the American Pie franchise), and he's also played Dobby in the Harry Potter film series. So far as cartoons go, he has played Flim in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Eddy in Ed, Edd & Eddy, Iceman in Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends and the Toon Disney dub of Saban's X-Men, and is the current voice of Daffy Duck in all Looney Tunes media.
Roles
Beast Wars
Beast Wars Metals
- Cheetus
- Megatron (Generation 1)
Beast Wars Returns
- Cheetus
Transformers (2007)
Animated
External links
- Official profile at Arts Vision (Japanese)
- Wataru Takagi at the Internet Movie Database
- Wataru Takagi at Anime News Network
