YÅ«ichi Nagashima
Yūichi Nagashima (長島 雄一 Nagashima Yūichi born December 15, 1957) is a Japanese voice actor who is nowadays credited as Chō (チョー). He is most famous for playing Chō in the 1984-1991 children's show Tanken Boku no Machi, eventually becoming synonymous with the character and using the name as his stage name.
A few of Nagashima's other roles include Jaken in InuYasha, Ginnosuke Nohara in Crayon Shin-chan, Brook from One Piece, the President of Everything in Super Milk-chan and Misuzu Sonada in Ouran High School Host Club.
In Japanese dubbing he has dubbed the voices for Gollum in The Lord of the Rings series, Scooby-Doo in the Scooby Doo live action movies, Elmer Fudd in Looney Tunes media, Plankton in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, Big Gay Al in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, I.R Baboon in Cow and Chicken, Cecil in Reboot and as Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters.
Roles
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
- Brawn ("Attack of the Autobots" and "Day of the Machines" only)
- Rumble ("Attack of the Autobots" and "Day of the Machines" only)
Beast Wars
Beast Wars Metals
- Tarans
Beast Wars Returns
Super Link
Transformers (2007)
Revenge of the Fallen
- Seymour Simmons
Animated
Dark of the Moon
- Seymour Simmons
Notes
- In the preview for "Fierce Battle at the Bottom of the Lake", Nagashima announces a fictional ditty called "Blitzwing's Song". He apparently pulled a similar gag during the ending credits of Beast Machines when he was playing the role of Savage/Noble.
External links
- Official profile at Haikyo (Japanese)
- Chō at Anime News Network
