Wataru Takagi is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Chiba Prefecture. He is represented by Arts Vision. He is most recognized for his performances as Detective Conan (as Genda Kojima and Wataru Takagi), After War Gundam X (as Garrod Ran), Slayers Try (as Valgaav), Beast Wars: Transformers series (as Cheetor), Great Teacher Onizuka (as Eikichi Onizuka), Hajime no Ippo (as Masaru Aoki), Naruto (as Obito Uchiha), the fifth series of GeGeGe no Kitarō (as Nezumi Otoko), Yes! PreCure 5 (as Bunbee), and more recently, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable (as Okuyasu Nijimura). Takagi is the official Japanese voice of Daffy Duck.
Wataru Takagi Biography
Takaya was born on July 25, 1966 (age 55), in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture. His father is Toshio Takagi. He left Nihon University’s Faculty of Economics and Business Administration after graduating from Kazuo Kitamura Senior High School in Chiba Prefecture.
He studied formal voice acting training while working as a bank teller, and he did so with childhood friend Kenichi Ogata, who had gone on to become a voice actor.
He began his career as a stage actor at little theaters, but he has since performed in several shows and films, including live-action ones. He is most recognized for his anime voice roles, notably as young Ataru Moroboshi is the first TV series of Urusei Yatsura. He is also a singer, having released numerous singles and albums throughout the years.
He has worked in many anime series and movies – Rei Rei, Dirty Pair Flash, Compiler, Red Baron, New Cutie Honey, Iria: Zeiram the Animation, Tonde Burin, Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture, Gurazeni, Sword Art Online: Alicization, Mix, Cop Craft, Dorohedoro, Godzilla Singular Point, Record of RagnarokZeus, The Dungeon of Black Company, Child of Kamiari Month, The Way of the Househusband
He has given his voice in many video games such as – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, Mighty No. 9, Yakuza 6, Fighting EX Layer, Dragalia Lost, Resident Evil 3Brad Vickers, Final Fantasy VII Remake, SINoALICE.
