Kappei Yamaguchi

Kappei Yamaguchi
Kappei Yamaguchi, 2016
Native name	山口 勝平
Born	Mitsuo Yamaguchi (山口 光雄) May 23, 1965 Fukuoka, Japan
Other names	Kyōya Ushihisa (牛久 京也)
Occupation	Voice actor, actor
Years active	1988–present
Notable credit(s)	Ranma ½ as Ranma Saotome Inuyasha as Inuyasha Death Note as L One Piece as Usopp Detective Conan as Shinichi Kudo

Mitsuo Yamaguchi (山口 光雄 Yamaguchi Mitsuo, born May 23, 1965), better known by his stage name of Kappei Yamaguchi (山口 勝平 Yamaguchi Kappei), is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Fukuoka, affiliated with Gokū^[1] and 21st Century Fox.^[2]

He is best known for the roles of Ranma Saotome (Ranma ½), Jackson Neil (Miracle Girls), Tombo (Kiki's Delivery Service), Yattarō (Kyatto Ninden Teyandee), Inuyasha (Inuyasha), Ryuichi Sakuma (Gravitation), L (Death Note), Usopp (One Piece), Hideyoshi Soya (The Law of Ueki), and Kaitō Kid and Shinichi Kudo (Detective Conan). His current starring roles include that of Yamada Hifumi (Danganronpa) and Raimon "Monta" Taro, the Deimon Devil Bats' wide receiver in Eyeshield 21. Yamaguchi is also best known as the Japanese voice of Kyle Broflovski, Bugs Bunny and Crash Bandicoot.

Yamaguchi has appeared in eroge as Kyōya Ushihisa (牛久 京也 Ushihisa Kyōya).^[3] He made his first public appearance in North America at Otakon 2008;^[4] and was also a guest at Sakura-Con 2009.^[5][6] Yamaguchi's third appearance to date has been at Animazement in 2010. He also made a fourth appearance in Hawaii at Kawaii Kon in 2011.

He is married and has a son.^[7]

Filmography

Kappei Yamaguchi, 2014

Television animation

1989

• Ranma ½ – Ranma Saotome, Kotaro

1990

• Kyatto Ninden Teyandee – Yattaro

1992

• Super Zugan – Hideyuki Toyotomi
• YuYu Hakusho – Jin

1993

• Jungle King Tar-chan – Etekichi
• Nintama Rantarō – Hanabusa Makinosuke

1994

• Mobile Fighter G Gundam – Sai Saici
• Red Baron – Ken Kurenai
• Ginga Sengoku Gun'yuuden Rai - Taisuke
• Captain Tsubasa J – Adult Ryo Ishizaki

1995

• Wedding Peach – Takurou Amano
• Demon Child Zenki – Zenki
• Imagination Science World Gulliver Boy – Gulliver Toscanni
• Neighborhood Story – Tsutomu Yamaguchi

1996

• Baby and Me – Takuya Enoki
• Brave Command Dagwon – Rai Utsumi
• Detective Conan – Shinichi Kudo, Kaitō Kid/Kaito Kuroba
• GeGeGe no Kitarō – Noppera-bō

1997

• Pocket Monsters – Tōru

1998

• Cowboy Bebop – Rhint
• Cyber Team in Akihabara – The White Prince (Crane Bahnsteik)
• Fancy Lala – Yoshida Tarō
• Takoyaki Mantoman – Blue

1999

• Betterman – Keita Aono
• Eden's Bowy – Yorn
• One Piece – Usopp, Dogra, Fake Zoro
• Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne – Noin Claude

2000

• Inuyasha – Inuyasha
• Gravitation – Sakuma Ryūichi

2001

• Angelic Layer: Mobile Angel – Ryo Misaki
• Bakuten Shoot Beyblade – Michael Parker
• Sister Princess – Taro Yamada

2002

• Asobot Military History Goku – Gokū
• Atashin'chi – Fujino
• Rizelmine – Tomonori Iwaki
• Gun Frontier – Tochiro Oyama
• The Twelve Kingdoms – Enki
• Weiß Kreuz Glühen – Sena Izumi

2003

• Mouse – Sorata Muon
• Zatch Bell! – Danny
• Papuwa – Gunma, Chappy
• Peacemaker Kurogane – Shinpachi Nagakura

2004

• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX – Lyman Banner
• Sgt. Frog – Recruit Tororo
• Doki Doki School Hours – Kenta Suetake
• DearS – Oikawa Hikorō

2005

• Doraemon – Warusa (ep.228)
• Eyeshield 21 – Raimon "Monta" Tarō
• The Law of Ueki – Sōya Hideyoshi
• Paradise Kiss – Yamaguchi Tsutomu

2006

• Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star – Flappy
• Kiba – Hugh
• Death Note – L

2007

• Baccano! – Tick Jefferson
• Da Capo II – Wataru Itabashi

2008

• Neo Angelique ~Abyss~ – Rene
• One Outs – Satoshi Ideguchi
• To Love-Ru – Lacospo

2009

• Pandora Hearts – Cheshire Cat

2011

• Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera – Enma-kun
• Persona 4: The Animation – Teddie
• Hunter × Hunter – Feitan

2013

• Danganronpa: The Animation – Hifumi Yamada

2014

• Chō-Bakuretsu I-Jigen Menko Battle Gigant Shooter Tsukasa – Mendō Tsukasa
• Persona 4: The Golden Animation – Teddie
• Magica Wars – Esora
• Magic Kaito 1412 – Kaitō Kid/Kaito Kuroba

2015

• Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace – Corpsey
• Rin-ne – Rokudo Sabato

2016

• Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū – Amaken
• Nobunaga no Shinobi – Hideyoshi

Original video animation (OVA)

• 1+2=Paradise series (1990) – Yuusuke Yamamoto
• Ryokunohara Labyrinth: Sparkling Phantom (1990) – Kanata Tokino
• Record of Lodoss War (1990–1991) – Etoh
• Mōryō Senki MADARA (1991) – Madara
• Slow Step (1991) – Shū Akiba
• RG Veda (1991) – Ryū-ō
• Sōryūden (1991–1993) – Amaru Ryudo
• The Heroic Legend of Arslan series (1991–1995) – Arslan
• K.O. Century Beast Warriors (1992–1993) – Wan Dabadatta
• La Blue Girl (1992–2002) – Nin-Nin
• Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1992–1998) – Daisaku Kusama
• Tokyo Babylon (1992–1994) – Subaru Sumeragi
• Ranma ½ series (1993–2008) – Ranma Saotome
• Fish in the Trap (1994) – Matsui Takahiro
• Twin Angels (1994) – Onimaru
• Baki the Grappler (1994) – Baki Hanma
• Urotsukidoji II: Legend of the Demon Womb – Young Munchausen II
• Fire Emblem – Julian
• Oira Uchū no Tankōfu (1994) – Ushiwaka Nanbu
• Plastic Little (1994) – Nichol Hawking
• Vixens (1995) – Ujita
• Jungle de Ikou! (1997) – Takuma
• Virgin Fleet (1998) – Sada
• Gravitation (1999) – Ryuichi Sakuma
• Detective Conan series (2000-ongoing) – Shinichi Kudo, Kaitō Kid/Kaito Kuroba
• Pocket Monsters: Pikachu no Fuyuyasumi 2001 (2001) – Delibird
• The Boy Who Carried a Guitar: Kikaider vs. Inazuman (2003) – Inazuman
• Netrun-mon (2004) – BB Runner
• Angel's Feather series (2006) – Shou Hamura
• Freedom Project (2006–2008) – Bismarck
• Futari Ecchi (2002) – Yamada (Rika's friend)

Film animation

• Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) – Tombo
• Chibi Maruko-chan: Ōno-kun to Sugiyama-kun (1990) – Ōno-kun
• Ranma ½ series (1991–1994) – Ranma Saotome
• Neighborhood Story (1996) – Tsutomu Yamaguchi
• Kindaichi Case Files (1996) – Hajime Kindaichi, only this first film
• Detective Conan series (1997-ongoing) – Shinichi Kudo, Kaito Kuroba/Kaitō Kid
• One Piece series (2000-ongoing) – Usopp
• Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves (2001) – Tobio
• A Tree of Palme (2002) – Roualt
• Bonobono: Kumomo no Ki no Koto (2002) – Araiguma-kun
• Dead Leaves (2004) – Retro
• Dōbutsu no Mori (2006) – Fūta the Owl
• Omae Umasou da na (2010) – Heart
• Asura (2012) – Kotaro
• The Boy and the Beast (2015) – Jirōmaru

Internet animation

• Sacchan no Kimochi (2006) – Sachi
• Ikuze! Gen-san (2008) – Genzō Tamura^[8]

Tokusatsu

• Godzilla Island (1998) – Dogora
• Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack (1998) – Torabolt
• Moero!! Robocon (1999) – Robopachi
• Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003) – Artemis
• Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (2004) – Thousanian Gineka
• Tensou Sentai Goseiger (2010) – Marloid Ain-I of the Neutral (Coro)
• Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger (2013) – Chief Clerk Blu-ray, Chief Edito HVD
• Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters: The Great Dinosaur Battle! Farewell Our Eternal Friends (2014) – ToQger Equipment Voice
• Ressha Sentai ToQger (2014) – Narrator, ToQger Equipment Voice, Ticket
• Heisei Rider vs. Shōwa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai (2014) – ToQger Equipment Voice
• Ressha Sentai ToQger the Movie: Galaxy Line S.O.S. (2014) – Narrator, ToQger Equipment Voice, Ticket

Video games

• Angel's Feather series – Shō Hamura
• Another Century's Episode: R – Tobia Arronax
• Battle Stadium D.O.N – Usopp
• Breath of Fire series – Ryū
• Crash Bandicoot series – Crash Bandicoot, Fake Crash, Wa-Wa the Water Elemental (Brendan O'Brien, Billy Pope, Steve Blum, Michael Connor, Dwight Schultz, R. Lee Ermey)
• Dangan Ronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair – Hifumi Yamada
• Destroy All Humans! – Cryptosporidium 137 (Grant Albrecht)
• Dragon Ball Heroes – Avatar: Majin, Hero-type
• Everybody's Golf – Katsu
• GetBackers Dakkanya: Uba Wareta Mugenshiro – Ginji Amano
• Grandia – Rapp
• Harry Potter series – Harry Potter (as of Prisoner of Azkaban)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) – Harry Potter (Tom Attenborough)
• Imagination Science World Gulliver Boy – Gulliver Toscanni
• In Search of the Lost Future – Eitarō Kenny Osafune
• InuYasha series – InuYasha
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle – Shigekiyo "Shigechi" Yangu
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven – Shigechi
• Kannagi no Tori – Ryuu Watanuki
• L the Prologue to Death Note -Rasen no Trap- – L
• Legend of the Hungry Wolf series – Jin Chonshū and Chonrei, from 3 to Real Bout 2
• The Legend of Xanadu series – Arios
• Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! – Ikurō Fukumoto
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. and Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Full Boost – Tobia Arronax, Sai Saici
• Neo Angelique series – René
• NeoGeo Battle Coliseum – Jin Chonshū, Jin Chonrei
• Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Mark/Philip
• One Piece series – Usopp
• Persona 4 – Kuma/Teddie
• Persona 4: The Golden – Kuma/Teddie
• Super Robot Wars Original Generation – Tasuku Shinguji
• Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena – Kuma/Teddie
• Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold – Kuma/Teddie
• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth – Kuma/Teddie
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Time Exploration Team and Darkness Exploration Team – Hikozaru
• Ranma ½ series – Ranma Saotome
• Record of Lodoss War series – Eto
• SD Gundam G Generation Spirits, WARS, WORLD – Tobia Arronax, Sai Saici
• Super Robot Wars Alpha 2 – Tobia Arronax
• Tales of Rebirth – Tytree Crowe
• Tengai Makyō series – Danjūrō Kabuki
• Thousand Arms – Meis Triumph

Dubbing roles

Live-action

• Agent Cody Banks – Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz)
• Boy Meets World – Cory Matthews (seasons 3–7)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (television edition) – Mike Teavee
• Dragonball Evolution – Son Gokū (Justin Chatwin)
• Dr. Dolittle 2 – Archie the Bear
• Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties – Garfield (Bill Murray)
• Growing Pains – Benjamin "Ben" Hubert Horatio Humphrey Seaver (seasons 5–7)
• Looney Tunes: Back In Action – Bugs Bunny (Joe Alaskey)
• Space Jam - Bugs Bunny (Billy West)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Nog

Animation

• A Goofy Movie, An Extremely Goofy Movie and Disney's House of Mouse – Max Goof (Jason Marsden)
• Justice League – Booster Gold (Tom Everett Scott)
• Looney Tunes – Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc)
• Baby Looney Tunes - Baby Bugs Bunny (Samuel Vincent)
• The Looney Tunes Show – Bugs Bunny (Jeff Bergman)
• Tweety's High-Flying Adventure – Bugs Bunny (Joe Alaskey)
• Madagascar - Mort (Andy Richter)
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - Mort (Andy Richter)
• Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - Mort (Andy Richter)
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Snips (Lee Tockar)
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks – Snips (Lee Tockar)
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – Snips (Lee Tockar)
• Penguins of Madagascar – Mort (Andy Richter)
• Rio – Blu (Jesse Eisenberg)
• Rio 2 – Blu (Jesse Eisenberg)
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog – Sonic the Hedgehog (Jaleel White)
• Shirt Tales – Leknid from "Shirt Napped", Sparky from "Kip's Dragon"
• Sonic SatAM – Sonic the Hedgehog (Jaleel White)
• South Park – Kyle Broflovski (Matt Stone), Jimmy Valmer (Trey Parker), Craig Tucker (Matt Stone), Clyde Donovan (Trey Parker), Sixth Grade Leader, Dougie
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series) – Michelangelo (Greg Cipes)
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie - Mr. Lunt (Phil Vischer)
• Transformers Animated – Jetfire (Tom Kenny)

Commercials

• M&M's (Japanese) – Red M&M (Billy West)

Anime music and audio dramas

Dialogue roles (dramas)

• Akira Ijyuin – 20 Mensou Ni Onegai! (Man of Many Faces) (Victor, VICL-3001, 1990)
• Yuuji Nonaka – Code Name wa Charmer a.k.a. My Codename is Charmer (Bandai/Apollon, BCCM-6, 1991)^[9]

Singing roles

• René – Neo Angelique ~My First Lady~ "Neo Angelique game booklet CD"
• InuYasha – InuYasha character single "Aoki Yasei O Daite" released in December, 2005
• Chichiri – Fushigi Yūgi "CD books"
• Light – Twinbee Paradise 3 Vocal Bomb (Konami, KICA-7761) and Twinbee Paradise 2 Sound Fantasia (Konami KICA-7652)
• Equal Striver (with Akio Matsuoka) – Shadow Skill V (Star Child, KICA-310, 1996)
• Ranma Saotome (male) – Various Ranma ½ character songs released as singles (1989–1993)
• Usopp – One Piece Character Song Albums and various singles.
• Ryuichi Sakuma – Gravitation – Gravitation Sound Story III – Predilection
• Hideyoshi Souya – Law of Ueki – The Law of Songs! – Hattari!
• Frappi – Gambalance de Dance- Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star 2nd ED with Miyu Matsuki(as Choppi) and Mayumi Gojo^[10]
• Danny – "Boy..." (Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Character Song Series: Gash with Best Friends)
• Sai Saici -with Argo Gulskii – Mobile Fighter G Gundam Character song: China Shuffle.

Other music CD albums

Solo

• Rollin' (Futureland/Youmex, TYDY-5147, 1990)
• A Boy (Futureland/Youmex, TYCY-5185, 1991)
• Mini-Best (Meldac/Nippon Crown, MECH-18004, 1995)
• Unbalance City (Nippon Columbia, COCC-13586, 1996)

Radio shows

• Pure Pure Island (aired for a month in 1998 as a tie-in with the anime series Fancy Lala and was co-hosted with J-pop singer Reiko Omori who was also the voice actress who voiced Miho Shinohara)
• Hiroi Ouji's Maruten Cha Cha Cha! (ongoing, co-hosted with voice actress Chisa Yokoyama and Sakura Taisen creator Ohji Hiroi)

References

1. 山口勝平プロフィール
2. Doi, Hitoshi. "Yamaguchi Kappei". Seiyuu Database. January 11, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2011. Archived 10 January 2011 at WebCite
3. Yamaguchi Kappei – Audiowiki
4. AnimeCons.com: News: Article
5. Sakura-Con to Host Voice Actor Kappei Yamaguchi – Anime News Network
6. Sakura-Con 2009 Information @ AnimeCons.com
7. Mitsukoshi Charity Auction-1996.03.31
8. アニメ｢いくぜっ!源さん｣ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-04-01.
9. My Code Name Is Charmer
10. ふたりはプリキュアSplashStar VocalアルバムⅡ 〜奇跡の雫〜 | TVサントラ | MJCD-20078 | マーベラス エンターテイメント | CD・DVD 販売 通販 ジョーシン ディスクピア

External links

• seiyuu.info
• Kappei Yamaguchi at the Internet Movie Database
• Kappei Yamaguchi at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kappei Yamaguchi's personal blog (Japanese)
• Profile@Gekidan 21 Seiki Fox (Japanese)
• Kappei Yamaguchi at GamePlaza-Haruka Voice Acting Database (Japanese)