Junko Takeuchi
Junko Takeuchi (Japanese: 竹内順子 Takeuchi Junko) is a Japanese voice actress for the Pokémon anime.
Biography
Takeuchi was born on April 5, 1972, in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As an adult, she became a voice actress and came to be commonly cast as young, male characters with quirky and goofy personalities. She first voiced Doyle, a character of the day who appeared in Pokémon the Series: Black & White of the Pokémon anime. Then, Takeuchi voiced Red, the protagonist of the Pokémon Origins miniseries. She also voiced a young Baraz in Hoopa — The Mischief Pokémon. In Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, Takeuchi gained her most notable role as Hapu, one of island kahunas. Takeuchi is affiliated with Ogipro The Next Co. Inc. Takeuchi also won the Kids Family Award during the 5th Seiyu Awards.
Pokémon roles
Anime
Other animation
Other non-Pokémon roles
- Moon (Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers)
- Break (Super Life-Form Transformers: Beast Wars Neo)
- Gomamon (Digimon Adventure, Adventure 02, and Xros Wars)
- Gon Freecss (Hunter x Hunter (1999))
- Mokuba Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
- Metabee (Medabots)
- Young Takeshi Sawada, young Hajime Taki (Captain Tsubasa)
- Naoki Asaba (Dennō Bōkenki Webdiver)
- Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
- Takuya Kanbara (Digimon Frontier, Digimon Xros Wars)
- Kuromi (Onegai My Melody)
- Chyota (Quantum Leap Layzelber)
- Kenta Hoshino (Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star)
- Shiro Takaouji (Ouran High School Host Club)
- Lambo (Reborn!)
- Rin Natsuki/Cure Rouge (Yes! PreCure 5)
- Daigoro Kitaouji (Gin Tama)
- Mamoru Endō, Kanon Endō, Mecha Endō (Inazuma Eleven, Inazuma Eleven GO, Inazuma Eleven: The Scales of Ares)
- Young Sabo (One Piece)
- Croix Meridies (Little Witch Academia)
- Barbatos Bachiko (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)
Trivia
- Takeuchi's husband Kenji Hamada has also voiced a couple of characters in the anime.
External links
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