Shigeru Chiba

Acting · Born 1954-02-04 in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, Japan

Biography

Masaharu Maeda (前田 正治, Maeda Masaharu), known by the stage name Shigeru Chiba (千葉 繁, Chiba Shigeru), is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He has also worked as a sound effects director and music director. He is affiliated with the talent management firm 81 Produce. He is most known for the roles of the narrator of Fist of the North Star, Megane (Urusei Yatsura), Rei Ichidō (High School! Kimengumi), Kazuma Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho), Pilaf (Dragon Ball), Raditz and Garlic Jr. (Dragon Ball Z), Buggy the Clown (One Piece) Kefka Palazzo (Dissidia: Final Fantasy) and Kōichi Todome (Kerberos saga).

Filmography

• My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission as Shopkeeper (voice)
• My Neighbor Totoro as Additional Voices (voice)
• Memories as Aoshima (voice)
• SPY x FAMILY CODE: White as Poop God (voice)
• Ghost in the Shell as Garbage Collector B (voice)
• Dragon Ball Super: Broly as Raditz (voice)
• One Piece: Stampede as Buggy (voice)
• Metropolis as Lamp (voice)
• Ghost in the Shell 2.0 as Garbage Collector B (voice)
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle as Jigoro Kuwajima (voice)

TV

• Serial Experiments Lain
• March Comes In Like a Lion as Someji Kawamoto (voice)
• Dragon Ball Z as Garlic Jr.
• Dragon Ball Z as Raditz
• Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics as Frog Prince (voice)
• Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics as (voice)
• Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics as The Hunter (voice)
• Ranma ½ as Announcer (voice)
• Ranma ½ as Sasuke Sarugakure (voice)
• Ranma ½ as Store manager (voice)