Daisuke Sakaguchi

If you have watched much anime from the past three decades, you have heard Daisuke Sakaguchi even if the name means nothing to you. Born in Kashiwazaki, Niigata in 1973, he broke through as Uso Ewin in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam and then became, for a whole generation, the voice of Shinpachi Shimura in Gintama. What strikes me about his career is how much of it rests on the least glamorous job in comedy: being the straight man. Shinpachi exists so that everyone around him can be absurd, and that only works if the timing is exact. Sakaguchi makes it look effortless. He can also carry a lead outright, as in Blood Blockade Battlefront, or play quieter registers like Satoshi Fukube in Hyouka. Voice actors keep most of their private lives out of view, and his record here is mostly a list of roles rather than a biography. But that list is the argument. A performer who can anchor a scene without stealing it is rarer than the flashier kind, and far more useful.

Name (English)

Daisuke Sakaguchi

Name (Japanese)

阪口大助

Reading

さかぐち だいすけ

Born

October 11, 1973 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

Origin

Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

seiyū

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke%20Sakaguchi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AA%E5%8F%A3%E5%A4%A7%E5%8A%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1155626

Tags

• Niigata Prefecture
• seiyū

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.