Hidekatsu Shibata

Shibata has one of those voices that rearranges a room. As Gihren Zabi in Gundam or King Piccolo in Dragon Ball, he needs one sentence in that low register and you find yourself sitting up straighter. What gets me is the range hiding inside it: the same throat played the Third Hokage in Naruto, all warmth and weariness. Born in 1937, a Nihon University graduate who moved into directing as well as performing, he was still at the microphone in his eighties. Voices like that do not get replaced.

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Name (English)

Hidekatsu Shibata

Name (Japanese)

柴田秀勝

Reading

しばた ひでかつ

Born

March 25, 1937 (age 89)

Origin

Villena, Province of Alicante, Spain

Occupation

seiyū / actor / impresario

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Ox

University

Nihon University

• Official sitehttps://www.rme.jp/cactus/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidekatsu%20Shibata
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B4%E7%94%B0%E7%A7%80%E5%8B%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2735330

Tags

• Province of Alicante
• seiyū
• actor
• impresario

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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