Photo: Pedro Taneda / CC BY-SA 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
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.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Hidekatsu Shibata
- Name (Japanese)
- 柴田秀勝
- Born
- March 25, 1937 (age 89)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Ox
- Origin
- Villena, Province of Alicante, Spain
- Occupation
- seiyū / actor / impresario
2. Background
- University
- Nihon University
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.rme.jp/cactus/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B4%E7%94%B0%E7%A7%80%E5%8B%9D
Frequently asked questions
When was Hidekatsu Shibata born?
Born March 25, 1937 (age 89).
Where is Hidekatsu Shibata from?
Hidekatsu Shibata is from Villena, Province of Alicante, Spain.
What does Hidekatsu Shibata do?
Hidekatsu Shibata works as seiyū, actor, impresario.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-07-27
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.