My Take
Born in 1930 in Hyogo Prefecture and educated at Tokyo University of Education — there's a certain old-school gravitas to Kousei Yagi before you even get to the work. He straddled both live-action acting and voice work, which tells you something real about his range: you don't get handed voice roles just because you can stand on a stage, you have to own the sound itself. Coming up through the postwar Japanese entertainment scene means he was working when the whole industry was reinventing itself from scratch, which had to forge a particular kind of toughness and adaptability in a performer. An Aquarius born in the Year of the Horse — independently-minded, a self-steerer — and somehow that tracks for someone who built a quiet, dual-track career without the kind of splashy press record that younger stars live and die by. I honestly feel like the depth of what he must have seen and done across those decades dwarfs whatever the data here can capture.
Overview
Kousei Yagi is a Japanese actor and voice actor born on February 13, 1930, in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo University of Education, reflecting a scholarly background uncommon among entertainers of his era. Active across both live-action performance and voice work, his career spans the postwar decades of Japanese entertainment history. Detailed records of his works, agency affiliations, and active period are not publicly available.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Kousei Yagi
- Name (Japanese)
- 八木光生
- Reading
- やぎ こうせい
- Born
- February 13, 1930 (age 96)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Horse (午)
- Origin
- Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Active years
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Actor / Voice Actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Tokyo University of Education
- Debut
- Unknown
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E6%9C%A8%E5%85%89%E7%94%9F
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.