Shin'ichiro Inoue

Shin'ichirō Inoue is one of those guys where the label "businessman" alone makes me sit up a little straighter — there's something quietly formidable about someone born in 1959 who chose to carry real risk on their own back rather than coast on a salary. He went from editing the anime magazine Animec as a student to running Newtype and then Kadokawa Shoten, and even gave fans the term "character voice" — the kind of operator who lets the work speak and doesn't need the spotlight. People from that generation quietly built Japan's anime culture into what it is, and I have a lot of respect for that. Not flashy, maybe, but steady and self-directed beats flashy most days of the week.

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Shin'ichiro Inoue is a Japanese businessman born on January 28, 1959, in Tokyo, Japan. An editor, businessman and film and anime producer, he became deputy editor of the anime magazine Animec while still a student, helped launch Newtype in 1985 and became its editor-in-chief in 1991, and later served as president of Kadokawa Shoten and vice president of Kadokawa; he coined the term "character voice" (CV) for voice actors.

Name (English)

Shin'ichiro Inoue

Name (Japanese)

井上伸一郎

Reading

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Born

January 28, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Businessman

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

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Tags

• From Tokyo
• Businessman

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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