Shūichi Ikeda

Ikeda is my personal benchmark for how much authority a human voice can carry. He began as a child actor and has been working with that voice for well over half a century, and the range he gets out of it without ever raising the volume is remarkable. Whether he is playing Char Aznable in Gundam or Shanks in One Piece, one line is enough to establish that this character outranks everyone else in the room. What impresses me most is the restraint. The timbre is distinctive enough to be a gimmick in weaker hands, but he keeps pulling back, lets the pauses do half the work, and drops a single low sentence exactly where it matters. I suspect that comes from starting out on camera, acting with his whole body, rather than in a recording booth. At seventy-six, still getting new performances from that voice feels like a small luxury.

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Name (English)

Shūichi Ikeda

Name (Japanese)

池田秀一

Reading

いけだ しゅういち

Born

December 2, 1949 (age 76)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Weight

60 kg

Occupation

seiyū / actor / child actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

Blood type

O

Agency

東京俳優生活協同組合

Spouse

玉川砂記子、戸田恵子

Works summary

Appearances

758 (1959–2026)

By year

1959: 1, 1960: 4, 1962: 2, 1963: 1, 1964: 2, 1965: 1, 1966: 1, 1967: 1, 1968: 7, 1969: 2, 1970: 3, 1971: 8, 1972: 3, 1973: 8, 1974: 7, 1975: 3, 1976: 3, 1977: 6, 1978: 4, 1979: 2, 1980: 3, 1981: 1, 1982: 2, 1985: 1, 1987: 2, 1989: 3, 1990: 1, 1993: 1, 1994: 1, 1996: 4, 1997: 1, 1998: 3, 1999: 3, 2000: 1, 2001: 4, 2002: 1, 2003: 1, 2004: 2, 2005: 2, 2006: 2, 2007: 4, 2008: 5, 2009: 1, 2010: 8, 2011: 5, 2012: 7, 2013: 2, 2014: 4, 2015: 8, 2016: 8, 2017: 6, 2018: 6, 2019: 6, 2020: 2, 2021: 6, 2022: 7, 2023: 2, 2024: 2, 2025: 1, 2026: 1

Debut work

指名手配

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://haikyo.or.jp/PROFILE/man/10587.html
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%ABichi%20Ikeda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A0%E7%94%B0%E7%A7%80%E4%B8%80
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922430

Tags

• Tokyo
• seiyū
• actor
• child actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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