Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
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.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Shūichi Ikeda
- Name (Japanese)
- 池田秀一
- Born
- December 2, 1949 (age 76)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Ox
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- seiyū / actor / child actor / television actor
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://haikyo.or.jp/PROFILE/man/10587.html
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A0%E7%94%B0%E7%A7%80%E4%B8%80
Frequently asked questions
When was Shūichi Ikeda born?
Born December 2, 1949 (age 76).
Where is Shūichi Ikeda from?
Shūichi Ikeda is from Tokyo, Japan.
What does Shūichi Ikeda do?
Shūichi Ikeda works as seiyū, actor, child actor, television actor.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-07-26
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.