Taku Yashiro

The works field on this page is empty, and I would rather admit that than paper over it, because what is thin here is our record, not his career. He took his first lead role in 2016 as the title character in Tiger Mask W, and in 2018 the twelfth Seiyu Awards named him Best Rookie Actor, a prize that only reaches people whose voices were already turning up everywhere that year. Born in Morioka, Iwate, in 1993 and signed to the VIMS agency, he was around twenty-five when it came, which means years of unglamorous work sat behind it. It is a strange, enviable profession: recognized instantly by sound, and almost never by face.

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Name (English)

Taku Yashiro

Name (Japanese)

八代拓

Reading

やしろ たく

Born

January 6, 1993 (age 33)

Origin

Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Height

176 cm

Occupation

seiyū

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster

Blood type

B

Agency

ヴィムス

Active years

2013 -

Debut

『銀の匙 Silver Spoon』

Awards & achievements

• 2018 Seiyu Award for Best Rookie Actor

Works summary

Appearances

670 (2013–2026)

By year

2013: 1, 2014: 6, 2015: 14, 2016: 27, 2017: 31, 2018: 52, 2019: 43, 2020: 30, 2021: 48, 2022: 13, 2023: 26, 2024: 13, 2025: 21, 2026: 8

Debut work

VOMIC 暗殺教室

Filmography / notable works

• Xhttps://x.com/yashiro_taku
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taku%20Yashiro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%A3%E6%8B%93
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23846671

Tags

• Iwate Prefecture
• seiyū

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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