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Happy 80th birthday, Wakamoto.

This pic is missing Shapiro which was the role that him really popular, still think it’s one of his best performances

What are your favorite and least favorite Wakamoto roles?

Man, for a second I thought it was going to say he had died>>23580385

>>23580389
>Cell
>Chiyo's dad
>Fucking High Max
Nice

>>23580385
These kinds of charts are always done by casuals

>>23580403
That god complex really sold it for me
>>23580402
And Black skull, even Edwin black who I keep forgetting he voiced lol

One of Wakamoto's non-villain roles.

>>23580389
really liked him as Reuenthal.

>>23580407
That and Coach from Gunbuster.

>>23580427
He did a lot of bit parts for MIC too as well as being Hiro Rando in Acrobunch.

Apparently he also voiced this guy.

>>23580389
He’s great in all of these that I’ve seen, but I’ll highlight his role as Rain Spider(Amagumo as the picture says) in Desert Punk because that anime isn’t talked about too much nowadays, and he’s one of the better parts about it.

It's insane that this guy is still doing work. Hope he is doing well and we don't lose him any time soon.

>>23580570
iirc he’s semi-retired and only still does legacy rolls

>>23580607
He just did a dwarf in the wizardry gacha a couple months ago.

>>23580607
I thought I read somewhere he was only going to do one role per year which is why he didn't return for Bison in SF6. Funny thing is his replacement voiced Bison in the Japanese dub of Wreck-it Ralph.

>>23580378 (OP)
When did he play Raoh? He's also the voice of /ourguy/

>>23580679
Flashback in Episode 32.

>>23580378 (OP)
>RaOh

He only voiced him in the early episodes when his face wasnt fully revealed yet.

>>23580389
Taisou and Ryuusaku from Giant Robo/Tetsujin 28. They're pretty much the same character+voice, though you can tell Wakamoto's voice strains a bit trying to redo the Taisou voice when he was in his late 50s irl during 2004.

>>23580389
Taiso for sure. Anything back from when he used to actually act

Least iavorite is everything aiter he stopped bothering

>>23580378 (OP)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KING

>>23581477
I recall Ryu was deeper than Taiso

>>23580389
>Castlevania's Dracula
>Alexander Anderson
That's both fitting and ironic at the same time. Also...
>motherfucking Victoream
CATCH
MY
HEART

V E R Y
M E L O N

>>23580378 (OP)
>chiyo's dad
Based.

>>23580378 (OP)
Happy 80th, Wakamoto-san.
>>23580389
Is there even a bad role in his career? I like all of his features and he elevated them, in my opinion.
My favorite are him doing incidental, background voicework in several Dunbine episodes. Also Vega/M. Bison and Coach in Gunbuster.

Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6feyaUC6U0

>>23584691
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLhw1mtCFA

I understand why no one includes the Wills from Dancouga Nova, but he knocked it out of the park arguing with himself.

>>23582847
Joji Nakuta, who voiced Hellsing's Alucard, also voiced Dracula in Castlevania Judgment. And Ryotaro Okiayu went from Alucard in SOTN to Trevor in the Netflix show.

>>23580389
>Favorite
Oskar Von Reuenthal, Cell, Kim Yongbi, Chu
Least Favorite
Charles, Coachie/Kouchiro (Gunbuster), Azumanga Daioh

I know I'm gonna get a lot of flack for Daioh but his voice sounds too graining. It's nice. But unfitting. He's better off voicing more slim, gaunt characters like Reuenthal or Cell. His Chu voice is good but largely outperformed by the dub.

Coachie and Charles are among his voices that haven't aged well. I can't picture him voicing the two and I would say that a better voice for Charles would be someone more larger and broader like Daisuke Gori.

>>23580378 (OP)
hbd