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(born April 22) is a Japanese voice actor who is affiliated with the Office Osawa agency. His major voice roles include Giroro in ''Sgt. Frog'', Alucard in ''Hellsing'', Roy Revant in ''Solty Rei'', and the title character in ''Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo''. In video game franchises, he voices Kirei Kotomine in the ''Fate/stay night'', Ieyasu Tokugawa and Uesugi in ''Samurai Warriors'', and ''Resident Evil''s Albert Wesker in ''Marvel Vs. Capcom 3'' as well as Kazuya Mishima in ''Tekken 2''. ==Biography== Nakata studied at the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. His first roles were for live-action works where his major characters portrayed included Sir Cowler in ''Choushinsei Flashman'' and Great Professor Bias in ''Choujuu Sentai Liveman'' of the ''Super Sentai'' series. He was doing theater work as well as live-action drama and voice dubbing when Michiko Nomura, who had worked on ''Sazae-san'', suggested he become a voice actor. Nakata said in an interview with Sutoraiku that he compared the pay for the roles and was very astonished by the difference, so he then switched to full-time voice acting. He narrated ''Mobile Suit Victory Gundam'' which aired in 1993. In 1994, he voiced Murakumo Yagami, the series' main antagonist in ''Blue Seed''. In the 1994 anime film ''Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie'' he voiced Balrog (Street Fighter) when the character was named M. Bison.〔 Nakata said that his role in the 1996 anime ''Escaflowne'' helped advance his career; there he played Folken.〔〔 He would continue to voice major antagonists including Gaav in ''Slayers Next'', Stargazer in ''Lost Universe'', and ''Brian J. Mason'' in ''Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040''.〔 In 2001, he voiced the antihero Alucard (Hellsing) in the ''Hellsing'' TV series. Looking back at his career, Nakata said that Alucard was the one character he most enjoyed voicing and the easiest one to portray. He said that villain characters and ones with distinct personalities were easier than ones with not much personality as they can be shaped and changed up.〔 He later reprised his role as Alucard in the ''Hellsing Ultimate'' OVAs. The year 2004 saw Nakata in some breakout roles. He voiced the title character in ''Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo'' which was popular among the late night adult audience, but he also joined ''Sgt. Frog'' in voicing Corporal Giroro, which was popular with kids and adults as it aired during prime time.〔 In 2005, he picked up voice roles as villains Megatron in ''Transformers Cybertron'' and Amshel Goldsmith in ''Blood+''.〔〔 He voiced Roy Revant, the protagonist of ''SoltyRei''.;〔 the director for ''SoltyRei'' would later cast him as the narrator in the ''Amagami SS'' visual novel anime adaptation.〔 He joined the ''Fate/stay night'' video game franchise, voicing Kirei Kotomine in the 2004 game, its anime adaptation in 2006, its feature film ''Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works'' in 2010, and the prequel series ''Fate/zero''. In his interview, Nakata said that co-creator Kinoko Nasu had known him since his Tokusatsu days, and that he had been involved in many of Type-Moon's titles.〔 In 2014, he reprised his role of Kirei for the ''Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works'' television series. In 2013 he was the narrator for ''Noucome'', voiced lead character Sigmund in ''Unbreakable Machine-Doll'',〔 and voiced Nyanta in ''Log Horizon''. In video games, he voiced in the ''Samurai Warriors'' (Sengoku Musou) series as Uesugi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. In overseas dubbing, he has voiced various characters in shows and films such as ''300'', ''Sex and the City'', and ''The Little Mermaid''. Nakata said that because of his live-action background, he felt comfortable with portraying the overseas dubbing roles, although he still enjoyed the creativity coming from the two-dimensional anime characters.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jouji Nakata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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