2025Winner
Best Performance
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Shigeru Chiba
Actor · Director
Kikuchi, Kumamoto, Japan
February 4, 1954
Biography
Masaharu Maeda (前田 正治, Maeda Masaharu), known by the stage name Shigeru Chiba (千葉 繁, Chiba Shigeru), is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He has also worked as a sound effects director and music director. He is affiliated with the talent management firm 81 Produce. He is most known for the roles of the narrator of Fist of the North Star, Megane (Urusei Yatsura), Rei Ichidō (High School! Kimengumi), Kazuma Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho), Pilaf (Dragon Ball), Raditz and Garlic Jr. (Dragon Ball Z), Buggy the Clown (One Piece) Kefka Palazzo (Dissidia: Final Fantasy) and Kōichi Todome (Kerberos saga).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1988Winner
Best Performance
My Neighbor Totoro
2023Nominee
Best Performance
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
Career Highlights
1995Highlight
Best Performance
Ghost in the Shell
2024Highlight
Best Performance
Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199: Part 1: Dark Invasion
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
My Neighbor Totoro
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine