Banjō Ginga
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Banjō Ginga (銀河万丈 Ginga Banjō born November 12, 1948) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator who was born as Takashi Tanaka (田中 崇 Tanaka Takashi), and is still affiliated with Aoni Production. His deep voice has scored him numerous narration and villain roles. Some of his most notable roles include Gihren Zabi from Mobile Suit Gundam, Souther from Fist of the North Star, Bora and Colonel Silver from Dragon Ball, Daniel J. D'Arby from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Liquid Snake/Liquid Ocelot and Major Zero in the Metal Gear series, Babbo from MAR, Morgan from One Piece, Admiral Perry from Space Dandy, Jude Heartfillia in Fairy Tail, Magneto in Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers, and Sagat from Street Fighter II V.
In the world of dubbing, he has played Chief Thunderhooves on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Shang Tsung in the first Mortal Kombat film, Killer Croc in Batman: The Animated Series, Omega Red in TV Tokyo's dub of X-Men, Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2, Zeus in Disney's Hercules, Clayton in Disney's Tarzan, Skipper Riley in Planes: Fire & Rescue, King Neptune in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Harry Luck in the 2013 Star Channel dub of The Magnificent Seven, Jaws in the 1984 TBS dub of Moonraker, Phillipe Roache in the 1998 Godzilla movie, and Worf in both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.
He is married to fellow voice actress Gara Takashima.
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Roles
Scramble City: Mobilization
Transformers: The Headmasters
Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers Animated
Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy
Notes
- Ginja replaced the late Shinji Ogawa as Gilbert F. Altstein in the Blood Blockade Battlefront anime.
- Ginja has dubbed over American actor Keith David numerous times, just not in Transformers.
- He also supplied voice clips for the Leader Class Animated Ultra Magnus figure.
