 :not to be mistaken for yÅji ueda, a similarly named voice actor.  is a popular japanese voice actor.he is most known for the roles of sagara sanosuke (rurouni kenshin), akito tenkawa (martian successor nadesico), takeshi (pokÃ©mon), horohoro (shaman king), johannes krauser ii (detroit metal city) and keitaro urashima (love hina). ==about== he was born in fukuoka and has a number of notable roles to his name, including some as the main character, as in "love hina" and "martian successor nadesico". in july 2004, he left arts vision and officially made his name into an all-hiragana form. in april 2005, ueda joined osawa production, and currently works for osawa as of april 2006. ueda currently has 160 voice works credited to his name-to-date according to the anime news network and as of july 24, 2006. he's a versatile voice actor, voicing characters ranging from simpletons (urashima keitaro in love hina and bantaro in the jubei-chan series) to tough, even vicious men (sagara sanosuke in rurouni kenshin and zolf j. kimblee in fullmetal alchemist). he appears in the pokÃ©mon series, voicing takeshi/brock and also jessie's wobbuffet in the japanese language version of the anime. in addition to those role, he also voices ash's noctowl in both the japanese and english language versions too. ==voice roles== ===anime=== * tasuke yasuda - a cheeky angel (2002) * shoot mcmahon - hunter x hunter (2011) * kato - angel sanctuary (2001) * sora inoue - bleach (2004) * yoshiki yaegashi - blue seed (1994) * yama-Å - bonobono (1995) * kiyoshirÅ okamoto - bÃy (1997) * daly wong - bubblegum crisis tokyo 2040 (1998) * dt - buzzer beater (2007) * giuliano - calimero (1992) * hiroyasu ueda - chobits (2002) * lee sampson - cowboy bebop: knockin' on heaven's door (2001) * jun ishikawa - cromartie high school (2003) * johannes krauser ii - detroit metal city (2008) * kerry - devil may cry (2007) * abarenbÅ - di gi charat (1998) * dinohyumon - digimon movie 7 (2002) * sakurajima 
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