Yūsaku Yara

Yūsaku Yara (屋良 有作, Yara Yūsaku), born Susume Kawabe (川部 奨, Kawabe Susumu) on March 15, 1948, is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo. He is best known for voicing Maruko's Father in Chibi Maruko-chan.
He provided the voice of Nurikabe in the 1985 GeGeGe no Kitarō anime.
==Selected filmography==
===GeGeGe no Kitarō characters===
*GeGeGe no Kitarō (1985 anime) - Nurikabe, Kurokawa (Ep. 6), Security Guard (Ep. 14), Makura-Gaeshi, Ameyama (Ep. 23), Mammoth-Otoko, Dai-Tengu, Akashita, Kimiko's Father (Ep.38), Mizumoto (Ep. 54), Detective Watari (Ep. 78), Oji-san (Ep. 98), Landowner (Ep. 106)
*GeGeGe no Kitarō (1985 film) - Nurikabe
*GeGeGe no Kitarō: Yōkai Dai-Sensō - Nurikabe
*GeGeGe no Kitarō: Saikyō Yōkai Gundan! Nippon Jōriku!! - Nurikabe
*GeGeGe no Kitarō: Gekitotsu!! Ijigen Yōkai no Dai-Hanran - Nurikabe
*GeGeGe no Kitarō: Jigoku Arc - Nurikabe, Kumo-Otoko
*GeGeGe no Kitarō (1996) - Pii, Ōkubi, Anagura-Nyūdō
===Other Shigeru Mizuki works===
*Akuma-kun - Mandarake, Binta's Father
*Akuma-kun (film) - Satan
===Other notable credits===
*Chibi Maruko-chan as Hiroshi Sakura
*Doctor Slump (1997 series) as Senbei Norimaki
*Fang of the Sun: Dougram as Jacky Zaltsev
*Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin as Great
*Gintama as Jiraia
*Kimagure Orange Road as Master
*Legend of the Galactic Heroes as Narrator
*Maple Town as Gretel (Wild Wolf)
*Saint Seiya as Sagittarius Aiolos
*Sakigake!! Otokojuku as Ryūji Toramaru
*Sally the Witch (1989 series) as Sally's Papa
*Shigurui as Gonzaemon Ushimada
*Space Emperor God Sigma as Narrator
*Zipang as Saburō Umezu
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