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Voice Actor/Narrator Junpei Takiguchi Passes Away
posted on by Egan Loo
Voice of Yatterman's head villain Dokurobee, Dragon Ball's Uranai Baba
Voice actor and narrator Junpei Takiguchi passed away Monday, August 29 at 7:33 a.m. due to stomach cancer. He was 80 years old.
Takiguchi's best known voice-acting role was Dokurobee, the head of the Dorombo Gang in the Yatterman franchise from the first anime series to the 2008 remake and even Takashi Miike's live-action film. He was also Uranai Baba and other roles in the Dragon Ball series. From 1992 to July of this year, he narrated the popular railroad travel program Burari Tochū Gesha no Tabi on NTV for a total of 958 episodes.
Services will be held for relatives only at the request of the family.
Source: News 24
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