Ikeda died on January 31 due to heart failure caused by myocardial infarction
Image via
Haikyō agency’s website
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Talent agency
Haikyō
announced on Monday that
voice actor
Masaru Ikeda
died on January 31 due to heart failure caused by myocardial infarction (heart attack). He was 83.
A private funeral attended only by close relatives was held.
Ikeda was born on September 27, 1942 in Tokyo.
Ikeda voiced most of the
mecha
robots that appeared in the 1977
Yatterman
television series including Yatter Wan (dog), Yatter King, Yatter Pelican, Yatter Angler, Yatter Phant (elephant), Yatter Bull, and Yatter Panda.
Ikeda also voiced General Revil in the
Mobile Suit Gundam
series, Jamitov Hyman in
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
, Alexander in the 1989 series
The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli
, Maj. Inge Riemann in the 1988
Armored Trooper Votoms: Red Shoulder Document – Roots of Treachery
OAV
, Huang in
Darker than Black
, and Koreyoshi Kitamura in the
Death Note
series, among others.
In games he voiced Helmer in the
Xenosaga
trilogy, several roles in the
Suikoden V
game, and Ikki Yoneda in several
Sakura Wars
games (as well as the
Sakura Wars
TV
anime). He had Japanese dub roles in Western animated films such as
Cars
and
The Iron Giant
.
Source:
Haikyō
website
via
Hachima Kikō
