Koichi Yamadera

Koichi Yamadera is a Japanese actor, narrator, and singer from Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. He graduated from Tohoku Gakuin University's economics school and is currently affiliated with Across Entertainment, previously with the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. Yamadera is known for his versatile voice acting roles in popular anime and video game series including Cowboy Bebop (as Spike Spiegel), the Yakuza series (as Shun Akiyama), Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū (as Sukeroku), Ghost in the Shell (as Togusa), Neon Genesis Evangelion (as Ryoji Kaji), Gintama (as Utsuro), Ninja Scroll (as Jūbei Kibagami), Dragon Ball Super (as Beerus), and Lupin III (as the official voice of Koichi Zenigata since 2011). He has also appeared in numerous Pokémon films, playing different roles each time, except for movie 22 in which he reprised his role as Mew.