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TakahiroSakurai

Takahiro Sakurai, the Japanese voice actor for Lan Di.

Takahiro Sakurai (櫻井孝宏 Sakurai Takahiro, born June 13, 1974) is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Aichi. Sakurai provides voices for many anime characters. He also provides voices for video game characters such as Lei-Fei from the Virtua Fighter series. Sakurai is the Japanese voice actor for Lan Di in the Shenmue series and Shenmue the Animation.

Credited Shenmue Roles[]

Shenmue
Shenmue II
Shenmue III
Shenmue the Animation

Trivia[]

  • Sakurai got the role of Lan Di, Goro, Yuan and various other characters by being cast for providing test voices to support the development for the first two Shenmue games. He was a new voice actor at the time. [1]
  • Sakurai is the Japanese voice actor for Lan Di in all forms of Shenmue media, games and anime. His other characters were voiced by different voice actors in the Japanese version of the anime. The other case of a character's Japanese voice actor being the voice of them in all forms of Shenmue media is Masaya Matsukaze as Ryo Hazuki.

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