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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1982-03-13 (43 years old)

Place of Birth

Nagano, Japan

Wataru Hatano

Biography:

Wataru Hatano is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with 81 Produce. At the 2nd Seiyu Awards in 2008, Hatano won the Best Male Rookie Award for his roles as Sam Houston in Toward the Terra and Tenshi Yuri in Saint Beast: Kouin Jojishi Tenshitan. Other major roles voiced include Gajeel in Fairy Tail and Yūto Ayase in Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu. In video games, he voices Josuke Higashikata in the CyberConnect2 developed JoJo's Bizarre Adventure games, and Rufus in the Street Fighter franchise. On April 2, 2018 he announced his marriage with fellow voice actress Mai Hashimoto.

Known For

Acting

2025

2024

I Parry Everything as Sain (voice)
Vampire Dormitory as Komori (voice)
Egumi Legacy as God Eyes / Wild Feces (voice)
FAIRY TAIL 100 YEARS QUEST as Gajeel (voice)
Uzumaki as Okada (voice)
FAIRY TAIL 100 YEARS QUEST as Gazeel (voice)
Fate/strange Fake as Orlando Reeve (voice)
The Demon Prince of Momochi House as Takamura Nachi (voice)

2023

Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- as Orlando Reeve (voice)
The Legendary Hero Is Dead! as Belarco (voice)
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces as Masamune Sasaki (voice)
My Daemon as Kouya Kokonoe (voice)
Rurouni Kenshin as Anji Yukyuzan (voice)

2022

Bubble as Osawa (voice)
Orient as Hideo Kosameda (voice)
Bibliophile Princess as Theodore Warren Ashelard (voice)
Reincarnated as a Sword as Klimt (voice)
Housing Complex C as Seichi Koshide (voice)

2021

Shadows House as Edward (voice)
Muteking the Dancing Hero as George (voice)
The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window as Rihito Hiyakawa (voice)
Super Crooks as the Praetorian (voice)
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale as Tamasuke Manabe (voice)
Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! as Motojirō Kajii (voice)

2020

Marudase Kintarou as Inukai (voice)
Jujutsu Kaisen as Haruta Shigemo (voice)
Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon as Meidomaru (voice)
The Misfit of Demon King Academy as Spirit King (voice)
The Misfit of Demon King Academy as Shin Reglia (voice)
Moriarty the Patriot as Burton (voice)

2019

Amazing Stranger as Haruto Bouida (voice)

2018

IDOLiSH7 Vibrato as Gaku Yaotome (voice)
Magical Girl Ore as (voice)
Captain Tsubasa as Hikaru Matsuyama (voice)
Fate/Extra Last Encore as Julius B. Harway (voice)
My Sweet Tyrant as Kubomura Takumi
Killing Bites as Yuuya Nomoto

2017

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry as Gajeel Redfox (voice)
Dance with Devils: Fortuna as Lindo Tachibana
Sakura Quest as Katsumi Kumano (voice)
Fox Spirit Matchmaker as Haku Gauche
The Laughing Salesman NEW as Junichi Naoki(Story4)
Escha Chron as Hayata Kasai (voice)
7O3X Fastest Finger First as Yosuke Ashiya (voice)

2016

My Hero Academia as Hitoshi Shinso (voice)
Hundred as Fritz Granz (voice)
D.Gray-man Hallow as Bak Chan (voice)
Magic-Kyun! Renaissance as 庵條 瑠衣
The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi as Ryo Sakaguchi (voice)
ReLIFE as Koushi Usa (voice)
Mob Psycho 100 as Taro (voice)
Bungo Stray Dogs as Motojirou Kajii
Magi: Adventure of Sinbad as Spartos Leoxses (voice)

2015

One-Punch Man as Metal Bat (voice)
Dance with Devils as Lindo Tachibana
The Heroic Legend of Arslan as Jaswant (voice)
Actually, I Am... as Sakurada (voice)

2014

Engaged to the Unidentified as Hakuya Mitsumine (voice)
Hamatora as Murasaki
Baby Steps as Hiroshi Araya (voice)
No-Rin as Kei Kamatori (voice)
Momokyun Sword as Inugami (voice)

2013

Unlimited Psychic Squad as You Fujiura (voice)
Valvrave the Liberator as Kibukawa Takumi (voice)
Unlimited Psychic Squad as Yo Fujiura (voice)
Ace of Diamond as Tooru Masuko (voice)

2012

Fairy Tail: Phoenix Priestess as Gajeel Redfox (voice)
Chitose Get You!! as Chitose-Dad
Chitose Get You!! as Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Our Home's Fox Deity as Gyokuyou Tenko (voice)
Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! as Yoichi Takehiko

2011

Gakuen 3: Karei Naru Etsujoku as Chiba Kagetora (voice)
THE iDOLM@STER as Host Sports Event (voice)
Battle Spirits: Heroes as Arata Yakushiji (voice)
A Bridge to the Starry Skies as Minamikokubaru Daigo

2010

Sex Pistols as Shiro Fujiwara

2009

Tailenders as Shiro Tomoe (voice)
07-Ghost as Haruse
Whispered Words as Norio Kazama (voice)
Fairy Tail as Gajeel Redfox (voice)
From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke as Toru Sanada (voice)

2008

Kirepapa. as Takatsukasa, Chidori (voice)
The Hill Dyed Rose Madder as Jun'ichi Nagase
Monochrome Factor as Shuichi Wagatsuma
Blassreiter as Igor
Kirepapa. as Takatsukasa Chidori
Blade of the Immortal as Makoto (voice)

2007

Kiss Dum: Engage Planet as Vice captain
No Mone as Misao Kuba
No Money as Kuba Misao

2006

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams as Roberto Frois (voice)
Ouran High School Host Club as Ritsu Kasanoda
Ouran High School Host Club as Ritsu Kasanoda (voice)
Angel's Feather as Nakajou Yuuto (voice)

2005

Basilisk as Chikuma Koshiro (voice)
Animal Yokocho as Papa / Sayuki / Maguro Pillow (voice)
Aria as Himeya Staff Member B (voice)
Aria as Atsushi (voice)

2004

Fantastic Children as Soran (voice)
Bleach as Hidetomo Kajomaru (voice)

2003

The Galaxy Railways as Edwin Silver (voice)

1971

Kamen Rider as Yeti Megiddo (voice)

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Gugumi-chan as Father (voice)

Sound

2022

Orient as Theme Song Performance

2018

Magical Girl Ore as Theme Song Performance

2016

Yuri!!! on Ice as Theme Song Performance