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He is best known for the roles of Ranma Saotome (Ranma \u00bd), Jackson Neil (Miracle Girls), Tombo (Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service), Yattaro (Kyattou Ninden Teyandee), InuYasha (InuYasha), Ryuichi Sakuma (Gravitation), L (Death Note), Usopp (One Piece), Hideyoshi (Law of Ueki), and Kaito Kid and Shinichi Kudo (Case Closed). His current starring roles include that of Raimon &#8220;Monta&#8221; Taro, the Deimon Devil Bats&#8217; ace receiver in Eyeshield 21.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaguchi has appeared in eroge as Ky\u014dya Ushihisa (\u725b\u4e45 \u4eac\u4e5f, Ushihisa Ky\u014dya).\u00a0 He made his first public appearance in North America at Otakon 2008;\u00a0 and was also a guest at Sakura-Con 2009.\u00a0 Yamaguchi&#8217;s third appearance to date has been at Animazement in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He is married and has a daughter, Akane Yamaguchi (\u5c71\u53e3 \u831c), and a son, Ryunosuke Yamaguchi (\u5c71\u53e3 \u7adc\u4e4b\u4ecb), who also are voice actors.<\/p>\n<p>Description above from the Wikipedia article Kappei Yamaguchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitsuo Yamaguchi (\u5c71\u53e3 \u5149\u96c4, Yamaguchi Mitsuo), better known by his stage name of Kappei Yamaguchi (\u5c71\u53e3 \u52dd\u5e73, Yamaguchi Kappei) is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Fukuoka, affiliated with Gok\u016b and 21st Century Fox. 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