Yūji Ueda

Yūji Ueda

Yūji Ueda (Japanese: うえだゆうじ Ueda Yūji) is a Japanese seiyū for the Pokémon anime.

Biography

Ueda was born on June 15, 1967, in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and became a seiyū as an adult. He previously used the kanji form of his name as his stage name, 上田祐司. He joined the Pokémon anime since it started airing, and is most well known as the voice of Brock and Jessie's Wobbuffet. He has also provided several voices for minor characters as well as the voices of many Pokémon. Ueda is married to fellow voice actor Omi Minami. He was initially affiliated with Arts Vision, but left on July 1, 2004, and then joined Office Osawa on April 1, 2005.

Pokémon roles

Humans

Major

• Brock
• Marlon

Minor

• Halverson
• Sophocles's father
• Team Rocket Grunt
• One of J's henchman
• Hiker B (SM034)
• Announcer (EP001, M20)
• One of Viren's henchmen
• Various guest characters

Pokémon

Major

• Jessie's Wobbuffet
• Ash's Treecko, Grovyle and Sceptile
• Ash's Monferno and Infernape
• Ash's Cyndaquil and Quilava
• Ash's Noctowl
• Ash's Froakie, Frogadier and Greninja
• Ash's Goodra
• James's Victreebel (EP057-EP094)
• Paul's Gliscor
• Paul's Magmar/Magmortar
• Harley's Cacturne
• Mimey
• Zippo
• Barry's Hitmonlee
• Monsieur Pierre's Klefki
• Sawyer's Treecko, Grovyle and Sceptile
• Olivia's Lycanroc

Minor

• Cerulean Gym's Seel and Dewgong
• Norman's Vigoroth
• Falkner's Hoothoot
• One of Hagatha and Nagathas' Hoothoot
• Pryce's Dewgong
• Cassidy's Raticate
• Casey's Elekid
• Julie's Furret
• Benji's father's Pidgeotto
• Macy's Quilava
• Oliver's Lanturn
• Shauna's Meditite
• Romeo's Volbeat
• Stephanie's father's Treecko
• Rocky's Quagsire
• Head engineer's Magmar
• Lucas's Magmortar
• Mirror World Wobbuffet
• Riot's Greninja
• Nini's Farfetch'd
• Ornithol's Noctowl
• Alva's Gengar
• Rapp's Zubat
• Mad Boober's Magmortar
• Kagachi's Sudowoodo
• Flygon (Ride Pokémon)
• Charizard clone (The Birth of Mewtwo)
• Magby (Pichu Brothers shorts)
• Seaking (Slowking's Day)
• Pidgey (EP001, EP081, EP164, EP195, EP211, EP274, AG178)
• Wartortle (EP060)
• Pidgeot (EP104)
• Quagsire (EP127)
• Sentret (EP133)
• Sudowoodo (EP162)
• Treecko (AG071)
• Elekid (DP137)
• Lycanroc (SM015; Midday and Midnight Forms)
• Stoutland (Poké Ride; SM032)
• Hoothoot (Pikachu's Rescue Adventure)
• Squirtle (SS007)
• Passimian (SM064)
• Sandshrew (SM080) (Alola Form)

Musical appearances in Pokémon

• Takeshi's Paradise (タケシのパラダイス)
• Everyone Walk Together (みんなであるこう！)

Super Smash Bros. series

• Greninja
• Cyndaquil
• Wobbuffet
• Genesect

Other non-Pokémon roles

• Takuto Meyers (Galaxy Angel)
• Keitaro Urashima (Love Hina)
• Akito Tenkawa (Martian Successor Nadesico)
• Sanosuke Sagara (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Horohoro (Trey Racer) (Shaman King)
• Amiboshi and Suboshi (Fushigi Yūgi)
• Kakyō Kazuku (X (TV))
• Hiroyuki Ueda (Chobits)
• Abarenbō (Di Gi Charat)
• Billy Katagiri (Mobile Suit Gundam 00)
• Hōjō and Akitoki Hōjō (InuYasha)
• Karl Lichien Schwartz (Zoids)
• Zappa (Guilty Gear X2)
• Big Knife Sarquiss (One Piece)
• Jirō Akutagawa (The Prince of Tennis)
• Hamel (Violinist of Hameln (anime))
• Zolf J. Kimblee (Fullmetal Alchemist (2003))
• Spada Belforma (Tales of Innocence)

Dubbing roles

Live-action

• Darick the Dockhand (I Still Know What You Did Last Summer)
• Mouse (The Matrix)

Animation

• Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Tucker Foley, Dash Baxter, Box Ghost and additional voices (Danny Phantom)
• David Carter (Invasion America)
• Osmosis Jones (Ozzy & Drix)
• Minor roles (Regular Show)

This article is part of Project VA, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on voice actors in Pokémon animation and Pokémon games.