Takeshi Watabe

Takeshi Watabe (渡部 猛) was a Japanese voice actor. He was born in Kōchi Prefecture. He provided the voice of Yellow Zelkova in Sonic X.

Background
He usually played villains and performed the voices for many anime characters and tokusatsu villains. He is most famous for voicing Kaminari in Doraemon. He took over the ongoing roles of Shingo Kanemoto after his death.He also wrote an instructional book about voice acting, Seiyū Naritai.

Watabe died due to pneumonia at the age of 74.