Minami Takayama is a veteran Japanese voice actress and singer whose credits include the title role in Detective Conan and Kiki in Kiki's Delivery Service. In the 1997 Berserk television series, produced by OLM, she voices a young Griffith.
Takayama lends her voice to Griffith as a boy in flashback sequences of the 1997 Berserk anime, capturing the ambition and charisma the character shows even before he founds the Band of the Hawk. It's a brief but pivotal assignment, coloring how audiences read the older Griffith once the story catches up to his adult self.
Takayama has been one of the most prolific names in Japanese voice acting since the late 1980s, most famous for playing Conan Edogawa across the long-running Detective Conan franchise and for dual-casting as Kiki and Ursula in Kiki's Delivery Service. She has also voiced Nabiki Tendo in Ranma ½, Hao Asakura in Shaman King, and Envy in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and performs as the lead singer of the band Two-Mix.
Takayama is most famous for playing Conan Edogawa across the long-running Detective Conan franchise. She is also known for dual-casting as both Kiki and Ursula in Kiki's Delivery Service.
Beyond Conan Edogawa, Takayama has voiced Nabiki Tendo in Ranma ½, Hao Asakura in Shaman King, and Envy in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
Takayama continues performing as the lead singer of the band Two-Mix, alongside a voice acting career that has run since 1987.
Takayama lends her voice to Griffith as a boy in flashback sequences of the 1997 Berserk anime, produced by studio OLM. It's a brief but pivotal assignment that colors how audiences read the older Griffith later in the story.
Minami Takayama was born in 1964 and has been one of the most prolific names in Japanese voice acting since the late 1980s.
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