Bin Shimada has spent decades in Japanese show business as a stage and screen actor, voice performer, and narrator, working under the Aoni Production agency; in One Piece he voices Monster and Den.
Shimada voices Monster and Den in the Japanese version of One Piece, contributing supporting work to the anime's Japanese-language cast. The pairing sits within a career built largely on similar character and narration parts across Japanese animation.
Shimada voices Monster and Den in the Japanese version of One Piece. The pairing sits within a career built largely on similar character and narration parts across Japanese animation.
Bin Shimada is a veteran Japanese performer who has spent decades working across stage and screen acting, voice performance, and narration. He is represented by the Aoni Production talent agency.
Shimada is represented by Aoni Production. That affiliation has run alongside his long career in Japanese show business.
Shimada has been active since 1978, giving him nearly five decades of work in acting, voicing, and narrating for Japanese television and animation. That tenure places him among the industry's veteran performers.
Shimada was born in 1954 in Japan. He was 24 years old when he began his professional acting and voicing career in 1978, a starting point for what would become a long-running body of work in Japanese television and animation.

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