Real name Masaharu Maeda, Shigeru Chiba (born February 4, 1954) is a multi-media actor who has exceptional veteran voice acting status within the Japanese Animation Industry and is known for being pigeonholed as The Narrator, the Big Bad, Butt-Monkey, and for being able to bring in the smoking-good HAM!
He was a former stunt actor who now makes occasional on-screen performances, such as The Next Generation -Patlabor-.
He also has over 20 credits in voice directing and audiography, directing fellow voice actors on their vocal performance within an animation project, such as Soul Hunter (the 1999 anime adaptation of Weekly Shonen Jump's Hoshin Engi).
LISTEN AND BE SURPRISED! These roles... certainly... SMELL LIKE BAD SPIRITS!
- Alabaster in Tales of Wedding Rings
- Beast in the Japanese dub of X-Men: The Animated Series
- Bongo Heracles in Star Fleet
- The Boss of Eternal in Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GO GO
- Brutus and Grasshop in Spider Riders
- Buggy the Clown in One Piece
- Dr. Chaos in Ghost Sweeper Mikami
- Chibasuke in Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die
- Chouchin-kozou in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger
- Cyrus in Another Eden
- Discord (John de Lancie) in the Japanese dub of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Dragon Ball
- Emperor Pilaf in Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball GT, and Dragon Ball Super
- Garlic Jr. and Raditz in Dragon Ball Z
- Don Kanonji in Bleach
- F.A.N.G in Street Fighter V
- Father Nebraska in Trigun Stampede
- Final Fantasy
- Kefka Palazzo (Big Bad of Final Fantasy VI) in Dissidia Final Fantasy
- The Provost in Final Fantasy Type-0
- Professor Hojo in Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Former Amaterasu CEO in Master Detective Archives: Rain Code
- Gelsey in Resonance of Fate
- Geo Dampierre in Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny and V
- Ghostbusters
- Janosz Poha in the Japanese dub of Ghostbusters II
- Peter Venkman in the short lived Japanese VHS dub of The Real Ghostbusters
- Gil Barg in Dangaioh and Super Robot Wars Impact
- Gisu Nukadia in the Drama CD of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
- Greedo and Wedge in the 1978 Japanese dub of Star Wars
- God of Love in The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You
- Goopy Le Grande in the Japanese dub of Cuphead
- Hayato's father in Ultraman X
- Herman in the Japanese dub of The Simpsons
- Hisahide Matsunaga in Nioh and Nioh 2
- Hyness in Kirby Star Allies
- Jigoro Kuwajima in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- Jogo and Wasuke Itadori in Jujutsu Kaisen
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Yoshihiro Kira in Diamond is Unbreakable (replacing Bin Shimada in the games)
- A newscaster reporting on a fight between Kenshiro and Raoh in Stone Ocean
- Iggy in All Star Battle (Darrin'd by Misato Fukuen in the anime and Eyes of Heaven)
- J. Geil in the Stardust Crusaders CD drama
- Kanenori Wakita in Case Closed
- Kazuma Kuwabara in YuYu Hakusho
- Kinnikuman SoldierII/Ataru Kinniku in Kinnikuman: Kinnikusei Oui Soudatsu-hen
- Koichi Todome in The Red Spectacles and StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (Live-Action role)
- Kumotatsu and Clockwork Gennai in Live A Live (2022 remake)
- Lau Chan in Virtua Fighter
- Lightning in Megazone 23
- Lucky Lunchman in High Card
- Manto and Kikugorou in Tengai Makyou
- The Mayor/Corset in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
- Megane in Urusei Yatsura
- The Nameless Old Man in Ys X: Nordics
- The Narrator in Fist of the North Star, as well as the voice of Joker and Jakoh
- The Narrator, the Kyoryugers' equipment, and Dr. Ulshade/Kyoryu Violet I in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger
- The Narrator in Time Bokan 24
- Omawari-san and Rerere no Oji-san in Heisei Tensai Bakabon
- Pipimi in Pop Team Epic (Episode 2B)
- Púca in Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon
- Redd Windu in Panzer World Galient
- Sebas Tian in Overlord (2012)
- Shigeo Shiba in Patlabor and The Next Generation -Patlabor-
- Someji Kawamoto in March Comes in Like a Lion
- Tendo Choi in the Japanese dub of Pacific Rim
- Transformers
- Megatron in the Japanese dub of Beast Wars, Beast Machines, and the Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy
- A different Megatron in the Japanese dub of Transformers: Cyberverse
- Once again, Megatron in the Japanese dub of Transformers Earthspark.
- Vanilla Vartla in Armored Trooper VOTOMS and Super Robot Wars OE
- Vexen/Even in Kingdom Hearts III (replacing Nachi Nozawa)
- Victor "Sully" Sullivan in Uncharted (Japanese dub)
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- Azurda/Gramps in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Gray in Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Yodarha in Granblue Fantasy
- Yousuke Uchinaki in Laughing Salesman NEW
- Zanba in Super Robot Wars NEO
- Zhang Jiao/Jue in Fate/Grand Order
Tropes Associated with Chiba:
- Big Brother Mentor: To practically every Japanese voice actor who comes after him that he meets. But he is particularly attached to three kouhais, namely: The then Pop Idol Voice Actor Yusuke, the Technically-Still-New Meat Hiei, and the Overnight Fame Super New Meat Kurama.
- Cool Old Guy: Who he is now, and is the hammiest all voice actors from his generation. Not even Akira Kamiya would dare to compete him on that.
- Cool Teacher: Amongst the large pool of students he taught, Chiba confirmed the now legendary, Megumi Hayashibara was his first direct disciple.
- Guttural Growler: One of Chiba's distinct trademarks is a coarse, raspy voice that especially lends itself well to sprightly characters and villains.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He was named one of the Top 10 Most Respected Voice Actors in the business, voted by Japanese Voice Actors of all generations!
- He was placed 20th at 2017's annual Voice Actor Grand Election.
- Large Ham: His all-time motto? ..."Live Life to the FULLEST!"
- Longtime castmate, Akira Kamiya, would always testify how Chiba has a "favorite recording spot" usually located at the most inner side of the recording room where he can pin himself against the wall to rest after nearly fainting from each of his compassionate performances".
