Wataru Hatano
Acting · Sound
Born March 13, 1982, Asahi, Higashichikuma, Nagano, Japan
Wataru Hatano is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with 81 Produce. At the 2nd Seiyu Awards in 2008, Hatano won the Best Male Rookie Award for his roles as Sam Houston in Toward the Terra and Tenshi Yuri in Saint Beast: Kouin Jojishi Tenshitan. Other major roles voiced include Gajeel in Fairy Tail and Yūto Ayase in Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu. In video games, he voices Josuke Higashikata in the CyberConnect2 developed JoJo's Bizarre Adventure games, and Rufus in the Street Fighter franchise. On April 2, 2018 he announced his marriage with fellow voice actress Mai Hashimoto.
Filmography
- 2026To You in the Beyond — Shōji Aiba (voice)
- 2025Be Forever Yamato Rebel 3199: Part 4: Light Blue Maiden (Sasha)
- 2025Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback — Atsunobu Hayashi (voice)
- Harmony of Mille-Feuille — Male Light Music Club Member (voice)
- I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons — Nadir (voice)
- 2025IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 1 — Gaku Yaotome (voice)
- 2025IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 2 — Gaku Yaotome (voice)
- The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei: He Just Solves All the Mysteries — Takeshi "Take-bō" Kōta (voice)
- U Takes Terra — Chiave (Voice)
- 2024Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199: Part 1: Dark Invasion — Bando Heiji (voice)
- Duel Masters LOST
- Egumi Legacy — God Eyes / Wild Feces (voice)
- FAIRY TAIL 100 YEARS QUEST — Gajeel (voice), Gazeel (voice)
- Fate/strange Fake — Orlando Reeve (voice)
- I Parry Everything — Sain (voice)
- Star Blazers [Space Battleship Yamato] 2205: The New Voyage — Bandou Heiji
- The Demon Prince of Momochi House — Takamura Nachi (voice)
- Uzumaki — Okada (voice)
- Vampire Dormitory — Komori (voice)
- 2023Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- — Orlando Reeve (voice)
- Horimiya: The Missing Pieces — Masamune Sasaki (voice)
- 2023IDOLiSH7 7th Anniversary Event "ONLY ONCE, ONLY 7TH" — Gaku Yaotome
- My Daemon — Kouya Kokonoe (voice)
- Rurouni Kenshin — Anji Yukyuzan (voice)
- The Legendary Hero Is Dead! — Belarco (voice)
- Bibliophile Princess — Theodore Warren Ashelard (voice)
- 2022Bubble — Osawa (voice)
- Housing Complex C — Seichi Koshide (voice)
- 2022Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1 — Ulrich Kessler
- Mamekichi Mameko – The Daily Life of a NEET — Poniki / Simba (voice)
- Orient — Hideo Kosameda (voice), Theme Song Performance
- Reincarnated as a Sword — Klimt (voice)
- The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting — Rei Hojo (voice)
- 宇宙戦艦ヤマト2205 新たなる旅立ち 後章 -STASHA- — Bandou Heiji (voice)
- Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! — Motojirō Kajii (voice)
- 2021DAKAICHI - I'm being harassed by the sexiest man of the year - the Movie: Spain Arc — Kiyotaka Arisu (voice)
- Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation — Timothy (voice)
- Muteking the Dancing Hero — George (voice)
- Shadows House — Edward (voice)
- 2021Space Battleship Yamato 2205: The New Voyage - Prior Chapter: Take Off — Bandou Heiji
- Super Crooks — the Praetorian (voice)
- Taisho Otome Fairy Tale — Tamasuke Manabe (voice)
- The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window — Rihito Hiyakawa (voice)
- 宇宙戦艦ヤマト2205 新たなる旅立ち 前章 -TAKE OFF- — Bandou Heiji (voice)
- JUJUTSU KAISEN — Haruta Shigemo (voice)
- 2020Marudase Kintarou — Inukai (voice)
- Moriarty the Patriot — Burton (voice)
- The Misfit of Demon King Academy — Spirit King (voice), Shin Reglia (voice)
- 2020Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather — Chikara Doumeki (voice)
- Uchitama?! Have You Seen My Tama? — Gon Noda (voice)
- Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! — Hamada (voice)
- Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon — Meidomaru (voice)
- 2019A3! SECOND Blooming FESTIVAL
- Amazing Stranger — Haruto Bouida (voice)
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — (voice)
- Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! — Nano-chan (voice)
- Mysteria Friends — Owen
- Bakumatsu — 吉田松阴（配音）
- Captain Tsubasa — Hikaru Matsuyama (voice)
- Caramel Honey — Yuusei Horiguchi
- DAKAICHI -I'm being harassed by the sexiest man of the year- — Kiyotaka Arisu (voice)
- Fate/Extra Last Encore — Julius B. Harway (voice)
- IDOLiSH7 Vibrato — Gaku Yaotome (voice)
- Killing Bites — Yuuya Nomoto (voice)
- Magical Girl Ore — (voice), Theme Song Performance
- Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation — Paige Krauss (voice)
- My Sweet Tyrant — Kubomura Takumi
- Pop Team Epic
- Sanrio Boys
- Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san
- 2018The Laws of the Universe: The Age of Reimei — Eisuke (voice)
- 7O3X Fastest Finger First — Yosuke Ashiya (voice)
- ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. — Gurus (voice)
- 2017Dance with Devils: Fortuna — Lindo Tachibana
- Escha Chron — Hayata Kasai (voice)
- 2017Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry — Gajeel Redfox (voice)
- Fox Spirit Matchmaker — Haku Gauche
- 2017Kuroko's Basketball the Movie: Last Game — Reo Mibuchi (voice)
- Never Give Up! Magical Girl Kurumi — Isamu Takahashi
- Sakura Quest — Katsumi Kumano (voice)
- The Laughing Salesman NEW — Junichi Naoki(Story4)
- Bungo Stray Dogs — Motojirou Kajii
- D.Gray-man Hallow — Bak Chan (voice)
- Hundred — Fritz Granz (voice)
- KONOSUBA - God's blessing on this wonderful world! — Keith (voice)
- Magi: Adventure of Sinbad — Spartos Leoxses (voice)
- Magic-Kyun! Renaissance — 庵條 瑠衣
- Mob Psycho 100 — Taro (voice)
- My Hero Academia — Hitoshi Shinso (voice)
- Ninja Girl & Samurai Master — Nobunaga Oda
- ReLIFE — Koushi Usa (voice)
- The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi — Ryo Sakaguchi (voice)
- Yuri!!! on Ice — Theme Song Performance
- Actually, I Am... — Sakurada (voice)
- Dance with Devils — Lindo Tachibana
- 2015Fw：ハマトラ — Theme Song Performance
- One-Punch Man — Metal Bat (voice)
- The Heroic Legend of Arslan — Jaswant (voice)
- 2015The Laws of the Universe - Part 0 — Eisuke (voice)
- World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman — Sir Edward Lambert (voice)
- Baby Steps — Hiroshi Araya (voice)
- Engaged to the Unidentified — Hakuya Mitsumine (voice)
- Hamatora — Murasaki
- Momokyun Sword — Inugami (voice)
- No-Rin — Kei Kamatori (voice)
- Ace of the Diamond — Tooru Masuko (voice)
- Unlimited Psychic Squad — You Fujiura (voice), Yo Fujiura (voice)
- Valvrave the Liberator — Kibukawa Takumi (voice)
- 声優戦隊ボイストーム7 — (voice)
- B-Daman Fireblast
- Chitose Get You!! — Chitose-Dad, Hiroshi Kashiwabara
- 2012Fairy Tail: Phoenix Priestess — Gajeel Redfox (voice)
- Listen to Me, Girls. I'm Your Father! — Yuta Segawa (voice)
- Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos — Yoichi Takehiko
- Our Home's Fox Deity — Gyokuyou Tenko (voice)
- A Bridge to the Starry Skies — Daigo Minamikokubaru (voice)
- Battle Spirits: Heroes — Arata Yakushiji (voice)
- Gakuen 3: Karei Naru Etsujoku — Chiba Kagetora (voice)
- THE iDOLM@STER — Host Sports Event (voice)
- 2011The Voice Makes a Miracle
- Love Pistols — (voice)
- 2010Sex Pistols — Shiro Fujiwara
- 07-Ghost — Haruse
- Fairy Tail — Gajeel Redfox (voice)
- From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke — Toru Sanada (voice), Aono (voice)
- 2009Tailenders — Shiro Tomoe (voice)
- Whispered Words — Norio Kazama (voice)
- Blade of the Immortal — Makoto (voice)
- Blassreiter — Igor
- 2008Kirepapa. — Takatsukasa, Chidori (voice)
- Kirepapa. — Takatsukasa Chidori
- Monochrome Factor — Shuichi Wagatsuma
- The Hill Dyed Rose Madder — Jun'ichi Nagase
- Kiss Dum: Engage Planet — Vice captain
- Mushi-Uta
- No Mone — Misao Kuba
- No Money — Kuba Misao
- 2007Takumi-kun Series: And the Spring Breeze Whispers — Yoshizawa Michio
- Toward the Terra
- Angel's Feather — Nakajou Yuuto (voice)
- Magical Pokaan — Tan
- 2006Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams — Roberto Frois (voice)
- Ouran High School Host Club — Ritsu Kasanoda, Ritsu Kasanoda (voice)
- Animal Lane — Papa / Sayuki / Maguro Pillow (voice)
- Aria — Himeya Staff Member B (voice), Atsushi (voice)
- Basilisk — Chikuma Koshiro (voice)
- MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance — Hamelin
- Twin Princess of Wonder Planet — Truth
- Bleach — Hidetomo Kajomaru (voice)
- Fantastic Children — Soran (voice)
- The Galaxy Railways — Edwin Silver (voice)
- Yumeria
- Kamen Rider — Yeti Megiddo (voice)
- Gugumi-chan — Father (voice)
- Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Storm Breaks — Chikara Doumeki (voice)