Jun'ichi Kanemaru (金丸淳一, born on October 27th, 1963) is a Japanese voice actor and singer who provides voices in the Japanese version of Thomas & Friends.
He is most famous as the current voice to "Sonic the Hedgehog", Pat the Hammer from "Handy Manny", Swiper the Fox from "Dora the Explorer", Cracker-kun from "Soreike! Anpanman", and Harley from the "Pokémon" anime.
Voices
- Henry (Calling All Engines! onwards, excluding Day of the Diesels and Edward the Hero)
- Porter (seventeenth season onwards, excluding Thomas the Quarry Engine)
- Carlos
- Owen
- The Photographer (Wild Water Rescue)
- The Dairy Manager (thirteenth season only)
- Some Sodor Search and Rescue Centre Workers (Helping Hiro)
- A Steelworks Worker (Journey Beyond Sodor)
Songs
- Will You Won't You (performed)
- Be Who You Are, and Go Far (performed)
Trivia
- Kanemaru is well known for using English while doing his lines.
- Both he and Gerardo García voiced Harley from "Pokémon" in their respective languages.
- Adriana Casas, Loukas Frangoulis, Piotr Bąk, Paul Disbergen, Mikołaj Klimek, Bartosz Martyna, Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Dor Srugo, Mildred Barrera, Roberto Gutiérrez, Finn Poncin, Hinako Sasaki, Shinichirō Miki, Hisao Egawa, Javier Olguín, Kōichi Sakaguchi, Katsuji Mori, Susa Saukko, Janusz Wituch, Pasi Ruohonen, Dariusz Błażejewski, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Waldemar Barwiński, Artur Pontek, Hiroshi Tsuchida, Krzysztof Szczerbiński, Josie Yee, Diana Pérez, Grzegorz Drojewski, Klaudiusz Kaufmann, Mayra Arellano, Sander de Heer, Hiroko Emori, Naomi Shindō, Justyna Bojczuk, Miłogost Reczek, Tsutomu Densaka, Bruno Coronel, Xóchitl Ugarte, Miguel Ángel Leal, Noriko Shitaya, Anna Gajewska, Gaby Ugarte, Hiro Nakajima, Roberto Mendiola, Chikara Osaka, Kan Tanaka, Yohei Nishina, Salvador Reyes, Yuri Shiratori, Bin Shimada, Ángel Amorós, Kenta Miyake, Keiko Toda, Octavio Rojas, Masaharu Satō, Trond Teigen, Kiyonobu Suzuki, Talya Barkay, Yehonatan Magon, Kumiko Higa, Nir Ron, Joanna Pach-Żbikowska, Scott Maurstad, Olga Kuznetsova, Jan Kulczycki, Moisés Iván Mora, Tomohiro Nishimura, Piotr Bajtlik, Hideki Takahashi, Alan Prieto, Beata Jankowska-Tzimas, Tetsu Inada, Nobutoshi Canna, Krystyna Kozanecka, Masayuki Omoro, Simen Sand, Gadi Levy, Paweł Szczesny, Erik Skjøld, Leonardo García, Dafnis Fernández, Adrian Perdjon, Józef Mika, Lena Meieran, Manuel Campuzano, César Árias, Dulce Guerrero, Armando Coria, Salvador Serrano, Leyla Rangel, Samuel Harjanne, Cezary Kwieciński, Hikaru Midorikawa, Juha Paananen, Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque, José Ángel Torres, Elise Langenoja and Pauli Virta have also worked on it.
- He, Chiara Oliviero, Yigal Mizrachi, Peter Lawson, Nozomu Sasaki and Hadar Shachaf Ma'ayan have all worked on "Dora the Explorer".