Kōichi Sakaguchi (坂口候一, born on 10 February 1968) is a Japanese voice actor who provides voices for the Japanese version of Thomas & Friends.
Before joining, he was well known for his various roles from "Pokémon". Other roles include Dinko from "Pet Alien", Raimon Souichirou and Nikaidou Shuugo from "Inazuma Eleven", Prince Hata from "Gintama", and Cid from the "Final Fantasy" series.
Voices
- Ferdinand
- Etienne
- Victor
- Beresford
- Lord Callan (nineteenth season onwards, excluding the twentieth season)
- The Dock Manager (eighteenth season onwards)
- The Grumpy Passenger (Duncan and the Grumpy Passenger, Reds vs. Blues and P.A. Problems)
- Sailor John
- Thomas' Driver (Hero of the Rails)
- Thomas' Fireman (Hero of the Rails)
- Some Sodor United Football Players (Reds vs. Blues)
- A Quarry Worker (P.A. Problems)
- Some Dock Workers (Cranky at the End of the Line)
Songs
- Who's Thomas? (performed)
- The Most Important Thing is Being Friends (performed)
Trivia
- He, along with Kunihiro Kawamoto and Tsutomu Densaka voiced characters from "Pet Alien".
- Both he and Kiyonobu Suzuki voiced Gengar from "Pokémon".
- Both he and Gadi Levy, who also voices Victor and Ferdinand, voiced Raoul Contesta 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, Katsuji Mori, Susa Saukko, Janusz Wituch, Pasi Ruohonen, Dariusz Błażejewski, Waldemar Barwiński, Junichi Kanemaru, 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, Gerardo García, 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, Markus Bäckman, Jorge Ornelas, Henri Piispanen, Arto Nieminen, Timo Kinzel, Katharina von Keller and Pauli Virta have also worked on it.
- He, Alan Prieto, Juan Navarro Torelló, Yuta Odagaki, César Díaz Capilla, Ángel Amorós, Stan Limburg and Nigel Pilkington have all worked on "Inazuma Eleven".