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Neil Kaplan
Neil Charles Kaplan is an American voice actor, audiobook narrator, entertainer, and comedian. His most well known voice roles are Hawkmon from ''Digimon'', Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto from ''Bleach (TV series), Bleach'', Emperor Zarkon from ''Voltron: Legendary Defender'' and Madara Uchiha from ''Naruto''. Biography Kaplan got his start as a comedian doing impressions of presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. He also impersonated a little-known journalist at the time, Dan Rather. He then started work on video games, including several ''Star Wars'' titles. From there he went on to do such shows as ''Power Rangers'', ''Digimon: Digital Monsters'' and ''Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 TV series), Transformers: Robots in Disguise''. He was once a contestant on the game show ''Street Smarts (game show), Street Smarts''. On that appearance, he showed off some of his other impressions, including one of Gilbert Gottfried. He was a guest to the Power Morphicon (in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digimon
, short for "Digital Monsters" ( ''Dejitaru Monsutā''), is a Japanese media franchise, which encompasses virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films, and a trading card game. The franchise focuses on the eponymous creatures who inhabit a digital world, a Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universe which originated from Earth's various communication networks. The franchise was created in 1997 as Digital Monster, a series of digital pets, and it was intended as the masculine counterpart to Tamagotchi. The creatures were designed to look cute and iconic on the devices' small screens. Later developments had them created with a harder-edged style, which was influenced by American comics. The franchise gained momentum with an early video game, ''Digimon World'', originally released in Japan in January 1999. Several anime series and films have been released; List of Digimon video games, the video game series has expanded into various genres, such as role-playing video game, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
