In the same field as the late Kazunari Tanaka, Ugaki is a veteran Bit Player in the voice acting industry; spreading wide from Japanese animation, to western animation dubs, to foreign film dubbing, Ugaki roams from scene to scene firmly clasping his spear and supporting a vast variety of more colorful high-profile cast members. He has, however, also landed some larger roles, perhaps most notably the mercurial, larger-than-life, one-eyed gangster Goro Majima in the Like a Dragon series of video games.
While Tanaka's forte were mainly the ordinary dudes, Ugaki lands more of the big guys, antagonizers, villains, and mooks.
Among his ocean of projects, his breakthrough was for his performance in YuYu Hakusho. And has since taken on Long-Runners to this date within Anpanman, Case Closed, and Nintama Rantarou.
However, Ugaki does have one-hit wonders, check the list below to see who they are.
Outside of animation projects, Ugaki is commonly heard narrating non-animation television commercials.
When you look at it from a perspective, we may have been living in a world that applies the "Hidenari Ugaki Everywhere" system...
Ugaki's One-Hit Wonders:
- Argo Gulskii of Mobile Fighter G Gundam
- Donatello of the TV Tokyo edition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
- Harumichi Bouya of Crows (The OVA)
Notable works with Ugaki's performance (Less bit roles will be noted):
- Anpanman
- Bakusou Kyoudai! Let's & Go!!
- Case Closed
- Chūka Ichiban!
- CLAMP School Detectives
- Crayon Shin-chan
- Goro Majima of the Like a Dragon series
- H2
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Khan
- The Kindaichi Case Files
- Nintama Rantarou
- Rebuild of Evangelion
- Run with the Wind
- Street Fighter V — Birdie
- Tekken — Ganryu
- Unicorn Overlord — Mordon
- YuYu Hakusho
- Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger — Voffa
