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Became the Japanese voice of SpongeBob SquarePants from the first movie onwards.

He was a special lecturer at the Japan Art College.

He joined the Himawari Theater Company at a young age, and his first stage appearance was in 1977 at Geijutsuza Theater 's in "A Woman's Legacy".

He was attached to Aoni Production.

Taiki Matsuno was a Japanese actor and voice actor.

His first role with lines and a name was as a baker in the Ken-chan series.

His vocal range is A - E(F).

In special effects films, he often played comical monsters and witty villains .

In the reading theater Tachiyomi organized by Matsuno, regular performers include the aforementioned Yuji Mitsuya and Yuko Minaguchi, as well as Kaori Nazuka and Daisuke Kishio .

He was a lecturer at the Voice Actor Department of the Omori Campus of the Nippon Art College.

In elementary and middle school, he served as a class representative, and was also in charge of giving the closing speech at school sports days .

In " Kyukyu Sentai GoGoFive ," he once scolded the actors playing the untransformed GoGoFive because they were not used to dubbing and did not try to synchronize the timing of the lines they were saying. This prompted the members to decide who would say "Ready, go!", and in subsequent Sentai productions, a person would be chosen to say "Ready, go!".

He was selected to play the lead role of Kindaichi Hajime in the TV anime " The Kindaichi Case Files ," which is considered one of Matsuno's representative works.

He was a part-time lecturer at the Media and Information Department of Josai International University .

At the age of 16 , he appeared on the radio show Animetopia as Mitsuya Yuji 's younger brother.

Although he used a high-pitched voice to voice SpongeBob, he said in an interview that "SpongeBob's voice has a lot of ups and downs, so it's hard on your throat," and that sometimes his throat couldn't handle it during recording .

One year before joining the Himawari Theater Company, when he was in the second grade of elementary school, he was hit by a van that was turning as he tried to cross the road, despite looking both ways. He was hospitalized for about 40 days, and was on the brink of death, so he was not allowed to have visitors . His injuries were so severe that the flesh on the top of his right foot was ripped off by the tire and brain fluid came out of his ear. He does not remember the moment of the collision, but after the anesthesia wore off, he vomited and it was very painful . After being discharged from the hospital, he stayed at home for one to two weeks, and then went to school, but at first he did not attend classes with the other students, but was given special lessons little by little by his teachers after school .

His family ran a spring factory, and he helped out in his spare time.

He was also a lecturer at Yoyogi Animation Academy for a time. One of his students at Josai International University was Daisuke Sakuma of the idol group Snow Man .

At the age of 10, he made his voice acting debut in "Le Petit Prince".