In Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Naruto Uzumaki is voiced by Junko Takeuchi in the Japanese version and Maile Flanagan in the English dub. Takeuchi is the longtime original voice of Naruto across the Japanese anime franchise, including Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, and Boruto.
Japanese Voice Actor: Junko Takeuchi
Date of Birth
April 5, 1972. Public filmography and biography sources list Junko Takeuchi as being born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, on that date.
About Junko
Junko Takeuchi is a Japanese voice actress and stage performer best known for voicing energetic young male protagonists. Her signature role is Naruto Uzumaki, but she is also widely recognized for roles such as Gon Freecss in the 1999 Hunter × Hunter, Metabee in Medabots, Takuya Kanbara in Digimon Frontier, and Mamoru Endō in Inazuma Eleven. Public profiles also identify her with Ogipro The Next and note her long-running reputation for “boy hero” performances.
Hometown
Junko Takeuchi’s hometown is publicly documented as Saitama Prefecture, Japan. I did not find a more specific city consistently confirmed in the sources reviewed.
Career Highlights
Takeuchi’s defining career achievement is anchoring Naruto Uzumaki for more than two decades in Japanese-language anime and related media. Beyond Naruto, her standout credits include Gon Freecss (Hunter × Hunter, 1999), Metabee (Medabots), Mokuba Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters), Dieter (Monster), Rin Natsuki / Cure Rouge (Yes! PreCure 5), Mamoru Endō (Inazuma Eleven), and Croix Meridies (Little Witch Academia). These roles show the range that made her one of anime’s most recognizable voices for spirited boys and tomboyish or forceful characters.
Full Current Filmography
The list below reflects documented public credits available from the cited sources and is organized by medium. Because public databases can vary and not every source is equally complete, this should be treated as a source-backed documented filmography, not a guaranteed exhaustive master list.
Anime
1997
- Rurouni Kenshin — Honjō Kamatari
- Photon — Photon Earth
1998
- Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers — Moon
1999
- Super Life-Form Transformers: Beast Wars Neo — Break
- Digimon Adventure — Gomamon
- Hunter × Hunter — Gon Freecss
- Medabots — Metabee
2000
- Digimon Adventure 02 — Gomamon
- Medabots Damashii — Metabee
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters — Mokuba Kaiba
2001
- Dennō Bōkenki Webdiver — Naoki
- Mōtto! Ojamajo Doremi — Masato Rinno, Kimitaka
- Read or Die — Fabre
- Ask Dr. Rin! — Yue Konishi, Tenshin
- Captain Tsubasa — Takeshi Sawada (young), Hajime Taki (young)
2002
- Naruto — Naruto Uzumaki, Akamaru
- Digimon Frontier — Takuya Kanbara
- Hanada Shōnen-shi — Hanada Tokuko
2003
- Zatch Bell! — Maruss, Ted
2004
- Monster — Dieter
2007 onward
- Yes! PreCure 5 / related entries — Rin Natsuki / Cure Rouge
2008 onward
- Inazuma Eleven / related entries — Mamoru Endō
2016
- Little Witch Academia — Croix Meridies
2017–2023
- Boruto: Naruto Next Generations — Naruto Uzumaki
Film / Anime Film
The sources reviewed identify Takeuchi with the broader Naruto screen franchise, including The Last: Naruto the Movie, and public databases also associate her with film work tied to her anime roles. However, I did not find a single official public page in this pass that cleanly listed all film credits in one place, so film credits should be verified title by title when absolute completeness is required.
Video Games
1997
- Puzzle Star Sweep — Domingo
1998
- Street Fighter Zero 3 — R. Mika
1999
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves — Hokutomaru
2001
- Hunter × Hunter: Altar of Dragon Vein — Gon Freecss
2003–present
- Naruto video games — Naruto Uzumaki
2005
- Radiata Stories — Jack Russell
- Ape Escape 3 — Satoru
- Quantum Leap Layzelber — Chyota
2007
- Corpse Seed — Honoka Yamato
2008
- Inazuma Eleven — Mamoru Endō
2009
- Inazuma Eleven 2 — Mamoru Endō
2010
- Inazuma Eleven 3 — Mamoru Endō, Kanon Endō
2011
- Inazuma Eleven Strikers — Mamoru Endō, Kanon Endō
- Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme — Mamoru Endō, Kanon Endō
- Inazuma Eleven GO — Mamoru Endō
2012
- Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone — Mamoru Endō
2013
- Inazuma Eleven GO: Galaxy — Mamoru Endō
2016
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links — Mokuba Kaiba
- Onmyoji — Zashiki Warashi
2017–2019
- Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble — Kuromi, Mamoru Endō
2019
- Fire Emblem Heroes — Louise, Lugh
2020
- Inazuma Eleven SD — Mamoru Endō
2021
- Cookie Run: Kingdom — GingerBrave
2024
- Genshin Impact — Ajaw
Dubbing / Other Voice Work
Public sources also list Takeuchi in dubbed and non-anime voice roles, including Billy Costa in The Golden Compass (TV Asahi edition), Jacob Bohm in Touch, Travis in Cop Car, and MrBeast in Japanese dubbing.
Critical Reception
Takeuchi is widely treated by anime reference sources and industry-facing databases as the definitive Japanese voice of Naruto, and her career is frequently highlighted through recurring mention of her major protagonist roles rather than through formal review aggregations. That matters because voice-acting criticism in anime often survives in cast profiles, interviews, and franchise coverage more than in standalone review essays. Across those sources, Naruto, Gon, Metabee, and Mamoru Endō are the roles most consistently used to define her stature.
For readers researching her work further, the most useful source trails are her IMDb profile and large anime/staff databases that catalog recurring credits across series and games.
English Voice Actor: Maile Flanagan
Date of Birth
May 19, 1965. Public biographical listings identify Maile Flanagan as born on that date in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
About Maile
Maile Flanagan is an American actress, comedian, and voice actor best known to anime fans as the English voice of Naruto Uzumaki, including Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. She is also widely known for voicing Piggley Winks in Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, a role that earned her a Daytime Emmy Award, and for playing Principal Perry in Disney XD’s Lab Rats. More recent public convention and industry bios also highlight her work on Not Dead Yet and Royal Crackers.
Hometown
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. I did not find a more specific hometown consistently documented in the sources reviewed.
Career Highlights
Flanagan’s defining role is Naruto. Public cast records and voice-actor databases consistently identify her as the English voice most associated with Naruto Uzumaki across the franchise, including the original Naruto series, Naruto: Shippuden, Boruto, multiple feature films, and many video games. Beyond Naruto, her best-known credits include Piggley Winks in Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, Principal Terry Perry in Lab Rats, and later work in Royal Crackers, Pig Goat Banana Cricket, and other animated series.
Full Current Filmography
The list below reflects documented public credits from the cited sources and is organized by medium. Because public databases vary in completeness, this should be read as a source-backed documented filmography rather than a guaranteed exhaustive master list of every appearance.
Television – Voice
1990s
- Men in Black: The Series — Old crone / Bully
- Oh Yeah! Cartoons — Boy
2000
- Jackie Chan Adventures — Maynard
2003–2006
- Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks — Young Piggley Winks / Fergal O’Hopper
2003
- Astro Boy — Matthew (English dub)
2005–2009
- Naruto — Naruto Uzumaki (English dub)
2007–2009
- Back at the Barnyard — Macy the Lamb
2009–2019
- Naruto: Shippuden — Naruto Uzumaki (English dub)
2010
- Fish Hooks — Sunny
2015
- Shimmer and Shine — Grunts
2015–2017
- Pig Goat Banana Cricket — JR Barton
2016
- Bunsen Is a Beast — Mikey Munroe (pilot)
2017–2022
- Boruto: Naruto Next Generations — Naruto Uzumaki (English version)
2022
- Harriet the Spy — credited by TV Guide among her later TV voice/on-camera credits
2023–present
- Royal Crackers — Matt Hornsby
Television – Live Action
1998
- MADtv — Chaz Bono (uncredited)
2001
- Gideon’s Crossing — Nurse Daley
- Citizen Baines — Carmen
- 61 — Housewife
2005
- Hot Properties — Woman
2006
- Lovespring International — Ruth Hardwood
- Desperate Housewives — Cashier
- ER — Elaine Martinelli
- Big Day — Linda
2005–2007
- Grey’s Anatomy — Lab Tech
2006–2007
- The Class — Penny
Later documented TV credits in public listings
- The Office
- Weeds
- iCarly
- In the Motherhood
- Shameless
- Last Man Standing
- Bad Teacher
- Mike & Molly
- Modern Family
- The Mindy Project
- Lab Rats / Lab Rats: Bionic Island / Lab Rats: Elite Force — Principal Terry Perry
- Not Dead Yet — recurring role noted in convention/industry bio
Film
Public credits across major entertainment databases list Flanagan in the following films and anime features:
- Overnight Delivery
- The Station Agent
- Phone Booth
- Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring
- Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
- Naruto the Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel
- Naruto the Movie 3: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom
- The Number 23
- Evan Almighty
- Yes Man
- 500 Days of Summer
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Naruto Shippuden the Movie
- Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds
- Naruto Shippuden the Movie 3: Inheritors of the Will of Fire
- Rango
- Naruto Shippuden: The Lost Tower
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Naruto Shippuden: Blood Prison
- Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie
- The Last: Naruto the Movie
- Boruto: Naruto the Movie
- Ava & Lala
- Teacher of the Year
- Wrong
- Janeane From Des Moines
- Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King
- 3 Bears Christmas
- Work Wife
- My Babysitter the Super Hero
Video Games
Documented public game credits strongly center on Naruto, with listings including:
2006
- Naruto: Clash of Ninja — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: Ninja Council — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja — Naruto Uzumaki
2007
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: Rise of a Ninja — Naruto Uzumaki
2008
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: The Broken Bond — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto: Ninja Destiny — Naruto Uzumaki
2009
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4 — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto Shippuden: Legends: Akatsuki Rising — Naruto Uzumaki
2010
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto Shippuden: Dragon Blade Chronicles — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 — Naruto Uzumaki
2011
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact — Naruto Uzumaki
- Naruto Shippuden: Kizuna Drive — Naruto Uzumaki
2012
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations — Naruto Uzumaki
2013
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 — Naruto Uzumaki
2023
- Naruto x Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections — Naruto Uzumaki
Critical Reception
Flanagan’s reputation is anchored by both franchise longevity and formal recognition. She won the 2006 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, and public awards listings also show an Annie Award nomination for that performance. That makes her one of the rarer English-dub anime leads whose broader animation work also received mainstream U.S. awards attention.
For Naruto specifically, public cast databases consistently treat her as the English voice most identified with the character across TV, film, and games. That continuity is a major part of why fans and convention bios frame her performance as definitive for the dub audience.
Useful source links for further reading:
Maile Flanagan profile on Behind The Voice Actors (https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Maile-Flanagan/)
Maile Flanagan convention bio on CESD Conventions (https://cesd-conventions.com/talent-maile-flanagan/)
33rd Annie Awards archive (https://annieawards.org/legacy/33rd-annie-awards)
Social Media
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