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Gaku Space (born Gaku Oshiro on May 7, 1979) is a Japanese-born actor and martial artist based in Los Angeles, internationally recognized for his voice acting and motion capture work in high-profile video games and television. He achieved global stardom as the voice and physical performer behind the cybernetic ninja Genji Shimada in Blizzard Entertainment’s massive franchise Overwatch (2016) and its sequel Overwatch 2 (2022). A highly skilled martial artist with a background in Kendo and Kenjutsu, Space often performs his own stunts, which he demonstrated in his portrayal of Goki in the live-action series Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist (2014) and through his work in films like The Shake Up.
Overwatch is set sixty years into the future of a fictionalized Earth, thirty years after the resolution of what is known as the "Omnic Crisis." Before the Omnic Crisis, humanity had been in a golden age of prosperity and technology development. Humans developed robots with artificial intelligence called "Omnics", which were put to use to achieve economic equality, and began to be treated as people in their own right. The Omnic Crisis began when the worldwide automated "omnium" facilities that produced them started producing a series of lethal, hostile robots that attacked humankind. Initially, individual countries responded with various programs: the United States developed its Soldier Enhancement Program to produce elite fighters, for example, while Germany assembled the knight-like Crusaders. When these efforts failed to ward off the Omnics, the United Nations quickly formed Overwatch, an international task force combining these individual programs to combat this threat and restore order.
