Yumiko Kobayashi
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Yumiko Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林由美子 Kobayashi Yumiko) is a Japanese voice actress for the Pokémon anime.
Biography
Kobayashi was born on June 18, 1979, in Yōkaichiba (now Sōsa), Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As an adult, she became a voice actress and was initially affiliated with the talent agency Arts Vision, but she started freelancing in August 2007. Kobayashi occasionally lent her voice to the Pokémon anime during the original series and Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire. Then, during Pokémon the Series: Black & White, she landed her best-known role in that anime, which was Nimbasa City Gym Leader Elesa. She is married and has two children.
Pokémon roles
Anime
Video games
- Bugsy (Masters EX)
- Trainer voices (Masters EX)
Other non-Pokémon roles
- Lio Junior (Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers)
- Excel Kobayashi (Excel Saga)
- Sarah McDougal (Love Hina)
- Shobu Kirifuda, Katta Kirifuda (Duel Masters)
- Beruru (Mirmo!)
- Young Takeshi Saehara (D.N.Angel)
- Ukitsu (Ikki Tousen)
- Ichimura Tetsunosuke (Peacemaker Kurogane)
- Bokkun (Sonic X)
- Taichi Dun (The Prince of Tennis)
- Nawaki (Naruto)
- Genkimaru (Superior Defender Gundam Force)
- Kazuma Azuma (Yakitate!! Japan)
- Mahya Blythe (My-Otome)
- Young Kurogane (Tsubasa Chronicle)
- Gavroche (Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette)
- Matake Ogata (Shakugan no Shana)
- Ginger Bread (Reborn!)
- Black Star (Soul Eater)
- Saiji Kirigakure (Inazuma Eleven)
- Oyama (Angel Beats!)
- Yohei (Blue Exorcist)
- Kirio Hyūga (Kamisama Dolls)
- Souta Minamino (Suite PreCure)
- Mead (The Seven Deadly Sins)
- Scarlett O'Hada (Gunslinger Stratos)
- Lest Karr (Seraph of the End)
- Yūta Iridatsu (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)
- Joe Kirifuda (Duel Masters)
- Shinnosuke Nohara (Crayon Shin-chan)
- Pippo (Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops—Winged Angels)
Trivia
- Kobayashi is a member of the voice actress quartet "Prits". Two of its other members, Natsuko Kuwatani and Nana Mizuki, have also voiced characters for the Pokémon anime.
External links
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