Actress. Tomoko Kawakami was a Japanese voice actress. Having graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music, she was affiliated with Production Baobab at the time of her death. She provided the voices for a large number of characters in the Anime video games, movies, and television features popular in Japan. Kawakami debuted in 1994 as a role of a boy in "Metal Fighter Miku." Her first regular performance was in 1995 as 'Chiriko' in "Fushigi Yuugi." Two years after, she landed her first starring voice role as 'Utena Tenjou' in "Revolutionary Girl Utena." Aside from 'Chiriko' and 'Utena,' her famous roles are in "Air" (Misuzu Kamio), "Bleach" (Soifon), "Chrono Crusade" (Rosette Christopher), "Hikaru no Go" (Hikaru Shindo), "Sgt. Frog" (Fuyuki Hinata), "Ape Escape" (Natsumi), "Yukiko Kawasaki" (Dear Boys), "A Little Snow Fairy Sugar" (Sugar) and "Aria" (Athena Glory). Kawakami provided voices for young boys, girls and comical characters. The best-known genre of her roles are tomboyish characters. With such a powerful voice, she was often affiliated in paranormal and yuri-themed anime. She also made her name voicing the heroine in the "Harukanaru Toki no Naka de" series, based from the Neoromance game with the same title produced by Koei in 2000.
Actress. Tomoko Kawakami was a Japanese voice actress. Having graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music, she was affiliated with Production Baobab at the time of her death. She provided the voices for a large number of characters in the Anime video games, movies, and television features popular in Japan. Kawakami debuted in 1994 as a role of a boy in "Metal Fighter Miku." Her first regular performance was in 1995 as 'Chiriko' in "Fushigi Yuugi." Two years after, she landed her first starring voice role as 'Utena Tenjou' in "Revolutionary Girl Utena." Aside from 'Chiriko' and 'Utena,' her famous roles are in "Air" (Misuzu Kamio), "Bleach" (Soifon), "Chrono Crusade" (Rosette Christopher), "Hikaru no Go" (Hikaru Shindo), "Sgt. Frog" (Fuyuki Hinata), "Ape Escape" (Natsumi), "Yukiko Kawasaki" (Dear Boys), "A Little Snow Fairy Sugar" (Sugar) and "Aria" (Athena Glory). Kawakami provided voices for young boys, girls and comical characters. The best-known genre of her roles are tomboyish characters. With such a powerful voice, she was often affiliated in paranormal and yuri-themed anime. She also made her name voicing the heroine in the "Harukanaru Toki no Naka de" series, based from the Neoromance game with the same title produced by Koei in 2000.
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