Kikuko Inoue
Kikuko Inoue (Japanese: 井上喜久子 Inoue Kikuko) is a Japanese voice actress for the Pokémon anime.
Biography
Inoue was born on September 25, 1964, in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. She became a voice actress as an adult and pursued a prolific voicing career since the late 1980s, being typecast in girlfriend or maternal roles, as well as sultry and provocative ones. She also pursued a singing career, becoming part of two singing groups, DoCo and Goddess Family Club. Inoue joined the Pokémon anime during Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, temporarily voicing Nurse Joy. However, her most famous roles in that work are Fantina and Dawn's Togekiss. Inoue married in May 1996 and had one child, Honoka, who also became a voice actress. She founded her own talent agency, Office Anemone, of which she is also the manager.
Pokémon roles
Humans
Pokémon
Other non-Pokémon roles
- Akane Sonozaki (Higurashi When They Cry)
- Belldandy (Ah My Goddess!)
- Yukariko Sanada (My-HiME)
- Kasumi Tendo (Ranma ½)
- Reiko Aya (Sailor Moon Stars)
- Aina Sahalin (Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team)
- Media (Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water)
- Izayoi (InuYasha)
- Rune Venus (El-Hazard)
- Grace (Macross Frontier)
- Lust (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
- Elza (Gall Force)
- Haruna (Tenchi Muyo! In Love 2)
- Jamie Seed (Snatcher)
- Karen Houjou (Policenauts)
- The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
- Princess Melora (Twinbee Paradise)
- Luna Noah (Lunar: The Silver Star)
- Goddess Althena (Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete)
- Philia Phyllis (Tales of Destiny)
- Lusiris (Langrisser III)
- Lobelia Carlini (Sakura Wars)
- Shatoyan (Galaxy Angel PS2 game)
- Oratorio Tangram (Virtual-On)
- Maria Belmont (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow)
- Sōko Chiyoda (Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation)
- Liala (The Testament of Sister New Devil Burst)
- Torino Kazami (Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)
- Arisu Himeno (Myriad Colors Phantom World)
- Sephie Michaela Deviluke (To Love-Ru Darkness (OVA))
- Yuka Sankrei (Alderamin on the Sky)
- Olga Strand (In Another World With My Smartphone)
- Macrophage (Cells at Work!)
- Minerva Orland (Fairy Tail)
- Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil Village)
Video game roles
- Durga (Asura's Wrath)
Trivia
- Inoue's daughter Honoka voiced a minor role in Pokémon Generations.
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