Taeko Kawata is a Japanese voice actress born March 20, 1965. She is best known by fans from across the globe as the Japanese voice of Amy Rose in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Because of her child-like vocal range, she is often cast as young girls or mini moe-type characters that hadn't reached puberty or some that are cheery at times (compare Satomi Koorogi, Mika Kanai, Ikue Otani, Yuri Shiratori and Yukari Tamura in this example).
Not to say that one of her only roles, she occasionally plays against her own type as being shy or being emotionless. It seems Amy's moe-like persona is Taeko's signature move, as some of her other characters have the same persona.
She occasionally appears in some anime with Jun'ichi Kanemaru (whom she's worked with in the Sonic games since 1998), and has a Twitter account.
Characters portrayed by Taeko Kawata:
- Yuuki Tachibana in Cardcaptor Sakura
- Pura in the Japanese version of Crash Team Racing
- The Level 4 Akuma in D.Gray-Man
- Mio Hio in D.N.Angel
- Arale Norimaki & Mame Soramame in the 1997 Doctor Slump series (she darrined Mami Koyama as Arale & both Yumi Nakatani & Noriko Uemura as Mame)
- Pretty Cure:
- Nozomi in Futari wa Pretty Cure MaX Heart
- Marquis in Futari Wa Pretty Cure Max Heart The Movie
- Chocola in Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! The Movie: Happy Birthday in the Land of Sweets (includes Pretty Cure All Stars)
- Chypre in Heart Catch Pretty Cure (includes All Stars)
- Shizuka Joestar in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
- Sweetie Belle in the Japanese dub of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Shino in episode 15 of Pita-Ten
- Hisami Hishiishi in R.O.D The TV
- Momoko Momohara in Sailor Moon
- Tanpopo Teramoto in Seraphim Call
- Amy Rose in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
- Dorothy the nurse in Strange+
- Suzu Fujibayashi in Tales of Phantasia
- Cinnamon/Cinnamoroll in Sanrio's Cinnamon the Movie (also the current voice of the character in Japan)
- Maggie Simpson in the Japanese dub of The Simpsons
- Kimba/Leo in the 2009 movie Jungle Taitei – Yūki ga Mirai wo Kaeru
- Tiny in the Japanese dub of Gigantosaurus
- Baby Butter in the Japanese dub of PB&J Otter
- Kirby in a Kirby's Adventure drama CD from 1994
- Nozomi Waku in Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho
