Follow

∇

troperville

∇

tools

∇

toys

SubpagesMain

---

main index

Narrative

• Universal
• Applied Phlebotinum
• Characterization
• Characters
• Characters As Device
• Dialogue
• Motifs
• Narrative Devices
• Paratext
• Plots
• Settings
• Spectacle

Genre

• Action Adventure
• Comedy
• Commercials
• Crime And Punishment
• Drama
• Horror
• Love
• News
• Professional Wrestling
• Speculative Fiction
• Sports Story
• War

Media

• Animation (Western)
• Anime
• Comic Book
• Fan Fics
• Film
• Game
• Literature
• Music And Sound Effects
• New Media
• Print Media
• Radio
• Sequential Art
• Tabletop Games
• Television
• Theater
• Videogame
• Webcomics

Topical Tropes

• Betrayal
• Censorship
• Combat
• Death
• Family
• Fate And Prophecy
• Food
• Holiday
• Memory
• Money
• Morality
• Politics
• Religion
• School

Other Categories

• British Telly
• The Contributors
• Creator Speak
• Creators
• Derivative Works
• Did Not Do The Research
• Language
• Laws And Formulas
• Show Business
• Split Personality
• Stock Room
• Trope
• Truth And Lies
• Truth In Television

Describe Kujira here.

A Whale. Or what Shigeru Chiba gave her as a nickname.

Wakako Matsumoto is a voice actress whose forte is crossdressing voices, hoarse and androgynous. Thus, many of her roles are Bishounen, or the Hot Mom. At her most raspy, she could easily be confused for a Japanese Dr. Girlfriend.

Most notorious as the landlady Otose in Gintama and Orochimaru in Naruto.

Notable roles:

• Bamboo Blade ('Old Hag')
• Beyblade (Nobuo)
• Ayashi No Ceres (Kyū Oda)
• Camp Lazlo (Ms. Mucus)
• Chaos;Head (Katsuko Momose)
• Cooking Papa (Katsuyo Yoshioka)
• Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z (Miss Tenjō)
• Dotto Koni-chan (Koni)
• Detective Conan (Hachirō Shiotataira's wife, Tokomae Sayuri)
• Full Metal Panic!! (Peggy Goldberry)
• GeGeGe no Kitaro (Guwagoze)
• Gintama (Terada Ayano/Otose)
• Gone with the Wind (Mammy, Japanese DVD dub)
• Hamtaro (Tonkichi)
• Haré+Guu (Obaasan)
• Hell Girl (Meiko Shimono)
• Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (Landlady, Tamae Hōjō)
• I My Me! Strawberry Eggs (Ruru Sanjō)
• Kingdom Hearts (Ursula)
• Kogepan (Sumi)
• Kyo Kara Maoh (Queen Kumahachi)
• Lucky Star (Various extra and background roles)
• Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto (Sabure)
• Naruto (Orochimaru)
• Naruto Shippuden (Orochimaru)
• One Piece (Sweetpea)
• Pokemon Advanced Generation (Rougela B)
• Romeo no Aoi Sora (Enbelino, Faustino)
• Keroro Gunsou (Disneyland yokozuna)
• Recess (Japanese dub) (Miss Finster)
• Rocko's Modern Life (Bev Bighead, Japanese dub)
• Slayers (Shopkeeper's Wife)
• Sonic X (Ella)
• Tactics (Book Ghost)
• You're Under Arrest! (Auntie Haramura)
• The World God Only Knows (Docrow Skull)

Kozue Yoshizumi

Names to Know in Anime

Kumiko Nishihara