Describe Ikue Ōtani here.
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Ikue Ōtani (born August 18, 1965) is a Japanese voice actress who is mostly known for her rather genki voice and as a result tends to voice young or cute characters, often being cast as the Token Mini-Moe or Cheerful Child. She went on pregnancy leave from January to May 2006, during which her voice roles for Gash Bell, Case Closed and One Piece were replaced although her voice role for Pikachu wasn't; the studio had many recordings to work with.
Despite her typecast has quite the voice range and often plays multiple characters in the same show.
Notable roles by Ikue Otani:
- Akio Yabe in Live Powerful Pro Baseball 2020
- Apple Bloom in the Japanese dub of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Bon Bonne and Data in Mega Man Legends
- Cait Sith in Tokyo Afterschool Summoners
- Cheadle Yorkshire in Hunter × Hunter (2011) note
- Chiffon and Milk in Sanrio's Cinnamon: The Movie
- Dot Warner (Tress MacNeille) in the Japanese dub of Animaniacs
- Edmond in the Japanese dub of Rock-A-Doodle
- Elsa in Monster
- Fangmei Xun in Shenmue II
- Felina Feral in the Japanese dub of SWAT Kats
- Fuji-hime in the Harukanaru Toki no Naka de anime
- Fujimaru Mushanokouji in Chouja Reideen
- Gash Bell in Zatch Bell!
- Guni in Nightwalker
- Hana-chan, Majo Monroe, Toto and one of Onpu's fans note in Ojamajo Doremi
- Himeko Nonohara and Erika from Himechan No Ribon
- Hyphen, Dot and Kirara in Wonder Egg Priority
- Ion, Sync, and Florian in Tales of the Abyss (Yumiko Kobayashi voices them in the anime)
- Jane in Wild ARMs: Alter Code F
- Jiromaru Takaba in Bakusou Kyoudai! Let's & Go!!
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Mannish Boy and Death Thirteen in Stardust Crusaders
- The Green Baby in Stone Ocean
- Kohaku in Onmyōji (2016)
- Konohamaru Sarutobi in Naruto
- Kotaro in Nangoku Shonen Papuwa Kun
- Koyori Kokubunji in Nurse Witch Komugi
- Lady Zozo in Code of Princess
- Lumina Flowlight in Sonic Shuffle
- Makoto Saotome and Sister Miyako in Destiny of the Shrine Maiden
- Manami Kusunoki in the Variable Geo OVA
- Maria in Sdorica
- Merle of The Vision of Escaflowne
- Merrill (Eve Myles) in the Japanese dub of Dragon Age II
- Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, his Cool Big Sis Asami Tsuburaya and a couple of incidental characters in Case Closed
- Momo in Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen
- Morgana in Persona 5 (including The Animation, Dancing in Starlight, Royal, and Strikers), Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Dragalia Lost
- Mute in Ar Tonelico 3
- Nej in Blood Blockade Battlefront
- Nopaew/Poporo in Another Eden
- Pretty Cure:
- Olivier in HeartCatch Pretty Cure!: Hana no Miyako de Fashion Show…Desu ka!?
- Candy in Smile PreCure!
- Oona in the Japanese dub of Puffin Rock
- Pancake Cookie in Cookie Run Kingdom
- Pikachu in Pokémon: The Series, Super Smash Bros., the main Pokémon games starting from Pokémon X and Y, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu. Ms. Ōtani's voice for Pikachu is kept in pretty much every foreign dub as well, due to the fact that its Pokémon Speak makes it The Unintelligible combined with being one of the few Pokémon species not to receive a Dub Name Change.
- Also voices Goldeen, Starmie, Corsola, Mime Jr., as well as many, many characters both Pokémon and human throughout the show and she even voiced herself in an episode.
- Poyo in Poyopoyo
- Sachiko Shinozaki in Corpse Party
- Sailor Tin Nyanko and U-Chouten in Sailor Moon
- Schatze Paige (Lauren Bacall) in the Japanese dub of How to Marry a Millionaire (2020 New Era Movies version)
- Shizuka "Iincho" Nagane in Doki Doki School Hours
- Shura, Fubuki Sato, Masaru note and Natsuko note and some additional voices in YuYu Hakusho
- Stephanie Tanner in the Japanese dubs of Full House and Fuller House
- Sweetie Pie in the Japanese dub of Tiny Toon Adventures (replacing Megumi Hayashibara)
- Teemo in League of Legends
- Tiki in Fire Emblem: Awakening, Project × Zone 2, Fire Emblem Heroes, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Tony Tony Chopper, young Sanji, Enishida and Fake Nami in One Piece
- Unicorn in PriPara
- Vivi Orunitia of Final Fantasy IX fame in Kingdom Hearts
- Yukina Shiratori in Martian Successor Nadesico
- Red Yoshi in Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi's Adventure Land
