Mamiko In Canaan
I remember a while ago (3 years?) I thought about the rise of Mamiko Noto as a prominent voice acting personality in the anime circles. This was before I even had the opportunity to see her in person. Concerns about pigeonholes and all were on the way out.
It all seem so long ago. But it isn’t until Canaan that Noto has played a voice role that finally convinced me that she can play just about any character to satisfaction.
If we had poll results about which of her characters are the most popular out of all the Mamiko Noto fans out there, it might still lean heavily towards those yamato nadeshiko types; but as an actor I think she has grown a lot. She’s done male and female roles, sultry and demure ones, good guys and bad guys, and high and low pitched. Well, almost everything by now. She’s written screenplays, performed in live events, and (unfortunately) sang her share of stuff. Maybe she should write more poems.
If I do my math correctly, she’s still just 29 years old. I wonder what achievements and interesting twists life has left for her in the anime/game seiyuu world.
Yeah, she’s definitely my fav voice from the past five years. I really didn’t take notice of her voice until watching School Rumble, Negima, and Ichigo 100%. Now it’s just a pleasure to have her voice pop up in shows.
I met her too! Where was it? I saw her at Otakon a while back. I got her to sign the stand to my Yakumo Tsukamoto figure.
Sure she can do a lot. I still dislike a lot of her popular roles. But I do love the hell out of her roles as Shimako and Rimone.
There was something I saw within the last couple of years that convinced me that she’s a really good actor, but now I can’t remember what that was. She’s one of these seiyuu that gets typecast a bit, but every now and then she’ll do roles that require her to extend herself and she shows good range. She’s really good in Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito.
She was really, really moe in Yamibou. And in some ways that’s how Saori Hayami took the baton in Touka Gettan.
She’s certainly one of my favourite seiyuu of recent years. Most recently I have enjoyed her wind-up-tastic Shinako in Aoi Hana.