Atsuko Tanaka
Acting
Biography
Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子, Tanaka Atsuko, November 14, 1962 – August 20, 2024) was a Japanese voice actress and narrator. Born in Maebashi, she became interested in acting during her youth, and while educated at Ferris University, worked as a background extra at Shochiku. After spending years working as an office lady for a Tokyo executive, she enrolled in the Tokyo Announcement Academy and joined the talent agency Mausu Promotion, with whom she was affiliated at the time of her death. She was best known for her portrayal of Motoko Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell film and franchise, and she also voiced Konan in Naruto, Caster in Fate/stay night, Lisa Lisa in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Chun-Li in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Claudette in Queen's Blade, Francis Midford in Black Butler, Karura in Utawarerumono, Bayonetta in the Bayonetta series, Hanami in Jujutsu Kaisen, and Kyrie Ushiromiya in Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
Born: November 14, 1962
Place of Birth: Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Known For
Super Doll★Licca-chan
Super Doll★Licca-chan (スーパードール★リカちゃん Sūpā Dōru Rika-chan?) is TV anime series which ran on TV Tokyo from 1998–1999. Kodansha also serialized a manga based on the anime series in its monthly manga magazine Nakayoshi. The story follows an ordinary elementary school girl named Licca Kayama and the strange circumstances surrounding her origins, as well as the origins of her protector, Doll Licca. The series is an original story spin-off inspired by the long-selling and popular Takara doll lineup "Licca-chan", created by Miyako Maki, designed to expand the regular dress-up doll series into a line of action figures. However, the new figures were only a mild success, and did not remain in production for long.
Ganbare! TEAM NACS
A super big project commemorating the 25th anniversary of the formation of TEAM NACS and the 30th anniversary of wowow's opening. It was filmed in Hokkaido, the birthplace of TEAM NACS. Starting with "Back to the Sentai Futures", in which members dress as heroes who homage the masterpiece movie and Yo Yoshida participates as the villain "Emperor DeLorean", music is produced with the aim of becoming a national group, "NACS New Member Audition" will be held.
Mazinkaiser SKL
Behind a gravity curtain floats Kikaijima, a colossal island quarantined since the last world war. It’s a lawless prison junkyard of robot machine superweapons from a forgotten age of massive military might. Upon receiving a warning that the unstable island’s reactors will detonate and possibly vaporize the world in just a few days, the Japanese government awakens Kaiser- the most powerful and destructive robot ever created! Judgment day has arrived when the towering Kaiser rockets-off to the island to engage in a thunderous robot-crushing battle to save the planet!
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Decades after her party defeated the Demon King, an old friend's funeral launches the elf wizard Frieren on a journey of self-discovery.
Your Lie in April
Kousei Arima was a genius pianist until his mother's sudden death took away his ability to play. Each day was dull for Kousei. But, then he meets a violinist named Kaori Miyazono who has an eccentric playing style. Can the heartfelt sounds of the girl's violin lead the boy to play the piano again?
JUJUTSU KAISEN
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
Naruto Shippūden
After 2 and a half years Naruto finally returns to his village of Konoha, and sets about putting his ambitions to work. It will not be easy though as he has amassed a few more dangerous enemies, in the likes of the shinobi organization; Akatsuki.
Cowboy Bebop
In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Follow the intergenerational feud between the Joestar Family and various forces of evil, the most prominent of which is Dio Brando and his followers.
Monster
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
Filmography
as Violetta (voice)
as Ōmurasaki no Omae (voice)
as Kunus (voice)
as Rose (voice)
as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
as Flamme (voice)
as Cathy Beck (voice)
as Muu (voice)
as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
as Laura (voice)
as Mary Sera (voice)
as Hibari Torii (voice)
as Mary Sera (voice)
as Mari Aragaki (voice)
as Hanami (voice)
as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
as Kim (voice)
as Mauve (voice)
as Wilmit Zenam (voice)
as Mary Sera (voice)
as Akira (voice)
as Haruki's Mother (voice)
as Inspector Genet / Sister Jill (voice)
as Poison Ivy / Pamela Isley (voice)
as Akiko Nanbara (voice)
as Sirene (voice)
as Caster (voice)
as Caster (voice)
as Sister (voice)
as Chigusa Tsukikage (voice)
as Francis Midford (voice)
as Mauve (voice)
as Chigusa Tsukikage (voice)
as Narrator (Voice)
as Haruko Kaidou (voice)
as Uzal Delilah
as Uzal Delilah (voice)
as Lady Emerald (voice)
as Tsubaki Amamiya (voice)
as Tahamenay (voice)
as Samari Ittan (voice)
as Executive Director Mishiro (voice)
as Caster (voice)
as Yuriko Ochiai (voice)
as Reiko Tamura (voice)
as Ryoko Tamiya (voice)
as Yuri Aoshima
as Ittan Samari (voice)
as Virginia Balance (voice)
as Bayonetta (voice)
as Marmo (voice)
as Lisa Lisa (voice)
as Announcer (voice)
as Reika Nagase (voice)
as Lucretia Zola
as Naoko Takakura (voice)
as Binas
as Professor Kelly (voice)
as Alice (voice)
as Nina Williams (voice)
as Aira (voice)
as Dr. Halsey (segment "The Package")
as Dr. Halsey
as Madam
as Harumi Kiyama (voice)
as Nyamsus
as Tsubaki Amamiya
as Josephine (voice)
as Kasumi Sumadera
as Bian Linglong
as Claudette (voice)
as Francis Midford (voice)
as Nagase (Mother)
as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
as Seiji Tamiya (voice)
as Michelle Peng (voice)
as Motoko Kusangai (voice)
as Namie Amamiya (voice)
as Trish (voice)
as Michelle Peng (Voice)
as Konan (voice)
as Mika Ayanokōji (voice)
as Captain Vivian Medlock
as Kaji, Maiko
as Freya (voice)
as Queen Elizabeth of Russia
as Karurauatsuurei
as Lacan (voice)
as The Phoenix (voice)
as Major Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
as Caster (voice)
as Miyuki Gotou (voice)
as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
as Kaori (voice)
as Viletta Badim (voice)
as Gorgon (Voice)
as Fei Cui
as アメノムラクモ / Ame no Murakumo
as Miss Lemon (voice)
as Atelia (voice)
as Margot (voice)
as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
as Maika Kazetsubaki
as Kotoe Amano (voice)
as Jagara (voice)
as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
as Saeko Misaki (voice)
as Sayoko Nanamori (voice)
as Misuzu Suenaga (voice)
as Cassandra
as Kaoruko (voice)
as Cassandra (voice)
as Yurie Aizawa (voice)
as Mom
as Valeria Vertone (voice)
as Fujina
as Puru
as Shiela Glass
as Yumi Haneishi (voice)
as Coffy (voice)
as Wolf Lady
as Angelica (voice)
as Nena Hagen (voice)
as Mermaid Delmone (voice)
as Miranda Jahana
as Tina Owen (voice)
as Tina Owen (voice)
as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
as Margarita (voice)
as Yurisis Cheloria (voice)
as Yumi Mayakawa (voice)
as Shaman (voice)
as Abumaru (voice)
as Karen Korinsky (voice)
as Feeling Good Girl