Akiko Suzuki

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Akiko Suzuki is a Japanese voice actress born on July 22, 1965, in Tokyo. She is affiliated with the talent agency 81 Produce. Over the course of her career, she has worked under several names. She was born with the name Akiko Suzuki, written as 鈴木 明子, and later used the stage name Yukiji. As of 2010, she once again began using the stage name Yukiji.

Her career began in the early 1990s, with one of her first roles being in the 1992 television anime O~i! Ryoma. She is known for voicing a wide variety of characters, often playing non-human roles or creatures. A significant early role was Tomomi Takahashi, also known as Tomo-chan, in the 1995 anime series Azuki-chan. In 1998, she voiced the title character in Hanasaka Tenshi Ten-Ten-kun. Another notable and long-running role was as Jeff the Karasu Tengu in the xxxHOLiC anime series, which began in 2006.

Suzuki has been a part of several major anime franchises. She has had multiple roles in the Pokémon franchise, including the characters Hiroki, Otachi, and Samurai in the original series, Raichu in the special Pokémon Crystal: Raikou Ikazuchi no Densetsu, and Bubii in the movie Pikachu and Pichu. She also voiced Plue in Rave Master and Yashichi in the Mirmo Zibang! series. In the long-running series Soreike! Anpanman, she has voiced Crayonman. Her film work includes a role as Mozo in the 2019 movie Doraemon: Nobita's Moon Exploration.

Beyond anime, her voice work extends to dubbing foreign films and animated series. She provided the Japanese voice for Lucky in the film Rango and for Bitzer in the animated series Shaun the Sheep. She has also done narration for NHK educational television programs and voiced the character Komutan in the 1997 tokusatsu series Denji Sentai Megaranger. In the special Kawa no Hikari, she voiced the character Suzume, and in the series Nutsberry Town, known in Japanese as Chirorin Mura Monogatari, she played the role of Puusuke.
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