Kikumi Umeda
Description
Kikumi Umeda is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Production Baobab. She was born on September 12th in Hiroshima Prefecture. Umeda is known for possessing several qualifications, including first-level abacus, second-level word processing, second-level bookkeeping, and third-level English proficiency. Her hobbies include watching films, listening to Western music, stargazing, and taking walks.
Umeda has built a career spanning several decades, taking on a wide variety of roles in anime television series, films, and video games. One of her notable roles from the late 1990s is Moko in the 1998 television anime adaptation of Himitsu no Akko-chan. She also voiced the character Juju in the 2012 animated television movie Puka Puka Juju.
Throughout her career, Umeda has been a consistent presence in many long-running and popular anime franchises. She has had various roles in the anime adaptation of the classic manga GeGeGe no Kitaro across its different series. She is also a regular performer in franchises such as Doraemon, where she has played numerous minor characters, and in the long-running educational comedy Chibi Maruko-chan, where she voiced several recurring and background roles. In the 2010s, she took over the role of Nozomi's grandmother, Nozono Hana, in the anime adaptation of the popular children's book series Zukkoke Sanningumi. Her film work includes a role in the 2006 animated feature Shin SOS Dai Tokyo Tankentai and lending her voice to the 2012 film adaptation of Puka Puka Juju, reprising the character Juju.
Beyond animation, Umeda has also worked on dubbing foreign films and series into Japanese. Her credits in this field include providing the Japanese voice for the character Edith in the Pixar film Up and for Dorrie in the Disney-Pixar film Soul.
Umeda has built a career spanning several decades, taking on a wide variety of roles in anime television series, films, and video games. One of her notable roles from the late 1990s is Moko in the 1998 television anime adaptation of Himitsu no Akko-chan. She also voiced the character Juju in the 2012 animated television movie Puka Puka Juju.
Throughout her career, Umeda has been a consistent presence in many long-running and popular anime franchises. She has had various roles in the anime adaptation of the classic manga GeGeGe no Kitaro across its different series. She is also a regular performer in franchises such as Doraemon, where she has played numerous minor characters, and in the long-running educational comedy Chibi Maruko-chan, where she voiced several recurring and background roles. In the 2010s, she took over the role of Nozomi's grandmother, Nozono Hana, in the anime adaptation of the popular children's book series Zukkoke Sanningumi. Her film work includes a role in the 2006 animated feature Shin SOS Dai Tokyo Tankentai and lending her voice to the 2012 film adaptation of Puka Puka Juju, reprising the character Juju.
Beyond animation, Umeda has also worked on dubbing foreign films and series into Japanese. Her credits in this field include providing the Japanese voice for the character Edith in the Pixar film Up and for Dorrie in the Disney-Pixar film Soul.
All Characters
- JapaneseAnime overview: Himitsu no Akko-chan
- JapaneseAnime overview: Puka Puka Juju