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Akiko Kobayashi (voice actress)

Japanese voice actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ4700970 ↗
Source-derived summary

Akiko Kobayashi (小林 晃子, Kobayashi Akiko; born June 9, 1979 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress and singer.

Filmography

Television animation

2001

Parappa the Rapper (Paula)

Angel Tales (Tanuki no Midori)

2002

Digimon Frontier (Nyaromon)

Shin Megami Tensei Devil Children: Light & Dark (Ishitoku)

2003

Tenshi no Shippo Chu! (Raccoon Midori)

2004

Legendz: Yomigaeru Ryuuou Densetsu (Dr. Conrad)

The Marshmallow Times (Basil)

Get Ride! Amdriver (June Frum)

2005

Pandalian (Diddy, Bingo)

Onegai My Melody (Nyanmi)

Zettai Shonen (Kisa Tanigawa)

Ginga Densetsu Weed (Mel)

2006

Ballad of a Shinigami (Momo)

Onegai My Melody: Kuru Kuru Shuffle! (Nyanmi)

Inukami! (Tenso)

Save Me! Lollipop (Zura)

Fairy Musketeers (Randagio)

Galaxy Angel Rune (Mimoret)

Lovedol ~Lovely Idol~ (Hibiki Asami)

2007

Onegai My Melody: Sukkiri (Nyanmi)

2008

Onegai My Melody: Kirara (Nyanmi)

2009

Cookin' Idol I! My! Mine!

Editorial summary

“Akiko Kobayashi (voice actress)” enters the record as japanese voice actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Akiko, Kobayashi and voice can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2001, 2002, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-06-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Akiko, Kobayashi and voice.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Akiko Kobayashi (voice actress)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Akiko, Kobayashi and voice provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4700970. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Akiko Kobayashi (voice actress)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.