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Mishima Sayoko&o=10616

Mamiko Noto
is a prolific seiyū working under 大沢事務所. She was born in the city of Kanazawa, Ishikawa, and graduated from 北陸学院高等学校. According to the Japanese blood type theory of personality she is an O.

She is affectionately referred to as "Mami-mami" (まみまみ) by her fellow seiyū and fans. Additionally, she is also called "Noto-chan" (のとちゃん), "Mami-chan" (まみちゃん), and "Noto-mami" (のとまみ).

Summary

Voice

  • Because of her soft voice, she is often called cute: admiringly by fans, and derisively by critics.
  • Although she is typically typecast for playing gentle, calm, and feminine characters, she has since broken out into roles with different traits. This includes being a cold and indifferent character in Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito as Hazuki Azuma, a boy in Girls Bravo as Yukinari Sasaki, a murderer in Lupin III: Angel Tactics as Poison Sophie, characters with multiple personalities such as Rinko Jerrard in The Law of Ueki and Nina Fortner/Anna Liebert in Monster (She also did the female voice of Johan Liebert in his disguise as 'Anna'.), and characters with sinister backgrounds that deviate from the typical gentle personality such as Rin Asōgi from Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi, Oichi in Sengoku Basara 2 and the titular Hell Girl.
  • Her role as Masane Amaha in Witchblade has gained the most praise from fans for voicing a character opposite to her aforementioned typecast traits.
  • During a recording for a radio program featuring Witchblade, she sang the Japanese children's song "Kagome Kagome". This drew an overwhelming positive response from listeners, as 80% of mail to the radio station the following week was regarding her singing.
  • It is often regarded in anime-related internet radio programs about how difficult it is to replicate Noto's voice in dubbing works. Thus far, no one has been able to accomplish this task successfully. Only Kaori Shimizu is said to make the closest attempt to replicate Noto's voice quality.

Personal

  • Her parents previously owned a bookstore which coincidentally sold the manga The World of Narue, in which she provided the voice of Narue Nanase for in the anime. The store has since closed.
  • After graduating from 北陸学院高等学校, she attended 代々木アニメーション学院 for one year before landing her first role in Super B-Daman.
  • She is admittedly not good at sports. During her school years in a round of basketball in her physical education class, she was uninvolved to the point where neither side knew which she belonged to. When the ball was accidentally passed to her, both teams rushed her in confusion.
  • In her youth, she was involved with the Gekidan Motoyayukiko theatrical group.
  • She is a member of the seiyū group "MORE PEACH SUMMER SNOW", alongside Chiwa Saito, Haruna Ikezawa and Ryo Hirohashi (the group began as "MORE PEACH SUMMER", with Haruna, Chiwa and Mamiko. Also, all 4 ladies voiced characters in the anime Sgt. Frog).
  • She was a guest of honor at Otakon 2007, held in Baltimore, Maryland.

Filmography

Anime series

Leading roles in bold.
1999

2002

 Japan (Megumi Kimura in Ep. 34)2005
  • Ah! My Goddess (Sayoko Mishima)
  • Canvas 2 ~Niji Iro no Sketch~ (Yurina Kimikage in Ep. 8)
  • Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid (Shinji Kazama)
  • Ginban Kaleidoscope (Ria Garnet Juitiev)
  • Hell Girl (Ai Enma)
  • Ichigo 100% (Aya Tōjō)
  • The Law of Ueki (Rinko Jerrard)
  • Loveless (Hitomi Shinonome)
  • Lupin III: Angel Tactics (Poison Sophie)
  • Mahou Sensei Negima (Nodoka Miyazaki)
  • Rockman.EXE Beast (Shūko Kido)
  • My-Otome (Yukino Chrysant)
  • Solty Rei (Accela)
  • Starship Operators (Sanri Wakana)
  • Strawberry Marshmallow (Ana Coppola)
  • Trinity Blood (Esther Blanchett)
  • Windy Tales (Karin in Ep. 11)

    		• 2006

    OVAs

    Anime movies

    Video games

    2003

    2007

    2008

    Radio

    TV commercial narrations

    CDs

    Drama CDs

    Resources

    References

    External links

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