Ikue Ōtani

Ikue Ōtani (大谷 育江, Ōtani Ikue, born August 18, 1965) is a Japanese actress who specializes in voice acting.^[1] She is best known for her anime roles in the Pokémon series (as Pikachu), One Piece (as Tony Tony Chopper), Detective Conan (as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya), Corpse Party (as Sachiko Shinozaki), Naruto (as Konohamaru Sarutobi), Cookie Run: Kingdom (as Pancake Cookie), Smile PreCure! (as Candy), Uchi no Sanshimai (as Fu), Konjiki no Gash Bell (as Gash), and Persona 5 (as Morgana). She is currently attached to Mausu Promotion. Her pet name is "Iku-chan". She is known for playing both male and female roles, and sometimes plays multiple roles in one production. She is a native of Tokyo, but grew up in Niigata Prefecture.

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ōtani.

The native form of this personal name is Ōtani Ikue. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Ikue Ōtani
大谷 育江
Born	(1965-08-18) August 18, 1965 (age 59)[1] Tokyo, Japan[1]
Other names	Ikue Ootani Ikue Ohtani Iku-chan
Occupations	Actress voice actress
Years active	1986–present
Agent	Mausu Promotion
Notable work	Pokémon as Pikachu One Piece as Tony Tony Chopper Detective Conan as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Persona 5 as Morgana
Height	150 cm (4 ft 11 in)[1]

Biography

Filmography

Television animation

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1986	Ganbare, Kickers!	Kiyoshi Hara	Otani's TV debut
1991–1992	21 Emon	Monga
1992	Hime-chan's Ribbon	Himeko Nonohara, Princess Erika
	Nangoku Shōnen Papuwa-kun	Kotaro
	Yu Yu Hakusho	Masaru, Natsuko, Fubuki, Shura
1993	Nekketsu Saikyō Go-Saurer	Takako Kojima, Yuka Mizuhara
1994	DNA²	Mashi
	Sailor Moon S	U-Chouten
	Haō Taikei Ryū Knight	Blue
1995	Gulliver Boy	Edison
	Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger	Usagi, Butashichi
1996	Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!!	Jirōmaru Takaba
	Detective Conan	Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
	Martian Successor Nadesico	Yukina Shiratori
	Sailor Moon Sailor Stars	Sailor Tin Nyanko / Suzu Nyanko
	Slayers	Kira
	Reideen The Superior	Fujimaru Mushanokouji
	The Vision of Escaflowne	Merle
1997	Pokémon	Pikachu,[2] Misty's Goldeen, Misty's Starmie
1998	Brain Powerd	Girl of Orphan
	Flint the Time Detective	Obiru
	Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective	Guni
	Shadow Skill	Kyuo
	Super Doll Licca-chan	Catherine
1999	Ojamajo Doremi series	Hana-chan, Majo Monroe
	ToHeart	Rio Hinayama
	One Piece	Tony Tony Chopper/Chopperman, Sanji (child), Enishida, Fake Nami
2000	Banner of the Stars	Seelnay
	Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns	Pikachu
	Moonlight Mask	Yamamoto Naoto	2nd season
2001	Go! Go! Itsutsugo Land	Mikan
	Nono-chan	Nonoko Yamada
	The SoulTaker	Maya Misaki
2002	Inuyasha	Koryu
	Tokyo Underground	Ciel Messiah
2003	Ashita no Nadja	Rita Rossi
	Saiyuki Reload	Seika
	Astro Boy: Mighty Atom	Nina
	Naruto	Konohamaru Sarutobi
	PoPoLoCrois	Papuu
	Zatch Bell!	Zatch Bell	Episodes 1–141
2004	Doki Doki School Hours	Shizuka Nagare	Also known as "Chairman (Iincho)"
	Hamtaro	Oshare
	Harukanaru Toki no Naka de	Fujihime
	Kannazuki no Miko	Sister Miyako, Saotome Makoto
	Monster	Eruza
2005	Oh My Goddess!	Sora Hasegawa
2006	Kujibiki Unbalance	Renko Kamishakujii
2008	Naruto: Shippuden	Konohamaru Sarutobi
2011	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	Apple Bloom
	Sgt. Frog	Terara
2012	Naruto SD: Rock Lee and his Ninja Pals	Konohamaru Sarutobi
	Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki	Poyo
	Smile PreCure!	Candy, Smile Pact
	Hunter × Hunter (Second Series)	Cheadle Yorkshire
2014	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders	Mannish Boy	[3]
	PriPara	Unicorn
2015	Blood Blockade Battlefront	Nej
	Crayon Shin Chan	Suika Chan	Episode 870
2016	The Morose Mononokean	Yahiko
2018–19	Persona 5: The Animation	Morgana
2019	The Morose Mononokean II	Yahiko
	Dororo	Yokai Kozo
2021	Wonder Egg Priority	Dot, Hyphen, Kirara Rodriguez Matured XVIII Evening Star SS Plum
2022	Dance Dance Danseur	Sawako Murao
2023	Pokémon Horizons: The Series	Captain Pikachu, Sango	[4][2]
	The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch	Doku-Koala	[5]
2024	Puniru Is a Cute Slime	Runrūn	[6]

ONA

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2021	Powerful Pro Yakyū Powerful Kōkō-hen	Akio Yabe
2022	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean	Green Baby	[7]

OVA

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1990	CB Chara Nagai Go World	Sayaka Yumi
1991	Shakotan Boogie	Yumi
1993	Oh My Goddess!	Sora Hasegawa
1996	Twin Signal	Signal	All 3 volumes
1997	Variable Geo	Manami Kusunoki
2000	Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden	Margareta von Herxheimer
2002	Gate Keepers 21	Ayane Isuzu
	Harukanaru Toki no Naka de~Ajisai Yumegatari~	Fuji-hime
	Nurse Witch Komugi	Koyori Kokubunji, Maya
2003	Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 2 ~Shiroki Ryuu no Miko~	Fujiwara no Yukari, Fujiwara no Misono
2004	Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho	Hana-chan, Majo Monroe
2005	Majokko Tsukune-chan	Kanako
2013	Corpse Party	Sachiko Shinozaki
2016	Persona 5: The Animation - The Day Breakers	Morgana

Theatrical animation

• My Neighbor Totoro (1988) – A Girl
• Detective Conan films (1997–) – Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya (except for Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem)
• Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness (1998) – Yukina Shiratori
• Pokémon films (1998–) – Pikachu
• Oh My Goddess! (2000) – Sora Hasegawa
• Ojamajo Doremi #: The Movie (2000) – Hana-chan
• One Piece films (2002–) – Tony Tony Chopper (except for Giant Mecha Soldier of Karakuri Castle)
• Konjiki no Gash Bell!!: 101 Banme no Mamono (2004) – Gash Bell
• Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Movie 2: Attack of the Mecha-Vulcan (2005) – Gash Bell
• Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 4: Gekishin Dragon Warriors (2009) – Terara
• Gothicmade (2012) – Love
• Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi (2012) – Candy, Smile Pact
• Smile PreCure! The Movie: Big Mismatch in a Picture Book (2012) – Candy, Smile Pact
• Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2: Kokoro no Tomodachi (2013) – Candy, Smile Pact
• Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017) – Tib-cat^[8]
• Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration (2019) – Aru
• Over the Sky (2020) – Gimon^[9]
• Ghost Cat Anzu (2024) – Pi-Pi-chan^[10]

Video games

• Another Eden (Morgana, Nopaew)
• Ar tonelico Qoga (Mute)
• Battle Stadium D.O.N (Tony Tony Chopper)
• Blood Will Tell (Dororo)
• Brave Fencer Musashi (Topo, Jam)
• Cookie Run: Kingdom (Pancake Cookie)
• Corpse Party: Blood Covered Repeated Fear (Sachiko Shinozaki)^[11]
• Corpse Party: Book of Shadows (Sachiko Shinozaki)
• Corpse Party:Blood Drive (Sachiko Shinozaki)
• Corpse Party - The Anthology - Sachiko's Game of Love Hysteric Birthday 2U (Sachiko Shinozaki)
• Daraku Tenshi - The Fallen Angels (Musuran (Yuiran)
• Detective Conan: Tsuioku no Mirajiyu (Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya)
• Fire Emblem Awakening (Tiki)
• Fire Emblem Heroes (Adult Tiki)
• FIST (Ai Momoyama)
• Granblue Fantasy (Tony Tony Chopper)
• Guardian Heroes (Nicole Neil)
• Gulliver Boy (Edison)
• Gunbird 2 (Marion)
• Gunparade March (Isizu)
• Harukanaru Toki no Naka de as Fuji-hime
• Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 2 as Fujiwara no Yukari and Misono
• Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3 as Hakuryuu (Child)
• Kingdom Hearts II (Vivi Orunitia)
• Konjiki no Gash Bell!! series (Gash Bell)
• League of Legends (Teemo)
• Martian Successor Nadesico (Yukina)
• Marvel vs. Capcom series (Hoover)
• Mega Man Legends series (Data, Bon Bonne)
• Musashi: Samurai Legend (Amestris)
• Nora to Toki no Kōbō: Kiri no Mori no Majo (Keke)
• Ojamajo Doremi series (Hana-chan)
• One Piece series (Tony Tony Chopper)
• Onmyoji (Kohaku)
• Persona 5 (Morgana)
• Persona 5 Strikers (Morgana)
• Persona 5 Tactica (Morgana)^[12]
• Pokémon series (Pikachu)
• Popolocrois: Narcia's Tears And The Fairy's Flute (Kirara)
• Power Pros series (Akio Yabe)
• Pretty Fighter (Ai Momoyama)
• Project X Zone 2 (Tiki)
• Rhythm Heaven Fever (Marshal, Reporter)
• Rhythm Heaven Megamix (Reporter)
• Sdorica (Maria)
• Shenmue II (Fangmei)
• Shironeko Project (Nanahoshi)
• Smile Precure! Let's Go! Märchen World (Candy)
• Sonic Shuffle (Lumina, NiGHTS)
• Super Smash Bros. series (Pikachu)
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Tiki (Japanese voice), Morgana (Japanese voice)) ^a
• Tales of the Abyss (Ion, Sync, Florian)
• ToHeart (Rio Hinayama)
• Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side (Mizuki Sudou)
• Wild Arms Alter Code: F (Jane Maxwell)

^a The Japanese vocal tracks for these characters also appear in the Chinese and Korean versions of the game.

Live-action film

• Love & Peace (2015) – Kame (voice)
• Detective Pikachu (2019) – Detective Pikachu (voice)
• Patalliro! (2019) – (voice)

Drama CD

• Ouran High School Host Club (Mitsukuni Haninozuka)
• Elemental Gelade (Cisqua)

Dubbing roles

Live-action

• The Addams Family (Pugsley Addams (Jimmy Workman))^[13]
• Election (Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon))^[14]
• Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump Junior (Haley Joel Osment))^[15]
• Fuller House (Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin))^[16]
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Cindy Lou Who (speaking voice) (Taylor Momsen))^[17]
• How to Marry a Millionaire (New Era Movies edition) (Schatze Page (Lauren Bacall))^[18]
• Interview with the Vampire (2000 TV Tokyo edition) (Claudia (Kirsten Dunst))^[19]
• Jaws 2 (2022 BS Tokyo edition) (Sean Brody (Marc Gilpin))^[20]
• Kindergarten Cop (Dominic Palmieri (Christian and Joseph Cousins))^[21]
• Look Who's Talking Now (Mikey Ubriacco (David Gallagher))^[22]
• Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Vincent Green (Oscar Steer))^[23]
• Mercury Rising (Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes))^[24]
• Milk Money (Frank Wheeler)^[25]
• Multiplicity (Zack Kinney)^[26]
• One Fine Day (Maggie Taylor (Mae Whitman))^[27]
• One Piece (Young Sanji (Christian Convery))
• Ramona and Beezus (Ramona Quimby (Joey King))^[28]
• See Spot Run (James (Angus T. Jones))^[29]
• The Shining (Danny Torrance (Courtland Mead))^[30]
• Stuart Little (George Little (Jonathan Lipnicki))^[31]
• Uptown Girls (Laraine "Ray" Schleine (Dakota Fanning))^[32]
• West Side Story (1990 TBS edition) (Consuelo (Yvonne Wilder))^[33]

Animation

• Elemental (Clod)^[34]
• Hotel Transylvania 2 (Dennis)^[35]
• Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (Dennis)^[36]
• Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (Dennis)^[37]
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (Apple Bloom)
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Apple Bloom)^[38]
• Moominvalley (Little My)^[39]

Others

• Sanrio character ("Cinnamoroll") (Chiffon, Milk)

References

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External links

• Official agency profile (in Japanese)
• Ikue Ōtani Archived October 30, 2020, at the Wayback Machine at Ryu's Seiyuu Info
• Ikue Ōtani at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Ikue Ōtani at IMDb
• Ikue Ōtani at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)