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An earlier seiyuu which gained very substantial fame due to her role as Major Motoko Kusanagi, the anime ur-Action Girl, as well as her impersonation of video game icon Lara Croft. Atsuko Tanaka was well known for her cool, deep, sometimes very alluring voice, which usually landed her roles of strong, professional women. However, this can be twisted, and she did villainesses just as well. She was active in voice acting until few before her death of an unspecified illness in 2024, at age 61.
Her Western equivalent may be Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who's dubbed four of her roles to date including Motoko Kusanagi. She's also said to have been Heterosexual Life Partners with Kikuko Inoue, and her son Hikaru Tanaka is a seiyuu too (albeit he didn't reveal their relation until she passed away)
- Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2-6. The first was done by Megumi Ogata and 7 was done by Takako Honda.)
- Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell (all incarnations)
- Claudette in Queen's Blade
- Professor Kiyama Harumi of A Certain Scientific Railgun.
- Trish in Devil May Cry: The Animated Series and Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
- Mika Ayanokouji in Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora
- Chun Li and Poison in Street Fighter III: Third Strike and Namco X Capcom. She also did Regina of Dino Crisis' fame in the latter.
- Poison in Street Fighter X Tekken, Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V.
- Opera Vectra in Star Ocean: Second Evolution (succeeding Yuko Nagashima)
- Viletta Vadim in Super Robot Wars Alpha and Super Robot Wars Original Generation series
- Slan in the first Berserk series
- Caster aka Medea in Fate/stay night (Notable that she's usually on Atsuko's usual style of mystery and mature. But then in Carnival Phantasm, she turns it around and made her utterly Moe, complete with super cute sound. Yes, she does Moe just fine.)
- Aside of Caster, she also played Jing Ke and Carmilla aka the adult Elisabeth Báthory in Fate: Grand Order.
- Ultimecia in Dissidia Final Fantasy
- Haku Kaen aka Soi from Fushigi Yuugi
- Eleanor Varrot in Valkyria Chronicles
- Kyrie Ushiromiya in Umineko no Naku Koro ni
- Along with her sister, Kasumi Sumadera (but not in the Play Station 3 remake, where she is voiced by Sumi Shimamoto)
- Astrid in Atelier Rorona
- Azami (Lucy) and Aloe (Lenora) in Pokémon
- Konan in Naruto
- Nyamses in Nyan Koi (Hence the character's Fan Nickname of "The Major Cat")
- Kaine in NieR Replicant
- Michelle Peng in Juken Sentai Gekiranger
- Jagara in Wolf's Rain
- Yuri Nikaido in The World God Only Knows
- Nina Williams in Tekken: Blood Vengeance
- Serene Haze/Kasumi Sumika in Armored Core for Answer
- Adelina Esperanza in Granado Espada
- Impa in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Flavia the East Khan of Regna Ferox in Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem: Heroes.
- Mary Sera in Detective Conan
- Elizabeth Straizo aka Lisa Lisa in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Flamme in 'Frieren