Sumi Shimamoto is a voice actress born in 1954, and is currently married to a member of a comedy troupe called Chibikko Gang. Fans best know her as the Hot Mom of Detective Conan, Action Girl Nausicaa, and Kyoko from Maison Ikkoku. She is One of Us too, as she has a knack playing RPG games, too, even at 50+ years of age. Not too trend setting, until you realize this woman was the Ur Example of seiyuus for Yamato Nadeshiko in The Eighties and The Nineties...at least until Kikuko Inoue perfected the archetype in the mid-late 90's.
Notable roles by Sumi Shimamoto[]
- Kyoko Otonashi in Maison Ikkoku
- Yukiko Kudo in Detective Conan
- Princess Nausicaa in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
- Toki in Princess Mononoke
- Shokupan-man in Soreike Anpanman
- Cosmos in Dissidia Final Fantasy
- Miyako Shiba in Bleach
- Asuka Mizunokuji in Urusei Yatsura
- Kanata Izumi in Lucky Star
- Princess Ixquic in the Cyborg 009 2001 series.
- Clarisse in Lupin III: The Castleof Cagliostro
- Tae Sekihara (and her sister Sae) in Rurouni Kenshin
- Sara Crewe in Princess Sara
- GinRei in Giant Robo
- Kasumi Sumadera in Umineko no Naku Koro ni (PS3 game only)
- Princess Romina in Ninja Senshi Tobikage
- Moeran in Fractale
- Princess Leia in the Japanese dub of the original Star Wars trilogy
- Isis (Ishizu) Ishtar in Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Pulls triple duty as the Gofer sisters, Irene, and Operetta in Otomedius
- Dorothy in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Nagi in Fire Emblem: Heroes.
- Rei "Hana no Saint-Juste" Asaka from Oniisama e... (massive Playing Against Type - she's a Broken Bird and The Ophelia)
- Yumi (Themis) in the first Japanese dub of Ulysses 31 (later Darrin'd by Akiko Yajima in the second dub)
- Elfie in Elfie of the Blue Seas