Tomoko Kaneda

Tomoko Kaneda
金田 朋子
Born (1973-05-29) May 29, 1973 (age 51)
Occupations
Years active2000–present
AgentAcross Entertainment
Height147.7 cm (4 ft 10 in)
Spouse
(m. 2013; div. 2024)
Children1

Tomoko Kaneda (金田 朋子, Kaneda Tomoko, born May 29, 1973) is a Japanese voice actress and radio personality born in Yokohama, Japan. She had worked at Aoni Production for 11 years and had worked freelance since April 2011 and it was announced that she transferred to Across Entertainment in August 2011. She graduated from Department of Architecture, Kanto Gakuin University. She is a member of the voice acting unit Drops, which included fellow voice actresses Mariko Kouda, Akemi Kanda, Ai Nonaka and Ryoko Shiraishi and of the voice acting unit SD-Children along with Miyu Matsuki.

Her casting is usually that of a young child, due to her high-pitched voice.[1] She says in her blog's introduction, "My voice hardly changes even if I breathe in the helium gas." Her height was 146 cm (4 ft 9.4), when she was 29 years old.[2] However, when she became 37 years old, her height was 150 cm(4 ft 11).[3] On November 21, 2013 she announced her marriage to actor Wataru Mori.[4] On July 13, 2017 she gave birth to her first child, a girl.[5] They divorced on July 20, 2024.[6]

  1. ^ NHK「SAVE THE FUTURE」アニメやります!金田朋子さん, YouTube, June 18, 2009 [dead link]
  2. ^ コミックマスター朋ちゃんねる 02/09/21, ニコニコ動画, May 22, 2010
  3. ^ NHK BS 金田朋子の身長, YouTube, May 19, 2010
  4. ^ "Azumanga Daioh Voice Actress Tomoko Kaneda Gets Married". December 8, 2023.
  5. ^ 乾 雅人 [@inuimasato] (July 13, 2017). "森渉さん 金田朋子さん おめでとうございます。 千絵ちゃん、良い名前だなぁ" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ 竹内智信. "金田朋子が森渉と離婚も家族は継続、長文で結論に至った経緯を説明 - 離婚・破局 : 日刊スポーツ". nikkansports.com (in Japanese). Retrieved July 20, 2024.