The talent agency Actors Seven announced today that Nobuyo Ōyama (stage name of Nobuyo Yamashita), the original voice actress of Doraemon in the series of the same name, she died last September 29th of old age at the age of 90 years old.
Ōyama was born on October 16, 1933 and is originally from Tokyo. He attended drama school and made his debut in a drama NHK in 1956. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1957.
In 2015 he revealed that he had suffered from senile dementia since 2012, in 2008 he suffered a cerebral infarction and initially thought that the symptoms of dementia were the after-effects of the disease. In 2015 she continued to work as a voice actress and her life inspired the dramatized television special “Zutto Issho da yo ~Seiyū・Oyama Nobuyo Monogatari~” (Together for a Long Time: The Story of Voice Actress Nobuyo Ōyama).
Another of Ōyama’s most famous roles was that of Monokuma in the game series Danganronpa and in its 2012 television anime adaptation Danganronpa The Animationfor which he also sang the show’s second opening theme “Monokuma Ondo”. TARAKO replaced her in the Danganronpa franchise in 2016.
Source: Actors Seven away Anime News Network
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