Tomoe Hanba

Tomoe Hanba (Japanese: 半場友恵 Hanba Tomoe) is a Japanese voice actress for Pokémon the Series.

Tomoe Hanba

Biography

Hanba was born on June 9, 1972 in Tokyo, Japan, and became a voice actress as an adult. Hanba began to provide voices for the animated series near the end of Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver, with Lokoko being her first role. Afterwards, she has since provided the voices of many Pokémon and various characters of the day, most notably May's Squirtle, Nurse Joy's Chansey and two of Brandon's legendary giants in Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire.

Pokémon roles

Animation

Pokémon the Series

Humans

• Salvadore (AG177)
• Lokoko
• Rita
• Keanu
• Mary
• Lisa Mitchum
• Rhoda
• Zander
• Mollie
• Corina
• Various guest characters

Pokémon

• May's Squirtle
• Nurse Joy's Chansey
• James's Mime Jr. (AG161-AG175)
• Brandon's Registeel
• Brandon's Regice
• Drew's Masquerain
• Drew's Butterfree
• Nurse Joy's Combusken
• Solana's Plusle

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!

• Pikachu

Video games

• Pokémon Trainer (Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Male in Ultimate))

Other non-Pokémon roles

• Etna (Disgaea series)
• Phil Phleira Deed (The Candidate for Goddess)
• Viro (Elemental Gelade)
• Aura and Moogle (Final Fantasy: Unlimited)
• Maki Amakasu (Iketeru Futari)
• Mikoto Utsugi (The King of Braves GaoGaiGar)
• Luciola (Last Exile)
• Noisy/Inky (Midnight Horror School)
• Luna (PoPoLoCrois)
• Cin/Cz (Scrapped Princess)
• Macchi (Shaman King)
• Yotsuba (Sister Princess)
• Precis F. Neumann (Star Ocean: The Second Story)
• Sirica (Kirby: Right Back at Ya!)
• Tanya (Black Cat)
• Haruka, Ukki Pink (Saru Get You -On Air-)

Video game roles

• Gracia Hughes (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
• Kirara Apricot (Purikura Daisakusen)
• Welch Vineyard (Star Ocean series)
• Yukino Mayuzumi (Persona 2)
• Falsetto (Eternal Sonata)
• Haruka (Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed & Saru! Get You! Million Monkeys)
• Shunpei Serizawa (Brave series)

Dubbing roles

• Velma Dinkley (Scooby-Doo)
• Ginger Foutley (As Told By Ginger)

External links

• Art Vision profile

This article is part of Project VA, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on voice actors in Pokémon animation and Pokémon games.