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born Kimotsuki Kanemasa; November 15, 1935 – October 20, 2016 was a Japanese actor and voice actor who was most known for the roles of Takeshi Goda before Suneo Honekawa in Fujiko F. Fujio's Doraemon." 声優の肝付兼太さん死去『ドラえもん』初代スネ夫役" (in Japanese), ORICON NEWS, Oricon, October 24, 2016." 声優の肝付兼太さん死去 26年間「ドラえもん」のスネオ役担当" (in Japanese), Sponichi Annex, Nippon Sports, October 25, 2016.

Career

During his life he had been attached to TBS broadcast theater company and then Aoni Production, Production Baobab, he became a director of his own agency 21st century FOX; he was attached to 81 Produce at the time of his death.

He was known to voice many characters in anime series for 62 years. He appeared in children's anime and educational programmes.

In addition to Doraemon, he had prominent roles in Cyborg 009 (as 007/Great Britain), Dracula (Kaibutsu-kun), Kemumaki Kemuzou (Ninja Hattori-kun), Pāyan (Perman), Iyami (Osomatsu-kun), Quackerjack (Darkwing Duck), Tom Cat (Tom and Jerry), Benzou Karino (Kiteretsu Daihyakka), Horrorman (Soreike! Anpanman), Conductor (Galaxy Express 999) and Jiminy Cricket (Japanese dub of Pinocchio and all other appearances).

He was the mentor of Kappei Yamaguchi.

Gian

In 1973, he was cast in the Nippon TeleMovie Productions adaptation of Fujiko F. Fujio's Doraemon series as Takeshi Goda (Gian or Jaian), a strong and quick-tempered local bully who can fight at any time and with any kid he sees, especially Nobita.

Alongside co-stars Yoshiko Ota (Nobita Nobi), Masako Ebisu (Shizuka Minamoto), Shun Yashiro (Suneo Honekawa), Kōsei Tomita/Masako Nozawa (Doraemon), he voiced the character before the series was cancelled after 26 episodes.

Conductor

In 1978, Kimotsuki was cast in Leiji Matsumoto's Galaxy Express 999 as the Conductor, the main crew member of the Galaxy Express 999. He is an alien being with an invisible body; only his eyes can be seen while he is wearing his conductor uniform, alongside his co-stars Masako Nozawa (Tetsuro Hoshino) and Masako Ikeda (Maetel). When it came time for the 1990s film the cast reprised the roles yet again. From there he continued to voice the character in practically every adaptation made during his lifetime, the sole exception being the PlayStation 2 games from the early 2000s. In 2006, he reunited with Nozawa and Ikeda to reprise their respective roles for the OVA and TV series.

Suneo

1979 saw Kimotsuki's return to the Doraemon franchise when he was cast in the 1979 anime series, this time as character Suneo Honekawa, a fox-faced (inherited from his mother) rich child who loves to flaunt his material wealth before everyone, especially Nobita, succeeding Yashiro in the Doraemon (1973 TV series)

Horrorman

In 1991, he was cast in the children's anime Anpanman as the character Horrorman, a living skeleton who often works with Baikinman and Dokin-chan, often for Dokin-chan's affections or for the heck of it. Alongside co-stars Ryūsei Nakao (Baikinman) and Hiromi Tsuru (Dokinchan), they voiced the terrible trio together for 25 years until 2016.

Death

Kimotsuki died from pneumonia at the age of 80 on October 20, 2016.

Successors

Yōhei Tadano - Kingdom Hearts III (Jiminy Cricket)
Kazuki Yao - Anpanman (Horrorman)

Filmography

Television animation

1960s

Astro Boy (TV 1/1963) (1963)
Big X (1964)
Pāman (1967) (Kabao)

1970s

New Obake no Q-tarou (1971) (Gojira)
Calimero (1972) (Piero)
Doraemon (Nippon Television Version) (1973) (Gian)
Great Mazinger (1974) (Reptilian General Draydou)
Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974)

2000s

Konjiki no Gash Bell!! (2003) (Grisa)
Black Jack (TV) (2004) (Maestro Morozoff)

2010s

Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru (2014) (Yoshiteru)

Theatrical animation

Do It! Yasuji's Pornorama (1971)
Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (1975) (Crab, Conch)
Galaxy Express 999 (film) (Conductor) (1979)

(1980)
Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981)
(1998)

Hokkyoku no Muushika Miishika (1979) (Rika The Fox)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1992) (Huang Rui)
(2003) (Saya)
Doraemon Movie Series (Suneo Honekawa)

(1980)
(1981)
(1982)
(1983)
(1984)
(1985)
(1986)
(1987)
(1988)
(1989)
(1990)
(1991)
(1992)
(1993)
(Snemis) (1994)
(1995)
(1996)
(1997)
(1998)
(1999)
(2000)
(2001)
(2002)
(2003)
(2004)

Soreike! Anpanman The Movie Series (Horrorman)

(1991)
(2016)

Video games

Doraemon video geries (1995-2004) (Suneo Honekawa)
Kingdom Hearts (Jiminy Cricket)

Tokusatsu

Robot Detective (Kowashiman (ep. 5 - 6), Karateman (ep. 19 - 20))
Ganbare!! Robocon (Roboinu)
Chouriki Sentai Ohranger (Butler Acha (eps. 1 - 15, 17 - 20, 22 - 31, 33, 35 - 48))
Chouriki Sentai Ohranger Movie (Butler Acha)
Gekisou Sentai Carranger (TT Terurin (ep. 24))
Moero!!! Robocon (Robogeta)