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Nobuyo Ōyama
大山 のぶ代
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Born
Nobuyo Ōyama (大山羨代)

(1933-10-16)October 16, 1933
Shibuya, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Died September 29, 2024(2024-09-29) (aged 90)
Occupation
  • Actress
  • screenwriter
  • voice actress
  • singer
  • essayist
  • television personality
Years active 1956–2016
Agent Actors Seven
Known for Voice of Doraemon and Monokuma
Spouse(s)
Keisuke Sagawa
(m. 1964; died 2017)

Nobuyo Yamashita (山下羨代, Yamashita Nobuyo, née Ōyama, October 16, 1933 – September 29, 2024), known professionally as Nobuyo Ōyama (大山 のぶ代, Ōyama Nobuyo), was a Japanese actress, voice actress, screenwriter, singer, essayist, and television personality affiliated with Actors Seven. Her husband was the television personality Keisuke Sagawa. She is best known for voicing the title character in the Doraemon anime series that ran from 1979 to 2005, for 26 years.

She also voiced Monokuma, the main villain from the Danganronpa video-game series, from 2010 to 2016 for the first three video games, two Danganronpa stageshows, and Danganronpa: The Animation.


Career

In 1965, Nobuyo Ōyama began her career in anime voice acting as the character of Punch in Hustle Punch. She later voiced Katsuo Isono in Sazae-san from the show's start in October 1969 to December of that year. After a number of minor roles, she landed the role of the titular character of the long-running anime series Doraemon from April 1979 until March 2005 when she chose to step down due to health problems she developed in 2001. Wasabi Mizuta replaced Ōyama as the voice actress of Doraemon in the new 2005 series. Eight years after Nobuyo Ōyama retired from voicing Doraemon, she made a major comeback by voicing Monokuma, the nemesis of the Danganronpa series from 2010 to 2015.

Illness and death

On May 13, 2015, her husband Keisuke Sagawa revealed on a radio show that she was living with dementia, putting any planned future work on indefinite hold. This notably prevented her from reprising the role of Monokuma for future Danganronpa projects, and in April 2016, it was announced that Tarako had assumed the role. Tarako voiced Monokuma until her death in March 2024.

In April 2016, Ōyama was moved to live in an undisclosed retirement home, due to Sagawa starting to face health problems while he was taking care of her at their home. When Keisuke Sagawa died on July 11, 2017, her long-time manager Akiko Kobayashi continued to visit and look after her, per Sagawa's wishes before he died. While her dementia had progressed, it was last said in October 2017 that she was in good health despite her condition, and enjoyed interacting with the other residents and partook in activities such as choir.

Ōyama died on September 29, 2024, at the age of 90, in a hospital in Tokyo. Her death was announced by her management company on October 11th. It was revealed in articles covering her death that over the past year, she started suffering from health problems and had difficulty speaking due to senility. She kept visiting the hospital repeatedly over the course of the past year and kept getting discharged until her final hospitalization on September 19.

Following her death, a private funeral was held by her relatives before the news was publicized. At her funeral, it was said that there was a photograph of her late husband Sagawa, chestnut yokan from Toraya, and a stuffed toy of Doraemon by her side inside the coffin she was in.

At the end of episode 832 of the Doraemon (2005) series, which was broadcast on TV Asahi on October 12, 2024, a message of condolence and gratitude for Nobuyo Ōyama with scenes from the 1979 series playing in a montage were broadcast in her memory. The following day on October 13, the Sazae-san anime had a memorial caption for Ōyama at the start of the first episode broadcast that day. The voice actress for Doraemon since 2005 in the current series, Wasabi Mizuta, expressed grief and condolences over Ōyama's death on her official blog on October 12.

Filmography

Television animation

List of voice performances in television animation
Year Title Role Notes Source
1965–1966 Hustle Punch Punch first voice
1969 Sazae-san Katsuo Isono first voice
1970–1971 Norakuro Norakuro
1971–1971 Andersen Stories Top Ep. 20
1972–1973 Hazedon Hazedon
1977–1978 Invincible Super Man Zambot 3 Jin Kappei
1979–2005 Doraemon Doraemon
2013 Danganronpa: The Animation Monokuma
2014 Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life: Awakening Arc Monokuma Ep. 10


Theatrical animation

List of voice performances in theatrical animation
Year Title Role Notes Source
1971 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Huck
1980 Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur Doraemon
1981 Doraemon: The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer Doraemon
1981 What Am I for Momotaro Doraemon
1982 Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil Doraemon
1983 Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil Doraemon
1984 Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld Doraemon
1985 Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars Doraemon
1986 Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops Doraemon
1987 Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs Doraemon
1988 Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West Doraemon
1989 Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan Doraemon
1990 Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet Doraemon
1991 Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights Doraemon
1992 Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds Doraemon
1993 Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth Doraemon
1994 Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen Doraemon
1995 Doraemon: Nobita's Diary of the Creation of the World Doraemon
1995 2112: The Birth of Doraemon Doraemon
1996 Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express Doraemon
1996 Dorami & Doraemons: Robot School's Seven Mysteries Doraemon
1997 Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City Doraemon
1997 The Puzzling Challenge Letter of the Mysterious Thief Dorapan Doraemon
1998 Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas Doraemon
1998 Doraemon Comes Back Doraemon
1999 Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe Doraemon
1999 Funny Candy of Okashinana!? Doraemon
1999 Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding Doraemon
2000 Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King Doraemon
2000 Doki Doki Wildcat Engine Doraemon
2000 Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections Doraemon
2001 Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves Doraemon
2001 Ganbare! Gian!! Doraemon
2002 Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom Doraemon
2002 Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born Doraemon
2003 Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters Doraemon
2004 Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey Doraemon

Video games

List of voice performances in video games
Year Title Role Notes Source
1995–2004 Doraemon video games Doraemon
1997 Doraemon: Nobita to Mittsu no Seireiseki Doraemon
2010 Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Monokuma PSP
2012 Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Monokuma PSP, also Reload in 2013
2014 Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Monokuma PS Vita

Other dubbing

List of voice performances in other dubbing
Year Title Role Notes Source
1966 Night on the Galactic Railroad Giovanni
ジョバンニ
Radio
1998 Hoshin Engi Hakutsuru Doji
白鶴童子
Radio
1999 Hoshin Engi Part Two: The Court Army Strikes Back
封神演義 第二部~朝廷軍の逆襲~
Hakutsuru Doji
白鶴童子
Radio
2000 Hoshin Engi Part Three: Dynastic Revolution
封神演義 第三部~易姓革命~
Hakutsuru Doji
白鶴童子
Radio
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