Ai Kobayashi


Ai Kobayashi is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She is known for her work in anime, animated films, video games, and dubbing of foreign media. Kobayashi has been active since the early 1990s and is affiliated with Office Osawa.
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Biography

Ai Kobayashi was born on May 25, 1973, in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan. She began her acting career in the early 1990s, initially appearing in live-action productions before transitioning into voice acting. Over the course of her career, she has performed a wide range of roles in television animation, theatrical films, video games, and Japanese-language dubs of foreign films and television series.

Career

Kobayashi gained recognition through her roles in late-1990s and early-2000s anime productions. One of her early notable roles was Lily Borjano in Turn A Gundam. She continued to appear in prominent mecha and science fiction series, including Overman King Gainer and Ergo Proxy, where she voiced Mayahuel.
She is also known for voicing antagonistic characters, including The Infant and Hakudoshi in Inuyasha and Inuyasha: The Final Act. In the Pretty Cure franchise, she voiced Viblis in Pretty Cure and later appeared as Tsurune Hanamichi in Delicious Party Pretty Cure.
In feature films, Kobayashi provided the voice of Electra in Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door and appeared in multiple Crayon Shin-chan films. She also voiced Deunan Knute in the 2004 animated film adaptation of Appleseed.
Outside of animation, Kobayashi has worked extensively in dubbing foreign films and television series into Japanese. In video games, she is credited as the Japanese voice of Samus Aran in Metroid: Other M.

Filmography

Television animation

Animated films

Video games

Dubbing