Kaneta Kimotsuki


Kaneta Kimotsuki 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.
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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, Dracula, Kemumaki Kemuzou, Pāyan, Iyami, Quackerjack, Tom, Benzou Karino, Horrorman, Conductor and Jiminy Cricket.
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, 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, Masako Ebisu, Shun Yashiro, Kōsei Tomita/Masako Nozawa, 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 and Masako Ikeda. 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 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 Soreike! 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 and Hiromi Tsuru, 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

Filmography

Television animation

;1960s
;1970s
;2000s
;2010s

Theatrical animation

Video games

Tokusatsu

Dubbing

Live-action

Animation

Japanese voice-over