Masako Nozawa
Biography
Masako Nozawa is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo. Throughout her life, she has been affiliated with Production Baobab, 81 Produce and self-owned Office Nozawa; she is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. Her late husband, Masaaki Tsukada, was also a voice actor.
As a voice actress, she is best known for the role of Sonâ
Goku in the popular anime franchise Dragonâ
Ball, as well as all of Goku's male family relatives (except Raditz) and the villainous Goku Black. She has also voiced TetsurĆ Hoshino (Galaxyâ
Expressâ
999) and KitarĆ (GeGeGeâ
noâ
KitarĆ, first and second series). In addition, she has also voiced two separate characters named "Hiroshi"; a character in DokonjĆâ
Gaeru, and the characters known in the U.S. as "Pidge" and "Haggar" in HyakujĆ«Ćâ
Golion. She also voiced Doraemon in the 1973â
anime, replacing male actor KĆseiâ
Tomita, who voiced the character in the first 26 episodes. In the 1979â
anime, she was replaced by Nobuyoâ
Ćyama, however Masako voiced Doraemon again in a 1988 special entitled Early English with Doraemon for unknown reasons.