Naomi Nagasawa
Naomi Nagasawa is an actor, born 1971.
She has worked under two names, Naomi Nagasawa first and Nao Nagasawa since, and across three agencies: Aoni Production, then Ken Production, now Kekke Corporation. The bulk of the career sits in the late 1990s and 2000s, and it is spread thin across a lot of shows rather than concentrated in two or three.
Her most durable role is Majorika in Magical DoReMi, the show's resident witch, a comic performance built almost entirely on rasp and impatience. It is a completely different instrument from the one she uses in Infinite Ryvius or Princess Nine, where she plays it straight, and the gap between them is the case for her.
Around those sit the small parts a working voice actress accumulates: Reiko in Detective Conan, Hikaru Yoshimoto in Princess Nine, Criff Cay in Infinite Ryvius, Alice in Kurogane Communication, Steak in Tegami Bachi, and an early credit in the Dragon Ball Z special The History of Trunks. There is little biography on the public record beyond a marriage to the voice actor Ryotaro Okiayu that has since ended, and a daughter.
Movies (1)
TV (6)
Where to start with Naomi Nagasawa
Her signature part is Majorika in Magical DoReMi, which is the sensible starting point if you want the performance she is remembered for: broad, rasping, and doing most of the show's comic heavy lifting while the heroines get the plot.
For the opposite register, Infinite Ryvius is the strongest series on this list, a cold piece of science fiction about teenagers running a ship badly, and it takes every voice in it seriously. Princess Nine is the warmest thing here, a baseball drama that plays its girls' team completely straight. Kurogane Communication is the obscurity worth chasing, and Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks is the early credit, a grim one-off that plenty of fans rate above the films. Detective Conan is on the list too, though one guest role is thin reason to begin a series that size.