Yumiko Kobayashi (小林 由美子, Kobayashi Yumiko; born June 18, 1979) is a freelance Japanese voice actress from Chiba Prefecture. She was formerly affiliated with Arts Vision until August 2007. She made her voice acting debut as Mita in Kirara while still in college in 1998, and her first lead role was as Kento Yūki in Dennō Bōkenki Webdiver in 2001. She is still good friends with Natsuko Kuwatani, Hisayo Mochizuki, and Nana Mizuki, members of the former voice acting unit Prits; all four voiced characters in Sister Princess.
In an interview in 2019, Kobayashi said that shortly after her debut, while researching how to play a boy who can be dubbed, she came to believe that there was no better way to act than as a child actor, but she was struck by Akiko Yajima's performance as Kevin, the main character in Home Alone, and has since made it her goal. Beginning with the July 6, 2018 episode, she took over the role of Shinnosuke Nohara in Crayon Shin-chan from Yajima, who had played the role since the show began airing on April 13, 1992.
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Filmography
Television animation
1999–2002
Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers (1998), Lio Junior
Excel Saga (1999), Excel Kobayashi (Opening Song)
éX-Driver (2000), Sōichi Sugano
Gate Keepers (2000), Hideki
Love Hina (2000), Sarah McDougal
A Little Snow Fairy Sugar (2001), Basil
Magical Play (2001), Zucchini
Sister Princess (2001), Mamoru
Duel Masters (2002), Shobu Kirifuda, Katta Kirifuda
Mirmo! (2002), Beruru
2003–2006
Bomberman Jetters (2003), Kobon
D.N.Angel (2003), young Takeshi Saehara
Ikki Tousen (2003), Ukitsu
Peacemaker Kurogane (2003), Ichimura Tetsunosuke
Sonic X (2003), Bokkun
The Prince of Tennis (2003), Taichi Dan
Tottoko Hamutarō (2003), Solara
Naruto (2004), Nawaki
Superior Defender Gundam Force (2004), Genkimaru
Yakitate!! Japan (2004), Kazuma Azuma
OVA
Puni Puni Poemy (2001), Poemy "Kobayashi" Watanabe
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (2012), Souta Hori
ONA
The Heike Story (2021)
Theatrical animation
Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops—Winged Angels (2011), Pippo
Smile PreCure! The Movie: Big Mismatch in a Picture Book! (2012), Sun Wukong
Aura: Koga Maryuin's Last War (2013), Itō
Crayon Shin-chan: Honeymoon Hurricane ~The Lost Hiroshi~ (2019), Shinnosuke Nohara
Crayon Shin-chan: Crash! Graffiti Kingdom and Almost Four Heroes (2020), Shinnosuke Nohara
Crayon Shin-chan: Shrouded in Mystery! The Flowers of Tenkazu Academy (2021), Shinnosuke Nohara
The Orbital Children (2022), Hiroshi Tanegashima
Crayon Shin-chan: Mononoke Ninja Chinpūden (2022), Shinnosuke Nohara
Drifting Home (2022), Taishi Koiwai
Birth of Kitarō: The Mystery of GeGeGe (2023), Tokiya Nagata
Video games
Eternal Sonata (2007), Beat
Unknown date
Mega Man Powered Up, Mega Man
Princess Maker 4, Lee
Professor Layton and the Last Specter, Toni Barde
Romancing SaGa, Aisha
Super Robot Wars series, Ryoto Hikawa
Star Ocean: Second Evolution, Leon D.S. Geeste
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Kiss, Yuu Otonari
God of War, Atreus
Granblue Fantasy, Mimlemel
Sdorica Sunset, Lio, Elio
Ninjala, Van
Drama CDs
Amai Kuchizuke (2012), Young Yuu Takamura
Dubbing
Boyhood, Mason Evans Jr. (Younger) (Ellar Coltrane)
December Boys, Misty (Lee Cormie)
Dolphin Tale, Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble)
Dragon Blade, Publius (Jozef Waite)
Earth to Echo, Reginald "Munch" Barrett (Reese Hartwig)
Falling Skies (season 1–3), Matt Mason (Maxim Knight)
Hannah Montana: The Movie, Lilly Truscott (Emily Osment)
Hereafter, Jason and Marcus (Frankie and George McLaren)
I Am Legend (2010 TV Asahi edition), Ethan (Charlie Tahan)
The Impossible, Lucas Bennett (Tom Holland)
It Chapter One, Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer)
It Chapter Two, Young Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer)
Jingle All the Way 2, Noel Phillips (Kennedi Clements)
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Cyril Gray (Eros Vlahos)
Parasite (2021 NTV edition), Park Da-song (Jung Hyeon-jun)
Ready Player One, Zhou (Philip Zhao)
Rust and Bone, Sam (Armand Verdure)
Safe House, Joe Blackwell (Max True)
