Aoni Production (Japanese: 青二プロダクション) is a Japanese voice acting talent agency founded on 1 April 1969 and based in Minato, Tokyo. They were responsible for casting the Japanese voice cast of Thomas & Friends between the first and eighth series until being replaced by the new voice actors from 81 Produce due to the show being switched to another production company.
Members[]
Note: All names are in Western order (given name followed by family/last name).
- Takeshi Aono (deceased)[1]
- Tomohisa Asō[2]
- Nobutoshi Canna[3]
- Masashi Ebara[4]
- Hisao Egawa[5]
- Hiroko Emori[6]
- Moriya Endo (formerly) [7]
- Takeshi Endo[8]
- Daisuke Gōri (deceased)[9]
- Miyuki Hara (formerly; now affiliated with Production Baobab)[10]
- Keiji Hirai[11]
- Masato Hirano[12]
- Ryō Horikawa (formerly; now the director of Aslead Company)[13]
- Tetsu Inada[14]
- Hideo Ishikawa[15]
- Kumiko Izumi (formerly)[16]
- Hirohiko Kakegawa[17]
- Nobuaki Kanemitsu (formerly; now affiliated with 81 Produce)[18]
- Yoshihiro Kanemitsu[19]
- Yasuhiko Kawazu[20]
- Nobuhiko Kazama[21]
- Naoki Kinoshita (formerly; now affiliated with Kenyu Office)[22]
- Toshio Kobayashi[23]
- Takaya Kuroda (formerly; now affiliated with AXL-One)[24][25]
- Houko Kuwashima[26]
- Yasunori Masutani[27]
- Ginzō Matsuo (deceased)
- Hikaru Midorikawa[28]
- Kōhei Miyauchi (deceased)[29]
- Katsuji Mori (formerly; now affiliated with Plus One Company)[30]
- Nao Nagasawa (formerly; now affiliated with Centenaria)[31]
- Tomoko Naka[32]
- Chisato Nakajima[33]
- Michio Nakao (formerly)
- Yumi Nakatani (formerly)[34]
- Hiromi Nishida[35]
- Junko Noda (formerly)
- Yūsuke Numata[36]
- Ryōtarō Okiayu[37]
- Masaharu Satō[38]
- Yūki Satō[39]
- Shinobu Satouchi[40]
- Bin Shimada[41]
- Kōzō Shioya[42]
- Naomi Shindō[43]
- Yuka Shioyama[44]
- Fu Suzuki[45]
- Yasuhiro Takato[46]
- Ryōichi Tanaka[47]
- Sakura Tange (formerly)
- Naoki Tatsuta[48]
- Keiko Toda (formerly)
- Yasuhiko Tokuyama[49]
- Saki Yasuda (formerly)[50]
- Chizu Yonemoto (formerly)[51]
- Noriko Yoshitake (formerly)