Yumiko Kobayashi
Yumiko Kobayashi (小林 由美子, Kobayashi Yumiko, born June 18, 1979) is a freelance[5] Japanese voice actress from Chiba Prefecture.She made her voice acting debut as Mita in Kirara while still in college in 1998,[6] and her first lead role was as Kento Yūki in Dennō Bōkenki Webdiver in 2001.[7] She is still good friends with Natsuko Kuwatani, Hisayo Mochizuki, and Nana Mizuki, members of the former voice acting unit Prits;[8] 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.[9] 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.