Katsue Miwa

Miwa was born in Osaka Prefecture on October 12, 1943.^[3] She moved at four years old and grew up in Minato Ward, Tokyo.

During her childhood, Miwa worked as a child actress at the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting Children's Theatre Company.^[2][4] While there, she was cast as the voice of Foo in the puppet show Boo Foo Woo on Okaasan to Issho.

Miwa graduated from Kokugakuin High School^[5] and then from the Department of Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters, Kokugakuin University.^[4] She wanted to become a Japanese language teacher and had even done teaching practice at her former junior high school. Despite these hard efforts, she was not able to get a look in the eye and was shocked when students would tease her and tell her that her voice sounded like a manga character. They even referred to her with her first name without using any honorifics, so she gave up on becoming a teacher and would go on to become a voice actress.^[2][4]

Her voice range was described as "a fairytale-like, dreamy mezzo-soprano".^[2][10] Her vocal range was E-D, and boys' voices (D-B).^[3] Her dialects were Kansai dialect^[3] and Osaka dialect.^[3]

Miwa has appeared in various anime, television shows, and foreign films.^[11] With her recognizably cute voice, she portrayed approachable, ordinary boys, but also voiced roles like energetic girls, adult women, and elderly women.^[12] She also made appearances in many television commercials and did narration.^[12]

Her personal qualifications and licenses included a medium-sized vehicle license and a large motorcycle license. She also had a first-grade junior high school teacher's license and a second-grade senior high school teacher's license.^[3]

Her main hobby was admiring wild plants and her special skill was creating small crafts.^[3]