Source: Asahi

Radio and voice actor Kyoji Kobayashi died March 8th of subarachnoid hemorrhage at the age of 75. His funeral will be held at the funeral hall of the Tokyo Shibuya Ward, Nishihara on March 14th.

Kobayashi was the narrator for SPECTREMAN (Supekutoruman, 1971), the 1980 NHK radio adaptation of Japan Sinks (Nihon Chinbotsu) and the anime series PLANETES (2003). He also worked on ULTRA SEVEN (Urutora Sebun, 1967), providing the voice of the villainous Alien Godola (Godora Seijin) in episode #4, “Vessel Machs, Reply” (Makusu Oto-seyo, US title “Double Trouble at Sea”). His other TV anime voice performances included OSOMATSU-KUN (1966), PRINCESS KNIGHT (Ribbon no Kishi, 1967) and STAR OF THE GIANTS (Shinjuku no Taiketsu, 1968). He also did Japanese dubbing for foreign TV shows, including Gerry Anderson’s JOE 90 (1968).