Masako Sugaya began her career in theater in the 1960s, where she was soon picked up to voice roles in the original Astro Boy TV anime series, and her first starring role as Chappy in Space Boy Soran, also know as Zoran, Space Boy in North America.
Prolific voice actor Masako Sugaya, best known for her role as Maki Aikawa in the Aim for the Ace! series, passed away on February 25 due to complications while being treated for an unspecified illness.
Masako Sugaya also lent her voice to Kenichi Mitsuba in the TV anime adaptation of Fujiko A. Fujio’s Ninja Hattori-kun, which ran for nearly 700 episodes from 1981 to 1987, and various movies based on the earlier series.