In order for players to meow to their heart’s content, it only makes sense that there needed to be a voice actor to make the mewing sounds possible. That’s where Lala comes in.

Nobuyo Oyama, best known for her raspy voice of Doraemon, the world’s beloved cat-robot from the future, speaks during an interview in Feb. 1999, in Tokyo.

TOKYO – Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the raspy voice of Doraemon, the beloved cartoon robotic cat from the future, has died. She was 90. Oyama, who voiced Doraemon for more than a quarter century ...