Tsuru focused her career on being a narrator for news broadcasts and Japanese television shows starting in The '90s, while keeping her long-running roles - Bulma and Dokin-chan - as her "lifetime anime roles." Needless to say, thanks to her roles as Bulma and Dokin-chan, her voice was a fixture of the childhoods of entire generations of Japanese kids.
Tsuru was also at one point married to Keiichi Nanba, but they later divorced and Nanba has since married Mayumi Sho.
She passed away on November 16, 2017,
at the age of 57, from an aortic dissection. Over four hundred fans gathered for her funeral, as well as fellow voice actors and actresses such as Masako Nozawa and Ryō Horikawa, to mourn her passing and celebrate her life.
Notable roles:
- Akurjo in Rhapsody II: Ballad of the Little Princess
- Anne in Bravely Second
- Anne Shirley in the first Japanese dub of Anne of Green Gables (CBC live-action version; later Darrin'd by Miki Fujitani in the redub for Fuji TV)
- Asuna Kujou in Maison Ikkoku
- Ayumi Murakoshi in GTO: The Early Years
- Bulma, Piccolo as a child, Baby Trunks, Bra and Tights in Dragon Ball
- Chameleon June and Mermaid Thetis in Saint Seiya
- Hisho, Hinako Hanakoganei note & Petit Angé in Cyberteam In Akihabara
- Charlotte in Earnest Evans
- Dokin-chan in Anpanman
- Elizébet in Ninja Gaiden II (2008)
- Imelda in Langrisser II
- Joan of Arc in Phantom Thief Jeanne
- Kagari in the OVA of Ushio and Tora
- Kiddy Phenil in Silent Möbius
- Leona Osaki in Dominion Tank Police
- Kim Kabirov in Super Dimension Fortress Macross
- Hanegi Manami in Delpower X Bakuhatsu Miracle Genki!
- Lena Brande in Valis IV
- Lilia in Ys (PC Engine games)
- Lim in the Cosmic Fantasy games
- Madoka Ayukawa in Kimagure Orange Road
- Mari Oaya in Magical Taruruto-kun
- Akira Kandori in Natsuki Crisis
- Kiyomi Arai in Sailor Victory
- "Madame Boss" in Pokémon: The Birth of Mewtwo
- Meryl Stryfe in Trigun
- Miyuki Kashima in Miyuki
- Naomi Hunter in Metal Gear Solid
- Natsuko Shouno in Kinnikuman
- Nevanlinna in Super Robot Wars V
- Perrine Pandavoine in The Story of Perrine
- Reiko Mikami in Ghost Sweeper Mikami (with the exception of the 2009 pachinko game in which NONE of the show's voice actors returned and she was darrin'd by Kotono Mitsuishi)
- Reina in Yakuza 0
- Rufina Argent in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
- Shakuyaku in One Piece
- Ukyo Kuonji in Ranma ½
- Usapyon in Fresh Pretty Cure! the Movie: The Kingdom of Toys has Lots of Secrets!?
- The Tree of Hearts ("Kokoro no Taiju") in HeartCatch Pretty Cure!
- Yubel in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
- Jorinde in Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics
