Japan's Daily Sports newspaper announced on Friday, February 8th, 2019, that voice actor Kinryu Arimoto (有本欽隆) died on Friday, February 1st, 2019 from esophageal cancer. He was born on February 11th, 1940 in Tottori, Japan and was 77 years old.


Pocket Monsters anime fans will know him from his roles as Ford from the Orange Islands episode The Little Coil on the Prairie! and Denjirō from the Gold and Silver episode The Poppo Man and his Carrier Poppo!.

Source: https://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/2019/02/08/0012049713.shtml