Kaoru Sakura

Kaoru Sakura, a native of Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, was born on 29 September 1990.^[1][2][3] She was part of a broadcasting club with only two members while in junior high school.^[4] She decided to start a voice acting career because after playing the visual novel Kamaitachi no Yoru, she thought it would be interesting if it had dialogue, which the game lacks due to being a Super Nintendo Entertainment System game.^[4] She was educated at Remax Attached Training School, and her first starring role was in the 2014 American film Ask Me Anything; she later recalled that she had done the job with Yōko Honna.^[4]

In 2011, Sakura began voicing Witch in the Puyo Puyo video game series. The producer of Puyo Puyo, Mizuki Hosoyamada, remarked that she mistook Sakura for Witch the first time he heard her voice, and Sakura herself listened to every other voice of Witch in order to protect the fandom's illusion toward Witch.^[5] She also regularly appears on the Puyo Puyo Channel and Puyo Quest Namahōsō Niconico channels, and she often mentions that she is the same age as the Puyo Puyo series.^[3]

Sakura voices Chitose Kurosaki in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls, a sub-franchise in The Idolmaster franchise.^[6] Since then, she has performed as a singer on several Idolmaster music releases, including the 2020 single "The Idolmaster Cinderella Starlight Master for the Next! 01: True Colors" and the 2021 single "The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Starlight Master 38: Fascinate" (which both charted at #7 in the Oricon Singles Chart).^[7][8]

Sakura voices Nagi Kobotoke, the fictional keyboardist for the in-universe band Irodorimidori in Chunithm,^[9] and she reprised her role in the 2022 Irodorimidori anime.^[10] She also starred as Koharun in The Lost Village (2016), Chiko Sekino in Dropout Idol Fruit Tart (2020), Eru Amami in D Cide Traumerei (2021).^[11][12][13]

In addition to voice acting, Sakura appears in music videos and works as a parts model [ja].^[4] Originally working in video production prior to her voice acting debut, her first job was on TV Asahi's late-night variety show SmaSTATION!!  [ja].^[4] In November 2017, as part of Moe Summit [ja] 7, she was appointed as station master-for-a-day at Tokuyama Station.^[2]

One of Sakura's special skills is archery,^[1] having been part of an archery club in high school.^[4] Another of her special skills is swimming,^[1] having practiced the hobby since kindergarten.^[4]

Animated television

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Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2013	Kurokan	Hitomi Kunieda	[1]
2015	Dance with Devils	female student, etc.	[1]
2015	Durarara!!	female clerk	[1]
2016	The Lost Village	Koharun	[11]
2017	Anonymous Noise	woman 3	[1]
2017	Grimoire of Zero	beautiful woman B, Magic Corps member A	[1]
2017	Hinako Note	woman, clerk	[1]
2017	Scum's Wish	elementary school student A, female student	[1]
2019	Outburst Dreamer Boys	Kujuku Tsukiho, Kujuku Haruka	[1]
2019	Rifle Is Beautiful	Takae Tachibana	[1]
2019	The Quintessential Quintuplets	Otori	[1]
2020	D4DJ First Mix		[1]
2020	Dropout Idol Fruit Tart	Chiko Sekino	[12]
2020	Interspecies Reviewers	Miss Clula	[1]
2021	D Cide Traumerei	Eru Amami	[13]
2022	Irodorimidori	Nagi Kobotoke	[10]
2025	The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei	Yukie	[14]

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Animated film

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Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2009	Mai Mai Miracle	high school girl	[1]
2016	Pop in Q	Jerry, etc.	[1]

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Original video animation

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2012	Saikyō Jump Spy Penguin	lady	[1]
2014	Sakura Cupusule	Mahiru's senpai	[1]

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Original net animation

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2012	Yahabee	Kagome	[1]
2013	Double Hard	Mai Sugiura	[1]
2013	Tomotoon! Sakura Taisen	female customer	[1]
2016	Jewelpet: Attack Chance?!	Ruri	[1]
2019	The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls 8th Anniversary Special Project: Spin-off!	Chitose Kurosaki	[6]

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Video games

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Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2011	Puyo Puyo	Witch, Sylph	[1]
2013	Mugen Souls Z	Sharefull	[1]
2014	Sword Art Online: Code Register	Aya	[1]
2015	Chunithm	Nagi Kotoboke	[9]
2015	Durarara!! Relay	Saika, high school girl, others	[1]
2015	Trillion: God of Destruction	rabbit maid	[1]
2016	Genkai Tokki: Seven Pirates	Neko	[1]
2016	Shadowverse	Isabelle	[1]
2016	Summon Night 6	Claret	[1]
2018	Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight: Re LIVE	Elle Nishino	[1]
2019	13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim	Natsuno Minami	[15]
2019	The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls	Chitose Kurosaki	[1]
2020	Arknights	Andreana	[1]
2020	Last Period	Teonia, Alicia	[1]
2021	D Cide Traumerei	Eru Amami	[1]
2021	Touhou Danmaku Kagura	Reisen Udongein Inaba	[1]
2025	Blue Archive	Nagusa Goryou

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