Sayaka Nakaya
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- Voice actress
- singer
Sayaka Nakaya | |
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仲谷 明香 | |
| Born | October 15, 1991 Iwate, Japan |
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| Years active | 2007–present |
| Agent | Amuleto |
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Sayaka Nakaya (仲谷 明香, Nakaya Sayaka; born October 15, 1991)[1] is a Japanese voice actress and former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She is from Iwate. While with AKB48 she was a member of the subunit No Name. Her biggest role as a voice actress was as the title character Chitose Sakuraba in the anime series Chitose Get You!!.
Nakaya passed AKB48's generation 3 audition on December 3, 2006. She is one of 20 girls who passed from among 12.828 candidates. She was first on stage at AKB48 Theater as part of Team B on April 8, 2007. On August 23, 2009, a reshuffle was announced and Nakaya was transferred to Team A.[2]
On December 2, 2010, an audio book of Moshidora read by her received "Audio Book Award 2010". The audio book gets awarded based on consumer votes in FeBe! audio book website.[3] She also provided voice in the anime series of Moshidora.[4]
Along with fellow member from Team K Miku Tanabe, Nakaya formed a unit called Baby Gamba. The unit released a single DVD "Ee Janaika" (ええじゃないか) under label Avex on September 14, 2011. Baby Gamba is a character in anime series Ganba no Bōken, a series based on kids book "Bōkentachi Gamba to 15-hiki no Nakama" by Otsuka Saito.[5]
On December 13, 2011, her name was chosen along with 9 other members to voice characters in AKB48's original anime series AKB0048.[6]
An autobiography of her, titled "Hisenbatsu Idol" was published in 2012.[7] When she was a member, she was one of 4 AKB48's anime fan who is called "wota 4".[citation needed]
On Team K Waiting Stage on March 2, 2013 at night, Nakaya suddenly announces her departure as an AKB48 member to taking part in a voice acting audition. 4 days later at the same stage, she had her last and graduation concert as an AKB48 member. At the same time, she also quit from her former agency Mousa.[8]
Filmography
Anime
- Aikatsu Stars! as Haruka Ruka
- AKB0048 as Orine Aida
- AKB0048 Next Stage as Orine Aida
- Chaos;Child as Hana Kazuki
- Asako Get You!! as Chitose Sakuraba
- Chitose Get You!! as Chitose Sakuraba
- HappinessCharge PreCure! as Olina/Cure Wave
- Idol Incidents as Ume Momoi
- Kiznaiver as Ruru
- Magical Somera-chan as Somera Nonomoto
- Momokuri as Yuzuki Shimada
- Moshidora as Ayano Hōjō
- Tales of the Abyss as maid 1 (episode 1)
- The Idolm@ster as boy (episode 1)
- The Lost Village as girl (episode 6); Naana
- The Magnificent Kotobuki as Kate
- Triage X as Kaname Makishi
Video games
- Atelier Sophie as Tess Heitzmann
- Chaos;Child as Hana Kazuki
- Chōginga Sendan as Yuki Katsumura
- Himedatsu! Demon Saga as Charles
- Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 as Mina Nishizawa
- Idol Jihen as Shion Kagaya
- Moeru Mahjong Moejan! as Ayumu Honrō
- Thousand Memories as Hanabishi no An'yakusha Isabel
- Uchi no Himesama ga Ichiban Kawaii as Condemned Princess Gabriella
Narration
- Harapeko Yamagami-kun
- Zenryoku Ōen! NHK-hai Figure 2012 navigator
