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is a Japanese voice actress from
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, affiliated with Remax. She is known for voicing Witch in the ''
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'' video game series, Nagi Kobotoke in ''
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'' and its spinoff '' Irodorimidori'', Koharun in '' The Lost Village'', Chitose Kurosaki in ''
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'', and Eru Amami in ''
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''.


Biography

Kaoru Sakura, a native of
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,
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, was born on 29 September 1990. She was part of a broadcasting club with only two members while in junior high school. 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
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game. 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
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. In 2011, Sakura began voicing Witch in the ''
Puyo Puyo , previously known as ''Puyo Pop'' outside Japan, is a series of tile-matching video games created by Compile. Sega has owned the franchise since 1998, with games after 2001 being developed by Sonic Team. ''Puyo Puyo'' was created as a spin-of ...
'' 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. She also regularly appears on the Puyo Puyo Channel and Puyo Quest Namahōsō
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channels, and she often mentions that she is the same age as the ''Puyo Puyo'' series. Sakura voices Chitose Kurosaki in ''
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'', a sub-franchise in ''
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'' franchise. 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
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). Sakura voices Nagi Kobotoke, the fictional keyboardist for the in-universe band Irodorimidori in ''
Chunithm (stylized in all caps) is an arcade game, arcade rhythm game developed and published by Sega. It was first seen in select Japanese arcades in November 2014, as part of a location test and was officially released on . The game's title of ''Chuni ...
'', and she reprised her role in the 2022 '' Irodorimidori'' anime. She also starred as Koharun in '' The Lost Village'' (2016), Chiko Sekino in ''
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'' (2020), Eru Amami in ''
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'' (2021). In addition to voice acting, Sakura appears in music videos and works as a . Originally working in video production prior to her voice acting debut, her first job was on
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's late-night variety show . In November 2017, as part of 7, she was appointed as
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-for-a-day at
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. One of Sakura's special skills is archery, having been part of an archery club in high school. Another of her special skills is swimming, having practiced the hobby since kindergarten.


Filmography


Animated television


Animated film


Original video animation


Original net animation


Video games


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sakura, Kaoru 1990 births Living people Japanese video game actresses Japanese women pop singers 21st-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers Voice actresses from Yamaguchi Prefecture Singers from Yamaguchi Prefecture Anime singers