is a Japanese actress. She has played lead roles in the 2022 live-action television and film adaptations of ''Welcome to the Occult Forest'', and voiced the lead role of Tamaki Tsuru in the 2022 animated film ''

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''. Her supporting roles include Ai Hayasaka in the 2019 film '' Kaguya-sama: Love Is War'', and Hina in the 2022

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''taiga'' drama ''

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''.

Early life

Hotta was born on April 2, 1998, in

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. After going to Tokyo to participate in a group audition for the lead role in the drama ''Solomon's Perjury'' but failing to win the role, she received additional acting training at the

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Tokyo studio, then in 2014 she participated in another audition event held by the

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agency, winning an award from satellite broadcaster Wowow.

Career

Hotta's first role came in the 2014 Wowow 4-episode drama ''Themis' Sentence'', playing the younger sister of the lead character. After a series of minor appearances in television shows, in 2017 she joined the cast of the NHK

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'' as Rin Fujioka, the younger sister of the lead character, who was played by

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. Hotta followed these appearances with a series of supporting roles in film adaptations of popular Japanese

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. She played the girlfriend of one of the main characters in the 2018 film adaptation of the manga ''

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'', took on the role of Ai Hayasaka in the 2019 film adaptation of '' Kaguya-sama: Love Is War'' and its 2021 sequel '' Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War'', appeared in the 2019 film ''He Won't Kill, She Won't Die'', played Ikumatsu in the 2019 film '' Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning'', joined the cast of the 2020 film adaptation of ''

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'', and played Serina Kanno in the 2021

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film adaptation of ''

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''. Hotta's first lead role in a film came in the 2019 dramatic film ''Prison 13'', based on the

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, in which she played a guard in a prison-like scenario concocted by an online content creator. The following year she became a regular model for ''

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'', appearing in the magazine for the first time in the March 2020 issue and on the cover for the first time in the November 2021 issue. Hotta returned to NHK with her portrayal of Shizu in the 2020 NHK asadora ''

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'', and appeared as Hina in the 2022 NHK ''taiga'' drama ''

''. She again worked with Wowow on the 2022 television drama ''True Identity'', an adaptation of a Tamehito Somei novel. Hotta played the lead role of Miho Ichikawa, an assistant director working on a horror film, in ''Welcome to the Occult Forest'', a 6-episode 2022 Wowow drama that was also edited to film length and released in theaters. She also took on her first voice acting role as the lead character Tamaki Tsuru in the 2022

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adaptation of ''

'', a story about members of a glider club.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hotta, Mayu 21st-century Japanese actresses 1998 births Living people Models from Shiga Prefecture Voice actresses from Shiga Prefecture