is a Japanese voice actress from

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, affiliated with Sun Music Group. A founding member of the voice acting unit

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, she is known for voicing Rina in '' Million Doll'' and Airi Eniwa in ''

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Biography

Mayu Iizuka, a native of

, was born on 15 April 1996. While watching ''

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'' anime with her older siblings, whom she described in an interview as being "from the Prince of Tennis generation", she saw that a woman was credited for a male character, and her sister told her that female voice actors are able to do characters regardless of gender, inspiring her to join the voice acting industry. She was educated at , where she would about three hours commuting back and forth to and where she started an idol club. Her voice acting career began while she was a first-year high school student. In December 2014, it was announced that she and

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would voice the ''kōhai'' in '' Tamayura: Sotsugyō Shashin''. In April 2015, she was cast as Rina in '' Million Doll''. She voices Airi Eniwa in the mobile game ''

''. She reprised her role in the 2022 anime. In 2019, she became one of the founding members of the voice acting unit

. On 29 January 2022, she revealed that she was the "inner person" behind , a VTuber who became active in 2018. Iizuka said that this decision was to counter the stigma of self-revealing real-life identities among VTubers. Her special skills are winking, whistling, and making her soft joints flexible. Among her hobbies are farming and bass guitar.

Filmography

Animated television

Animated film

Video games

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iizuka, Mayu 1996 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 Saitama Prefecture Singers from Saitama Prefecture