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and singer. She is part of the Music Ray'n agency. After passing an audition held by Music Ray'n, she made her voice acting debut as Yumi in the anime ''

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''. She played her first main role as Ayumi Otosaka in the anime television series ''

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''. She is a member of the voice acting unit

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, alongside

Sora Amamiya is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with the talent agency Music Ray'n. After passing an audition held by Music Ray'n, she made her voice acting debut in 2012. She played her first main role as Kaori Fuji ...

and

Shiina Natsukawa is a Japanese voice actress, singer and YouTuber from Chiba Prefecture. She is a member of the singing unit TrySail, along with Sora Amamiya and Momo Asakura. She is affiliated with Music Ray'n. Her notable roles include Akeno Misaki in ''High Sc ...

. Apart from voice acting, she also performed theme song for various anime she acted in.

Biography

Asakura's interest in becoming a voice actress began in middle school and continued through high school. She got her break in 2011 when, together with

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, passed an audition held by

Sony Music Entertainment Japan , often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is oper ...

's sub-label Music Ray'n. She made her voice acting debut in 2012, voicing the character Yumi in the anime ''

''. Since then, she was given minor roles in various anime. In 2014, she was cast as Sumi Otokawa in ''

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'', Rin Kazari in ''

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''. She and other cast members performed the series' ending theme "Witch☆Activity". On December 21, 2014, it was announced that Asakura, Amamiya, and Natsukawa would be forming the voice acting unit

, which released its first single "Youthful Dreamer", used as the opening theme song for the anime television series ''

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'', on May 13, 2015. That same year, she was cast as Ayumi Otosaka in the anime television series ''

'' becoming her first main role. She then played the role of Manako in ''

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'', and Yuyu Aizawa in '' Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA''. In 2016, she made her official debut as a solo artist for Music Ray'n by releasing her first single which was used as an insert song for the anime film '' Suki ni Naru Sono Shunkan o: Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai''. The song peak at number 8 on the

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weekly charts. Her first solo album ''Peachy!'' was released on October 3, 2018; the album peaked at number 6 on the Oricon weekly charts. The following year, she was cast as Rona Pricipa O'Lapanesta in ''

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'', and Nagisa Kashiwagi in '' Kaguya-sama: Love Is War''.

Filmography

Anime

Films

Video games

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Albums

Singles

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Asakura, Momo 1994 births Living people Anime singers Japanese women pop singers Japanese video game actresses Japanese voice actresses Musicians from Fukuoka Prefecture Voice actresses from Fukuoka Prefecture 21st-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers