Inori Minase

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Inori Minase is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, born on December 2, 1995. She made her debut as a voice actor in 2010, voicing a minor role in the anime series Occult Academy. Her first major roles came in 2014, when she was cast as Chino Kafu in Is the order a rabbit? and as Noel in Celestial Method. The following year, she portrayed Hestia in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? and Yuki Takeya in School-Live!, marking a period of significant growth in her career. Also in 2015, she began her solo music career with the single Yume no Tsubumi, released through the King Records label on her twentieth birthday.

In 2016, Minase received the Best Lead Actress Award at the 10th Seiyu Awards for her performances as Jun Naruse in the film The Anthem of the Heart and as Yuki Takeya in School-Live!. That same year, she gained widespread recognition for her role as Rem in the series Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-. This period also saw her take on other diverse roles, such as Carol Malus Dienheim in Senki Zesshō Symphogear XV and Swim Swim in Magical Girl Raising Project.

Her career continued to expand with a wide range of characters. She voiced Chito in Girls' Last Tour and Mari Tamaki in A Place Further than the Universe in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, she also began voicing Shōko Makinohara in the Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai series. The following year, she joined the cast of The Quintessential Quintuplets as Itsuki Nakano, and took on the role of Meiza Endust in Endro~!. She also voiced Aries Spring in Astra Lost in Space, and continued her role as Hestia in the ongoing DanMachi franchise.

Throughout the early 2020s, Minase has remained highly active, lending her voice to a variety of leading and supporting characters. These include the title role in Somali and the Forest Spirit, Princess Syalis in Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Reina Aharen in Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, and Beta in The Eminence in Shadow. She has also appeared in films, such as Drifting Home and the Sword Art Online Progressive movies, where she voiced the character Mito. Her filmography also includes the role of Kinoko Komori, also known as Shemage, in My Hero Academia.

Beyond her voice acting, Minase has built a successful music career, releasing multiple albums and singles, many of which have charted in the top ten on Oricon charts. She has held several solo concerts and tours, including a performance at the Nippon Budokan in 2019. She has also been part of various music units related to her anime roles, such as Petit Rabbit's from the Is the order a rabbit? series and the Nakano-ke no Itsutsugo from The Quintessential Quintuplets. She has been affiliated with the agency AXL-ONE since 2017.
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