Reiko Yasuhara
Description
Reiko Yasuhara is a Japanese voice actress and actress born on October 18, 1969, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She is affiliated with the talent agency rimax. Before focusing on her career in voice acting and live-action performance, she was a member of the idol group Shoujotai.
Yasuhara has built a career spanning several decades, with a significant body of work in anime television series and original video animations (OVAs) from the late 1990s through the 2010s. One of her earlier prominent roles in anime was as Abelia in the 1999 series Now and Then, Here and There. That same year, she first took on the role of Mikage Tsumura in Jubei-chan: The Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch, a character she would reprise in the 2004 sequel Jubei-chan 2: The Counterattack of Siberia Yagyu. In 2000, she voiced the titular wandering swordsman Ran Tsukikage in the samurai comedy Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran. Another of her well-known roles from this period is Saki Hanajima in the 2001 adaptation of Fruits Basket, a role she also played in related radio dramas. In the OVA series Animation Runner Kuromi (2001) and its sequel Animation Runner Kuromi 2 (2003), she voiced the character Hamako Shihonmatsu. Her other anime credits include roles in series such as Ojarumaru, Nadja of Tomorrow, and Legendz: The Awakening Dragon King.
Throughout her career, Yasuhara has been known to collaborate frequently with director Akitaro Daichi, appearing in several of his works including Jubei-chan, Animation Runner Kuromi, and Fruits Basket. Beyond voice acting, she has demonstrated her musical talent by performing theme songs and insert songs for some of the series in which she starred. For example, she sang the ending theme for Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran and wrote and performed the insert song "Tsubasa" for the Animation Runner Kuromi OVAs. In addition to her animation work, Yasuhara has an extensive career in live-action television dramas and films, as well as in voice-over work for foreign films and television series dubbed into Japanese.
Yasuhara has built a career spanning several decades, with a significant body of work in anime television series and original video animations (OVAs) from the late 1990s through the 2010s. One of her earlier prominent roles in anime was as Abelia in the 1999 series Now and Then, Here and There. That same year, she first took on the role of Mikage Tsumura in Jubei-chan: The Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch, a character she would reprise in the 2004 sequel Jubei-chan 2: The Counterattack of Siberia Yagyu. In 2000, she voiced the titular wandering swordsman Ran Tsukikage in the samurai comedy Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran. Another of her well-known roles from this period is Saki Hanajima in the 2001 adaptation of Fruits Basket, a role she also played in related radio dramas. In the OVA series Animation Runner Kuromi (2001) and its sequel Animation Runner Kuromi 2 (2003), she voiced the character Hamako Shihonmatsu. Her other anime credits include roles in series such as Ojarumaru, Nadja of Tomorrow, and Legendz: The Awakening Dragon King.
Throughout her career, Yasuhara has been known to collaborate frequently with director Akitaro Daichi, appearing in several of his works including Jubei-chan, Animation Runner Kuromi, and Fruits Basket. Beyond voice acting, she has demonstrated her musical talent by performing theme songs and insert songs for some of the series in which she starred. For example, she sang the ending theme for Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran and wrote and performed the insert song "Tsubasa" for the Animation Runner Kuromi OVAs. In addition to her animation work, Yasuhara has an extensive career in live-action television dramas and films, as well as in voice-over work for foreign films and television series dubbed into Japanese.
All Characters
- JapaneseAnime overview: Jubei-chan 2: The Counterattack of Siberia Yagyu
- JapaneseAnime overview: Animation Runner Kuromi 2
- JapaneseAnime overview: Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran
- JapaneseAnime overview: Fruits Basket
- JapaneseAnime overview: Fruits Basket
- JapaneseAnime overview: Now and Then, Here and There