Arisa Sakuraba
Description
Arisa Sakuraba is a Japanese voice actress from Aomori Prefecture, born on September 18. She is affiliated with the talent agency ARTSVISION. Her journey to becoming a voice actor began with an early interest in performance, starting in her middle school's drama club. When the drama club was disbanded in high school, she joined the broadcasting club, where she discovered a passion for narration and achieved success by reaching a national broadcasting competition. She later honed her skills at the Japan Narration Acting Institute, completing their advanced course and a narration seminar before joining ARTSVISION after passing an in-house audition.
Sakuraba made her professional debut in 2016 with a role in the television anime series Shonen Maid. In the same year, she began accumulating experience with small roles in major series such as High School Fleet, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., and Orange. A significant early role came in 2017 when she voiced Satan in the anime sin Nanatsu no Taizai. Her career has been marked by a wide range of supporting and main characters across various genres. In 2018, she was cast as Nozomi Ishizawa in the badminton-themed sports anime Hanebad!. In 2019, she voiced the clumsy vampire maid Carmilla in Kemono Michi: Rise Up and Komachi Enomoto in Chidori RSC (also known as Rifle is Beautiful). She has also appeared in popular series such as Just Because!, Fruits Basket, and Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun. Her work continued into the 2020s with roles in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and Summer Time Rendering.
Beyond anime, Sakuraba has an extensive body of work in video games. Notable game roles include Mercedes in Epic Seven, Therese in Octopath Traveler, and Rouge in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. She is also active in dubbing foreign films and television series into Japanese. Some of her prominent dubbing roles include Maeve Wiley in Sex Education and characters in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir and The Umbrella Academy. Her versatility extends to radio programs, webcasts, and audiobooks.
Sakuraba's professional background includes fluency in the Tsugaru dialect of her home prefecture. Outside of her voice work, she has noted interests in choreography, drawing illustrations, and a fondness for small animals.
Sakuraba made her professional debut in 2016 with a role in the television anime series Shonen Maid. In the same year, she began accumulating experience with small roles in major series such as High School Fleet, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., and Orange. A significant early role came in 2017 when she voiced Satan in the anime sin Nanatsu no Taizai. Her career has been marked by a wide range of supporting and main characters across various genres. In 2018, she was cast as Nozomi Ishizawa in the badminton-themed sports anime Hanebad!. In 2019, she voiced the clumsy vampire maid Carmilla in Kemono Michi: Rise Up and Komachi Enomoto in Chidori RSC (also known as Rifle is Beautiful). She has also appeared in popular series such as Just Because!, Fruits Basket, and Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun. Her work continued into the 2020s with roles in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and Summer Time Rendering.
Beyond anime, Sakuraba has an extensive body of work in video games. Notable game roles include Mercedes in Epic Seven, Therese in Octopath Traveler, and Rouge in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. She is also active in dubbing foreign films and television series into Japanese. Some of her prominent dubbing roles include Maeve Wiley in Sex Education and characters in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir and The Umbrella Academy. Her versatility extends to radio programs, webcasts, and audiobooks.
Sakuraba's professional background includes fluency in the Tsugaru dialect of her home prefecture. Outside of her voice work, she has noted interests in choreography, drawing illustrations, and a fondness for small animals.
All Characters
- JapaneseAnime overview: Hanebad!
- JapaneseAnime overview: Chidori RSC
- JapaneseAnime overview: Kemono Michi: Rise Up