Ikue Kimura

Description
Ikue Kimura is a Japanese voice actor, or seiyū, born on December 10 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She is affiliated as a freelance voice actor, meaning she is not under contract to a specific talent agency. Her blood type is AB, and she has a stated interest in playing musical instruments.

Kimura began her career in the late 1990s, with one of her earliest roles being Mikako in the 1999 series Seraphim Call. She gained prominence in the early 2000s for several key roles. In 2001, she was cast as Ryoko Mitsurugi, the main character in the anime series Samurai Girl Real Bout High School, which is based on the manga of the same name. For this series, she also performed the opening theme song, titled Aoi Shuumatsu, which is a cover of a 1985 song by Minako Honda.

The following year, in 2002, she began her long-running role as Kyouko Tokiwa in the Full Metal Panic! franchise, a part she would reprise across multiple series including Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid, and as recently as 2018 in Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory. Also in 2002, she voiced the character Liquiy in the anime series Kiddy Grade. Her other television animation credits include roles in Time Bokan 2000: Kaitou Kiramekiman and Bakuretsu Tenshi.