Eri Suzuki

Description
Eri Suzuki is a Japanese voice actress born on June 22, 1992, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She began her career in 2013 and is affiliated with the talent agency Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society (Haikyo). She is also known by the nicknames Suzueri and Erilyon. Suzuki stands 143 cm tall and is a graduate of Seijo University.

Suzuki's path to voice acting was inspired by her childhood love for anime like Digimon and Hunter x Hunter, and she has cited voice actress Junko Takeuchi as an early influence. Before pursuing voice work, she was involved in a theatre group during her school years, which contributed to her ongoing interest in stage performance. She has expressed a particular fondness for 2.5-dimensional musicals and a personal dream of seeing the anime she works on adapted for the stage. Her other interests include film, with a stated admiration for director Shunji Iwai.

She launched her career in 2013 as a member of the ten-member anime song vocal unit Trefle, a project that marked her entry into the industry. Her early voice roles included minor characters in series such as Oreshura, Kin-iro Mosaic, and Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea. A significant breakthrough came in 2014 with her first major roles as Yu Ibara in Nanana's Buried Treasure and Sanae Higashihongan in Invaders of the Rokujyōma!?.

From 2015 onward, Suzuki's career expanded with a wide variety of prominent roles. She voiced Milinda Brantini in Heavy Object and Yūko Hori in The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls, a role she would reprise across multiple sequels and adaptations, including The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Theater. In 2016, she portrayed Chinatsu Kuramoto in Flying Witch and Hikari Kohinata in Amanchu!, as well as its sequel, Amanchu! Advance. She also took on the role of Momoka Sonō in Girlish Number that same year. Another notable and recurring role from this period is Meili Portroute in the Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World franchise.

Her casting demonstrates versatility across genres, encompassing fantasy, comedy, and drama. She played Ellen Kohagura in Katana Maidens and its spin-off Mini Toji, and Chisaki Miyazaki in Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs. In the popular game and anime franchise Azur Lane, she voices the destroyer USS Bailey, as well as the ships HMS Bulldog and HMS Beagle. She also provided the voice for Napoleon in the Monster Strike the Animation series, including Monster Strike: Mermaid Rhapsody. More recently, in 2021, she voiced Robina "Bee" Goodfellow in The Faraway Paladin, a role she continued in its second season, The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of Rust Mountains. Other roles include Hina in Pikachin-Kit, Miku in When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, Sister Marie in Hallelujah: Unmei no Sentaku, and Yuko Hori in THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater: Extra Stage.

Beyond anime, Suzuki is also active in video games, lending her voice to characters in major titles such as Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (as Delthea and Emma), Fire Emblem Heroes, and Magia Record (as Kako Natsume). She has also participated in foreign language dubbing for projects like the live-action series The Big Show Show and the animated series Firebuds.

Suzuki has been involved in several recurring collaborations and group activities. In addition to her early work with Trefle, she was part of the vocal unit Heart♡Invader with fellow cast members from Invaders of the Rokujyōma!?, performing theme songs and character songs for the series. She also formed the unit Tekopikari with voice actress Ai Kayano to perform the ending theme for Amanchu!. In radio, she has co-hosted the program Konya mo SPA Date (Tonight is Also a SPA Date) with voice actress Nikka Omori since 2016. Throughout her career, she has frequently worked with colleagues such as Saori Ōnishi and Ai Kayano. Suzuki's body of work highlights her as a consistent and active presence in the anime and voice acting industry since her debut.