Ogura Yui (小倉唯) is a voice actress and singer from Gunma Prefecture, Japan. She is Hanasato Minori's voice actress. She is currently affiliated with Style Cube, while her singing activities are signed under the Nippon Columbia label.
On September 16, 2013, Yui announced that she will change agencies from Style Cube to Sigma Seven. In 2016, Yui changed agencies from Sigma Seven to Clare Voice. She left Clare Voice on November 30, 2018 because her contract with them had expired. After a period of freelance activity she joined Just Pro in January 1, 2019, before changing agencies to Atomic Monkey on April 1, 2021 after her contract with them expired as well. She transferred back to Style Cube on April 1, 2022.
Background[]
When Yui was in kindergarten, she had expressed her desire to appear on TV, which led to her older sister applying her for the theater company Touhai. There she was a child actress until the end of 6th grade. Due to her admiration for Matsuura Aya, Yui decided to audition for Morning Musume. While she was not chosen for Morning Musume, she instead joined the idol group HAPPY! STYLE Rookies in 2008. She graduated from the group on May 6, 2009.
She debuted as a voice actress in 2008 by providing the voice of one of the avatars for Sega's 3D internet browser game, Internet Adventure (インターネット・アドベンチャー). She received her first anime role in 2009 as Mint in Yumeiro Patissiere.
In 2009, Yui performed the motion capture for Hatsune Miku for the game Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA.[1]
In May 2010, Yui formed the unit YuiKaori with Ishihara Kaori, who had also been a member of HAPPY! STYLE's sub-unit Team DEKARIS with her. In December 2011, she joined the idol group StylipS, which consisted of her, Kaori, and the other two ex-Team DEKARIS members Noto Arisa and Matsunaga Maho. She graduated from StylipS on April 20, 2013 because it was hard to balance with her studies. On March 31, 2017, it was announced that YuiKaori would halt activity on June 30 so both girls could focus on their solo careers.
On April 1, 2012, Yui announced her solo debut with King Records. Later her debut single "Raise" was released; the title track was used as the ending theme for the "Campione!" anime. On August 15, 2022, her singing activities were transferred to Nippon Columbia.
Other Roles[]
- Kagayaki Homare in HUGtto Precure!
- Onjouji Toki in Saki
- Yunoha Thrul in Aquarion Evol
- Tsutsukakushi Tsukiko in Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko.
- Rom in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series
- Onna Shinkan (Priestess) in Goblin Slayer
- Alice in Kamisama no Memochou
- Beelzebub in Shin: Nanatsu to Taizai
- Futaba Sana in Magia Record
- Rondine in Monster Hunter Rise
- Sunaookami Shiroko in Blue Archive
- Amatsukaze and Ryuuhou in Kantai Collection
- March 7th in Honkai Star Rail
- Ruby in Tower of Fantasy
- Manhattan Cafe in Uma Musume
- Myuu in Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou
- Katase in High School DxD
- Vanica Zogratis in Black Clover
- Marnie in Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Trivia[]
- Yui has an official fanclub called Yui's*Company.
- She has two older sisters who are twins. They are both 15 years older than Yui.[2]
- Her hobbies are cooking, making sweets, walking her dogs, collecting cosmetics, watching ASMR videos and TikTok. According to her personal Twitter's bio, sweets are one of her staple foods.
- Her special skills include swimming, doing make-up, hair arrangement, dancing, choreography, being able to sleep anywhere, coordination, 360° stretching, and winking.
- Her favorite animal is otter.
- Her favorite foods are sweets, cheese naan, dairy products, hamburgers, ramune, potato chips and cough drops.
- Yui owns three long-haired chihuahuas named Lupin, Chiffon and Muffin. While Lupin and Chiffon live together with her, Muffin lives at her parents' home.[3]
- Yui graduated from Showa Women's University with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology on March 2018.
- On October 14, 2015, Yui was appointed as a tourism ambassador in order to promote Midori City.
- Yui has a TikTok account.
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