Nao Tōyama

Nao Tōyama (東山 奈央, Touyama Nao, born March 11, 1992 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Intention. Formerly represented by Arts Vision, she entered the voice acting industry in 2010, having graduated from Japan Narration Actor Institute. She started her singing career seven years later under the Flying Dog label.

During her youth, Tōyama grew up enjoying anime, particularly magical girl titles like Sailor Moon and Ojamajo Doremi. Surprisingly enough, she only became driven to pursue voice acting after watching Fullmetal Alchemist and learning that the protagonist had been voiced by the female voice actor Romi Park. This helped influence her decision to join her school's chorus club to overcome her tone deafness and later the Japan Narration Actor Institute for voice over training. Her parents allowed this so long as she passed her university entrance exams.

Tōyama had been taught by her father to speak conversational English from an early age, though she admits to not being completely fluent at times. When she used to be tone deaf, her time in the chorus club mostly comprised of singing alto which made her official foray into the music scene all the more impressive. She is also a skilled dancer, having been practicing jazz and hip-hop dances for 10 years.

Throughout Tōyama's career as a voice actor, she has provided her vocals to a number of characters such as Kanon Nakagawa in The World God Only Knows, Lyria in Granblue Fantasy, and Kurumi Saimei in Sakura Revolution.

Works

 * Celica - Fire Emblem Warriors
 * Hong Jing - Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
 * Female warrior voice - Dragonic Age
 * Doublas M2, Texas Makko - Robot Girls Z ONLINE
 * Miscellaneous characters - Rick ☆ G's
 * Juna Crawford - The Legend of Heroes: Akatsuki no Kiseki