Aki Toyosaki

Aki Toyosaki (豊崎 愛生, Toyosaki Aki, born October 28, 1986 in Tokushima) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and singer affiliated with Music Ray'n. She is currently married to someone outside the entertainment industry.

As the younger of two sisters, Toyosaki led an active life throughout her school years, being part of a basketball team in junior high and later joining her high school's biology club. She worked part-time as a minor personality for one of Shikoku Broadcasting's programs Doyoubi wa Naisho!!. Although Toyosaki had a complex about being vocally high-pitched at the time, she was happy when the audience complemented her for it.

While attending Osaka University of Arts Junior College, Toyosaki passed the Music Ray'n Super Seiyu Audition, later making her official debut in 2006. She was assigned supporting roles at first, but found success with her lead performance as Yui Hirasawa in K-On! which helped pave the way for her singing career. It helped that she also had experience playing the electric guitar since elementary school. Animage's annual Anime Grand Prix awards had Toyosaki win first place for Best Voice Actor in 2009. She then won Best New Actress during the 4th Seiyu Awards.

While Toyosaki somewhat dabbled in music performances with other co-stars, she became a full-fledged singer in 2009 by forming the music unit Sphere alongside Ayahi Takagaki, Haruka Tomatsu, and Minako Kotobuki. She also made TV appearances since 2011, having participated in variety shows and weather forecast segments.

Toyosaki's hobbies are cooking, brewing coffee, drawing, and playing video games. Being able to play a wide variety of gaming genres, Toyosaki loves Xbox games in particular. She is also fond of listening to rock, punk rock, and folk music. Some of her favorite artists are the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, and Dr. Feelgood.

As a voice actor, Toyosaki typically voices sweet or eccentric characters who sometimes don't act their age. In one of her interviews with the media, she always emphasizes the need to connect herself with the roles given to her. So far, she has lent her performances to Kazari Uiharu in A Certain Scientific Railgun, Asmodeus in the Umineko no Naku Koro ni series, and Isuzu Sohma in the 2019 Fruits Basket anime.

Works

 * Kirschtorte - Ken to Mahou to Gakuenmono. 3
 * Cinque - Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia
 * Charlotte - BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk
 * Lavenza - Persona 5 Strikers
 * Seilah - Fairy Tail; reprise of her role in the anime