Summary
Since her debut, she has been active in various fields as a popular voice actress for many years, being a pioneer and one of the most representative figures of the third wave of the voice acting boom. Especially in her singing activities, she became a trailblazer by being the first voice actress to have an exclusive contract with a record company, laying the foundation for "voice actor artists" by engaging in genuine and continuous activities. In 1986, while enrolled in a voice acting training school, she made her anime debut in the first episode of "Maison Ikkoku" as a kindergarten child B and a neighborhood woman.
She has won the Grand Prix in the voice acting category of the monthly anime magazine "Animage" a total of 12 times.
She is as famous as Yamaguchi Kappei among Japanese anime lovers, and she is one of the voice actresses who is universally known. Her representative works include Rei Ayanami in "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and Lina Inverse in "Slayers."