Ayane Sakura (佐倉 綾音), born in Tokyo on January 29, 1994, is a popular voice actress. She's affiliated with the agency Aoni Production. Her break out role was as Merry Nightmare in Dream Eater Merry, and since then her roles are usually energetic girls and later on goes to voice Good Bad Girls. However, she has proven herself to be a very versatile voice actress as evident with her roles in KanColle where she voiced a bunch of characters, from the high-pitched Shimazake to the deeper voiced Nagato-class battleships. She also has a nice singing voice and has had several Anime Theme Songs.
She's also a huge
fan of Kana Hanazawa. Ironically, in some of her most notable castings with her, her characters despise Hanazawa's. However, she and Hanazawa have also starred together as sisters more than once.
Not to be confused with fellow singer Ayane.
Ayane Sakura has worked on the following works:
- Aina Ardebit in Promare
- Akane Isshiki in Vividred Operation
- Akari Mamiya in Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA
- Akimi Sakurai in the Oreimo PS3 visual novels
- Alazif in Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
- Alice Hiiragi in Persona 5 Strikers
- An-an Lee in Reverse: 1999
- Angelica "Angie" Farnaby in Valkyria Chronicles 4
- Ayane in Weathering With You
- Ayano in NEO: The World Ends with You
- Bobo in Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen
- Bort in Land of the Lustrous
- Ms. Chalice in the Japanese dub of The Cuphead Show!
- Chie in Brynhildr in the Darkness
- Chloe Chronicle in Infinite Stratos (Season 2 & World Purge OVA)
- Chieru Kazami in Princess Connect! Re:Dive
- Clarisse in Granblue Fantasy
- Cocoa Hoto in Is the Order a Rabbit?
- Cybelle in Carole & Tuesday
- Devonica in Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger the Movie: Adventure Heaven
- Dolla and Julia in Goddess of Victory: NIKKE
- Eleanora "Ellie" Yumizuru in Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE and Fire Emblem Heroes
- Ephnel in Soul Worker
- Erika Yaegaki in Flowers (2014)
- Eva Frost in TerraforMARS
- Felicia Mitsuki in Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story
- Fiona Frost in SPY×FAMILY
- Fuyuna Shinzaki in Day Break Illusion
- Gabi Braun in Attack on Titan
- Gasper Vladi in High School D×D
- Giselle in Gate
- Guillaume Hall in Master Detective Archives: Rain Code
- Haru Onodera in Nisekoi
- Haruno Yoshikawa in Ace of the Diamond (Act II, replacing Yurika Endou)
- Hasuki Komai in Boarding School Juliet
- Hayato Hayasugi in Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion
- Hikari Tsuneki in Seiren
- Hina Sato in The Day I Became a God
- Hotaru Takegawa in Hotarubi no Mori e
- Ingrid in Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven
- Iroha Isshiki in My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected
- Iori Shiromi in Blue Archive
- Jill Stola in ViVid Strike!
- Juri Hattori in Confession Executive Committee
- Kaguya Gekkou in Fly Me to the Moon
- Kaisei in The Eccentric Family
- Kaya in The King of Fighters All Star
- Kaya Saimori in My Happy Marriage
- Kittyeyes in Sdorica
- Also plays Leah in the same game
- Koishi Komeiji in Touhou Danmaku Kagura
- Kumiho Cookie in Cookie Run: Kingdom
- La Pucelle/Souta Kishibe in Magical Girl Raising Project
- Ladylee Tangleroad in A Certain Magical Index: Miracle of Endymion
- Levi Kazama in Trinity Seven
- Lieselotte in Radiant
- Linne and Kuon in Under Night In-Birth
- Lin You in Dragalia Lost
- Lou and Louise in Shadows House
- Lylla (Linda Cardellini) in the Japanese dub of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Maia Tsugikane in Aquarion Logos
- Maki Akamine in the Captain Tsubasa smartphone game Tatakau Dream Team
- Manako Kagami in Seton Academy: Join the Pack!
- Marie Fou Lafan in Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs
- Marii Buratei in Joshiraku
- Mario Gallo Bestino in Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-
- Mayday in No Straight Roads
- Meg Meg in #COMPASS
- Melanie (Sennia Nanua) in the Japanese dub of The Girl With All the Gifts
- Merry Nightmare in Dream Eater Merry
- Midoriko in Sword Gai
- Mika Shimotsuki in Psycho-Pass
- Miko Yaenote in Genshin Impact
- Mii in Sailor Moon Crystal
- Yaten Kou/Sailor Star Healer in Sailor Moon Cosmos (replacing Chika Sakamoto)
- Minerva, Nils and Julia in Fire Emblem Heroes
- Minerva in Fire Emblem Warriors
- Queen Medb, Miyamoto Musashi, and Assassin Paradiso (Mochizuki Chiyome) in Fate/Grand Order
- Minami Fuyuki in Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!
- Mio Amsaki in Magika Swordsman And Summoner
- Misty in Pokémon Masters
- Zinnia in Pokémon Evolutions
- Orio in Pokémon Horizons: The Series
- Moa in Show by Rock!!
- Mozuku Kunato in Knights of Sidonia
- Mushishi in Onmyōji (2016)
- Nadeshiko Kashima in Engaged to the Unidentified
- Naida Baron in Grendizer U
- Nana Sunohara in Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou
- Nao Tomori in Charlotte
- Natalia Garnet in Levius
- Natchi in Jewelpet Sunshine
- Natsumi Koshigaya in Non Non Biyori
- Nearl and Goldenglow in Arknights
- Nerva Martillo in Assassin's Pride
- Ochaco Uraraka and Reiko Yanagi in My Hero Academia
- Orca in Counter Side
- Otonashi in The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague
- Praxis (Mikumari in the Japanese version) in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Prinz Eugen and Ägir in Azur Lane
- Protagonist (female) in Tower of Fantasy
- Type 97 and DeLisle in Girls' Frontline
- Rabbit girl #2 in the Japanese dub of Sing and Adeline in the sequel
- Ran Ochanomizu in Atom: The Beginning
- Raging Bull/Yufa in Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
- Ran Mitake in BanG Dream! Girls Band Party
- Rei Yasaku in Do It Yourself!!
- Ren Saionji in MF Ghost
- Rinne in Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live and King of Prism
- Rio Sonogami in the Date A Live visual novel Date A Live Rio Reincarnation
- Rio Ueda in Orange
- Rosalia in DEEMO Memorial Keys
- Roxie in the Japanese version of Arena of Valor
- Ruche in Trillion: God of Destruction
- Ruina and Yuna in Another Eden
- Ryōka Niwa/Rooster in Juni Taisen: Zodiac War
- Ryoka Narusawa in Occultic;Nine
- Ryoko Kaji in Tsurezure Children (Playing Against Type, cause she's a tsundere deliquent who is not cute unlike her other roles)
- Saki Saki in Girlfriend, Girlfriend
- Sakura Amamiya in Sakura Wars (2019)
- Sakura Yae in the Japanese dub of Honkai Impact 3rd
- Sachiko Tanaka in Ultimate Otaku Teacher
- Saiko Yonebayashi in Tokyo Ghoul:re
- Sara in Spy Classroom
- Satsuki Tsushima in Song of Memories
- Sayo in Seiyu's Life!
- Secre Swallowtail in Black Clover
- Sekine in The Little Lies We All Tell
- Shimakaze, the Nagato-class Battleships, the Sendai-class and three of the Kuma-Class Light Cruisersnote in KanColle
- Shirokusa Kachi in Osamake
- Silvia Lautreamont in Dragonar Academy
- Solution Epsilon in Overlord (2012)
- Suzuka Dairenji in Tokyo Ravens
- Suzuna in AFTERLOST
- Tao Sagara in Major 2nd
- Tear Lightning in Unlimited Fafnir
- Ti2 in Alice Gear Aegis
- Tomoe in TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy-
- "Tornado Silver" Ogin in Girls und Panzer das Finale
- Touka Shishigaya in Grisaia: Phantom Trigger
- Toyah Mashima in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom
- Tsubaki Sawabe in Your Lie in April
- Type 97 in Girls' Frontline
- The unnamed mysterious girl (aka Aila Jyrkiäinen's daughter) in Gundam Build Fighters Try: Island Wars
- Ururuu and Saraana in Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception
- Utsutsu in Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls
- Verta in the Japanese dub of White Snake (2019)
- Yasuko Kouenji in The Helpful Fox Senko-san
- Yotsuba Nakano in The Quintessential Quintuplets. Also voiced all of the quintuplets in a commercial for the manga*.
- Yuiko Enomoto in Love Lab
- Yuna Azetta in Tales of Crestoria
- Yuri Saiki in Blue Reflection
- Yuria Nigurendou in the anime adaptation of Mieruko-chan
- Yuzuki Kurebayashi in selector infected WIXOSS
- Yuzuriha in Lapis Re:LiGHTs
Ayane Sakura's works provide examples of:
- Child-Like Voice: Many of the characters she's played, the most famous arguably being Ochaco Uraraka.
- The Danza: As Ayane in Weathering With You and as Sakura Amamiya in Sakura Wars (2019) (even though Sakura is the seiyuu's surname and the character's given name).
- Genki Girl: Both the seiyuu herself and many of her more popular characters.
- Pigeonholed Voice Actor: She has mostly played Genki Girl characters, though later roles have veered away from that in a big way.
- Playing Against Type: Ayane Sakura is known for being mostly cast as cute, energetic girls. However, in Black Clover she voices the quiet, apathetic Secre Swallowtail.
- Two First Names: Both "Ayane" and "Sakura" are common given names for Japanese girls. Considering the Japanese method of reading names (i.e. family name first, given name second), hers could be rather confusing for new fans.
- Woman of a Thousand Voices: As seen in KanColle, Fire Emblem Heroes and Fire Emblem Warriors. When she was originally cast as the five Nakano sisters from The Quintessential Quintuplets as mentioned above, she managed to give a completely unique voice for all five of them.
