is a Japanese voice actress and professional mahjong player. She is currently affiliated with

81 Produce is a voice talent management firm in Japan founded on 3 February 1981 (thus the year is the company's namesake). A hybrid CD-ROM featuring voice talent data for members of 81 Produce was released on 19 October 1997. The company is located in ...

Biography

Arisa Date was born on May 10, 1991, in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. She lived there until the first year of Junior High School in Japan. She then moved to

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...

, Japan during her 2nd year of Junior High in Japan and lived there until her 3rd year in High School in Japan. After she graduated from High School, Date enrolled in Ritsumeikan University studying Image Arts and Sciences. It was later revealed that Voice Actress Naomi Ōzora also studied in the same field. In 2014 Date voiced a minor character in Saki: The Nationals which features Riichi Mahjong. She became addicted to playing Riichi Mahjong after this role. In April 2019, she announced that she became a professional mahjong player affiliated with the Japan Professional Mahjong League. In 2021, Date won her first Japan Professional Mahjong League Title by placing 1st in the 1st Sakura Bud Fight for young female professionals of the league. In August 2021, she was drafted by the

Konami , is a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machines, slot machines, and arcade cabinets. Konami has casino ...

Mahjong Fight Club professional Mahjong team to participate in the team Riichi Mahjong tournament M-League. Her hobbies/skills are drawing with aquarelle pencils, watching live performances, mahjong, Adobe Photoshop, and

Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor and design program developed and marketed by Adobe Inc. Originally designed for the Apple Macintosh, development of Adobe Illustrator began in 1985. Along with Creative Cloud (Adobe's shift to month ...

. Her favorite artists include

Yukari Tamura is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Amuleto (formerly Arts Vision and I'm Enterprise). She debuted as a voice actress in 1997, releasing her debut single "Yūki o Kudasai" on March 26, 1997. Her role as Nanoha Takamachi in the ...

Nana Mizuki is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator from Niihama, Ehime. She is represented by the agency StarCrew. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer, releasing one single under her birth name, Nana Kondō, in 1993 and made her debut as a voi ...

Kana Hanazawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. A prolific voice performer in anime, she has amassed several film and television credits since her debut in 1990. She won the Seiyu Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015, and won the Newtyp ...

and

Saori Hayami Saori (written: 沙織, 早織, 佐織, 砂織, 沙保里, 沙緒里, 紗央里, 紗央莉, 左多里 or さおり in hiragana) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * Saori (television personality) (born 1981), ...

. She likes

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, her parents

Gyoza ''Jiaozi'' (; ; pinyin: jiǎozi) are Chinese dumplings commonly eaten in China and other parts of East Asia. ''Jiaozi'' are folded to resemble Chinese sycee and have great cultural significance attached to them within China. ''Jiaozi'' ...

, and

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, but dislikes

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es,

Celery Celery (''Apium graveolens'') is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity. Celery has a long fibrous stalk tapering into leaves. Depending on location and cultivar, either its stalks, ...

, and

Unagi is the Japanese word for freshwater eel, particularly the Japanese eel, . Unagi is a common ingredient in Japanese cooking, often as '' kabayaki''. It is not to be confused with saltwater eel, which is known as '' anago'' in Japanese. ...

Filmography

Television animation

;2013 *'' Duel Masters Victory V3'' ;2014 *''

Aikatsu! is an arcade collectible card game in Bandai's ''Data Carddass'' line of machines, which launched in October 2012. The game revolves around using collectible cards featuring various clothes to help aspiring idols pass auditions. An ani ...

'' (Fan) *'' Saki: The Nationals (Suzu Ueshige)'' *''

No-Rin is a Japanese light novel series written by Shirow Shiratori, with illustrations by Kippu. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Silver Link aired from January to March 2014. Funimation streamed the series on their video websit ...

'' (Girl) *''

Pokémon XY (an abbreviation for in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company, founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, the owners of the trademark and copyright of the franchise. In terms of what each of those c ...

'' (Maid, Karen) *'' Shounen Hollywood'' (Girl) ;2015 *''

The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls is a Japanese free-to-play simulation video game co-developed by Cygames and Bandai Namco Studios for the Mobage social network platform for mobile phones. It was first released on November 28, 2011, for feature phones, and compatibilit ...

'' (Emi Namba) *'' PriPara'' (Girl) *''

Rin-ne is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from April 2009 to December 2017, with its chapters were collected into forty ''ta ...

'' (Yumi) *''

Punch Line A punch line (a. k. a. punch-line or punchline) concludes a joke; it is intended to make people laugh. It is the third and final part of the typical joke structure. It follows the introductory framing of the joke and the narrative which sets up ...

'' (Rumi) *'' Venus Project: Climax'' (Isami Kawato) ;2016 *'' Haruchika'' (Chiyoko Katagiri, Kanoko Degawa) ;2017 *''

Little Witch Academia is a Japanese anime franchise created by Yoh Yoshinari and produced by Trigger. The original short film, directed by Yoshinari and written by Masahiko Otsuka, was released in theaters in March 2013 as part of the Young Animator Trai ...

'' (Maril Cavendish) *''

Idol Time PriPara is a Japanese anime by DongWoo A&E. It is the second animation adaption of the '' PriPara'' arcade game, as well as the sequel series to the ''PriPara'' TV series. It began airing from April 4, 2017 to March 27, 2018. It was followed by '' ...

'' (Yui Yumekawa) ;2018 *'' Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku'' (Narumi Momose) *'' The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar'' (Sigrun) ;2022 *''

World's End Harem is a Japanese manga series written by LINK and illustrated by Kotarou Shouno. The first part of the manga was serialized in Shueisha's online magazine ''Shōnen Jump+'' from May 2016 to June 2020, while a second part, ''World's End Harem: A ...

'' (Rikka Yanagi)

References

External links

Official agency profile
* * 1991 births Living people Japanese video game actresses Japanese voice actresses Voice actresses from Hyōgo Prefecture 81 Produce voice actors {{japan-voice-actor-stub