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and narrator from

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's death, she became the official Japanese dub voice of

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, and has taken over many of Mizutani's other roles. Her hobby is

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Career

After graduating from high school, Endō moved to Tokyo to become a voice actress. She enrolled in the Performing Arts Center, the training school of her current agency led by

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, and graduated after repeating a year. She said that the reason she decided to go to the training school was because her parents knew Nozawa and thought he would be a safe option. When she was in the training school, she was not good at theater, and according to Nozawa, she once said that she hated theater. She wanted to do plays, but did not want to act in love scenes, and she was not allowed to graduate as a result, so Nozawa decided to make plays without love scenes. In addition, since she originally wanted to be a voice actor, the principal's words about being an actor before being a voice actor weighed heavily on those around him, and when the class and the school were asked who wanted to be a voice actor, Endō was the only one who raised her hand. Her first regular TV anime role was as Kasumi Horiguchi in ''

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'' in 2005, and since gaining recognition as Miyuki Takara in '' Lucky Star'' in 2007, she has played Sheryl Nome in ''

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'' and Angelique in ''

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'' in 2008. In the internet radio program ''Plume Monogatari'', she formed the voice acting unit "Plume" with Manabi Mizuno and

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, but it is currently inactive. Endō won the theme song award (Radio Kansai Award) at the 12th

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for ''Motteke! Sailor Fuku'', the opening theme song for the TV animation ''Lucky Star'', and in 2008, she won the Best Singing award at the 2nd Seiyu Awards together with

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and

Kaori Fukuhara is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She worked on the music group Bohemian Quarter's album "Blister Pack Voices". She and Emiri Kato were in a duo music group called Kato*Fuku, which sang theme songs for ''When Supernatural Battles Became ...

. In 2009, she won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 3rd Seiyu Awards. On August 8, 2013, Endō reported her marriage on her blog.

Filmography

Anime

Film

Video games

Dubbing roles

Animation

*''The Fairly Oddparents'' - Veronica *''Ice Age (2002 film), Ice Age'' - Peaches *''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' - Silver Spoon

References

External links

Office PAC profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Endo, Aya 1980 births Living people Japanese video game actresses Japanese voice actresses Voice actresses from Yamagata Prefecture 21st-century Japanese actresses