is a Japanese actress and voice actress associated 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 Sh ...

and Avex Pictures. She is best known for voicing Ayumi Hayashi in ''

Wake Up, Girls! ''Wake Up, Girls!'' is an anime series produced by Ordet and Tatsunoko Production and directed by Yutaka Yamamoto. A film titled opened in Japan on January 11, 2014, and a television series aired in Japan between January and March 2014. T ...

New Chapter!'' and Mirai Momoyama in ''

Kiratto Pri Chan , short for ''Sparkling Prism☆Channel'', is a Japanese arcade game by Takara Tomy Arts. It is the successor to ''Pretty Rhythm'', '' PriPara'', ''Idol Time PriPara'' and the third entry in Takara Tomy's ''Pretty Series''. An anime televi ...

''.

Biography

Coco Hayashi was born on 15 May 2002 in

Hamamatsu is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. the city had an estimated population of 791,707 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, and a population density of . The total area of the site was . Overview ...

Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...

, to an anime-loving father. She was a member of Space Craft Junior as a child and appeared in ''

Oha Suta ''Oha Suta'' () is a Japanese children's breakfast television show. Produced by Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro) for TV Tokyo, the show airs on TV Tokyo & TX Network. It premiered in 1997 as a relaunch of (. ''Sutajio'' is a loanword f ...

'' by 2013. She participated in a live event of voice actress

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 voice ...

and aspired to be a voice actress influenced by her performance. After receiving the recommendation of her father, she successfully auditioned in 2017 avex×81produce Wake Up, Girls! AUDITION. Her career started when she starred as Ayumi Hayashi in the 2017 ''

'' spinoff ''New Chapter!'', and she formed the unit Run Girls, Run! with Yūka Morishima and

Nanami Atsugi is a Japanese voice actress associated with 81 Produce and Avex Pictures. She is best known for voicing Itsuka Atsugi in ''Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter!'' and Rinka Aoba in ''Kiratto Pri Chan''. Biography 1997–2017: Early life and prior to care ...

. In 2018, she voiced the lead character of ''

'', Mirai Momoyama, and she starred in '' King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars'' as Nagisa Takahashi. She also won the Best New Actress Award at the

13th Seiyu Awards The 13th Seiyu Awards was held on March 9, 2019 at the JOQR Media Plus Hall in Minato, Tokyo. The winners of the Merit Awards, the Kei Tomiyama Award, the Kazue Takahashi , known by the stage name , was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Kaz ...

alongside

Kaede Hondo is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with I'm Enterprise. She took leading roles for each series, including '' Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama'' as Kokoro Yotsuba, ''Interviews with Monster Girls'' as Hikari Takanashi, ''Girlish Number'' ...

Rina Honnizumi is a Japanese voice actress 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 w ...

Manaka Iwami is a Japanese voice actress. She won the Best Rookie Actress award at the 13th Seiyu Awards The 13th Seiyu Awards was held on March 9, 2019 at the JOQR Media Plus Hall in Minato, Tokyo. The winners of the Merit Awards, the Kei Tomiyama Award, ...

, and

Tomori Kusunoki is a Japanese voice actress and singer who is currently affiliated with the Sony Music Artists agency. She made her voice acting debut in 2017 and in the same year, she was cast in her first main role as Kirara, the heroine of the Japanese mobil ...

. She also voiced a schoolgirl in the 2019 ''

Love Live! Sunshine!! is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works' ''Dengeki G's Magazine'', music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The project is the second series of the ''Love Live!'' franchise and is a spin-off sequel of '' ...

'' film.

Filmography

Anime

;2017 *''

New Chapter!'', Ayumi Hayashi ;2018 *''

'', Mirai Momoyama ;2019 *'' King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars'', Nagisa Takahashi *''

The Promised Neverland is a Japanese manga series written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from August 2016 to June 2020, with its chapters collected in twenty ''tankōbon'' volumes. In N ...

'', Ugen, Damdin, and Rossy ;2020 *''

Nekopara , taglined ''Cats Paradise'', is a series of adult visual novels developed by NEKO WORKs and published by Sekai Project. The first game in the series, ''Nekopara Vol. 1'', was released in December 2014. Taking place in a world where humans ...

'', child

Film

;2018 * ''

: Kirakira Memorial Live'', Mirai Momoyama ;2019 * ''

The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow'', schoolgirl A

References

External links

Official agency profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayashi, Coco 2002 births Living people Avex Group talents Japanese child actresses Japanese video game actresses Japanese voice actresses Musicians from Shizuoka Prefecture Run Girls, Run! members Voice actors from Hamamatsu Voice actresses from Shizuoka Prefecture 81 Produce voice actors