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Life and career

Konishi formed a budding interest in stage acting as a junior high student, and as a high schooler, received voice training at the . She released ''NOVELETTE'' (EMI Music Japan, 1999), her first album under her own identity. She teamed up with Ryo Arshe (Ryo Asakawa), her musical collaborator since 1998 and the artist NAOMI, forming the musical unit Little Cure. As a TV personality, she has appeared on both NHK and public sector network shows. She had been a regular on the

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-syndicated variety show ''Ichioshi Kiss'', where she was portrayed as the youngest of three sisters, with co-stars and

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), as ''keitai detective PI Hiroko''. In 2018, Konishi claimed that she was replaced as Ojarumaru in '' Prince Mackaroo'' from disputes over her voice recording on Ojarumaru dolls and other merchandise. Motivated by the

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, Konishi shared that she left voice acting after being sexually harassed and witnessing her other female peers abused by their agencies. She also alleged that she was propositioned by her manager Hara to enter a mixed bath in the nude with

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and claimed that she was unable to get voice acting work after she refused.

Filmography

Anime

Film

Video games

Audio dramas

Discography

;Albums * (King Records, 1998, KICA-7900) * ''Novelete'' (EMI Music Japan, 1999, TYCY-10025) * ''1975'' (Wolfgang Label Japan, 2021, DSQI-20815 ;Singles *''Pudding de Ojyaru'' (Nippon Crown Co. Ltd. 1999, as a role of Ojyaru-maru) * (King Records, 1998, KIDA-7642) *''Don’t Love'' (EMI Music Japan, 1999) *''Bite of Love'' (Nippon Columbia July 2000, as a member of LITTLE CURE) * "Sayonara Arigato" (Squirrel, 2014) * "But She Was in Love" (Squirrel, 2014) * "An Amulet in His Pocket" (Squirrel, 2015) * "You Always Stay By Me" (Squirrel, 2015)

References

External links

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