is a Japanese actress,

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and singer from

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

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, who is affiliated with Stardust Promotion. She is known for playing

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in two stage play adaptations of ''

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'' in 2014 and 2015, and for playing Karen Aijō, the protagonist of the multimedia franchise ''

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''. She is also a member of the musical group . On April 23, 2020, it was announced Koyama will take a hiatus in May due to vocal cord surgery.

Biography

Koyama was born in

on November 30, 1995. Her mother is a nursery teacher. From an early age, she had an interest in acting, particularly after becoming familiar with stage play adaptations of the

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series ''

''; it would become her dream to perform in a play of the series. Koyama became affiliated with the Sapporo-based acting office Egg in 2007, and she would begin performing in several theatrical plays in Hokkaido. In 2014, she was cast as

in the stage musical ''Sailor Moon: Petite Étrangère'', and she would reprise the role the following year in the stage musical ''Sailor Moon: Un Nouveau Voyage''. At some point in her career, as she was unsure of what her future held, she considered retiring from acting and pursuing a different career. Following a recommendation from the director of the ''Sailor Moon'' stage plays, who was surprised to hear that she was not a

, she decided to try out voice acting. After passing an audition held by the talent agency Stardust Promotion, she became affiliated with them in 2017 and moved to Tokyo. In 2017, Koyama was cast as Karen Aijō, the protagonist of the multimedia franchise ''

''. Her participation in the series began when she played Karen in the franchise's stage play, which was initially performed at the AiiA 2.5 Theater in Tokyo; she would then reprise the role in the 2018

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television series. To promote the series, she appeared at panels at C3 AFA Singapore, and CharaExpo USA in 2018. She has also been cast as the character Haruka Shima in the multimedia franchise ''

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''. In 2019, she and two other voice actresses from Hokkaido, Miharu Hanai and Reia Hayasaka, started hosting a radio program on

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. In 2020, she played the role of Elma in ''

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''.

Filmography

Stage plays

Anime

Video games

References

External links

Official agency profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koyama, Momoyo 1995 births Living people Japanese women pop singers Japanese stage actresses Japanese video game actresses Japanese voice actresses Japanese child actresses Stardust Promotion artists Starlight 99-gumi members Voice actresses from Sapporo 21st-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers