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Japanese voice actress Voice acting in Japan is an industry where actors provide voice-overs as characters or narrators in media including anime, video games, audio dramas, commercials, and dubbing for non-Japanese films and television programs. In Japan, and a ...

and former member of the

Japanese idol An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements b ...

girl group A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of who ...

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (''Akiba'' for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with it ...

. She is from Iwate. While with AKB48 she was a member of the subunit No Name. Her biggest role as a voice actress was as the title character Chitose Sakuraba in the anime series '' Chitose Get You!!''.

Career

Nakaya passed AKB48's generation 3 audition on December 3, 2006. She is one of 20 girls who passed from among 12.828 candidates. She was first on stage at AKB48 Theater as part of Team B on April 8, 2007. On August 23, 2009, a reshuffle was announced and Nakaya was transferred to Team A. On December 2, 2010, an audio book of

Moshidora , or , is a 2009 Japanese novel by Natsumi Iwasaki. It follows high school girl Minami Kawashima who manages her school's baseball team using Peter Drucker's ''Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices'' to rally her dispirited teammat ...

read by her received "Audio Book Award 2010". The audio book gets awarded based on consumer votes in FeBe! audio book website. She also provided voice in the anime series of Moshidora. Along with fellow member from Team K Miku Tanabe, Nakaya formed a unit called Baby Gamba. The unit released a single DVD under label

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on September 14, 2011. Baby Gamba is a character in anime series Ganba no Bōken, a series based on kids book "Bōkentachi Gamba to 15-hiki no Nakama" by Otsuka Saito. On December 13, 2011, her name was chosen along with 9 other members to voice characters in AKB48's original anime series

AKB0048 ''AKB0048'' (stylized as ''AKB∞48'') is a 2012 Japanese science fiction musical comedy anime television series based on the idol group AKB48. The anime is produced by Satelight, with Shōji Kawamori as chief director. The first season air ...

. An autobiography of her, titled ''"Hisenbatsu Idol"'' was published in 2012. When she was a member, she was one of 4 AKB48's anime fan who is called "wota 4". On Team K Waiting Stage on March 2, 2013 at night, Nakaya suddenly announces her departure as an AKB48 member to taking part in a voice acting audition. 4 days later at the same stage, she had her last and graduation concert as an AKB48 member. At the same time, she also quit from her former agency Mousa.

Filmography

Anime

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AKB0048 Next Stage ''AKB0048'' (stylized as ''AKB∞48'') is a 2012 Japanese science fiction musical comedy anime television series based on the idol group AKB48. The anime is produced by Satelight, with Shōji Kawamori as chief director. The first season aired ...

'' as Orine Aida *''

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'' as Hana Kazuki *'' Asako Get You!!'' as Chitose Sakuraba *'' Chitose Get You!!'' as Chitose Sakuraba *''

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'' as Orina/Cure Wave *'' Idol Incidents'' as Ume Momoi *''

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'' as Somera Nonomoto *''

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'' as maid 1 (episode 1) *''

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'' as boy (episode 1) *'' The Lost Village'' as girl (episode 6); Naana *''

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'' as Kate *''

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'' as Kaname Makishi

Video games

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'' as Tess Heitzmann *''

'' as Hana Kazuki *''Chōginga Sendan'' as Yuki Katsumura *''Himedatsu! Demon Saga'' as Charles *'' Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2'' as Mina Nishizawa *''Idol Jihen'' as Shion Kagaya *''Moeru Mahjong Moejan!'' as Ayumu Honrō *''Thousand Memories'' as Hanabishi no An'yakusha Isabel *''Uchi no Himesama ga Ichiban Kawaii'' as Condemned Princess Gabriella

Narration

*''Harapeko Yamagami-kun'' *''Zenryoku Ōen! NHK-hai Figure 2012'' navigator

Discography

Singles with AKB48

Collaborations and character songs

References

External links

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Sayaka Nakaya
at Oricon {{DEFAULTSORT:Nakaya, Sayaka 1991 births Living people Japanese voice actresses Japanese women pop singers AKB48 members 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese actresses