is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is currently affiliated with Holy Peak. She is known for her role as You Watanabe in the multimedia franchise ''

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 '' ...

''. She is also an idol in the unit

Aqours 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 '' ...

, for the same franchise. In 2019, she made her solo debut as a musician under

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with the mini album . Later that year, she released the single ; the song "Papapa" was used as the opening theme to the anime series ''

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''.

Biography

Shuka Saitō was born on August 16, 1996, the youngest of four children. She has an older sister and two brothers. She attended a hip-hop course in the fourth grade of elementary school, which had a great influence on her career aspirations at an early age. She took dance lessons until the third year of high school. In the second year of high school she also took singing lessons. In 2015, Saitō attended an audition for the role of You Watanabe from the anime television series Love Live! Sunshine!! part and got the role. She is part of the fictional group Aqours, which belongs to the Love Live! Franchise, and has released several singles with the group, which are very successful in Japan and some of which have received a gold record. At the eleventh Seiyū Awards in 2017, she received the Singing Award as a member of Aqours. Shuka Saitō had other speaking roles in the anime television series OreSuki as Asaka Mayama. She also interpreted the song in the opening credits of the series with Papapa. In 2021 she had main speaking roles in anime television series Wonder Egg Priority as Rika Kawai. In addition, she spoke various characters in various video games, including Phantasy Star Online, Granblue Fantasy, Hakoniwa Company works and Dolls Order. In June 2019. Saitō announced that she would also work as a solo musician and signed a record deal with the Japanese music label Sacra Music.

Filmography

Anime television series

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'' (2016–17) as You Watanabe *''

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'' (2016) as Child (ep 5) *''Time Bokan 24'' (2017) as Child B (ep 14) *''

'' (2019) as Asaka "Sasanqua" Mayama *''

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'' (2020) as DJ Misamisa (ep 2) *''

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'' (2021) as Rika Kawai *''

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'' (2022) as Miki Fukumoto *''

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'' (2023) as Water Saint (Japanese dub) *'' Genjitsu no Yohane: Sunshine in the Mirror'' (2023) as You Watanabe

Video games

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Love Live! School Idol Festival (often abbreviated as ''LLSIF'' or ''Sukufesu'') is a Japanese rhythm game series. The original game, developed by KLab and published by Bushiroad's Bushimo, was first released in Japan on April 15, 2013 for iOS and June 8, 2013 for Android. Th ...

'' (2016) as You Watanabe *''Uchi no Hime-sama ga Ichiban Kawaii'' (2016) as Amaterasu *''Dragon Genesis -bonds of holy war-'' (2017) as Proserpina *''Phantasy Star Online 2 es'' (2017) as Kae Traitor *''Hakoniwa Company Works'' (2017) as Meme Kazamidori *''Phantasy Star Online 2 es'' (2017) as Assassin Claw *''Phantasy Star Online 2 es'' (2017 as Evil Pirikanet *''Dolls Order'' (2018) as Lohengrin *''Qbit'' (2018) as Karasu Kayakari *''

Granblue Fantasy (Japanese:グランブルーファンタジー, Hepburn: ''Guranburū Fantajī)'' is a Japanese social-network game and role-playing video game developed by Cygames for Android, iOS and web browsers, which first released in Japan in March 2014 ...

'' (2019) as You Watanabe *''

Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars (often abbreviated as ''LLSIF'' or ''Sukufesu'') is a Japanese rhythm game series. The original game, developed by KLab and published by Bushiroad's Bushimo, was first released in Japan on April 15, 2013 for iOS and June 8, 2013 for Android (ope ...

'' (2019) as You Watanabe *''Miko Note'' (2022) as Yumi Amano *''Samurai Maiden'' (2022) as Shingen Takeda

Discography

Albums

Singles

Mini albums

References

External links

Official blog
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