, better known by her stage name , is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer represented by

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. She voiced Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace in ''

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'', Madoka Kaname in ''

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'', Komachi Hikigaya in '' My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected'', Rita Rossweisse in '' Honkai Impact 3rd'', Tanya von Degurechaff in ''

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'', Lumine in ''

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'', Hibiki Tachibana in '' Senki Zesshou Symphogear'', Diane in '' The Seven Deadly Sins'', Tamaki Kotatsu in '' Fire Force'', the young Murasaki Kuhōin in ''

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'', Mami Nanami in Rent-A-Girlfriend, Kumoko/Shiraori in '' So I'm a Spider, So What?'', Lucy in '' Cyberpunk: Edgerunners'', Futaba Sakura in '' Persona 5'', Sticks the Badger in ''

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'', Maomao in '' The Apothecary Diaries'' and Lucy in '' Ninjala''.

Biography

Yūki was born in

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. She entered the entertainment industry at the age of four. As a child, she acted in films and dramas. From 1999 to 2002, she made regular appearances on the variety shows ''Appare Sanma Dai-sensei'' and ''Yappari Sanma Dai-sensei'' which aired on

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. When she was in fifth grade, she made her debut as a voice actress. In late 2006, she was affiliated with the theater company Central. After her admission to high school in August 2007, she joined the agency Breath, changing her

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to Aoi Yūki. She got her first major role in 2008 in ''

'' as Murasaki Kuhōin. In August of the same year, she moved to the agency Pro-Fit. In 2009, she starred in two anime: '' Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzuu'' as Mikogami Riko and '' Yumeiro Patissiere'' as Amano Ichigo, respectively. After that, she voiced the female protagonists of several of her series, notably Iris from '' Pokémon: Best Wishes!'' and Victorique de Blois from '' Gosick''. She graduated from high school in March 2010 and university in March 2014. In 2011, Yūki voiced Madoka Kaname in ''

''. In October of the same year, she won the award for best voice actor in the Newtype x Machi Asobi Anime Awards. She was awarded the Best Lead Actress Award in the sixth

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. In 2013, Yūki and Ayana Taketatsu formed the singing unit Petit Milady. Together, they performed the song , which was used as the third opening theme to the 2013 anime television series '' Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal II'', and in 2014, performed the song "Azurite", which was used as the opening theme for the 2014 anime series '' The Pilot's Love Song''. She has also played Hibiki Tachibana in '' Symphogear'' and the subsequent four seasons, Yuuki Konno in '' Sword Art Online II'', Tanya Degurechaff in ''

'', Yoshiko Hanabatake in '' Aho-Girl'', Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace in ''

'', and Futaba Sakura in '' Persona 5''. In 2019, she voiced Tamaki Kotatsu in '' Fire Force'' and reprised her role in its second season. Beyond voice acting, Yūki is also a digital artist and illustrator, having created several fanworks of anime in which she has acted. She also created her own original character project "YUKI×AOI Chimera Project" in 2019 in the hopes to be greenlit for an anime adaptation. On April 28, 2017, the official fan website AoimAniA announced that she would take a temporary break from her music career. After the closure of her website and fan club, she resumed her music activities under

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. On September 20, 2023, she restarted her music activities, while she opened a

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community called .

Filmography

Puppet show

Television animation

Original video animation (OVA)

Original net animation (ONA)

Theatrical animation

Video games

Drama CDs

*'' Arpeggio of Blue Steel'', Iona, I-400, I-402 *''Fate/GUDAGUDA Order'', Okita Souji *''Himawari-san'', Ami Minami *'' My Sweet Tyrant'', Non Katagiri. *'' Taiyō no Ie'', Mao Motomiya *'' Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts'', Saliphie *'' Vampire Knight Memories'', Kiryu Ren

Live action

Dubbing roles

;Live-action ;Animation

Others

Music

On March 28, 2012, she released her first solo album ''Petipa''. Her first single, "VisuMania", was released on January 29, 2014, which is used as the ending theme to the anime television series '' World Conquest Zvezda Plot''.

Awards

References

External links

* * * Cited at this website: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2976492/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Yuki, Aoi 1992 births 20th-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese actresses Aoni Production voice actors Crunchyroll Anime Award winners Japanese child actresses Japanese video game actresses Japanese women pop singers Japanese women television personalities Living people People from Sanmu Seiyu Award winners Singers from Chiba Prefecture Voice actresses from Chiba Prefecture Waseda University alumni