is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with I'm Enterprise. She took leading roles for each series, including '' Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama'' as Kokoro Yotsuba, '' Interviews with Monster Girls'' as Hikari Takanashi, '' Girlish Number'' as Yae Kugayama, '' Anime-Gatari'' as Minoa Asagaya, '' Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko'' as Kanami Eto, '' Comic Girls'' as Koyume Koizuka, ''

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'' as Hitomi Mishima, '' Zombie Land Saga'' as Sakura Minamoto, '' Bofuri'' as Maple/Kaede Honjō, and '' Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina'' as Elaina. She won the Best New Actress Award at the 13th Seiyu Awards.

Biography

Born in

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, She became interested in

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while watching ''

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''. Hondo became interested in acting and modelling, after an incident during her fifth year of elementary, and when a woman came near and saying she has "a face that goes well with makeup". She had some research on her own job, and came to believe she was told she has a face suitable for an actress or a model. She would start auditioning for various acting and modelling jobs, but she did not initially consider voice acting as an option. As she had a desire to perform in front of people, she joined the theatre club. Hondo acted in school plays and also participated in activities, such as swimming, basketball,

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, and softball. While in her third year of school, one of her instructors was a radio personality, and her experiences with them and the club influenced her to become a voice actress. In pursuit of this career, she enrolled at the Japan Narration Actor Institute. After completing her training, she became affiliated with the voice acting agency I'm Enterprise. She made her voice acting debut in 2015, playing minor roles in series such as ''Aoharu × Machinegun''. Later that year, she was cast in her first main role as Kokoro Yotsuba, the protagonist of the anime series '' Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama''. Hondo played the roles for '' Keijo'' and '' Girlish Number''. She and the other main cast members of ''Girlish Number'' also performed the series' opening theme "Bloom" and ending theme . She voiced Hikari Takanashi in '' Interviews with Monster Girls'', Kon Tatsumi in '' Urara Meirocho'', Minoa Asagaya in ''

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'', Kanami Etō in '' Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko'', Koyume Koizuka in '' Comic Girls'', Hitomi Mishima in ''

'', Kohaku Tsukishiro in '' Iroduku: The World in Colors'', and Sakura Minamoto in '' Zombie Land Saga''. At the 13th Seiyu Awards, Hondo was one of the winners for the Best New Actresses award. Other notable roles including ''

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'', '' Val × Love'', '' Bofuri'', '' Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina'', '' I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level'', '' Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles'', '' Mieruko-chan'', '' Takt Op. Destiny'', and '' Deep Insanity: The Lost Child''.

Filmography

Anime

Films

Video games

References

External links

Official agency profile
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