is a Japanese voice actress. A former member of Pro-Fit, she is a member of Office Osawa. She had leading roles in several anime series, including Meiko "Menma" Honma in Anohana, Inori Yuzuriha in Guilty Crown, Alice Zuberg in Sword Art Online: Alicization, Utaha Kasumigaoka in Saekano, Mashiro Shiina in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, Saori Takebe in Girls und Panzer, Shiro in No Game No Life, Darkness in KonoSuba, Juliet Persia in Boarding School Juliet, and Mamako Oosuki in Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?. She has also performed opening, ending, and insert theme songs for each series.
Biography Kayano wanted to work in a job that would involve "healing people", leading to initially take up a course at a vocational school. She worked at the beauty industry, and became interested in acting after watching Aria. While attending school, she continued working in the industry and paid for her tuition.
Kayano joined Pro-Fit in 2010, starring in the original video animation Princess Resurrection. She also voiced a number of background roles in the anime series A Certain Magical Index II, voicing Itsuwa. She voiced Meiko "Menma" Honma in Anohana. Kayano, Haruka Tomatsu, and Saori Hayami performed the series' ending theme "Secret Base – Kimi ga Kureta Mono (10 years after Ver.)", a cover of a song originally sung by the band Zone. Kayano won the Best Newcomer Award at the 6th Seiyu Awards. She voiced Inori Yuzuriha in Guilty Crown.
Kayano voiced Mayaka Ibara in Hyouka. She and Satomi Satō performed the series' ending themes and . Kayano voiced Mashiro Shiina in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, Saori Takebe in Girls und Panzer, Ai Fuyuumi in Oreshura, Chisaki Hiradaira in Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea, and Shiro in No Game No Life. She performed the series' ending theme "Oración". She left Pro-Fit and became a freelancer in 2014. She joined Office Osawa in 2015. She voiced Megumi Sakura in School-Live!, Utaha Kasumigaoka in Saekano, Darkness in KonoSuba, Chizuru Hishiro in ReLIFE, Rin Tōyama in New Game!, Kirie Sakurame in UQ Holder!, Shuvi in No Game No Life: Zero, and Juliet Persia in Boarding School Juliet.
In 2016, Kayano hosted a show titled at Animate Times' YouTube channel. The show focuses on her looking through into various types of sake. The title of show is also a combination of her surname Kayano and the Japanese word for "drink", which is .
Controversy In 2021, controversy arose on Chinese social media as a result of Kayano's post regarding her February 11 trip to the Yasukuni Shrine. It contains a subject of controversies about Japanese soldiers who died in numerous wars involving Japan spanning between the Meiji and Showa eras, including 1,068 convicted war criminals who were executed by the International Military Tribunal; of which fourteen of them, including former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, are labeled as A-Class criminals. In response, her voice lines were removed in the Chinese version of Azur Lane and Girls' Frontline. Similar action was also taken in other games such as the removal of Kayano's voice lines in Guns Girl Z, Punishing: Gray Raven, and the Chinese version of Arknights, where she was replaced by Miku Itō and Mizuki Kitajima for all servers in 2021 in the latter two games.
Filmography Anime + List of voice performances in anime Year Name Character Notes Source Durarara!! Maominまおみん A Certain Magical Index II Itsuwa, Vera Also III Princess Resurrection Sawawa Hiyorimi, Mermaid OVA eps. 13–14, 16 Dream Eater Merry Isana Tachibana Freezing Violet el Bridget 2 seasons Hanasaku Iroha Student B Sket Dance Roman Saotome Anohana Meiko "Menma" Honma Ro-Kyu-Bu! Tae Mishōji Heaven's Memo Pad Ayaka Shinozaki Sacred Seven Aiメイド隊アイ Kamisama Dolls Hibino Shiba Nekogami Yaoyorozu Sasana Shōsōin Also OVA in 2012 Kimi to Boku Rika Takahashi 2 seasons Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing Millia Il Velch Cutrettola Turan Shakugan no Shana III: Final Chiara Toscana Ben-To Ume Shiraume Guilty Crown Inori Yuzuriha, Mana Ouma Chihayafuru Kanade Ōe 3 seasons 夢想夏郷, 東方 (Touhou Musou Kakyou / A Summer Day's Dream)Yuyuko Saigyouji Bodacious Space Pirates Ai Hoshimiya Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne Muginami 2 seasons Aquarion Evol Mikono Suzushiro Waiting in the Summer Kaori Kinoshita Kokon ~ We became animation! ~ Satsuki Hatsuki初狩さつき Medaka Box Mogana Kikaijima 2 seasons Natsuiro Kiseki Chiharu Okiyama Hyouka Mayaka Ibara Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Origa Prakina Tari Tari Fumiko Matsumoto, Tomoka Kurata Love, Election and Chocolate Mao Shigemori Code Geass: Akito the Exiled Anna Clément OVA series Zettai Junpaku: Mahō Shōjo Yui Niita OVA Say "I love you" Mei Tachibana Girls und Panzer Saori Takebe The Pet Girl of Sakurasou Mashiro Shiina Psycho-Pass Yoshika Okubo Mangirl! Shinobu Fujimori Ai Mai Mi Ponoka-senpai 3 seasons Oreshura Ai Fuyuumi Senran Kagura Yomi 2 seasons Senyuu Ruki 2 seasons Jewelpet Happiness Teacher Azusa, Teacher Arisa Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet Saaya Yuyushiki Chiho Aikawa Valvrave the Liberator Aina Sakurai, Pino 2 seasons Dog & Scissors Momiji Himehagi Tamayura: More Aggressive Kanae Mitani Servant × Service Lucy Yamagami Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3 Karila Hatsuse Senki Zesshō Symphogear G Kirika Akatsuki Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS Tae Mishōji Super Seisyun Brothers Mako Saitō Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea Chisaki Hiradaira Golden Time Nana Hayashida "Linda" Infinite Stratos 2 Madoka Orimura Strike the Blood Misaki Sasasaki Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta V Lila F Unbreakable Machine-Doll Irori Witchcraft Works Kasumi Takamiya Romantica Clock Akane Kajiya加治屋 杏花音 Sgt. Frog Akira Kim金阿弥明 selector infected WIXOSS Hitoe Uemura Also spread The World Is Still Beautiful Nia Lemercier Captain Earth Hana Mutō Lady Jewelpet Momona's mother GO-GO Tamagotchi! Yukine If Her Flag Breaks Akane Mahōgasawa Black Bullet Blind Girl No Game No Life Shiro Is the Order a Rabbit? Mocha Hoto 2 seasons Glasslip Momo Shirosaki Aldnoah.Zero Darzana Magbaredge 2 seasons Blue Spring Ride Yuri Makita Terra Formars Sheila Levitt Lord Marksman and Vanadis Sofya "Sofy" Obertas Wolf Girl and Black Prince Ayumi Sanda Celestial Method Kaori Komiya Gundam Build Fighters Try Eri Shinoda Shirobako Mui Kayana, Rinko Ogasawara, Arupin Your Lie in April Nagi Aiza Girl Friend Beta Haruko Yumesaki Absolute Duo Silent Diva Miritari! Cecilie Saekano Utaha Kasumigaoka 2 seasons Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma Ryōko Sakaki 4 seasons Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Asfi Al Andromeda 3 seasonsAlso Sword Oratoria Rin-ne Suzu Minami Show by Rock!! Tsukino Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Alternative Architecture Emma Tsuda Mikagura School Suite Kurumi Narumi My Love Story!! Yukika Amami Senran Kagura: Estival Versus – Festival Eve Full of Swimsuits Yomi OVA Fairy Tail Kyōka Castle Town Dandelion Aoi Sakurada Ushio and Tora Omamori 2 seasons Senki Zesshō Symphogear GX Kirika Akatsuki School-Live! Megumi Sakura Aria the Avvenire Anya Dostoyevskaya OVA Kindaichi Case Files R Season 2 Sayaka Yukihara Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA Shino Sasaki Magical Somera-chan Konomi, Cat, Menūsū Crayon Shin-chan Kusakabe yellow <Hoshino Yuri>カスカベイエロー〈星野ユリ〉 Girls Beyond the Wasteland Kosaka (Bitch Queen) Luck & Logic Shiori Tsurugi Rainbow Days Nozomi Matsunaga KonoSuba Darkness 3 seasons Flying Witch Chito Magi: Adventure of Sinbad Serendine ReLIFE Chizuru Hishiro Also OVA in 2018 First Love Monster Mafuyu Hayashi The Heroic Legend of Arslan: Dust Storm Dance Irina Tales of Zestiria the X Alisha Diphda 2 seasons The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Kokomi Teruhashi 2 seasons & ONA New Game! Rin Toyama 2 seasons Sweetness and Lightning Tae Inuzuka Taboo Tattoo Kujuri Amanchu! Futaba Ooki 2 seasons Mob Psycho 100 Chihiro Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School Mikan Tsumiki Despair arc Flip Flappers Mimi March Comes in like a Lion Akari Kawamoto 2 seasons Tawawa on Monday Junior Urara Meirocho Nina Natsume Hand Shakers Lily Twin Angel Break Sumire Kisaragi / Angel Sapphire Senki Zesshō Symphogear AXZ Kirika Akatsuki Altair: A Record of Battles Armut Ayşe UQ Holder! Magister Negi Magi! 2 Kirie Sakurame Infini-T Force Emi Kaidou Land of the Lustrous Diamond Record of Grancrest War Marrine Kreische How to Keep a Mummy Kaede Kashiwagi Inazuma Eleven Umihara Norika 2 seasons A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- Maho Shiraishi Lost Song Corte, Mel Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King Shōko Hanashima Doraemon Nana (Doraemon Birthday Special 2018 : A Whale and Mystery of Pipe Island) Bloom Into You Sayaka Saeki Boarding School Juliet Juliet Persia Sword Art Online: Alicization Alice Zuberg Million Arthur Pharsalia 2 seasons Isekai Quartet Darkness Miru Tights Yuiko Okuzumi ONA Senki Zesshō Symphogear XV Kirika Akatsuki Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? Mamako Oosuki Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Kanae Kocho Azur Lane Kaga, Atago, Renown True Cooking Master Boy Mei Li Somali and the Forest Spirit Hazel Smile Down the Runway Kokoro Hasegawa A Destructive God Sits Next to Me Kotoko Sumiso Cagaster of an Insect Cage Aisha Super HxEros Maihime Shirayuki Warlords of Sigrdrifa Rusalka Evereska Noblesse Seira J. Loyard Adachi and Shimamura Tarumi Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai Soala Otherside Picnic Toriko Nishina Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town Marie Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki Fūka Kikuchi 2 seasons Horimiya Yuriko Hori Also The Missing Pieces Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Sylphiette The Case Study of Vanitas Dominique de Sade The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! Store Manager Pokémon Evolutions Lillie ONA Platinum End Baret Delicious Party Pretty Cure Amane Kasai / Gentle / Cure Finale My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex Yuni Irido Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Filmina Reign of the Seven Spellblades Ophelia Salvadori 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess Giant Mayonaka Punch Yuki VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream Kaeru Yamatani Delico's Nursery Frieda Delico Tower of God Season 2 Ron Mei Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time Sofia Sylphid Beyblade X Joka Manju Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō Ofū The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei Chizuko Chuzenji From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman Rose Marblehart Secrets of the Silent Witch Claudia Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl Momoko Mochizuki Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze Subaru Ayase Dusk Beyond the End of the World Towasa Ōmaki Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon Sasha Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider Yuriko Okada A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans Yuki Saotome Medalist 2nd Season Marika Kurione Magical Sisters LuluttoLilly Azuki A Hundred Scenes of Awajima Ryōko Ueda Grow Up Show: Sunflower Circus Rin Mamiya The Insipid Prince's Furtive Grab for the Throne Mitsuba Though I Am an Inept Villainess Shu Gabi Gacha Girls Corps Shisuha Alvy
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