| Momo Asakura | |||||||||||
| Native Name: | 麻倉 もも | ||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | ja | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | June 25, 1994 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||
| Years Active: | 2012–present | ||||||||||
| Employer: | Music Ray'n | ||||||||||
| Height: | 156 cm | ||||||||||
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is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is part of the Music Ray'n agency. After passing an audition held by Music Ray'n, she made her voice acting debut as Yumi in the anime My Little Monster. She played her first main role as Ayumi Otosaka in the anime television series Charlotte.[1] She is a member of the voice acting unit TrySail, alongside Sora Amamiya and Shiina Natsukawa. Apart from voice acting, she also performed theme song for various anime she acted in.
Asakura's interest in becoming a voice actress began in middle school and continued through high school.[2] She got her break in 2011 when, together with Sora Amamiya and Shiina Natsukawa, passed an audition held by Sony Music Entertainment Japan's sub-label Music Ray'n.[1] She made her voice acting debut in 2012, voicing the character Yumi in the anime My Little Monster. Since then, she was given minor roles in various anime.
In 2014, she was cast as Sumi Otokawa in Sakura Trick, Rin Kazari in Witch Craft Works. She and other cast members performed the series' ending theme "Witch☆Activity". On December 21, 2014, it was announced that Asakura, Amamiya, and Natsukawa would be forming the voice acting unit TrySail, which released its first single "Youthful Dreamer", used as the opening theme song for the anime television series Ultimate Otaku Teacher, on May 13, 2015.[3] [4] That same year, she was cast as Ayumi Otosaka in the anime television series Charlotte becoming her first main role.[1] She then played the role of Manako in Monster Musume, and Yuyu Aizawa in Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA.
In 2016, she made her official debut as a solo artist for Music Ray'n by releasing her first single which was used as an insert song for the anime film Suki ni Naru Sono Shunkan o: Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai.[5] The song peak at number 8 on the Oricon weekly charts. Her first solo album Peachy! was released on October 3, 2018; the album peaked at number 6 on the Oricon weekly charts. The following year, she was cast as Rona Pricipa O'Lapanesta in Endro!, and Nagisa Kashiwagi in .
| Source | |||||
| Serika Hakozaki | [25] | ||||
| Love Live! The School Idol Movie | School idol | ||||
| Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita: Kokuhaku Jikkou Iinkai | Hina Setoguchi | ||||
| Hina Setoguchi | |||||
| Mikan Irako | |||||
| The Island of Giant Insects | Miura Mami | ||||
| Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends | Nagisa Kashiwagi | [26] |
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| Girl Friend Beta | Yuki Hanafusa | ||||
| The Idolmaster Million Live! | Serika Hakozaki | iOS, Android | |||
| The Idolmaster One For All | Serika Hakozaki | ||||
| Freedom Wars | Anne "Charm" Vito | [27] | |||
| School Fanfare | Kotone Genshouin | iOS, Android | [28] | ||
| The Idolmaster: Million Live! Theater Days | Serika Hakozaki | iOS, Android | |||
| Iroha Tamaki | iOS, Android | [29] | |||
| Dragalia Lost | Daikokuten | iOS, Android | |||
| Idoly Pride | Yu Suzumura | iOS, Android | |||
| Azur Lane | Prinz Rupprecht | iOS, Android | |||
| Kanako | [30] | ||||
| Panic in Sweets Land | Purffee | PC | [31] |
| Album details | Catalogue No. | Oricon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular edition | Limited edition | Peak position | Weeks charted | |||
| Peachy |
| SMCL-565 | SMCL-561/2 (CD+DVD) SMCL-563/4 (CD+Blu-ray) | 6 | 4 | |
| Agapanthus |
| SMCL-655 | SMCL-650/1 (CD+DVD) SMCL-653/4 (CD+Blu-ray) | 5 | 1 |
| Title | Catalogue No. (Regular edition) | Oricon | Album | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peak position | Weeks charted | ||||||||
| November 2, 2016 | align=left | SMCL-456 | 8 | 7 | Peachy | align=left | Insert song for | ||
| June 7, 2017 | align=left | SMCL-485 | 11 | 4 | align=left | 1st opening theme song for PriPri Chi-chan!! | |||
| November 1, 2017 | align=left | SMCL-517 | 7 | 3 | align=left | 3rd opening theme song for PriPri Chi-chan! | |||
| August 22, 2018 | align=left | SMCL-554 | 11 | 3 | rowspan="2" | ||||
| February 13, 2019 | align=left | "365×LOVE" | SMCL-593 | 14 | 1 | Agapanthus | |||
| May 22, 2019 | align=left | SMCL-602 | 6 | 1 | align=left | 3rd ending theme song for PazuDora | |||
| September 4, 2019 | align=left | SMCL-616 | 15 | 1 | align=left | Ending theme song for O Maidens in Your Savage Season |