Hikaru Tono (遠野 ひかる, Tōno Hikaru; born 5 March 1996) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Hibiki. She is known for voicing Serena in Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale, Yujia Wang in Assault Lily, Sura in My Isekai Life, Suzuran in In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki, Anna Yanami in Too Many Losing Heroines! and Matikanetannhauser in Umamusume: Pretty Derby.
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Biography
Hikaru Tono, a native of Tokyo, was born on 5 March 1996. As a young child, her father recommended being an announcer after hearing her read out her homework, so she vaguely considered voice-based occupations. As a teenager, she was part of a choir school club and was a competitor at a national chorus tournament. After spending seven years of unsuccessful auditions, she finally joined Hibiki, Bushiroad's talent agency, after passing their 2017 auditions for new voice actors.
In September 2018, she was cast as Serena in Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale. In October 2019, she was cast as Yujia Wang in Assault Lily Bouquet. In December 2020, she was cast as Matikanetannhauser in Umamusume: Pretty Derby, later reprising the role in the video game. In May 2021, she was cast as Eno in I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level. In November 2021, she was cast as Satina in Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout. In January 2022, she was cast as Sura in My Isekai Life. In March 2022, she was cast as Suzuran in In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki. In August 2023, she was cast as Yuki in The Kingdoms of Ruin.
Tono is the actor for Yujia Wang, a character in Bushiroad's Assault Lily franchise. She portrayed the character in three of the franchise's stage plays: League of Gardens (2020), The Fateful Gift (2020), and Lost Memories (2022). She also reprised the role in the 2020 anime adaptation Assault Lily Bouquet and the 2021 game Assault Lily Last Bullet. Previously, she had starred as Mei Katarina Haneda in the 2018 stage play Assault Lily x Ludovic Girls Academy: Shiroki Resistance: Yakusoku no Yukue. She also voices Shiori Yumeoji in the game Revue Starlight: Re LIVE (also part of a Bushiroad franchise), and she portrayed her in the Revue Starlight stage plays The LIVE Edel Delight (2022) and Re LIVE Reading Theatre (2023).
She voices Howan as part of Mashumairesh!!, an in-universe singing unit in Sanrio's Show by Rock!! franchise. She voiced the character in the anime adaptation Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!! and the game Show by Rock!! Fes A Live, and she performed in Mashumairesh!!'s 2021 single Trigger Rock.
In 2024, she voiced Towa in Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included and Anna Yanami in Too Many Losing Heroines!. She also covered Hitomi's song "Love 2000", which was used as the first ending theme to Too Many Losing Heroines!.
Filmography
Anime television series
2018
Future Card Buddyfight, student A
Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood, Asahi Aoki
Zoids Wild, girl
2019
BanG Dream!, Yoshiko Nono, classmate
Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale, Serena
Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, dragon child
High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World, child C
Kemono Friends 2, Lesser Panda
Kiratto Pri Chan, classmate
Oresuki, Charisma-gun member
Teasing Master Takagi-san, Misae
2020
Assault Lily Bouquet, Yujia Wang
D4DJ First Mix, schoolgirl
Rebirth, Miyako Aizen
Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!!, Howan
The Day I Became a God, Aira
The Genie Family, girl
2021
Cardfight!! Vanguard: Shinemon, Misaki Tokura, deputy manager
Original net animation
2019
Taeko no Nichijou, Anezaki-chan
2021
The Missing 8, Poppy
Anime films
2026
Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table – 44: Cloudy Beach, Mozuku
Dubs
Firebuds, Violet
Video games
2018
Kemono Friends Pavilion, Lucky Beast Type-III
Revue Starlight: Re LIVE, Shiori Yumeoji
2020
Azur Lane, Nürnberg
Show by Rock!! Fes A Live, Howan
2021
Assault Lily Last Bullet, Yujia Wang
Disney Twisted-Wonderland, young Vil Schoenheit
Umamusume: Pretty Derby, Matikanetannhauser
2022
Echoes of Mana, Kirte
Heaven Burns Red, Rumi
2023
White Cat Project, Selpina
Crymachina, Enoa
2025
Honkai: Star Rail, Tribbie/Trianne/Trinnon/Tribios
Aether Gazer, Wadjet
Cookie Run: Kingdom, Agar Agar Cookie
Guardian Tales, Soul Mage Dohwa
Haze Reverb, Dorothy
Starseed: Asnia Trigger, Kaito.aile, Lynette
Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, Dorothy Hyatt
Stage plays
2018
Assault Lily x Ludovic Girls Academy: Shiroki Resistance: Yakusoku no Yukue, Mei Katarina Haneda
2020
Assault Lily: League of Gardens, Yujia Wang
Assault Lily: The Fateful Gift, Yujia Wang
2022
Assault Lily: Lost Memories, Yujia Wang
Revue Starlight: The LIVE Edel Delight, Shiori Yumeoji
2023
Revue Starlight: Re LIVE Reading Theatre, Shiori Yumeoji