Inori Minase (水瀬 いのり, Minase Inori; born December 2, 1995) is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Axl One.
In March 2016, she won the Best Lead Actress Award in the 10th Seiyu Awards for her leading roles as Jun Naruse in the box office hit The Anthem of the Heart and as Yuki Takeya in the anime television series School-Live!. Her other major roles include Jeanne in The Case Study of Vanitas, Noel in Celestial Method, Misaki Sakimiya in Dead Mount Death Play, Beta/Natsume Kafka in The Eminence in Shadow, Chito in Girls' Last Tour, Hestia in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Chino in Is the Order a Rabbit?, Kirarin/Ciel Kirahoshi/Cure Parfait in Kirakira☆Precure A la Mode, Tamaki "Kimari" Mari in A Place Further than the Universe, Itsuki Nakano in The Quintessential Quintuplets, Shoko Makinohara in Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai and Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, and Rem in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World.
Her singing role is signed with King Records label as of December 2015.
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Biography
Early life and education
Minase was born in Tokyo on December 2, 1995. She began watching anime while in kindergarten. She first became aware of voice acting when, after watching a stage play adaptation of an anime, she read the stage pamphlet and asked her parents about the name of a person mentioned in it. She wanted to become a voice actress, while in elementary school.
Minase joined the tennis and theater clubs while at elementary school. However, she left the theater club, due to her embarrassment. Around that time, her mother found a magazine advertisement for a voice-acting audition, which she passed.
Acting career
Minase made her voice acting debut in 2010, voicing the character Akari Okamoto in the anime series Occult Academy. She then voiced minor roles in anime in the 2013 series Love Lab and the 2014 anime series Aldnoah.Zero. Her first main roles came later in 2014 as Mirai Nazukari in Locodol and Chino Kafū in Is the Order a Rabbit?, as well as Jun Naruse in the animated film The Anthem of the Heart. Minase and her co-stars from Is the Order a Rabbit? performed the songs "Daydream Café" and "Poppin Jump", which are used as the series' opening and closing themes, respectively.
In 2015, Minase voiced Hestia in the anime series Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?. She also voiced Yuki Takeya in School-Live!, Carol Malus Dienheim in Symphogear GX, and Nekone in Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen. That same year, she won the Best Lead Actress Award at the 10th Seiyu Awards for her roles as Jun Naruse and Yuki Takeya.
In 2016, she voiced Rem in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World and also performed the insert song "Wishing", which was used in the series' eighteenth episode. She also played Shamille Kitra Katvarnmaninik in Alderamin on the Sky, Fuuka Reventon in ViVid Strike!, Mana Asuha in Luck & Logic, and Akane Segawa in And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?. In 2017, she voiced Meteora Österreich in Re:Creators, Tapris Sugarbell Chisaki in Gabriel DropOut, Chizuru Takano in Tsuredure Children, and Yoshino Koiwai in Masamune-kun's Revenge. In 2018, she voiced Mari Tamaki in A Place Further than the Universe, and with her co-stars performed the series' closing theme "Koko Kara, Koko Kara".
Music career
Minase made her solo music debut in 2015, affiliated with King Records. She released her first single "Yume no Tsubomi" (夢のつぼみ) on December 2, 2015; the single peaked at 11th place on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart and stayed on the chart for 10 weeks.
She released her second single, "Harmony Ribbon" which was released on April 13, 2016; it peaked at 10th place on the Oricon Weekly Single Chart.
On November 25, 2016, Sony Music Artists and King Records announced that they were cancelling several events for her after she received a death threat online. The threat came from Taiwan.
She released her third single, "Starry Wish" on November 9, 2016; the single peaked at 8th place on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. "Starry Wish" was used as the ending theme song for the anime ViVid Strike!.
She released her first full album, which is titled "Innocent Flower" and was released on April 5, 2017; it peaked at 3rd on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart and stayed on the chart for 10 weeks.
Her fourth single, "Aimaimoko" (アイマイモコ) was released on August 9, 2017; the single peaked at 12th place on the Oricon Weekly Singles. The song in the single was used as the opening theme song for the anime, Tsuredure Children.
Her fifth single, "Ready Steady Go!" was released on December 11, 2017; it peaked at 9th place on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.
On December 2, 2017, Inori Minase held her first live concert, which was titled "Inori Minase 1st LIVE Ready Steady Go!", in Tokyo International Forum. Her official fanclub, "Inorimachi" (いのりまち, lit. 'Inori Town'), was launched on the same day. A Blu-ray recording of the concert was released on April 4, 2018; it peaked on 6th place on the Oricon Weekly Blu-ray Chart.
In 2018, she participated in the "KIRIN LEMON Tribute" project to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Kirin Beverage's long-selling carbonated drink brand Kirin Lemon as the third artist following the idol group "BiSH" and the rock band "Frederick".
Other activities
Since October 2, 2016, through the Nippon Cultural Broadcasting radio station in Tokyo, Minase has been live broadcasting a radio show called the "Inori Minase MELODY FLAG (水瀬いのり MELODY FLAG)", also nicknamed as MeloFura (メロフラ) for short. Provided by her labels, King Records (King Amusement Creative), the show is on-air weekly on every Sunday at 22:00－22:30 JST (on every Monday at 18:00 JST for her YouTube channel archive), and it is also being livestream through 4 other online platforms: MELODY FLAG's official website (in Japanese), Minase's official homepage (in Japanese), her official Twitter account, and her official YouTube account. As of June 2, 2024, her radio program has reached a total of 400 episodes.
