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Mayu Iizuka (Japanese: 飯塚 麻結, Hepburn: Iizuka Mayu, born 15 April 1996) is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Prefecture, affiliated with Sun Music Group. A founding member of the voice acting unit Dialogue, she is known for voicing Rina in Million Doll and Airi Eniwa in Cue!.

Biography

Mayu Iizuka, a native of Saitama Prefecture, was born on 15 April 1996. While watching The Prince of Tennis anime with her older siblings, whom she described in an interview as being "from the Prince of Tennis generation", she saw that a woman was credited for a male character, and her sister told her that female voice actors are able to do characters regardless of gender, inspiring her to join the voice acting industry. She was educated at Clark Memorial International High School [ja], where she would about three hours commuting back and forth to and where she started an idol club.

Her voice acting career began while she was a first-year high school student. In December 2014, it was announced that she and Aya Uchida would voice the kōhai in Tamayura: Sotsugyō Shashin. In April 2015, she was cast as Rina in Million Doll.

She voices Airi Eniwa in the mobile game Cue!. She reprised her role in the 2022 anime.

In 2019, she became one of the founding members of the voice acting unit Dialogue.

On 29 January 2022, she revealed that she was the "inner person" behind Yume Kotobuki (琴吹 ゆめ, Kotobuki Yume), a VTuber who became active in 2018. Iizuka said that this decision was to counter the stigma of self-revealing real-life identities among VTubers.

Her special skills are winking, whistling, and making her soft joints flexible. Among her hobbies are farming and bass guitar.

Filmography

Animated television

Animated film

Video games

References

1. ^ "飯塚 麻結". Sun Music Group (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 January 2024.
2. ^ Iizuka, Mayu (6 December 2021). "飯塚麻結「声優の仕事を始めてから自分をちょっと好きになれました」". Seiyū Zukan (Interview). Retrieved 26 January 2024.
3. Loo, Egan (17 December 2014). "Tamayura Films' Cast, Story, Title, Date, Visual Unveiled". Anime News Network. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
4. ^ Nelkin, Sarah (20 April 2015). "Mayu Iizuka, Yui Watanabe Join Million Doll Summer Anime's Cast". Anime News Network. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
5. "声優育成ゲーム『CUE!』のキャスト16名が歌うオープニング曲をリリース！". Tower Records Online. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
6. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (15 August 2021). "CUE! Voice Actress Anime Reveals 1st Promo Video, January 2022 Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
7. "「DIALOGUE＋」デビューシングルのMVショートバージョンが公開！". Animage+. 9 September 2019. Archived from the original on 2 October 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2024 – via MyNavi News.
8. ^ "VTuber琴吹ゆめ、「リアルアバター」として「中の人」を公開 メタバース声優として活動へ". Panora (in Japanese). 29 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2024.

• 1996 births
• Living people
• Japanese video game actresses
• Japanese women pop singers
• 21st-century Japanese actresses
• 21st-century Japanese singers
• 21st-century Japanese women singers
• Voice actresses from Saitama Prefecture
• Singers from Saitama Prefecture