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Sayaka Nakaya (仲谷 明香, Nakaya Sayaka, born October 15, 1991) is a Japanese voice actress and former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She is from Iwate. While with AKB48 she was a member of the subunit No Name. Her biggest role as a voice actress was as the title character Chitose Sakuraba in the anime series Chitose Get You!!.

Career

Nakaya passed AKB48's generation 3 audition on December 3, 2006. She is one of 20 girls who passed from among 12.828 candidates. She was first on stage at AKB48 Theater as part of Team B on April 8, 2007. On August 23, 2009, a reshuffle was announced and Nakaya was transferred to Team A.

On December 2, 2010, an audio book of Moshidora read by her received "Audio Book Award 2010". The audio book gets awarded based on consumer votes in FeBe! audio book website. She also provided voice in the anime series of Moshidora.

Along with fellow member from Team K Miku Tanabe, Nakaya formed a unit called Baby Gamba. The unit released a single DVD "Ee Janaika" (ええじゃないか) under label Avex on September 14, 2011. Baby Gamba is a character in anime series Ganba no Bōken, a series based on kids book "Bōkentachi Gamba to 15-hiki no Nakama" by Otsuka Saito.

On December 13, 2011, her name was chosen along with 9 other members to voice characters in AKB48's original anime series AKB0048.

An autobiography of her, titled "Hisenbatsu Idol" was published in 2012. When she was a member, she was one of 4 AKB48's anime fan who is called "wota 4".

On Team K Waiting Stage on March 2, 2013 at night, Nakaya suddenly announces her departure as an AKB48 member to taking part in a voice acting audition. 4 days later at the same stage, she had her last and graduation concert as an AKB48 member. At the same time, she also quit from her former agency Mousa.

Filmography

Anime

• Aikatsu Stars! as Haruka Ruka
• AKB0048 as Orine Aida
• AKB0048 Next Stage as Orine Aida
• Chaos;Child as Hana Kazuki
• Asako Get You!! as Chitose Sakuraba
• Chitose Get You!! as Chitose Sakuraba
• HappinessCharge PreCure! as Orina/Cure Wave
• Idol Incidents as Ume Momoi
• Kiznaiver as Ruru
• Magical Somera-chan as Somera Nonomoto
• Momokuri as Yuzuki Shimada
• Moshidora as Ayano Hōjō
• Tales of the Abyss as maid 1 (episode 1)
• The Idolm@ster as boy (episode 1)
• The Lost Village as girl (episode 6); Naana
• The Magnificent Kotobuki as Kate
• Triage X as Kaname Makishi

Video games

• Atelier Sophie as Tess Heitzmann
• Chaos;Child as Hana Kazuki
• Chōginga Sendan as Yuki Katsumura
• Himedatsu! Demon Saga as Charles
• Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 as Mina Nishizawa
• Idol Jihen as Shion Kagaya
• Moeru Mahjong Moejan! as Ayumu Honrō
• Thousand Memories as Hanabishi no An'yakusha Isabel
• Uchi no Himesama ga Ichiban Kawaii as Condemned Princess Gabriella

Narration

• Harapeko Yamagami-kun
• Zenryoku Ōen! NHK-hai Figure 2012 navigator

Discography

Singles with AKB48

Collaborations and character songs

References

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2. "AKB48『AKB104 選抜メンバー組閣祭り』(武道館公演)記者会見". Scramble Egg. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
3. "ＡＫＢ朗読の「もしドラ」 オーディオブックの年間人気作品に". asahi.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
4. "ＡＫＢ仲谷明香「もしドラ」で声優挑戦". Daily Sports Online. Archived from the original on 2011-02-04. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
5. "AKB48・仲谷明香＆田名部生来によるBABY GAMBA、＜東北映画祭2011＞の公式テーマソングに". Barks. 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
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7. "Nakaya Sayaka". Stage48. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
8. "仲谷明香 ６日にＡＫＢ卒業…アニメ声優オーディション受験のため". Sponichi Annex. 2013-03-02. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
9. ^ "仲谷 明香 - amuleto / マネージメントオフィス アミュレート". Amulet. Archived from the original on 2013-07-04. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
10. Center and A-side lineup information provided by "AKB48 歴代シングル選抜メンバー（2006年～2013年）" [(2006-2013) AKB48 successive single member selection]. entamedata.web.fc2.com. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
11. "NO NAMEのシングル売上ランキング". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
12. "Ex-AKB48 Member Sayaka Nakaya Sings "Happinesscharge PreCure!" OP Song". Crunchyroll. January 3, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
13. "ハピネスチャージプリキュア!WOW!/プリキュア・メモリ(DVD付) - 仲谷明香,吉田仁美". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
14. "プリズムMAX～平成維新フルHDリマスター版～ - 野乃本ソメラ(仲谷明香),野乃本ククル(本渡楓),天童雫(桃河りか),松嶋あい(長縄まりあ)". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 12 April 2017.

External links

• Official agency profile
• Sayaka Nakaya on Twitter
• Sayaka Nakaya at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Sayaka Nakaya at Oricon (in Japanese)

• 1991 births
• Living people
• Japanese voice actresses
• Japanese women pop singers
• AKB48 members
• 21st-century Japanese women singers
• 21st-century Japanese singers
• 21st-century Japanese actresses
• Actors from Iwate Prefecture
• Singers from Iwate Prefecture