Aki Kanada

Aki Kanada
金田 アキ
Born (1983-08-18) 18 August 1983 (age 41)
Other namesAkkie (アッキー)
OccupationVoice actress
Years active2005–present
Notable workGingka Hagane in Beyblade: Metal Fusion
Lightnin in Bakugan: Battle Planet
Nyatoran in Healin' Good Pretty Cure

Aki Kanada (金田 アキ, Kanada Aki, born 18 August 1983) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Zynchro.[1] She is known for voicing Gingka Hagane in Beyblade: Metal Fusion, Sasuke Akatsuki in Battle Spirits: Burning Soul, Makoto in Marvel Future Avengers, Lightnin in Bakugan: Battle Planet, and Nyatoran in Healin' Good Pretty Cure.

Biography

Aki Kanada, a native of Shimoyama, Aichi (now part of Toyota, Aichi), was born on 18 August 1983.[2][3] She decided to become a voice actress after hearing that her favorite manga series, Kodocha, would get an anime adaptation.[4]

She voiced a younger Italy Veneziano in Hetalia: Axis Powers.[5] She voiced Gingka Hagane in Beyblade: Metal Fusion and reprised her role in Metal Fight Beyblade vs the Sun: Sol Blaze, the Scorching Hot Invader (2010).[2] In 2013, she voiced Connie in Line Offline Salaryman, a series of anime shorts focusing on the mascots of the Line app,[6] and she starred as Apprentice in the anime short series Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun.[7]

In September 2015, it was announced that she would voice Yutaka Sasaki in Phantasy Star Online 2 anime adaptation.[8] In 2017, she voiced Makoto in Marvel Future Avengers.[2] In October that same year, she was cast as Rare Mita in Tokimeki Idol, a spin-off mobile game in the Tokimeki Memorial franchise.[9]

In 2018, she voiced Mirai in Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō.[10] In 2019, she voiced Ichika in Phantasy Star Online 2 Comic and Lightning in Bakugan: Battle Planet.[11][12] In 2020, she voiced Nyatoran in Healin' Good Pretty Cure, the seventeenth installment of the Pretty Cure franchise.[13] In 2021, she voiced Gokū Impulse Gundam in SD Gundam World Heroes.[14]

Filmography

Anime television

2005
2008
2009
2012
2013
  • Apprentice, Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun[7]
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

2024

Films

2010

Video games

2011
2013
2016
2018
  • Tokimeki Idol, Rare Mita[9]
2019

Original net animation

2013
  • Line Offline: Salaryman, Connie[6]
2014
  • Fastening Days, schoolboy, sales clerk A[16]
2018
2019
2021

Notes

  1. ^ Credited as Akiyo Kanada (金田 晶代, Kanada Akiyo)

References

  1. ^ a b "金田アキ |Talent". Zynchro (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "声優・花輪英司、金田アキが語る『マーベル フューチャー・アベンジャーズ』- アイアンマンとマコトのチームが出来上がっていく過程を楽しんで" (in Japanese). 21 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  3. ^ Aki Kanada [@canada_aki] (20 February 2020). "出身、豊田市ですが、合併してのことで私は今はない"村"出身です。下山。" (Tweet). Retrieved 16 July 2023 – via Twitter.
  4. ^ Kanada, Aki (20 September 2009). "歴史". 金田アキの、かなだらいにはあきあきよ (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  5. ^ a b Loo, Egan (10 December 2009). "Hetalia Anime's Third Season Green-Lit (Updated)". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  6. ^ a b Loveridge, Lynzee (14 January 2013). "Line Offline Salaryman TV Anime's 1st Episode Streamed". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  7. ^ a b Ressler, Karen (19 August 2013). "Takahiro Sakurai Stars in The Hired Gun/Koroshiya-san Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  8. ^ a b Loo, Egan (18 September 2015). "Phantasy Star Online 2 Anime Reveals More Cast, Shouta Aoi Song". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  9. ^ a b Ressler, Karen (25 October 2017). "Tokimeki Idol Smartphone App's Gameplay Trailer Streamed". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  10. ^ a b Hodgkins, Crystalyn (30 November 2018). "Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō Anime Reveals Promo Video, More Cast". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  11. ^ Loo, Egan (15 December 2018). "Phantasy Star Online 2 Game's Web Manga Gets Web Anime in January". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  12. ^ a b Pineda, Rafael Antonio (15 March 2019). "Bakugan: Battle Planet Anime Reveals More Japanese Cast". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  13. ^ a b Loo, Egan (25 December 2019). "Healin' Good Precure TV Anime Unveils Cast, Staff, Story, February 2 Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  14. ^ a b Pineda, Rafael Antonio (30 March 2021). "SD Gundam World Heroes Anime's Subtitled Trailer Highlights Worlds, Characters". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  15. ^ "韋駄天翔". TV Drama Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Aki Kanada (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 16 July 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  17. ^ "Dragon Ball Daima Anime Reveals 12 Cast Members for 'Mini' Versions of Characters". Anime News Network. 19 October 2024. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  18. ^ Loo, Egan (16 December 2009). "Metal Fight Beyblade Anime Gets Film in Summer 2010". Anime News Network. Retrieved 16 July 2023.