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Yūka Nanri

Yuuka Nanri (南里 侑香, Nanri Yūka, born March 13,1984 in Nagasaki, Japan), commonly referred to as YUUKA, is a seiyū and also a known Japanese pop singer. She is contracted to Space Craft Entertainment of Space Craft Group.

Profile

Biography

Yuuka Nanri first debuted on NHK's Utatte Odoronpa (うたってオドロンパ) (an educational programme) in 1995, as a child star. [1]

In 1997, she joined Minami Aoyama Shōjo Kageki Dan (南青山少女歌劇団, South Aoyama Female Opera Group, also known as Nanshō), a stage group for young girls as one of its seventh generation members, and began acting in musicals and other theatrical performances. She quit the group in August of 2001. [1]

In 2001, she also debuted as a seiyū in the Japanese version of Powerpuff Girls as Bubbles. After that, she officially started her seiyū activities as the lead of Gunslinger Girl. She has voiced many weak-looking and gentle characters, though in My-HiME, she voiced for Nao Yūki, a morally ambivalent middle school student who enjoys preying on perverted men.[2]

In late 2003, tiaraway, a fixed-term seiyū duo consisting of Nanri and fellow Japanese singer Saeko Chiba, was formed. After releasing three singles and an album, they disbanded on March 6, 2005 after its first (and final) live concert, both wanting to go separate paths. Currently, she is a vocalist of Yuki Kajiura's "FictionJunction" project.

FictionJunction YUUKA is a duo with Yuki Kajiura, a famed anime music composer who writes and produces all their music. FictionJunction YUUKA achieved fame and attention from the media with songs such as "Akatsuki no Kuruma" (暁の車, Wheel of Dawn) and "Honoh no Tobira" (焔の扉, Door of Flame) which were used as insert songs in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and its sequel Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny respectively. Nanri also performed most of the vocal tracks featured in Madlax (soundtracked by Kajiura), such as Margaret, Cradle and Madlax, in addition to the opening and ending themes recorded by FictionJunction YUUKA.

In 2006, she was selected to be the main character of the musical ANGEL GATE ~Haru no Yokan~ (ANGEL GATE～春の予感～, ANGEL GATE ~Spring's Premonition~). The musical had four performances in total, from April 13 to April 16 of the same year. [3] Because of this, she was not able to voice act for Karen Ichijō from the second season of the anime School Rumble (which was also broadcasted in April). [4] She also graduated from university with a major in vocal music that year in March. [5]

She held her first solo concert, entitled Premium Live 2007, as FictionJunction YUUKA in 2007, on February 8 and February 15. [6] It was announced at the concert that there will be another showing of ANGEL GATE. [citation needed]

Discography

For releases as FictionJunction YUUKA or tiaraway, see FictionJunction YUUKA or tiaraway respectively.

Singles

# Title Release Date Information
1 Fun! Fun! ★Fatasy (Fun! Fun! ★ふぁんたじー, Fun! Fun! ★Fantajī) 2003.10.08 4th Theme song of Selfish Fairy Mirumo de Pon (わがまま☆フェアリー ミルモでポン! Wagamama Fearī Mirumo de Pon!).


Notable voice roles

Leading roles in bold.

Anime

OVA

Movies

Games

Musicals

  • Lucy (ルーシー, Rūshī) in "Goodbye Girl" (グッバイガール, Gubbai Gāru)
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  • FUNK-a-STEP
  • FUNK-a-STEP2
  • Waltz ga Kikoeru? (ワルツが聞こえる?, Warutsu ga Kikoeru?)
  • Christmas Juliet ~Eve no Kiseki (クリスマスジュリエット～イヴの奇跡～, Kurisumasu Jurietto ~Ivu no Kiseki~)
  • Satsuki Katayama (片山さつき, Katayama Satsuki) in Highschool Revolution ~Ai to Yūki no Tabidachi~ (ハイスクール Revolution～愛と勇気の旅だち～, Haisukūru Revolution ~Ai to Yūki no Tabidachi~)
  • Akane Saitō (斎藤 茜, Saitō Akane) in Christmas Juliet ~Eve no Kiseki [Another Showing] (クリスマスジュリエット～イヴの奇跡～ [再演], Kurisumasu Jurietto ~Ivu no Kiseki~ [Saien])
  • Momoko (桃子) in Nagareboshi no Lullaby (流れ星のララバイ, Nagareboshi no Rarabai)
  • Yuri (ユリ) in "ANGEL GATE ~Haru no Yokan~" (ANGEL GATE～春の予感～) (April 13 — April 16, 2006) [1]

Other

Trivia

Relationships

Other

  • 2channelers have dubbed Nanri as Nanrietta (ナンリエッタ) from her role in Gunslinger Girl as Henrietta (ヘンリエッタ).
  • Along with her family, she moved from Nagasaki to Tokyo before graduating from kindergarten.
  • Nanri and the other member of tiaraway, Saeko Chiba, both voiced prominent roles in the anime My-HiME and My-Otome (with Nanri being Nao and Chiba Natsuki).
  • Coincidentally, both Nanri and Chiba were in Minami Aoyama Shōjo Kageki Dan (南青山少女歌劇団, South Aoyama Female Opera Group) during different times (Chiba in the fourth generation and Nanri in the seventh).
  • Her first on-screen kiss was shown in the ANGEL GATE musical.
  • Her fourth single as FictionJunction YUUKA, Honoh no Tobira, was the first seiyū single to have reached number one in the Oricon daily rankings,[8] and because of this, she was able to appear on NHK's well-known music program PopJam.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Chinese Wikipedia, a major source for this article.
  2. ^ My-HiME article for Nao's description
  3. ^ ANGEL GATE musical official website
  4. ^ Announcement on the official School Rumble site. Retrieved on 2006-03-01.
  5. ^ Pop Joins the World NHK radio program on 2006-12-28.
  6. ^ January 29th 2007 blog entry mentions the concert. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
  7. ^ a b c d Yuuka Nanri @ AnimeNewsNetwork
  8. ^ Chinese Wikipedia


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