Ai Kayano
Height: 153 cm (5'0)
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Introduction: Ai Kayano is a Japanese voice actress and vocalist currently affiliated with Office Osawa.
Biography:__ Kayano wanted to work in a job that would involve "healing people", leading to initially take up a course at a vocational school. She worked in the beauty industry and became interested in acting after having seen Aria. While attending school, Kayano continued working in the industry and paid for her tuition.
Kayano began working at Pro-Fit in 2010, voicing two supporting characters in the original video animation Princess Resurrection. In 2011, she voiced Meiko "Menma" Honma in Anohana and received the Best Rookie Actress award for said role at the 6th Seiyuu Awards. Kayano, Haruka Tomatsu and Saori Hayami performed the series' ending theme "Secret Base – Kimi ga Kureta Mono (10 years after Ver.)", a cover of a song originally sung by the band Zone.
She is often praised for her vocal range, having voiced a variety of characters such as Mayaka Ibara, Mashiro Shiina, Darkness and Akari Kawamoto for example, none of which one would connect to the same voice actress.
Trivia: - Worked part-time at a coffee shop with Chinatsu Akasaki before becoming a voice actress. - She got around 100 suggestions for her nickname in the Anohana radio show, from which she herself picked out Kayanon.
Non-anime roles: - Atago - Azur Lane - Graf Zeppelin - Azur Lane - Kaga - Azur Lane - Renown - Azur Lane - Y'shtola Rhul - Final Fantasy XIV - Murasaki Shikibu - Fate/Grand Order (VG)
Characters voiced
- Sylphiette (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3)
- Kanae Kochou (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle)
- Leilia (Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms)
- Darkness (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 4)
- Saori Takebe (Girls und Panzer der Film)
- Akari Kawamoto (March comes in like a lion Season 2)
- Nagi Aiza (Your lie in April)
- Claudia Hortensia (Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] III. spring song)
- Shida-hime (Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7)
- Chihiro (Mob Psycho 100)
- Anna (The Promised Neverland Season 2)
- Kanade Ooe (Chihayafuru 3)
- Keiko Suzuki (Grand Blue Dreaming)
- Utaha Kasumigaoka (Saekano the Movie: Finale)
- Kokomi Teruhashi (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 3)
- Diamond (Land of the Lustrous)
- Kuro-chan (March comes in like a lion)
- Yoshika Ookubo (Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate)
- Zenna Zabi (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin)
- Meiko Honma (Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day)
- Rinko Ogasawara (SHIROBAKO)
- Chizuru Hishiro (ReLIFE: Final Arc)
- Roman Saotome (SKET Dance)
- Kirika Akatsuki (Symphogear XV)