Inori Minase

Inori Minase (水瀬 いのり, Minase Inori, born December 2, 1995) is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer who made her singing debut in December 2015 under King Records label. In March 2016, she won the Best Lead Actress Award in the 10th Seiyu Awards for her leading roles as Jun Naruse in the box office hit The Anthem of the Heart and as Yuki Takeya in the anime television series School-Live!. Her other major roles include Chino in Is the Order a Rabbit?, Noel in Celestial Method, Hestia in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Rem in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, Tamaki “Kimari” Mari in A Place Further than the Universe and Chito in Girls' Last Tour. 2Early life and education Minase was born in Tokyo on December 2, 1995. Her interest in anime began at a young age; she had begun watching it when she was in kindergarten. She first became aware of voice acting when, after watching a stage play adaptation of an anime, she read the stage pamphlet and asked her parents about the name of a person mentioned in it. She began aspiring to become a voice actress at the age of six, and listed voiced acting as her desired career when she was asked in elementary story.While in middle school, Minase became part of her school's tennis and theater clubs. She decided to join the theater club as she felt it would help her develop her skills in acting, but she quit because she felt too embarrassed to appear on stage. Around that time, she was considering enrolling in a voice acting training school, but then her mother found a magazine advertisement for an audition. At her mother's encouragement, she decided to participate in the audition, which she then passe