Maaya Uchida

Maaya Uchida (内田 真礼, Uchida Maaya; born December 27, 1989) is a Japanese actress and singer who works for I'm Enterprise. She won the Best Rookie Actress Award at the 8th Seiyu Awards, as well as the Foreign Movie/Series Award at the 19th Seiyu Awards. She is best known for her roles such as Fischl in Genshin Impact, Wakana Morizono in Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live, Rikka Takanashi in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, Syaro Kirima in Is the Order a Rabbit?, Irina Shido in High School DxD, Hiyori Iki in Noragami, Norman in The Promised Neverland, Ranko Kanzaki in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls, Catarina Claes in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Shinobu Miyake in Urusei Yatsura (2022 TV series) and Angel Devil in Chainsaw Man.

She debuted as a singer in 2014 under Pony Canyon with the song "Soushou Innocence". Her best-selling single is youthful beautiful. With her rising success, she also participated in many music festivals and held one-man lives in large venues such as Yoyogi National Gymnasium two days with 13,291 capacity and Nippon Budokan with 14,471 capacity.

As an actress, she debuted in Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger with the role of Hakase Hiroyo. She is the older sister of Yuma Uchida.

While in elementary school, growing up with a family of gamers, she had a strong interest in gaming. At the time she entered middle school and joined the Theater Club, she realized that she wanted to voice game characters and had the profession of being a voice actress. On a third year in high school, she decided to become a voice actress. Afterwards, she went on the internet and read magazines to decide on which university for voice acting she was going to enter and later on decided to join the Japan Narration Acting Institute (日本ナレーション演技研究所 Nihon Narēshon Engi Kenkyūjo).

Uchida completed her studies at narration school in 2009. She became a voice actress in the OVA Boku, Otari-man as an office employee. In April 2010, she joined the voice talent agency, I'm Enterprise.

Uchida admires veteran voice actress, Kikuko Inoue, and is close friends with fellow voice actress and singer, Sumire Uesaka. She is a fan of the baseball team, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Her nicknames include "Mayayan" and "Mareitaso".

In 2011, she made her first appearance in a video game in the game Gal Gun with the role Kaoruko Sakurazaki. In 2012, she voiced Rea Sanka in the anime series Sankarea, and played Hakase Hiroyo in Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger.

Among the works in she appeared, she mentions that the work she especially has strong feelings for is Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions (as Rikka Takanashi), and the works that were a big challenge in her voice actress career are Charlotte (as Yusa/Misa Nishimori) and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (as Ayame).