Sachika Misawa (三澤 紗千香, Misawa Sachika; born January 13, 1993) is a freelance Japanese voice actress and singer from Yamanashi Prefecture. As a voice actress, she was previously affiliated with numerous agencies, with the recent being Stardust Promotion, departing from the agency in March 2023. As a singer, she is signed to Universal Music Japan. Some of her main roles include Kuroyukihime in Accel World, Sakura Bakushin O in Umamusume: Pretty Derby, Minami Azuma in Tokyo ESP, Rin in the music video for "Shelter", Yukari Kohinata in Locodol, Sakura "Cosmos" Akino in Oresuki, and Moca Aoba in BanG Dream!.
Credited On
- BanG Dream! - TOKYO MX presents「BanG Dream! 7th☆LIVE」COMPLETE BOX - BanG Dream!, released February 19, 2020 (
BRMM-10230). Cast [Moca Aoba].
Biography
From the en.wikipedia article Sachika Misawa (CC BY-SA 4.0), revision 1376964497.
Misawa began her voice acting career after winning the "Kadokawa×Up-Front Style Idol Seiyū Audition 2008" competition in February 2009. She debuted in the anime Shangri-La, voicing the character Yuri Gamagori. She graduated from high school in March 2011 and entered university in April of that same year. She finally graduated from university in March 2016. She took a part-time job as a shrine maiden at the age of 20, having been fascinated with it since her childhood. Despite already being preoccupied with voice acting and furthering her studies, she accepted it as a lifelong opportunity. In 2012, she landed a major role as Kuroyukihime in Accel World. Her debut single, "Unite", released on August 1, 2012 by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Japan, was used as the anime's second ending song. She released her debut album Polaris on February 20, 2013. The album contains music used in A Certain Magical Index: The Movie – The Miracle of Endymion. Misawa's second single, "Links" (リンクス, Rinkusu), was released on August 21, 2013, and was used as second ending theme for the anime television series A Certain Scientific Railgun S, while the B-side, "Infinia" (インフィニア, Infinia), was used as an ending song in the penultimate episode. Misawa's third single, Faith, was released on August 6, 2014 and used as the ending song of Argevollen. In 2016, she released a greatest hits album titled -Infinite Selection-. While previously she communicated mostly on her official blog, she opened a Twitter account on January 13, 2019, on her 26th birthday. During her birthday event in early 2020, Misawa announced that she would be releasing new album in the spring of 2020 under a big label, which was later revealed to be Universal Music Japan. The single was released on April 29, 2020. She also announced her official fan club, named "Sachi Cafe", which later became defunct after she left her agency. Misawa released her second single on September 30, 2020 titled "I'm here/With You". She wrote the lyrics and composed the music herself for "I'm here". She released her first major original album I Am Me under Universal Music Japan on December 23, 2020. In this album, she wrote the lyrics and composed the music herself for "Aoi Namida". On December 26, 2020, Misawa announced she was leaving Space Craft Entertainment at end of December 2020, and will work freelance after leaving the agency. She used to run a YouTube channel called "Misawa no Sacchanel" (三澤のさっちゃんねる), but the channel was shut down together with her blog "Sachika Diary" (さちかにっき) after she left the agency. She joined Stardust Promotion on April 1, 2021. She re-opened her fan club with the new name "Seeker" on June 10, 2021 and re-opened her official blog on Line Blog on June 24, 2021. She released a mini-album Shin-kokyu (深呼吸) consisting of five songs on December 22, 2021, roughly one year after her previous album. She wrote and composed three songs from the album: "Utau yo" (歌うよ), "Toumei Ningen" (透明人間), and "Hitomi" (瞳). In an interview with lyrics and music news site UtaTen, she mentioned that all of the songs in this album were intentionally made to be exactly three minutes in length because of the hourglass duration included in her limited edition box from Universal Music Japan. During her birthday event in 2022, she announced her first solo tour, which was held in Osaka on March 6, 2022, and Tokyo on April 3, 2022. In February 2022, she had her live-action television drama debut in ''Kasouken no Onna (科捜研の女)'' Season 21. She narrated the audiobook for the novel Oshi, Moyu (推し、燃ゆ) which released on February 8, 2022. Misawa revealed in June 2022 that she would be taking a hiatus from her activities due to poor health. As a result, her scheduled concert, "Misawa Sachika 2nd Live Tour 2022", as well as her fan event, "Misawa Sachika FC Fan Meeting", have been canceled. She returned to activity in August 2022. In November 2022, due to poor physical condition, her agency announced that she would be taking break from updating Social Media for time being. Her sample voice is used for the voice synthesis software "Seishunkei Song Voice CeVIO AI Futaba Minato" which was released on December 2, 2022 She released her best album entitled "REMEDY" to celebrate 10 years since her CD debut on December 21, 2022. This album consists of 12 songs which included 1 new song. On March 15, 2023, Misawa announced she is leaving Stardust Promotion by March 31, 2023. With she leaving the agency, her fan club and official blog was also closed.
Sources
- Wikidata entity Q3211738.
- en.wikipedia, Sachika Misawa (revision 1376964497), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- ja.wikipedia, 三澤紗千香 (revision 111223267), CC BY-SA 4.0.