Ayako Kawasumi
Acting
Born March 30, 1976, Tokyo, Japan
Ayako Kawasumi is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is affectionately referred to by her fellow voice actors and fans as "Ayachii (あやちー)", "Ayasumi (あやすみ)" and "Aya-nē (あやねえ)". She is a skilled pianist as she has played the piano since childhood. She composed and performed "...To You", the opening theme to Piano, and played pianists in the anime Piano and Nodame Cantabile. She is one of the most prolific and well-known voice actresses in Japan. Throughout her career, she has voiced plenty of iconic and famous characters, such as Akari Kamigishi (To Heart), Saber (Fate/stay night), Nodame (Nodame Cantabile), Lafiel (Crest of the Stars - Banner of the Stars), Fuu (Samurai Champloo), Leina (Queen's Blade), Aoi Sakuraba (Ai Yori Aoshi), Mahoro (Mahoromatic) and Natsuki Mogi (Initial D).
Filmography
- 2026Chō Uchū Keiji Gyaban Infiniti Taiyō ga Naita Hi — Narration (voice), Emorgear (voice)
- 2026Fate/stay night 20th Anniversary Concert Finale — Saber
- 2026Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! Act 2
- 2026Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! Act 3
- In the Clear Moonlit Dusk — Yoi's Mom (voice)
- Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky — Kyoko Sorano (voice)
- PROJECT R.E.D. — Emolgear / Narrator (voice)
- 2026Super Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity: Jo-Chaku Course — Narration (voice), Emorgear (voice)
- Supplementary Investigation: Gavan Off-Duty — Gavan Amigo (voice), Emorgear (voice), Narration (voice)
- 2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea — Beretta (voice)
- Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective — Jun Fuyumoto (voice)
- Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat Is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! — Leona (voice)
- 2025Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu! Act 1
- Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter — Lisa Linster (voice)
- As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World — Sophia Louvent (voice)
- Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers — The First Princess (voice)
- 2024Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary — Ai-Chan (voice)
- 2024Girls und Panzer das Finale OVA: Taicho War!
- The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies — Bellatrix (voice)
- Tonari no Yokai-san — Suzu Sakaki (voice)
- Unnamed Memory — Lucrezia (voice), Lucia (voice), Lucrezia / Lucia (voice)
- 2024Zegapain STA — Shizuno Misaki (voice)
- 16bit Sensation: Another Layer — Kaori Shimoda (voice)
- Horimiya: The Missing Pieces — Kozue Sengoku (voice)
- Spy Classroom — Homuro (voice)
- CUE! — Chisa's sister (voice)
- KanColle: See You Again on Another Quiet Blue Sea — (voice)
- RWBY: Ice Queendom — Winter Schnee (voice)
- Raven of the Inner Palace — Xie Fei/Consort Sha (voice)
- Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs — Luce (voice)
- 2021Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon — Fou (voice)
- 2021Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram — The Lion King (voice)
- 2021Revue Starlight: The Movie — Hikari's Mother (voice)
- 2021Violet Evergarden: Recollections — Clara Magnolia (voice)
- 2020A Whisker Away — Kaoru Mizutani (voice)
- Adachi and Shimamura — Shimamura's mother (voice)
- BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. — Velvet (voice)
- 2020Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 1 Wandering; Agateram — Fou / The Lion King (voice)
- 2020Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song — Saber Alter (voice)
- Grand Blues! — (voice)
- Princess Connect! Re:Dive — Jun Shirogane (voice)
- SUPER HxEROS — ShimiChu (voice)
- The Day I Became a God — Isuzu Satō (voice)
- The Misfit of Demon King Academy — Sheila (voice)
- 2020Violet Evergarden: The Movie — Clara Magnolia (voice)
- Battle Spirits: Saga Brave
- Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia — Fou (voice)
- 2019Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly — Saber Alter (voice)
- 2019Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2 — (voice)
- Star☆Twinkle PreCure — Taurus (voice)
- Cells at Work! — Mast Cell (voice)
- Laid-Back Camp — Tea Lady (voice)
- 2018Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond — Sasago (voice)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime — Beretta (voice)
- Today's Menu for the Emiya Family — Saber (voice)
- Violet Evergarden — Clara Magnolia (voice)
- Yotsuiro Biyori — Tomoko Hayashi (voice)
- 18if — Eve (voice)
- 2017Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower — Saber (voice)
- 2017Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 1 — (voice)
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria — Riveria Ljos Alf (voice)
- The Ancient Magus' Bride — Goddess of Winter Morrígan (voice)
- 2016Accel World: Infinite Burst — Kakei Mihaya
- 2016Assassination Classroom the Movie: 365 Days' Time — Aguri Yukimura (voice)
- 2016Fate/Grand Order -First Order- — Fou / Saber Alter (voice)
- Kubikiri Cycle - Aoiro Savant to Zaregoto Tsukai — Ibuki Kanami
- Matoi the Sacred Slayer — 春夏·ルシエラ
- Queen's Blade Grimoire — Reina Vance (voice)
- 2016Zegapain ADP — ミサキ シズノ (voice)
- 2016ぐだぐだオーダー — 青セイバー
- Assassination Classroom — Aguri Yukimura (voice)
- 2015Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here – Future — Izumi Nase (voice)
- 2015Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here – Past — Izumi Nase (voice)
- Death Parade — Machiko (voice)
- 2015Girls und Panzer der Film — Kay (voice)
- Hifuu Club Activity Record ~ The Sealed Esoteric History
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? — Riveria Ljos Alf (voice)
- Amagi Brilliant Park — Moffle (voice)
- Dai Shogun - Great Revolution — Kiriko Hattori (voice)
- Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] — Saber (voice)
- 2014JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Re-Edited Vol.1 — Erina Pendleton (voice)
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun — Yukari Miyako (voice)
- Ping Pong the Animation — Yurie (voice)
- Terra Formars: Bugs-2 — Akita nanao
- Witch Craft Works — Komachi Takamiya (voice)
- Beyond the Boundary — Izumi Nase (voice)
- Queen's Blade: Vanquished Queens — Leina
- Strike the Blood — Giada Kukulcan (voice)
- 2012Absolute Whiteness: Magical Girl — Erika Kuramoto (voice)
- Accel World — Kakei Mihaya
- Angelic White Magical Girls, Absolute Whiteness: Magical Girl — Kuramoto, Erika
- 2012Carnival Phantasm: HibiChika Special
- Girls und Panzer — Kay (voice)
- High School DxD — Susan (voice)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure — Erina Pendleton (voice)
- Nakaimo: My Little Sister Is Among Them! — Risa Seri (voice)
- 2012Strike Witches the Movie — Heinrike Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (voice)
- Sword Art Online — Aki Natsuki (voice)
- Tari Tari — Haruka Tanaka (voice)
- The Pet Girl of Sakurasou — Rita Ainsworth (voice)
- Aria the Scarlet Ammo — Jeanne d`Arc
- Carnival Phantasm — Saber (voice)
- 2011Carnival Phantasm: Illya's Castle
- Fate/Zero — Saber (voice)
- Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up — Harumi
- Bakuman — Yuriko Hiramaru (voice)
- Battle Spirits: Brave — Mai Shinomiya (voice)
- Fate/stay night TV reproduction
- 2010Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works — Saber (voice)
- 2010Hetalia: Axis Powers: Paint It, White! — Pict Princess (voice)
- 2010King of Thorn — Laura Owen (voice)
- Ladies versus Butlers! — Tomomi Saikyō (voice)
- Night Raid 1931 — Shizune Yusa
- Okami-san and Her Seven Companions — Otsuu Tsurugaya (voice)
- Queen's Blade: Beautiful Fighters — Leina
- Squid Girl — Ayumi Tokita (voice)
- The Qwaser of Stigmata — Miyuri Tsujidō (voice)
- 07-Ghost — Athena
- Battle Spirits: Shounen Gekiha Dan — Mai Shinomiya (voice)
- Charger Girl Juden Chan — Reika Galvini
- Hatsukoi Limited. — Sumire Fudoumiya (voice)
- Kanokon: Manatsu no daishanikusai — Chizuru Minamoto
- Pandora Hearts — Alice (voice)
- Queen's Blade — Leina (voice)
- A Certain Magical Index — Laura Stuart (voice)
- Kanokon — Chizuru Minamoto
- Kanokon: The Girl Who Cried Fox — Chizuru Minamoto
- Kemeko Deluxe! — Fumiko Kobayashi
- 2008Kiku and the Wolf — Kiku-chan (voice)
- Magician's Academy — Eineus the Vergest
- Natsume's Book of Friends — Sasago (voice)
- Real Drive — Holon (voice)
- Skip Beat! — Ruriko Matsunai
- The Diary of a Crazed Family — Dr. Hell (voice)
- To Love Ru — Saki Tenjōin (voice)
- 2007.hack//G.U. Returner — Atoli (voice)
- 2007.hack//G.U. Trilogy — Atoli (voice)
- Claymore — Elena (voice)
- Hitohira — Nono Ichinose
- Kimi Kiss Pure Rouge — Tomoko Kawada (voice)
- 2007Kino's Journey: Country of Illness -For You- — Inertia (voice)
- Mina — Sumire Nishiha / Mina Shiwasu (voice)
- Mokke — Shizuru Hibara (voice)
- Nodame Cantabile — Megumi Noda (voice)
- Polyphonica — Tsuge Eufinley
- Potemayo
- Princess Resurrection — Hime
- Romeo × Juliet — Emilia (voice)
- 2007Shakugan no Shana: The Movie — Kazumi Yoshida
- Shattered Angels — Kaon (voice)
- Shining Tears X Wind — Clalaclan Philias, Blanc Neige
- Sky Girls — Otoha Sakurano (voice)
- The Flowers of Hard Blood — Shion Yasuoka
- The Skull Man
- 2006Brave Story — Mysterious girl (voice)
- 2006Crayon Shin-chan: The Legend Called: Dance! Amigo! — Ai Suotome (voice)
- D.Gray-man — Sofia (voice)
- Fate/stay night — Saber (voice)
- Kanon — Kaori Misaka (voice)
- Magical Witch Punie-chan — Anego
- 2006Sky Girls — Otoha Sakurano (voice)
- Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry — Sara Werec, Mariette
- The Familiar of Zero — Henrietta de Tristain (voice)
- Yume Tsukai — Touko Mishima (voice)
- Zegapain
- Best Student Council — Sayuri Hida (voice)
- Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan
- Gallery Fake — Sara Halifa
- Ginban Kaleidoscope — Tazusa Sakurano
- Hell Girl
- 2005Hotori: Simply Wishing for Hope — Hotori (voice)
- My Wife is a High School Girl — Asami Onohara (voice)
- Petopeto-san — Kanna Maeta
- Shakugan no Shana — Kazumi Yoshida
- Starship Operators — Rio Mamiya
- Strawberry Marshmallow — Matsuri Sakuragi (voice), Theme Song Performance
- The King of Braves GaoGaiGar FINAL: GRAND GLORIOUS GATHERING — パピヨン・ノワール
- The Snow Queen — Gerda (voice)
- Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
- Twin Princess of Wonder Planet — Elsa
- Destiny of the Shrine Maiden — 姫宮千歌音 / Chikane Himemiya
- Genshiken — Kanako Ohno (voice)
- Girls Bravo
- Kurau Phantom Memory — Kurau Amami (voice)
- Ninja Nonsense — Kaede Shiranui (voice)
- Samurai Champloo — Fuu (voice)
- This Ugly Yet Beautiful World — Hikari (voice)
- Tristia of the Deep-Blue Sea — Nanoca Flanka
- 2003.hack//Legend of the Twilight: Let's Meet Offline — Hotaru
- Please Twins! — Koishi Herikawa (voice)
- Popotan — Unagi (Voice)
- 2003RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio — Megumi Shitō (voice)
- Scrapped Princess — Winia Chester (voice)
- .hack — Hotaru (voice)
- Ai Yori Aoshi — Aoi Sakuraba (voice)
- Armored Troopers J-Phoenix PF LIPS
- 2002Initial D: Battle Stage — Natsuki Mogi (voice)
- 2002Nakoruru: A Gift from That Person — Manari (voice)
- Petite Princess Yucie — Elmina
- Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart — Miu Nomura (voice), Theme Song Performance, Original Music Composer
- Please Teacher! — Koishi Herikawa
- RahXephon — Megumi Shitow (voice)
- Angel Tales — Ayumi
- Battle Doll: Angelic Layer — Kaede Saito (voice)
- Comic Party
- Great Dangaioh — Manami Mishio
- 2001Initial D: Third Stage — Natsuki Mogi (voice)
- Mahoromatic — Mahoro (voice)
- One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e — 長森 瑞佳 (Voice), Theme Song Performance
- Rave Master — Elie (voice)
- Sister Princess — Tikagie
- Usagi-chan de Cue!! — Miku Mizuki (voice)
- Zoids: New Century — Rinon (voice)
- 2000Ah! My Goddess: The Movie — Morgan le Fay (voice)
- Angel Sanctuary — Mudou Sara (voice)
- 2000Azumanga Web Daioh — Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga (voice)
- Ceres: Celestial Legend — (voice)
- 2000Crest of the Stars: Birth — Lafiel "Abriel Nei Debrusc Borl Paryun Lafiel" Abriel (Voice)
- Gate Keepers — Ruriko Ikusawa (voice)
- Ghost Stories — Hanako (voice)
- NieA_7 — Mayuko Chigasaki (voice)
- 2000Sin: The Movie — Elyse Stewart (voice)
- A.D. Police — Kyoko Miyano (voice)
- Crest of the Stars — Lafiel Abriel (voice)
- Great Teacher Onizuka — Tomoko Nomura (voice)
- I'm Gonna Be An Angel! — Sara
- Legend of Black Heaven — Rinko (voice)
- Samurai: Hunt for the Sword — 魔由羅
- Seraphim Call — Kurumi Matsumoto (voice)
- Sorcerer on the Rocks — Taru-Ho (voice)
- Soul Hunter — (voice)
- To Heart — Akari Kamigishi (voice)
- DT Eightron — Fuia
- Initial D — Natsuki Mogi (voice)
- Knight Hunters
- Mamotte Shugogetten
- Neo Ranga — Aya Seike (voice)
- Outlaw Star — Melfina (voice)
- Princess Nine — Yuki Azuma (voice)
- Serial Experiments Lain — Mika Iwakura - Lain's older sister (voice)
- 1998Visitor — Mochizuki Lila
- Tournament of the Gods: Title Match — Shizuku-hime