Maaya Sakamoto is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in Little Twins, but is better known as voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne. Other major roles in anime include Riho Yamazaki in Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective, Moe Katsuragi in Risky Safety, Princess Tomoyo in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Haruhi Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Sayaka Nakasugi in Birdy the Mighty, Ciel Phantomhive in Black Butler, Shinobu Oshino in Monogatari, Shiki Ryougi in the Kara no Kyoukai film series, and Motoko Kusanagi in the newer Ghost in the Shell films and series. In video games she voices Aura and Natsume in .hack, Lisa Hamilton / La Mariposa in Dead or Alive, Aeris in Kingdom Hearts, Aigis in Persona 3, Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII games, Ling Xiaoyu in the Tekken series, and Alisa Illinichina Amiella in God Eater. She has also branched into singing, performing songs in both English and Japanese. She released her debut single "Yakusoku wa Iranai" in collaboration with Yoko Kanno under Victor Entertainment on April 24, 1996. Her singles "Tune the Rainbow", "Loop", "Ame ga Furu", and "Triangler" have all reached the top 10 Oricon singles chart: "Triangler" in particular charted at number 3 and remained charting for 26 weeks. Her albums have had similar success, with Shōnen Alice and Yūnagi Loop both reaching the top 10 Oricon albums chart; and her album You Can't Catch Me, released on January 12, 2011, became her first release to ever reach number 1. She held a concert at the Nippon Budokan on March 31, 2010, her thirtieth birthday. In the Japanese localization of overseas dubs, she has voiced Padme Amidala as presented in the Star Wars films and cartoons, as well as being the dub voice for Natalie Portman on numerous films.

Filmography

• 2026Cosmic Princess Kaguya! — Momiji Sakayori (voice)
• 2026EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening — Mari Makinami Illustrious (voice)
• 2026Labyrinth — Yoriko Maezawa (voice)
• 2026One Piece Heroines — Miucha (voice)
• 2026Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- — Wasu (voice)
• Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi — Tafflah (voice)
• THE GHOST IN THE SHELL — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
• 2026The Ghost in the Shell — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
• 2025Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle — (voice)
• Once Upon a Witch's Death — Tethys (voice), Theme Song Performance
• The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom — Fianna (voice)
• A Condition Called Love — Tsukiha 'Shibamu' Shibamura (voice)
• 2024KIZUMONOGATARI -Koyomi Vamp- — Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade (voice) (archive footage)
• 2024Look Back — Woman from 4-Frame Manga (voice)
• 2024Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM — Lunamaria Hawke (voice)
• Orb: On the Movements of the Earth — Rafal (voice)
• 2024劇場版ACMA:GAME 最後の鍵
• 2023EVANGELION:3.0(-120min.) — Mari Illustrious-Makinami (voice)
• 2023EVANGELION:3.0(-46h) — Mari Illustrious-Makinami (voice)
• Fate Project 大晦日TVスペシャル2023
• Fate/Grand Order: You've Lost Ritsuka Fujimaru — Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
• Kaina of the Great Snow Sea — Amelothée (voice)
• 2023Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star Sage — Amelothée (voice)
• 2023Pretty Cure All Stars F — Preme / Cure Supreme (voice)
• Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage — Miranjo (voice)
• Revenger — Theme Song Performance
• TRIGUN STAMPEDE — Rem Saverem (voice)
• The Fire Hunter — Akira (voice), Theme Song Performance
• Arknights — Talulah (voice)
• Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness — Shinri Yukihira (voice), Theme Song Performance
• 2022Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Asakusa Arc — Tamayo (voice)
• 2022Fruits Basket -prelude- — Akito Soma (voice)
• 2022Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1 — Annerose von Grünewald
• Love of Kill — Hawk Ritzland (voice)
• Tekken: Bloodline
• 2022The First Slam Dunk — Haruko Akagi (voice)
• The Heike Story — Taira no Shigeko (voice)
• 2022The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Collision 1 — Annerose von Grünewald (voice)
• 2022The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Collision 2 — Annerose von Grünewald (voice)
• 2022The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Collision 3 — Annerose von Grünewald (voice)
• 2022The Tatami Time Machine Blues — Akashi (voice)
• The Tatami Time Machine Blues — Akashi (voice)
• 2021Bright: Samurai Soul — Chihaya (voice)
• 2021Child of Kamiari Month — Shiro (voice)
• 2021Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time — Mari Makinami Illustrious (voice)
• Fate/Grand Carnival — Jeanne d'Arc (voice)
• 2021Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon — Leonardo da Vinci / Alexander III / Jeanne d'Arc (voice)
• 2021Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram — Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
• Pretty Boy Detective Club — Mayumi Doujima (voice)
• Ranking of Kings — Magic Mirror (voice), Miranjo (voice)
• Super Crooks — Kasey (voice)
• 2021The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light — Merlin (voice)
• 2021Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop — Maria (voice)
• Arte — Theme Song Performance
• Drifting Dragons — Ascella (voice)
• 2020Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 1 Wandering; Agateram — Leonardo da Vinci (voice), Theme Song Performance
• I'm Standing on a Million Lives — Fatina (voice)
• 2020Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul — Lyza / Narration (voice)
• Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga — Marie 'Lily' Antoinette (voice)
• SING "YESTERDAY" FOR ME — Kyoko Sayama (voice)
• Sorcerous Stabber Orphen — Carlotta (voice)
• The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED — Suzue Kambe (voice)
• Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon — Zero (voice)
• BEM — Mysterious Lady (voice)
• CAROLE & TUESDAY — Crystal (voice)
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Tamayo (voice)
• Ensemble Stars! — Anzu
• Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia — Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
• Fruits Basket — Akito Sōma (voice)
• 2019Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion — Artemis (voice)
• 2019Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn — Lyza (voice)
• 2019Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight — Lyza / Narrator (voice)
• 2019NiNoKuni — Saki / Versa (voice)
• Stars Align — Kinuyo Kasuga (voice)
• To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts — Elizabeth (voice)
• 2018Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card — Songs
• Cutie Honey Universe — Honey Kisaragi / Cutie Honey (voice)
• 2018Learning with Manga! Fate/Grand Order — 贞德、贞德·Alter·Santa·Lily
• The Piano Forest — Reiko Ichinose (voice)
• 2018The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky — Merlin (voice)
• 2017Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic — Ciel Phantomhive (voice)
• Fate/Apocrypha — Ruler (voice)
• 2017Ghost in the Shell: Virtual Reality Diver — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
• 2017Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu — Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade (voice)
• Made in Abyss — Narration (voice), Lyza / Narration (voice), Lyza (voice)
• Re:Creators — Magane Chikujoin (voice)
• The Ancient Magus' Bride — Marielle (voice)
• Ajin — Meyers (voice)
• 2016Ajin: Demi-Human – Collide — Meyers (voice)
• Chi's Sweet Adventure — Miwa Yamada (voice)
• 2016Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 5: To Beloved Ones — Leila Malkal (voice)
• JOKER GAME — Miyoko Yasuhara (voice)
• 2016Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu — Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade (voice)
• 2016Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu — Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade (voice)
• 2016Monster Strike The Movie: To The Place of Beginnings — Ren Homura (young) (voice)
• 2016Persona3 the Movie #4 Winter of Rebirth — Aigis (voice)
• Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- — Echidna (voice), Echidna (Artificial Spirit) (voice)
• The Great Passage — Hayashi Kaguya (voice)
• 2015Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 3: The Brightness Falls — Leila Malkal (voice)
• 2015Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 4: Memories of Hatred — (voice)
• 2015Crayon Shin-chan: My Moving Story! Cactus Large Attack! — Karorina (voice)
• Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture — Motoko Kusanagi (voice), Theme Song Performance
• 2015Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 5: Pyrophoric Cult — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
• 2015Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie — Motoko Kusanagi (voice), Theme Song Performance
• God Eater — Alisa Ilyinichna Omela (voice)
• 2015Persona3 THE MOVIE #3 Falling Down — Aigis (voice)
• 2015Sakamoto Maaya 20th anniversary Live "FOLLOW ME" at Saitama Super Arena
• The Asterisk War — Theme Song Performance
• The Heroic Legend of Arslan — Falangies (voice)
• Ushio and Tora — Sumako Aotsuki (voice)
• Alice in Borderland — Saori Shibuki (voice)
• 2014Black Butler: Book of Murder — Ciel Phantomhive (voice)
• 2014Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
• 2014Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
• 2014Persona3 THE MOVIE #2 Midsummer Knight's Dream — Aigis (voice)
• The Seven Deadly Sins — Merlin (voice)
• Tokyo Ghoul — Eto Yoshimura (voice)
• 2013Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 2: The Wyvern Divided — Leila Malkal (voice)
• 2013Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
• 2013Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers — Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
• 2013Onimonogatari — Shinobu Oshino
• 2013STAR DRIVER: The Movie — Sarina Endō (voice)
• 2013Space Pirate Captain Harlock — Nami (voice)
• The Garden of Sinners — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• 2013The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• 2013The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel - Extra Chorus — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• 2012Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 1: The Wyvern Arrives — Leila Marukaru (voice)
• 2012Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo — Mari Makinami Illustrious (voice)
• 2012Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress — Funamushi (voice)
• Sword Art Online — Administrator (voice), Quinella (voice)
• 2012TIGER & BUNNY: The Beginning — Tomoe Kaburagi (voice)
• Appleseed XIII — Deunan Knute (voice)
• 2011Appleseed XIII: Ouranos — Deunan Knute (voice)
• 2011Appleseed XIII: Tartaros — Deunan Knute (voice)
• Blade — Makoto (voice)
• Chihayafuru — Haruka Inokuma (voice)
• 2011Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos — Julia Crichton (voice)
• Suzy's Zoo: Daisuki! Witzy — Narrator
• 2011TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance — Ling Xiaoyu (voice)
• 2011The Garden of Sinners: Epilogue — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• Usagi Drop — Masako Yoshii (voice)
• 2011You & Me — Gin-o-gou
• And Yet the Town Moves — Theme Song Performance
• Arakawa Under the Bridge — Nino (voice)
• Cobra the Animation — Secret Sanders (voice)
• 2010Coral of the Moon — Goribu no Shoujo
• 2010Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan
• Star Driver — Sarina Endo (voice)
• Tamayura — Theme Song Performance
• The Tatami Galaxy — Akashi (voice)
• 2010Trigun: Badlands Rumble — Amelia
• Canaan — Alphard Al Shua (voice)
• 2009Chatting with Creatures
• 2009Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors — Kiyomi Takada (voice)
• 2009Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance — Mari Makinami Illustrious (voice)
• 2009God Eater Prologue — Illinichina Amiella, Alisa (voice)
• 2009Macross Frontier: The False Songstress — Ranxue Mei
• Monogatari — Shinobu Oshino / Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade (voice)
• 2009The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 2 — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• 2009The Garden of Sinners: Remix -Gate of seventh heaven- — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• Black Butler — Ciel Phantomhive (voice)
• Blade of the Immortal — Machi (voice)
• Chi's Sweet Home — Yamada Miwa
• 2008Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki — Lin (voice)
• 2008Ghost in the Shell 2.0 — Motoko Kusanagi (young) (voice)
• Macross Frontier — Ranxue Me (voice)
• Sands of Destruction — Morte Ashela
• Soul Eater — Crona (voice)
• 2008Takane's Bicycle
• 2008The Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• 2008The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• 2008The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• 2008The Garden of Sinners: The Hollow Shrine — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• Bamboo Blade — Rin Suzuki (voice)
• 2007Fist of the North Star: Legend of Raoh - Chapter of Fierce Fighting — Rin (voice)
• 2007Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase — Hikaru Toyoki (voice)
• 2007Sword of the Stranger — Hagihime (voice)
• 2007The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 1 — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• 2007The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View — Shiki Ryougi (voice)
• 2007Universe — Musician
• 2006Diebuster: The Movie — Lal'C Mellk Mal (voice)
• 2006Fist of the North Star: The Legend of the True Savior: Legend of Raoh-Chapter of Death in Love — Lin (voice)
• 2006Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie — Lal'C Mellk Mal (voice)
• Kanon — Mishio Amano (voice)
• Ouran High School Host Club — Haruhi Fujioka (voice)
• Poor Sisters Story — Kyō Yamada (voice)
• 2005Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children — Aerith Gainsborough (voice)
• 2005Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man — Little Motoko (voice)
• Mushi-Shi
• 2005Tsubasa Chronicle The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom — Princess Tomoyo (voice)
• Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE — Tomoyo Daidouji (voice)
• Black Jack — (voice)
• Diebuster — Lal'C Mellk Mal
• Fantastic Children — Mel (voice)
• The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters — Emi
• .hack — Aura (voice), Aura / Morti (voice)
• Barom One — Noriko Kido (voice)
• Jing: King of Bandits — Mimosa (voice)
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED — Lunamaria Hawke (voice)
• RahXephon — Reika Mishima (voice)
• Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter — Pandora (voice)
• Kokoro Library — June (voice), July (voice)
• 2000Escaflowne: The Movie — Hitomi Kanzaki (voice)
• Ghost Stories
• 1999Clover — Suu (voice)
• Omishi Magical Theater Risky Safety — Moe Katsuragi
• Cardcaptor Sakura — Theme Song Performance
• Cowboy Bebop — Stella Bonnaro (voice)
• Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective — Yamazaki Riho
• Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight — Leaf (voice)
• Aqua Age — Natsumi Kugayama
• The Vision of Escaflowne — Hitomi Kanzaki (voice)
• 1995Ghost in the Shell — Kusanagi Girl (voice)
• 1990Makkuro na Obentô
• Gunbuster — Lal'C Melk Mark (voice)
• Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season - A Cruel Fairy Tale: The Beautiful Princess — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2021坂本真綾 25周年記念LIVE「約束はいらない」 at 横浜アリーナ — Self
• 2012SAKAMOTO MAAYA COUNTDOWN LIVE 2012→2013 ～TOUR"Mitsubachi"FINAL～ — Self
• 2011Maaya Sakamoto Live 2011 in the silence — Self
• 2009Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist — Self
• 2009Sakamoto Maaya LIVE TOUR 2009 "WE ARE KAZEYOMI!" — Self