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Hisakawa Aya: Idol Goddess

Detail from Hisakawa Aya's
Decade CD cover

One of the actresses that shows up in so many favorite shows of mine, from classics like the original Bubblegum Crisis, Oh My Goddess, and the ubiquitous Sailor Moon to new shows like Noir, Azumanga Daiou, and X, miss Hisakawa's voice is one I recognize almost right away. This certainly helps when I hear a familiar voice for only a sentence or two at a time in video games like Soul Calibur II.

Singing many anime themes and related songs as well, she's released multiple albums both of her own collections and as part of groups such as "Goddess Family Club" (with Inoue Kikuko and Touma Yumi, they form the trio of lead actresses from Oh My Goddess), "Gunsmith Cats" (with Neya Michiko and Araki Kae), and others. Her voice is featured on many other soundtracks, drama CDs, and video games both in song and acting.

A large list of credits (anime, music, magazine, appearances, etc.) can be found in Hitoshi Doi's online seiyuu database at http://www.tcp.com/~doi/seiyuu/hisakawa-aya/.

Some of the roles from the works listed on this site:

Anime Title	Role (Specifics)
Aa! Megami-sama (Oh My Goddess!)	Skuld
Azumanga Daioh	Kurosawa Minamo
Bubblegum Crisis	Lisa Vanette (ep 8)
Card Captor Sakura	Kerberos
Dragon Ball	Chiko (DB ep 16)
Gasaraki	Newscaster
Gunsmith Cats	Becky Farrar (and others)
Hakkenden (Legend of the Dog Warriors)	Hamaji (eps 10,12)
Iria: Zeiram the Animation	Iria
Love Hina	Amara Suu (eps 10,19)
Lupin the 3rd	Rara (Secret of Twilight Gemini)
Magic Knights Rayearth	Taata
Mobile Suit Gundam	Akino (G Gundam)
Noir	Chloe
Patlabor Mobile Police	Kashima Yukie
Rahxephon	Shitou Haruka
Revolutionary Girl Utena	Kaoru Miki
Sailor Moon	Mizuno Ami/Sailor Mercury
Soul Edge/Soul Calibur	Chai Xianghua
Tenchi Muyo!	Ryouko Balouta (TM Galaxy Police)
Trigun	Rem Sayblam
X	Hinoto