Akane Kumada

is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is affiliated with Apollo Bay and made her voice acting debut in 2018. She is known for her roles as Izumi Shibusawa in Rifle is Beautiful and Ichiko Oda in Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga. In 2020, she made her major debut as a musician under Lantis with the release of her first single "Sunny Sunny Girl", the title track of which was used as the opening theme to Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga. Biography Early life Kumada was born in Tokyo on February 3, 2000. From an early age, she had been a fan of the series Hunter × Hunter. She was inspired to become a voice actress after watching the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, as well as citing Maaya Uchida as a personality she looked up to. While in junior high school, she was a member of a badminton club, while she played the koto in high school. After graduating from high school, she decided to participating in voice acting auditions. In 2017, she won the Grand Prix at the Anisong Stars audition. Voice acting career Kumada began her voice acting activities in 2018, voicing a character in the anime series Planet With. Later that year, she voiced her first named role as Ellen in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. In 2019, she voiced Izumi Shibusawa in Rifle is Beautiful; she and her co-stars performed the series' opening and ending themes. In 2020, she voiced Ichiko Oda in Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga. She will voice the characters Mina in Drugstore in Another World and Hibiki Morishima in Healer Girl.