Wakana Maruoka (丸岡 和佳奈, Maruoka Wakana; born 13 May 1995) is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with With Line. She is known for voicing Rinze Morino in The Idolmaster Shiny Colors, Ireena Litz de Olhyde in The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody, Sumire Kasahara in My Clueless First Friend, Yuki Suou in Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian and Gumi Tomosaka in Onegai AiPri.
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Biography
Wakana Maruoka, a native of Tokyo, was born on 13 May 1995. She initially planned to work as a civil servant, but later decided to become a voice actress instead. She was educated at the Tokyo Seiyu Academy.
In March 2018, she was cast as Rinze Morino, one of five members of Hōkago Climax Girls, one of the few idol units within The Idolmaster Shiny Colors spin-off franchise. Since then, she has performed as a singer on several Idolmaster music releases, including Hōkago Climax Girls' 2018 single Yumesaki After School (which charted at #8 in the Oricon Singles Chart) and the 2022 single Synthe-Side 02 (which charted at #25 in the aforementioned chart). She later recalled in a 2022 interview with Da Vinci Web that while portraying Rinze, she initially "acted quietly while suppressing my emotions, but as [she] grew older, [her] emotions gradually came to the fore".
In December 2021, she was cast as Ireena Litz de Olhyde in The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody. In January 2022, she began voicing Urara Yume, a character in the Magia Record event "Gray Revolution". In May 2022, she was cast as Lujei Piche in GrimGrimoire OnceMore, the 2022 remaster of the 2007 game GrimGrimoire. In February 2023, she was cast as Sumire Kasahara in My Clueless First Friend. In 2024, she was cast as Yuki Suou in Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian.
Filmography
Anime television
2018
Anima Yell!, student
Gurazeni, announcer
Harukana Receive, fan
Rascal Does Not Dream, girl, student, schoolgirl
2019
Actors: Songs Connection, prostitute
B-Project, employee A
Namu Amida Bu! Rendai Utena, announcer
Stand My Heroes, girl
2020
BanG Dream!, Roselia fan
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, maid
2021
Visual Prison, fan
2022
Girls' Frontline, Kawasaki
The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody, Ireena Litz de Olhyde
World's End Harem, employee B
2023
Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World, girl
My Clueless First Friend, Sumire Kasahara
2024
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Yuki Suou
Anime film
2021
100 Nichi Go ni Shinu Wani
Video games
2018
The Idolmaster Shiny Colors, Rinze Morino
2019
Action Taimanin, Kana Shimanami
Monster Strike, Aquamarine
Quiz RPG: The World of Mystic Wiz, Angela
2020
Hortensia Saga, Livia
Touhou LostWord, Reimu Hakurei, Alice Margatroid
2021
Kirara Fantasia, Miku Sōenji
2022
Azur Lane, Leonardo da Vinci
The DioField Chronicle, Rickenback Madea
GrimGrimoire OnceMore, Lujei Piche
Kemono Friends 3, Aotsura Katsuodori
Magia Record, Urara Yume