Hitomi Ueda
Hitomi Ueda is an actor, born 1991.
A voice career does not climb in a straight line, and Ueda's credits make that plain. Born in Kyoto in 1991, she trained at Aonijuku's Osaka campus and has been attached to Aoni Production since her debut, and in any given season she is doing two completely different jobs: a named lead in one series, a clerk with two lines in the next.
The role that carries her name is Gold Ship in Umamusume: Pretty Derby, a franchise that has kept handing the part back to her since 2018. Around it sit the other named roles: Leyli Haltija in Warlords of Sigrdrifa, Granart in Tales of Wedding Rings, Yoshino Somei in Yakuza Fiance, Altea in Ubel Blatt, Eve Speed in Failure Frame.
Then look at the rest of the list. Tendo in Chainsaw Man, a shop clerk in TONIKAWA, a maiko in Kiyo in Kyoto, an unnamed woman in The Faraway Paladin, Lyddy in Shadows House. Those parts are not a lesser tier of the same job, they are the job: bit roles are how a voice gets in front of the directors who cast the named ones, and Ueda has spent a decade taking both without any visible ranking between them. The result is a resume that looks scattered and is actually just the shape of a busy working actress in a very fast industry.
TV (23)
- From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (2025)
- Chainsaw Man (2022)
- Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life (2026)
- Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (2020)
- Fuuto PI (2022)
- Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀ (2023)
- TONIKAWA: Over the Moon for You (2020)
- Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness (2022)
- 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! (2024)
- Shadows House (2021)
- Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat Is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! (2025)
- Umamusume: Pretty Derby (2018)
- Tales of Wedding Rings (2024)
- The Faraway Paladin (2021)
- Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii (2024)
- Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells (2024)
- Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House (2021)
- Warlords of Sigrdrifa (2020)
- Übel Blatt (2025)
- A Girl & Her Guard Dog (2023)
- MAYONAKA PUNCH (2024)
- The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses (2025)
- Phantom of the Idol (2022)
Where to start with Hitomi Ueda
Gold Ship is the role she has lived with longest and the one that gives her the most room to be loud, so Umamusume: Pretty Derby is the sensible way in.
For the dramatic register, go to Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii, where she voices Yoshino Somei, or Warlords of Sigrdrifa, which is the older lead and the more conventional one. Tales of Wedding Rings rounds out the set of parts her write-ups always name.
The small credits are worth a look for a different reason. Chainsaw Man and Shadows House are both better productions than most things on this list, and hearing her in a couple of scenes of each shows how much of voice work is about fitting a house style rather than standing out from it. Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House is the gentlest thing here and a decent place to land afterwards.