Kanon Takao
Kanon Takao is an actor, born 2002.
Takao passed an audition in 2014, while still a child, and the first job was singing rather than acting: she debuted as part of the idol group Earth Star Dream under EARTH STAR Entertainment. When the group went on hiatus she carried on as a solo performer, and in 2018 she left EARTH STAR for the agency Link Plan. The voice work started almost as early. Her earliest anime credit here is Yu Hiraoka in Anime de Training! Ex, from 2015.
What followed is one of the most concentrated fantasy and isekai resumes going. If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord cast her as Latina, the adopted daughter the title is prepared to fight a demon lord for; Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside gave her Rit, opposite the ex-adventurer of that very long title; The Detective Is Already Dead gave her Yui Saikawa. She is Iris in KONOSUBA - God's blessing on this wonderful world! and Noelle in the game Genshin Impact, and a pattern emerges: writers keep handing her the sincere one in casts built out of cynics, and she plays sincerity without turning it into a squeak.
The idol training eventually paid off in the strangest possible way. In the BanG Dream! franchise she plays Sakiko Togawa, keyboardist and leader of the band Ave Mujica, and she holds the same two jobs in the real band as well as the fictional one. BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica - The Die Is Cast - are where the singer and the voice actress finally do the same work at the same time.
TV (29)
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You (2023)
- KONOSUBA - God's blessing on this wonderful world! (2016)
- My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (2020)
- Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater (2020)
- EDENS ZERO (2021)
- Management of a Novice Alchemist (2022)
- Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside (2021)
- My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer (2023)
- Tearmoon Empire (2023)
- My One-Hit Kill Sister (2023)
- In the Land of Leadale (2022)
- Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included (2024)
- The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World (2023)
- Bibliophile Princess (2022)
- As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World (2024)
- Muv-Luv Alternative (2021)
- Loner Life in Another World (2024)
- Warlords of Sigrdrifa (2020)
- The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl (2025)
- The Detective Is Already Dead (2021)
- If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord (2019)
- Anime de Training! Ex (2015)
- Haibara's Teenage New Game+ (2026)
- Idoly Pride (2021)
- BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! (2023)
- Ave Mujica - The Die Is Cast - (2025)
- Demon Lord, Retry! (2019)
- The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar (2018)
- My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1 (2023)
Where to start with Kanon Takao
If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord is the best single showcase, because Latina is a role with nowhere to hide. The entire show rests on whether you believe a small child's voice, and Takao carries it without ever tipping into caricature. From there, Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside is the comfortable one, a low-stakes fantasy about two people running a shop, and The Detective Is Already Dead is the one that asks her to be actively irritating first and earn sympathy back afterwards.
If you want her range instead of her type, go to BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! and then Ave Mujica - The Die Is Cast -, where the band leader she plays is a band she also leads. KONOSUBA - God's blessing on this wonderful world! is a much smaller part but the loudest comedy on the list, and In the Land of Leadale is the gentlest.