Nana Mizuki

Nana Mizuki was born Nana Kondo in Niihama, Ehime, and trained as an enka singer as a child, releasing a single under her birth name in 1993 before making her voice acting debut in 1997. The two careers have run in parallel ever since, and she is represented by the agency StarCrew.

Her most famous role is her quietest. Hinata in Naruto, from 2002 through Shippuden, the films and into Boruto, is largely delivered in a mumble, a character whose defining trait is not being able to get the words out. Twenty years of a lead franchise part played mostly under her breath is a strange thing to be known for, and she makes it work by keeping the volume down long past the point where most performers would give the audience a reward.

Away from that she is usually cast feral. Wrath in the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist, Riful in Claymore, Saya in Blood-C, Ange in Cross Ange, Moka in Rosario and Vampire: all of them loud, unstable, and pitched a long way from Hinata. In between sit the ones that show the actual range, Lan Fan in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Taeko in Paranoia Agent, Ann Takamaki in the Persona 5 anime, Vanessa in Black Clover, Seiko in Dan Da Dan. She also voiced Tamao in both the 2001 and 2021 Shaman King adaptations, Fate Testarossa in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Tsubasa in Symphogear and Colette in Tales of Symphonia.