Naomi Ohzora

Naomi Ohzora is a Japanese voice actress with Aoni Production, born in Miyagi and raised in Osaka, and she has quietly become anime's specialist in one very particular comic type: the loud girl whose self image is several sizes too large for her actual circumstances.

Satanichia McDowell Kurumizawa in Gabriel DropOut is the pure form, a demon utterly convinced of her own wickedness while being the most harmless creature on screen. Jahy in The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! runs a similar engine across a whole series, a fallen dark lord reduced to part time work. Hana Uzaki in Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! is the extrovert variant, and Chio Miyamo in Chio's School Road the one who does it all in her own head. The comedy in each depends on total commitment at high volume followed by a sudden collapse into a small, deflated voice, and her mezzo range is what makes that drop land.

She is not confined to it. Ruti in Banished from the Hero's Party is played flat and hollowed out on purpose, Inari Fushimi in Inari Kon Kon is straightforwardly sweet, Kiriha in Tsugumomo is imperious, and Chieri Ogata in THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls and Tamamo Cross in the Umamusume franchise put her inside the idol and racing girl worlds where a great many Japanese voice careers are actually sustained. The credit list runs to dozens of series, most of them comedies, and that is not an accident.