Yoko Hikasa

Yoko Hikasa is an actor, born 1985.

Hikasa's earliest credit in this catalog is Female Student A in Toradora! in 2008, which is precisely how this job normally begins. A year later she had Mio Akiyama in K-On!, and that is still the role most people name first.

The useful thing to know is that she works in two registers most voice actors keep apart. One is the composed woman with something hungry underneath: Rias Gremory in High School DxD, Freya in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Pitohui in Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online. The other is flat, dry competence with the volume turned down: Kyoko Kirigiri in Danganronpa, Utahime Iori in Jujutsu Kaisen, Farnese in Berserk. She also plays boys, and not as a novelty, since Yoh Asakura in the 2021 Shaman King and Atom in Pluto are both male leads carried the whole way.

Close to 250 credits sit under her name here and the spread is the point. Fantasy and isekai fill most of it, No Game No Life, Arifureta, The Eminence in Shadow, Delicious in Dungeon, Tower of God. The careful work is in the prestige adaptations, Violet Evergarden, Maquia, Vivy, To Your Eternity. She sings as well, which in this industry is usually an extension of the roles rather than a separate career.

Movies (58)

TV (188)

Where to start with Yoko Hikasa

K-ON! is where most people meet her and it remains the right door: a slow, warm club comedy in which the whole show runs on small hesitations, and she supplies most of them.

For the range, take Danganronpa: The Animation and High School DxD back to back. Same actor, entirely different instrument. PLUTO is the serious one and the best-made show she has been in, and her Atom is the argument for giving her more leads. SHAMAN KING is the other male lead.

If you want the modern, expensive version of her, JUJUTSU KAISEN and Delicious in Dungeon are both easy watches, while Violet Evergarden and Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms are where she turns up in small parts and lands them anyway.

K-On! and the school comedies

Mio Akiyama made her a pop star as well as a voice actress, since the cast recorded and toured the band's songs. The gentle school-comedy register is where the career starts and she is still very good at it.

The composed and dangerous women

The other half of the range: characters who are entirely in control and slightly amused by everyone else. Rias Gremory and Kyoko Kirigiri are the two fans name first, and Farnese in Berserk is the most damaged.

The recent prestige series

Pluto is the best of these, a Tezuka adaptation done with enormous care, and she voices Atom. The rest are the larger productions of the last few years, usually in a supporting part with real weight.

The fantasy leads

A great deal of isekai and adventure fantasy, which is where most of the volume in her credit list comes from. No Game No Life is the sharpest and the one to try if the genre normally puts you off.

Genres Yoko Hikasa works in

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