Aoi Yūki

, better known by her stage name , is a Japanese actress and singer. She voiced Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace in Healin' Good Pretty Cure, Madoka Kaname in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Tsuyu Asui in My Hero Academia, Komachi Hikigaya in My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected, Rita Rossweisse in Honkai Impact 3rd, Tanya von Degurechaff in The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Lumine in Genshin Impact, Hibiki Tachibana in Senki Zesshou Symphogear, Diane in The Seven Deadly Sins, Tamaki Kotatsu in Fire Force, the young Murasaki Kuhōin in Kure-nai, Mami Nanami in Rent-A-Girlfriend, Kumoko/Shiraori in So I'm a Spider, So What?, Lucy in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Futaba Sakura in Persona 5, Sticks the Badger in Sonic Boom, Maomao in The Apothecary Diaries and Lucy in Ninjala.

Biography Yūki was born in Chiba Prefecture. She entered the entertainment industry at the age of four. As a child, she acted in films and dramas. From 1999 to 2002, she made regular appearances on the variety shows Appare Sanma Dai-sensei and Yappari Sanma Dai-sensei which aired on Fuji TV. When she was in fifth grade, she made her debut as a voice actress. After her admission to high school in August 2007, she joined the agency Breath, changing her stage name to Aoi Yūki. She got her first major role in 2008 in Kure-nai as Murasaki Kuhōin. In August of the same year, she moved to the agency Pro-Fit. In 2009, she starred in two anime: Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzuu as Mikogami Riko and Yumeiro Patissiere as Amano Ichigo, respectively. After that, she voiced the female protagonists of several of her series, notably Iris from Pokémon: Best Wishes! and Victorique de Blois from Gosick.

She graduated from high school in March 2010 and university in March 2014. In October of the same year, she won the award for best voice actor in the Newtype x Machi Asobi Anime Awards. She was awarded the Best Lead Actress Award in the sixth Seiyu Awards. In 2013, Yūki and Ayana Taketatsu formed the singing unit Petit Milady. Together, they performed the song , which was used as the third opening theme to the 2013 anime television series Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal II, and in 2014, performed the song "Azurite", which was used as the opening theme for the 2014 anime series The Pilot's Love Song. She has also played Hibiki Tachibana in Symphogear and the subsequent four seasons, Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace in Healin' Good Pretty Cure, and Futaba Sakura in Persona 5. In 2019, she voiced Tamaki Kotatsu in Fire Force and reprised her role in its second season.

Beyond voice acting, Yūki is also a digital artist and illustrator, having created several fanworks of anime in which she has acted. She also created her own original character project "YUKI×AOI Chimera Project" in 2019 in the hopes to be greenlit for an anime adaptation.

On April 28, 2017, the official fan website AoimAniA announced that she would take a temporary break from her music career. After the closure of her website and fan club, she resumed her music activities under Nippon Columbia.

On September 20, 2023, she restarted her music activities, while she opened a limited-time Discord community called . The community's activities ended on October 31, 2024.

Filmography

Puppet show Year Title Role 2018-2021 Thunderbolt Fantasy Zhao Jun Lin

Television animation Year Title Role 2003 Kino's Journey Sakura Black Star, MonakaThe Seven Deadly Sins Diane Qualidea Code Maihime Tenkawa Super Lovers Ai Natsukawa Battle Girl High School Sadone As Miss Beelzebub Likes DantalionDeath March to the Parallel World Rhapsody Arisa Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Misaki Hakumei and Mikochi KonjuKakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits Ougon DoujiKarakuri Circus Columbine Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King Sakiyama Koume Magical Girl Site NiMy Hero Academia 3 Tsuyu Asui; Pony TsunotoriPersona 5: The Animation Futaba Sakura SSSS.Gridman Borr The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar Albertina The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments DianeWotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku Ko Sakuragi 2019 7 Seeds Hotaru Kusakuri Boogiepop and Others Touka Miyashita Miyashita/Boogiepop Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba [Black-Haired] Guide (Kiriya Ubuyashiki) Fire Force Kotatsu Tamaki Granbelm Suishō Hakamada Grimms Notes The Animation Shirayuki-hime Isekai Quartet Tanya von Degurechaff The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods Diane 2020 Appare-Ranman! Hototo Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia Tiamat Fire Force 2nd Season Kotatsu Tamaki Healin' Good Pretty Cure Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace, Suzuchan Infinite Dendrogram Liliana Grandria Isekai Quartet 2 Tanya von Degurechaff My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax Komachi Hikigaya Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World Emperor Yunmelngen Plunderer Mizuka Sonohara Princess Connect! Re:Dive Suzume Rent-A-Girlfriend Mami Nanami 2021 ABCiee Working Diary Abciee D_Cide Traumerei the Animation Jessica Cleiborn Dragon Goes House-Hunting Dearia (young) Farewell, My Dear Cramer Midori Soshizaki Fena: Pirate Princess Karin I'm Standing on a Million Lives Season 2 Aoyu I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level Azusa Aizawa Megaton Musashi Aoi Hoshino My Hero Academia 5 Tsuyu Asui; Pony Tsunotori; Setsuna Tokage Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series Iris So I'm a Spider, So What? Kumoko/Shiraori Sonny Boy Mizuho The Faraway Paladin Gracefeel The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement Diane 2022 I'm Kodama Kawashiri Kodama Kawajiri Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Norea Du Noc Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori Season 3 Mira My Hero Academia 6 Tsuyu Asui; Setsuna Tokage Ninjala Lucy Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 2 Mami Nanami Requiem of the Rose King Joan of Arc Shinobi no Ittoki Kirei Kisegawa Teasing Master Takagi-san 3 Hōjō Uncle from Another World Mabel Laybelle 2023 A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized Reiko (Japanese dub) Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Liltotto Lamperd In/Spectre 2nd Season Yuki-Onna KamiErabi God.app Ryō KamiKatsu Ataru Nier: Automata Ver1.1a Pascal Spy Classroom Monika The Apothecary Diaries Maomao The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess Prohelia Zutazutsky Undead Unluck Gina Urusei Yatsura Ten 2024 How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer Fuji Ishura Kia the World Word Mechanical Arms Fubuki Mission: Yozakura Family Shion Yozakura My Hero Academia 7 Tsuyu AsuiNights with a Cat Season 3Chikuwa, Konbu No Longer Allowed in Another World Warderia Ranma ½ Azusa Shiratori Re:Zero 3rd Season Capella Emerada Lugunica Sasaki and Peeps Pii-chan The Elusive Samurai Kazama Genba The Misfit of Demon King Academy 2nd Season Militia TsumaSho Takae Niijima/Marika Shiraishi 2025 Clevatess Neruru Gnosia Yuriko Kaijū Sekai Seifuku Kaijū Mera, Gusuka, Aniki, Sugar My Hero Academia: Final Season Tsuyu Asui; Pony Tsunotori; Setsuna Tokage One-Punch Man 3 Tatsumaki The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Maomao 2026 Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart Lapis Lazuline Sirotan Sirotan Yōjo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil II Tanya von Degurechaff The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 Maomao 2027 Inherit the Winds Hyōgo Koganei Shōzen Kensei

Original video animation (OVA) Year Title Role 2009 Akikan! Budoko 2011 Baby Princess Mari Amatsuka 2016 The Kubikiri Cycle Tomo Kunagisa

Original net animation (ONA) Year Title Role 2020 Cagaster of an Insect Cage Kara Obsolete Konoka Kokonoha 2021 The Heike Story Biwa 2022 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Lucy 2023 Good Night World Pico

Theatrical animation Year Title Role 2011 Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! the Movie - Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom Iris Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! the Movie - Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram Iris 2012 Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! the Movie - Kyurem VS the Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo Iris 2013 Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! the Movie - ExtremeSpeed Genesect: Mewtwo Awakens Iris Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion Madoka Kaname 2015 Appleseed Alpha Iris Yo-Kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan! Inaho Misora 2016 Your Name Sayaka Natori A Silent Voice Yuzuru Nishimiya 2017 The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl Princess Daruma Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry SonyaKiraKira☆PreCure à la Mode: Crisply! The Memory of Mille-feuille! Cook 2018 Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Treasure Island Quiz The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky Diane My Tyrano: Together, Forever Top My Hero Academia: Two Heroes Tsuyu Asui Monster Strike the Movie: Sora no Kanata Yūna 2019 Even if the World Will End Tomorrow MikoSaga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie Tanya von DegurechaffViolence Voyager BobbyCrayon Shin-chan: Honeymoon Hurricane ~The Lost Hiroshi~ The princessWeathering with You Sayaka NatoriViolet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll Taylor Bartlett My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising Tsuyu Asui 2020 Pretty Cure Miracle Leap Nodoka Hanadera/Cure GraceHealin' Good Pretty Cure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace 2021 The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light DianeMy Hero Academia: World Heroes' MissionTsuyu Asui 2022 Crayon Shin-chan: Mononoke Ninja Chinpūden Elder's Secretary Idol Bu Show Shinobu Sakuma Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie Hōjō Break of Dawn Nanako Delicious Party Pretty Cure: Children's Lunch Only For Me Cure GraceThe Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of EdinburghDiane 2023 Gridman Universe Borr Pretty Cure All-Stars F Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace 2024 Ōmuro-ke Miho Yaeno Kuramerukagari Ameya Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain Kame My Hero Academia: You're Next Tsuyu AsuiThe Colors Within Shiho Nanakubo 2025 100 Meters Komiya (young)

Video games

Drama CDs Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Iona, I-400, I-402 Fate/GUDAGUDA Order, Okita Souji Himawari-san, Ami Minami My Sweet Tyrant, Non Katagiri. Taiyō no Ie, Mao Motomiya Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts, Saliphie Vampire Knight Memories, Kiryu Ren

Live action Year Title Role Other notes 1998 Seijuu Sentai Gingaman Girl Episode 19 2001 Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger Miho Episode 41 2003 Kamen Rider 555 Mari Sonoda (young) Episode 9 2008 Cafe Isobe Kana Film 2015 Kamen Rider Drive Yurusen Episode 48, voice role Kamen Rider Ghost Yurusen Voice role 2016 Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger Yurusen Episode 7, voice role 2017 Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light Kirin Voice role 2019 Brave Father Online: Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV Kirin Voice role

Dubbing roles Live-action

Animation Year Title Role Other notes 2017 Sonic Boom Sticks the Badger 2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman 2019 Transformers: Cyberverse Windblade 2021 Playmobil: The Movie Marla Brenner 2021 White Snake Precious Jade Workshop Foxy Boss 2021 The Boss Baby: Family Business Little Bo Peep 2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman

Others Year Title Role Other notes 2021 Project:;Cold Iori Heartfield

Discography Studio albums Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales JPN Ismael Released: Label: FlyingDog Formats: CD+DVD, CD, digital download, streaming 14 JPN: 6,000 Voice Sample Released: Label: Nippon Columbia Formats: CD+Blu-ray disc, CD, digital download, streaming 8 JPN: 7,000

Singles

Awards Year Award ceremony Award Result 2011 1st Newtype Anime Awards Best Actress 2012 6th Seiyu Awards Best Actress 2018 4th Anime Trending Awards Best Voice Actress 2020 6th Anime Trending Awards Best Voice Actress 2021 43rd Anime Grand Prix Best Voice Actor 2025 9th Crunchyroll Anime Awards Best VA Performance (Japanese) 47th Anime Grand Prix Best Voice Actor 2026 10th Crunchyroll Anime Awards Best VA Performance (Japanese)