Eimi Naruse

is a Japanese singer and voice actress who is a former member of Dempagumi.inc.

Born in Kōriyama, she switched from having interests in manga to music as a teenager, and moved to Akihabara where she worked at a maid café before joining Dempagumi.inc. In addition to her work with the idol group, she has done some solo activities, including appearing in the TV drama OL desu ga, Kyabajō Hajimemashita and voicing the lead character of Star Twinkle PreCure, Hikaru Hoshina/Cure Star.

Biography Early life Eimi Naruse was born in Kōriyama, a city in Fukushima Prefecture, as the elder of the two daughters in a family. The first memory of her life, as Naruse later described, was "cutting out paper with yellow scissors, making stars, and lining them up", and Weekly Shōnen Jump – and from then, she saw mangaka as a dream job. She said that she had personally watched some of the anime that aired in Koriyama and had obtained a "mysterious superiority" that she knew about anime she did not know. She said she was interested in bands she called "Rockin'On-kei", while her passion for manga was getting stronger at the same time.

After going on to high school, she became interested in visual kei bands. Naruse later said of the bands, that it was more interesting to observe the connection with the girls chasing them than having interest in them herself. Naruse said that although she could not afford to buy any CDs, she would go to the local Tower Records store after school and listen to all the CDs in the listening section. Naruse also said that she would often visit the Big-i observatory and think as she watched the scenery, "I love the locals [people of Koriyama] but I wanna get outta here someday". Her part-time job experience at a Chinese restaurant is said to have become the cornerstone for her subsequent maid-café employment. However, she noticed that she was lacking in artistic talent and became a hikikomori, As her savings began to run out, she consulted an in-game chatroom that she needed to get a job, and she was encouraged to work part-time at a maid café, felt inspired, and immediately started working at a maid café in Akihabara. She said that during her Koriyama part-time job she found it very fun to communicate with customers, and that, from the experience of being impressed by seeing people who return happily after talking to me, she was confident that she would definitely succeed in a maid café. Although Naruse had never sang in public before, she asked the store manager to set up a stage and performed live. She was not interested in being an idol at that time, but Naruse enjoyed singing in front of people and having fun. Yumemi had been worried about art at the time, but when she received courteous service from Naruse, she felt that "the future will be brighter if you incorporate something that makes you happy directly in art", and she started working as a maid together with Naruse. before being accepted the third time Naruse later mentioned that she did not have the feeling of wanting to be an idol at all, but rather the feeling that the idol was cool. Dempagumi.inc had already formed at the time she had entered, and Naruse witnessed the first stage held in SHIBUYA BOXX, but "felt honestly far from [her]self".

About one year after she entered, At that time, the reason Naruse decided to join was that "Aki Hata and Masaya Koike are a group who write their own songs", Fukushima later said that from the moment Naruse entered DearStage, she felt her desire to be in Dempagumi.inc, and that "her character, voice, and that feeling are exactly like Dempagumi."

Naruse intended to quit many times one or two years after joining, but there was an increase in fashion-related jobs and, Also, Naruse felt that, before joining, the band had a gentle image and felt that it was "not suitable for me", but after joining, songs "feeling bright and messed up" like "Wahhoi? Omatsuri/inc" were being produced, and she would later say that she felt that he had joined Dempagumi with a good feeling because it was in line with his image, but that he may have been happy. Her Dempagumi.inc catchphrase is High Tension A-Pop Girl,

Solo activities

From January to March 2015, Naruse starred in Doamaiger D alongside Ryouta Murai and Kouichi Oohori, voicing Anna Hodō; In May 2016, Fuji TV on Demand began airing Dempagumi.inc Naruse Eimi ga Ageage de Manga o Shōkai suru Bangumi; this was described as Naruse's first kanmuribangumi. From June to July 2016, she appeared in all four episode of the TV drama OL desu ga, Kyabajō Hajimemashita. She appeared in a stage adaptation of Nobunaga's Ambition: Taishi in May 2018. She was also the singing voice of Ringo Hoshimiya, a character in Aikatsu!. she starred in Star Twinkle PreCure, the sixteenth season of the Pretty Cure franchise, alongside Konomi Kohara, Kiyono Yasuno, and Mikako Komatsu; she voices the main lead Hikaru Hoshina/Cure Star. The four were later joined by Sumire Uesaka in the season's twenty-first episode.

Filmography This section only includes her solo work, and does not include her work with Dempagumi.inc. 2016 OL desu ga, Kyabajō Hajimemashita, Alice 2017 Happy Market! Irakon

Anime 2013 Aikatsu!, Ringo Hoshimiya's singing voice Nyuru Nyuru!! Kakusen Kun, Eitaso 2015 Doamaiger D, Anna Hodō Abare! Meisaku-kun!, Eitaso 2019 Hugtto! PreCure, Hikaru Hoshina/Cure Star (2019) Star Twinkle PreCure: These Feelings Within The Song Of Stars, Hikaru Hoshina/Cure Star (2019) Pretty Cure Miracle Leap: A Wonderful Day with Everyone, Hikaru Hoshina/Cure Star (2020) Pretty Cure All Stars F, Hikaru Hoshina/Cure Star (2023)