Rikka Ihara

, known professionally as , is a Japanese actress, singer, model, and radio personality affiliated with Foster. After learning chorus and dance and starting her career as a child actor, she was captain of the dance club, and after they came to national media attention after their appearance at the 2017 , was scouted by Foster and was the Century 21 Girl. She also starred as Mei Ayazuki in Meiji Tokyo Renka, the titular Iinchou in (2020), Honoka Ōba on Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (2022), and Sakura Uchida in (2023). In 2019, she released "Wingbeats", a single produced by Shinichi Osawa, and was a guest vocalist for "Love Dramatic", the theme song for the anime Kaguya-sama: Love Is War.

Biography Saya Hayashi, a native of Ōsakasayama, born on June 2, 1999. She became interested in musicals after seeing a play performed by a friend of her friend's while as an elementary school second grader, and from 2008 to 2012 she took chorus and dance lessons at . She joined Gekidan ARCS in 2013 and played Jojo's sister in their musical production Zubon Senchō: Fifi and the Seven Seas. She initially considered going to a university in Tokyo and auditioning,

On October 1, 2017, she began her entertainment career under the stage name Rikka Ihara. After graduating from high school in March 2018, she moved to Tokyo and began working as an actress. She made her runway debut on 31 March when she appeared on the 26th Tokyo Girls Collection. Her first radio show Century 21 presents Rikka Ihara and Bukatsu Dance, airing on TBS Radio, began broadcasting in April. In June, her first photo book was released.

In January 2019, she made her debut as a singer with her single "Wingbeats", produced by Shinichi Osawa as the commercial song for Century 21. Although she had always liked singing, it was her first time singing in front of people, so she attended voice training in preparation for her debut as a singer. She was also a guest vocalist for Masayuki Suzuki's single "Love Dramatic", the theme song for the anime Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. In April 2019, she began serving as the 16th MC of Daiichi Kosho's online music programme .

She made her drama debut as Fumi Aso in , which started airing in July 2018. She made her asadora debut in Natsuzora (2019), appearing as Momoyo Morita. but it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. She also starred as the titular Iinchou in the 2020 drama adaptation of , Honoka Ōba on the Disney+ series Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (2022), and Sakura Uchida in the 2023 film . Her favorite work is the novella The Little Prince.

Film YearTitleRoleNotes 2019 Meiji Tokyo Renka Mei Ayazuki 2021 The Land Beyond the Starry Sky Ayumi Kamura 2023 Nightmare Resort Sakura Uchida Lead role 2024 Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendō Yōko Aida 2025 The Boy and the Dog Mayumi Nakagaki One Last Throw Chisa Ogasawara

Anime YearTitleRoleNotes 2024 Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendō Megumi

Discography Singles As lead artist Title Year Album "Wingbeats"2019