Sayaka Nakaya

is a Japanese voice actress and former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She is from Iwate. While with AKB48 she was a member of the subunit No Name. Her biggest role as a voice actress was as the title character Chitose Sakuraba in the anime series Chitose Get You!!.

Career Nakaya passed AKB48's generation 3 audition on December 3, 2006. She is one of 20 girls who passed from among 12.828 candidates. She was first on stage at AKB48 Theater as part of Team B on April 8, 2007. On August 23, 2009, a reshuffle was announced and Nakaya was transferred to Team A.

On December 2, 2010, an audio book of Moshidora read by her received "Audio Book Award 2010". The audio book gets awarded based on consumer votes in FeBe! audio book website. She also provided voice in the anime series of Moshidora.

Along with fellow member from Team K Miku Tanabe, Nakaya formed a unit called Baby Gamba. The unit released a single DVD under label Avex on September 14, 2011. Baby Gamba is a character in anime series Ganba no Bōken, a series based on kids book "Bōkentachi Gamba to 15-hiki no Nakama" by Otsuka Saito.

On December 13, 2011, her name was chosen along with 9 other members to voice characters in AKB48's original anime series AKB0048.

An autobiography of her, titled "Hisenbatsu Idol" was published in 2012. When she was a member, she was one of 4 AKB48's anime fan who is called "wota 4".

On Team K Waiting Stage on March 2, 2013 at night, Nakaya suddenly announces her departure as an AKB48 member to taking part in a voice acting audition. 4 days later at the same stage, she had her last and graduation concert as an AKB48 member. At the same time, she also quit from her former agency Mousa.

Filmography

Anime Aikatsu Stars! as Haruka Ruka AKB0048 as Orine Aida AKB0048 Next Stage as Orine Aida Chaos;Child as Hana Kazuki Asako Get You!! as Chitose Sakuraba Chitose Get You!! as Chitose Sakuraba HappinessCharge PreCure! as Olina/Cure Wave Idol Incidents as Ume Momoi Kiznaiver as Ruru Magical Somera-chan as Somera Nonomoto Momokuri as Yuzuki Shimada Moshidora as Ayano Hōjō Tales of the Abyss as maid 1 (episode 1) The Idolm@ster as boy (episode 1) The Lost Village as girl (episode 6); Naana The Magnificent Kotobuki as Kate Triage X as Kaname Makishi

Video games

Atelier Sophie as Tess Heitzmann Chaos;Child as Hana Kazuki Chōginga Sendan as Yuki Katsumura Himedatsu! Demon Saga as Charles Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 as Mina Nishizawa Idol Jihen as Shion Kagaya Moeru Mahjong Moejan! as Ayumu Honrō Thousand Memories as Hanabishi no An'yakusha Isabel Uchi no Himesama ga Ichiban Kawaii as Condemned Princess Gabriella

Narration

2009 12 "Namida Surprise" B-side Sang on "Shonichi" 2009 14 "River" B-side Sang on "Hikokigumo" with Theater Girls 2010 16 "Ponytail to Shushu" B-side Sang on "Boku no YELL" with Theater Girls 2010 18 "Beginner" B-side Sang on "Nakeru Basho" with DIVA 2010 19 "Chance no Junban" B-side Sang on "Kurumi to Dialogue" with Team A 2011 20 "Sakura no Ki ni Naro" B-side Sang on "Area K" with DIVA 2011 21 "Everyday, Katyusha" B-side Sang on "Hito no Chikara" with Under Girls 2011 23 "Kaze wa Fuiteiru" B-side Sang on "Vamos" with Under Girls Baragumi 2011 24 "Ue kara Mariko" B-side Sang on "Rinjin wa Kizutsukanai" with Team A 2012 25 "Give Me Five" B-side Sang on "Jung ya Freud no Baai" with Special Girls C 2012 26 "Manatsu no Sounds Good!" B-side Sang on "Mitsu no Namida" with Special Girls 2012 27 "Gingham Check" B-side Sang on "Do Re Mi Fa Onchi" with Next Girls 2012 28 "Uza" B-side Sang on "Scrap & Build" with Team K 2012 29 "Eien Pressure" B-side Sang on "Watashitachi no Reason" 2012 30 "So Long!" B-side Sang on "Yuuhi Marie" with Team K

Collaborations and character songs Single Information Peakposition Sayaka Nakaya and Hitomi YoshidaHappinessCharge PreCure! opening song Released: March 5, 2014 Label: Marvelous AQL Catalog No. : MJSS-09114/5 13 Sayaka Nakaya, Kaede Hondo, Rika Momokawa, & Maria NaganawaFushigi na Somera-chan opening song Released: November 21, 2015 Label: Studio Chant Catalog No.: STCH-0012