Hikaru Tono

Hikaru Tono
遠野 ひかる
Born (1996-03-05) 5 March 1996 (age 28)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationVoice actress
Years active2018–present
AgentHibiki
Notable workSerena in Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale
Yujia Wang in Assault Lily
Sura in My Isekai Life
Anna Yanami in Too Many Losing Heroines!
Height154.6 cm (5 ft 1 in)

Hikaru Tono (遠野 ひかる, Tōno Hikaru, born 5 March 1996) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Hibiki.[1] She is known for voicing Serena in Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale, Yujia Wang in Assault Lily, Sura in My Isekai Life, and Suzuran in In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki.

Biography

Hikaru Tono, a native of Tokyo, was born on 5 March 1996.[2] As a young child, her father recommended being an announcer after hearing her read out her homework, so she vaguely considered voice-based occupations.[3] As a teenager, she was part of a choir school club and was a competitor at a national chorus tournament.[3] After spending seven years of unsuccessful auditions,[3] she finally joined Hibiki, Bushiroad's talent agency, after passing their 2017 auditions for new voice actors.[2]

In September 2018, she was cast as Serena in Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale.[4] In October 2019, she was cast as Yujia Wang in Assault Lily Bouquet.[5] In December 2020, she was cast as Matikanetannhauser in Uma Musume Pretty Derby,[6] later reprising the role in the video game.[1] In May 2021, she was cast as Eno in I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level.[7] In November 2021, she was cast as Satina in Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout.[8] In January 2022, she was cast as Sura in My Isekai Life.[9] In March 2022, she was cast as Suzuran in In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki.[10] In August 2023, she was cast as Yuki in The Kingdoms of Ruin.[11]

Tono is the actor for Yujia Wang, a character in Bushiroad's Assault Lily franchise. She portrayed the character in three of the franchise's stage plays: League of Gardens (2020), The Fateful Gift (2020), and Lost Memories (2022).[12][13][14] She also reprised the role in the 2020 anime adaptation Assault Lily Bouquet and the 2021 game Assault Lily Last Bullet.[5][1] Previously, she had starred as Mei Katarina Haneda in the 2018 stage play Assault Lily x Ludovic Girls Academy: Shiroki Resistance: Yakusoku no Yukue.[15] She also voices Shiori Yumeoji in the game Revue Starlight: Re LIVE (also part of a Bushiroad franchise),[1] and she portrayed her in the Revue Starlight stage plays The LIVE Edel Delight (2022) and Re LIVE Reading Theatre (2023).[16][17]

She voices Howan as part of Mashumairesh!!, an in-universe singing unit in Sanrio's Show by Rock!! franchise. She voiced the character in the anime adaptation Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!! and the game Show by Rock!! Fes A Live, and she performed in Mashumairesh!!'s 2021 single Trigger Rock.[1][18]

In 2024, she voiced Towa in Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included and Anna Yanami in Too Many Losing Heroines!. She also covered Hitomi's song "Love 2000", which was used as the first ending theme to Too Many Losing Heroines!.[19]

Filmography

Anime television

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025

Original net animation

2019
  • Taeko no Nichijou, Anezaki-chan[1]
2021
  • The Missing 8, Poppy[1]

Dubs

Video games

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023

Stage plays

2018
  • Assault Lily x Ludovic Girls Academy: Shiroki Resistance: Yakusoku no Yukue, Mei Katarina Haneda[15]
2020
  • Assault Lily: League of Gardens, Yujia Wang[12]
  • Assault Lily: The Fateful Gift, Yujia Wang[13]
2022
  • Assault Lily: Lost Memories, Yujia Wang[14]
  • Revue Starlight: The LIVE Edel Delight, Shiori Yumeoji[16]
2023
  • Revue Starlight: Re LIVE Reading Theatre, Shiori Yumeoji[17]

References

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  2. ^ a b "遠野ひかる". CDJournal (in Japanese). 5 August 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
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