If you know details on Aya Hisakawa, you will find more than 1,000 homepages on her easily.
Ms Aya Hisakawa is a young voice actress in Japan. She is rather popular and has a lot of zealous fans all over Japan.
She was born in Kaiduka-city, Osaka prefecture, Japan in 11/12/68.
It was reported that her blood type was type-A (ABO method) and that she was 160 centimeters tall and that she weighed 42 kilograms and that her body three size was B80-W56-H81 centimeters and that her shoe size was 23 centimeters. That is well known.
She does not have an official homepage at present. However she has the official fan-club named "Voice To Aya" in Fuse, Higashi-Osaka, Japan.
She belongs to Aoni Production Co., Ltd.
Her works since 1989 have been reported. She played the role of Ms Ami Mizuno in TV-anime Sailor Moon in 1992-1997. Ami Mizuno transformed herself into Sailor Mercury. Ami Mizuno was drawn by Toei and Naoko Takeuchi as a wise girl. In 1992 the character was more popular than the heroine Usagi Tsukino by Kotono Mitsuishi. Ms Aya Hisakawa got popular then.
Thereafter she has played the role of Skuld in Original Video Animation "Ah! My Goddess" by Bandai Visual. Skuld is a younger sister of the heroine Belldandy by Mrs. Kikuko Inoue. The scientist is the most popular of her sisters abroad. A new CD single sung by Aya Hisakawa as Skuld was made in 1997.
Utena -La Fillette Révolutionnaire- is broadcast at present in Japan. She plays the role of Miki Kaoru there. Mr. Miki Kaoru is a junior high school student who belongs to a student council of Ootori Gakuen. Ms Juri Arisugawa by Kotono Mitsuishi also belongs to the student council. The wise boy got a friend of the heroine Utena Tenjou's. The TV animation is very popular in Japan. But it has a low rating (five percent).
In these three works she does not play the role of Osaka-dialect speaker.
Her fans expect her native Osaka-dialect. She played the role of Princess Tata from Chizeta in TV-animation type "Magic Knight Rayearth" in 1994-1995. Princess Tata was the younger sister of the crown princess Tatra by Mrs. Kikuko Inoue. In the original comics by CLAMP, the people from Chizeta will speak Osaka-dialect. Caldina from Chizeta by Yuko Nagashima, a female dancer, one of the main characters in Magic Knight Rayearth, spoke Osaka-dialect. In the animation Aya's Osaka-dialect is not natural.
"Card Captor Sakura" by CLAMP has got popular. According to the comics, TV-animation is being made. Aya Hisakawa is going to play the role of Cerberus. (CLAMP's English spelling: "Cerberus," CLAMP's Japanese pronunciation: "Kero-chan" or "Keroberosu," These information is from volume 1 of comics-type Card Captor Sakura by Kodansha) Greek Cerberus has three heads but this Cerberus has one head. The Cerberus speaks Osaka-dialect. He told Sakura the reason he spoke Osaka-dialect. Cerberus is the guardian beast of a magic book called "The Clow Book." The magic book including Cerberus which consists of many "Clow Cards." The book had been located at a secondhand bookstore in Osaka for a long time before Cerberus came to speak Osaka-dialect. He said, "I can speak any language." He is very vain of his original body style. In the room of Sakura's father, "The Clow Book" had been empty. He let the heroine Sakura Kinomoto by Sakura Tange become a "Card Captor" who can use the power of previously captured "Clow Cards." He guides Sakura in her quest to recover "Clow Cards."
Recently Aya Hisakawa plays the role of male character and the role of Osaka-dialect speaker. We Japanese expect her much more development at animation business. She deals in numerous small-scale fan-events willingly in Japan.
Moreover she is regarded as a cultured person. She appeared on Asahi Shimbun, one of the most popular newspapers in Japan in 1995. She was interviewed there on bullying, an important social problem in Japan.
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Thereafter Ms Aya Hisakawa played the role of Ms Ichino Yanagida from "Battle Athletess DAIUNDOUKAI." The character was Akari's great friend and spoke Osaka dialect. In an interview, Ms Hisakawa said, "When I played the role, I used southern Osaka dialect."
