Mako (voice actress) explained

Mako
Native Name:	まこ
Native Name Lang:	ja
Birth Name:	Mako Sakurai
Birth Date:	7 October 1986
Birth Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Years Active:	2005 - present
Employer:	I'm Enterprise
Module:	Embed: yes Background: solo_singer Genre: J-pop Years Active: 2002 - 2006 Associated Acts: Bon-Bon Blanco

, better known by the mononym name Mako (sometimes stylised MAKO), is a Japanese voice actress, singer and a member of the band Bon-Bon Blanco, in which her prominent role is as the maraca player. She has also performed in a Japanese television drama called Meido in Akihabara. She is affiliated with I'm Enterprise.^[1] Her anime voice acting debut was in Kamichu! where, in the ending theme song, her character also plays the maracas. As Hinako Hiiragi in anime Chitose Get You!! she plays maracas again, in the ending theme (episodes 1–13).

Filmography

Anime

2005

• Kamichu! as Yurie Hitotsubashi

2006

• as Karen Ichijō

2008

• as Clerk (ep 10), Lolikko Cutie
• Kyo no Gononi as Kazumi Aihara

2009

• Sweet Blue Flowers as Child (ep 4), Primary School Student B (ep 1), The Flower (eps 5–6)
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Space as Akiha Shishidō

2010

• K-ON! as Classmate
• Jewelpet Twinkle as Angelina, Charotte
• Hanamaru Kindergarten as Koume
• Fairy Tail as Natsu Dragneel (young)

2011

• A-Channel as Hira-chan
• Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne—!! as Shizuru
• C³ as Mummy Maker
• Jewelpet Sunshine as Charotte
• Nekogami Yaoyorozu as Yoshino

2012

• Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imōto ga Iru! as Shiga
• Saki Episode of Side A as Yū Matsumi
• Jewelpet Kira Deco—! as Charotte, Maco
• Chitose Get You!! as Hinako Hiiragi
• Natsuiro Kiseki as Yuusuke
• Natsuyuki Rendezvous as Fool

2013

• Arpeggio of Blue Steel as Maya
• Jewelpet Happiness as Charotte

2014

• Saki: The Nationals as Yû Matsumi
• as Girl

2015

• My Love Story!! as Misaki

2016

• Tsukiuta. The Animation as Ai Kisaragi

2018

• Senran Kagura Shinovi Master -Tokyo Yōma-hen- as Ryōna

2019

• Star Twinkle PreCure as Libra's Star Princess

OVA

• Koe de Oshigoto! as Kanna Aoyagi
• Kyō no Go no Ni as Kazumi Aihara
• School Rumble: Third Semester as Karen Ichijō^[2]
• Senran Kagura: Estival Versus – Festival Eve Full of Swimsuits as Ryōna

Video games

2011

• Corpse Party: Book of Shadows as Sayaka Ooue

2014

• Ar Nosurge as Nelico
• as Ryōna

2015

• as Ryōna
• Yoru no nai kuni as Anas

2017

• as Ryōna

External links

• Official agency profile

Notes and References

1. Web site: 桜井 真子 profile at I'm Enterprise. Japanese. 2011-10-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20181207235415/http://www.imenterprise.jp/data.php?id=100. 2018-12-07. dead.
2. Web site: http://sr.kc.kodansha.co.jp/staff.html. ja:スクールランブル三学期 －スタッフ・キャスト－. Kodansha. Japanese. March 18, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20130730041323/http://sr.kc.kodansha.co.jp/staff.html. July 30, 2013. dead.