| Sayaka Nakaya | |||||
| Native Name: | 仲谷 明香 | ||||
| Native Name Lang: | ja | ||||
| Birth Date: | 15 October 1991 | ||||
| Birth Place: | Iwate, Japan | ||||
| Years Active: | 2007–present | ||||
| Agent: | Amuleto | ||||
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[1] 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!!.
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.[2]
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.[3] She also provided voice in the anime series of Moshidora.[4]
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.[5]
On December 13, 2011, her name was chosen along with 9 other members to voice characters in AKB48's original anime series AKB0048.[6]
An autobiography of her, titled "Hisenbatsu Idol" was published in 2012.[7] 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.[8]
| Year | data-sort-type="number" | No. | Title < | --- title of A-side single ----> | Role[10] | Notes < | --- add other tracks that she participated in, references ----> |
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| 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 | |||
| Single | Information | Peak position[11] | |
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| align=left | Sayaka Nakaya and Hitomi Yoshida HappinessCharge PreCure! opening song[12] |
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| align=left | Sayaka Nakaya, Kaede Hondo, Rika Momokawa, & Maria Naganawa Fushigi na Somera-chan opening song |
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