is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. She is known for voicing Iku Nakatani in The Idolmaster Million Live! and Megumi Sasahara in Fire in His Fingertips.
Biography
Akari Harashima, a native of Hokkaido, was born on 9 March 1990. As an elementary school student, she decided to pursue a career as a voice actor after her older sister, an anime lover, said that it was an interesting career. Although there was a voice acting school in her prefecture of origin, she planned to move to Tokyo, which her mother vetoed until the former was in junior high school.
Harashima entered the Amusement Media Academy as a 15th generation student while studying in high school. She joined Aoni Production in 2010, and after spending some time as a freelancer joined Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society in 2015. In May 2019, she was cast as Megumi Sasahara in Fire in His Fingertips.
Harashima voices Iku Nakatani in The Idolmaster Million Live!, a spin-off of The Idolmaster franchise. As part of the franchise, she performed as part of the quartet TIntMe! in the 2021 single "The Idolmaster Million Theater Wave 13: TIntMe!" (which charted at #9 in the Oricon Singles Chart). She reprised the role in Million Live'''s 2023 anime adaptation.
Harashima was the vocalist of a musical group called "ChocoNekoB" (styled chocoNekoβ). In March 2018, the group's agency TA-Link's announced that the group's activities had been indefinitely suspended.
She is a certified food sanitation manager. One of her hobbies is collecting merchandise.
Filmography
Animated television
2011Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth, maidTantei Opera Milky Holmes, host
2012Btooom!Nyaruko: Crawling with LoveSaint Seiya OmegaSay I Love You, Jun
2013Fantasista Doll, PonponHakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East, KinkoJewelpet Happiness, RinKarneval, NurseKiniro MosaicKyousougiga, PakupakuLittle Busters!Senki Zesshō Symphogear G, Komichi AyanoTamako Market, Kaede 2014Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea2019Fire in His Fingertips, Megumi Sasahara 2023The Idolmaster Million Live!, Iku Nakatani
Original video animation
2010Yuri Seijin Naoko-san, Misuzu
2014Futari Ecchi, Rui Tsutsumi
Video games
2011Dokidoki Suikoden, Nana Hachiōji
2012Tales of Xillia 2, Elle Mel Marta (as motion capture)Unchain Blaze XIV, Wepal 2013The Idolmaster Million Live!, Iku Nakatani 2015Tales of Zestiria, Edna (as motion capture) 2016BraveSword x BlazeSoul, FlametongueTales of Berseria'', Laphicet (as motion capture)