Haruka Kudō (voice actress)

This article is about a Japanese voice actress. For the actress and former singer with the group Morning Musume, see Haruka Kudō (singer).

Haruka Kudō (工藤 晴香, Kudō Haruka, born March 16, 1989)^[1] is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and guitarist. She is best known as the voice of Hagumi Hanamoto in Honey and Clover, Haruka Kaminogi in Noein: To Your Other Self, and Sayu Yagami in the anime adaptation of Death Note. Kudō also portrays Sayo Hikawa in the BanG Dream! franchise, which includes playing guitar for the band Roselia.

Haruka Kudō
工藤 晴香
Born	(1989-03-16) March 16, 1989 (age 35) Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Other names	KudoHaru
Occupations	Voice actress singer
Years active	2005–present
Agent	Ace Crew Entertainment inc.
Height	151 cm (4 ft 11 in)

Career

She worked for Top Coat and was an exclusive model for Seventeen Japan from 2003 to 2006. Kudō appeared in 2007 No.15. She was originally a reader model for magazines such as CUTiE. The manager of the Top Coat era scouted her after seeing her photo in a magazine.

She debuted as a voice actress in 2005 as Hagumi Hanamoto in the TV anime Honey and Clover. She was a reader of the original manga for the same work, and was surprised when offered an audition.

After graduating from university, she moved away from performing arts activities and her contract with Top Coat expired on the end of September 2007. Thereafter she started working as a voice actress in earnest and belonged to Sigma Seven in 2011.

In August 2014, she left Sigma Seven and became a freelance.^[2]

She joined ELBS Entertainment from October 2016. Later in the year, she joined the BanG Dream! music franchise as guitarist for the band Roselia, which included portraying the fictional character Sayo Hikawa.^[3]

On May 1, 2017, she announced on her official blog that she would transfer to Ace Crew Entertainment.^[4]

On February 11, 2020, she announced her solo singer debut on Twitter. By March 25, 2020, she debut as a singer and songwriter on her mini-album, KDHR.^[5]

Filmography

Anime

• Noein - To Your Other Self – Haruka Kaminogi
• BanG Dream! – Sayo Hikawa
• Honey and Clover – Hagumi Hanamoto
  • Honey and Clover II – Hagumi Hanamoto
• Death Note – Sayu Yagami
• Nodame Cantabile – Gorota in PuriGorota
  • Nodame Cantabile (live-action drama) – Gorota in PuriGorota
• Hunter × Hunter (2011) – Ponzu
• From the New World – Mamoru Itō (12 years old)
• The World is Still Beautiful – younger Livius I
• Soreike! Anpanman – Poppochan
• Captain Earth – Setsuna
• Cardfight!! Vanguard G: GIRS Crisis – Luna Yumizuki
  • Cardfight!! Vanguard G: Stride Gate – Luna Yumizuki
• Bungo Stray Dogs – Yumeno Kyūsaku

Video games

• BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! – Sayo Hikawa
• Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology – Kanonno
• Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 – Pasca Kanonno
• The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces – Maumi Orishina
• Revue Starlight: Re LIVE – Yachiyo Tsuruhime

Others

• Asahi Broadcasting Nagano – Ringo-maru

Discography

Albums

	Release date	Title	Package number		Oricon peak ranking
			CD + M-Card	CD Only
1	March 30, 2022	流星列車	CRCP-40640 (Type-A)	CRCP-40641 (Type-B)	25

Mini-albums

	Release date	Title	Package number		Oricon peak ranking[6]
			CD + M-Card	CD Only
1	March 25, 2020	KDHR	CRCP-40600 (Type-A) / CRCP-40601 (Type-B)	CRCP-40602 (Type-C)	14
2	October 7, 2020	POWER CHORD	CRCP-40608 (Type-A) / CRCP-40609 (Type-B)	CRCP-40610 (Type-C)

Remix Albums

	Release date	Title	Package number		Oricon peak ranking[6]
			CD + M-Card	CD Only
1	January 26, 2022	KDHRemix	-	CRCP-40634	-

References

1. "･ﾈ･ﾃ･ﾗ･ｳ｡ｼ･ﾈ･ｪ･ﾕ･｣･ｷ･罕?･ｦ･ｧ･ﾖ･ｵ･､･ﾈ｡ﾃｹｩﾆ｣ﾀｲｹ?". www.topcoat.co.jp. Archived from the original on July 18, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
2. Kudō, Haruka (August 1, 2014). "工藤晴香『ご報告』". 工藤晴香オフィシャルブログ Powered by Ameba (in Japanese). Ameblo. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
3. "『バンドリ！』Roselia（ロゼリア）メンバー初顔出し！音楽にストイックな彼女らのストーリーは修羅場必至？【TGS 2016】" ["Bandori! The first appearance of Roselia members! Is their stoic story in music inevitable? [TGS 2016]]. Famitsu (in Japanese). September 18, 2016. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
4. Kudō, Haruka (May 1, 2017). "工藤晴香『ご報告。』". 工藤晴香オフィシャルブログ Powered by Ameba (in Japanese). Ameblo. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
5. Komatsu, Mikikazu (February 12, 2020). "BanG Dream! Sayo Hikawa VA Haruka Kudo Makes Solo Singer Debut". Crunchyroll. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
6. "工藤晴香の作品". Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved April 2, 2020.

External links

• Official blog (in Japanese)
• Official agency profile Archived June 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
• Haruka Kudō at GamePlaza Haruka Voice Acting Database (in Japanese)
• Haruka Kudō at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Official Youtube Channel