Horie Yui

Birth place: Katsushika, Tokyo Height: 155 cm Blood type: B Profile: VIMS Twitter (staff): @horieyui_staff Youtube: @YuiHorieJP Instagram: @yuihorie_official Blog: Ameba Her real name is Horie Yoshiko (堀江 由子), and she is sometimes affectionately nicknamed "Hocchan" by her Japanese fans. She hosts a radio show called "Horie Yui no Tenshi no Tamago" and is the founding member of the singing group, Aice⁵. She is also a member of the band Kurobara Hozonkai, using the name Yuiel. Her hobbies include shoulder massage, reading, and cooking. As a child, she was a huge fan of the anime series Dirty Pair and has later stated that the series was her first inspiration to become a voice artist. She debuted in 1997 in the video game Voice Fantasia and for several years had minor roles in various anime. She landed her first leading role as Haruka in Kurogane Communication. The turning point in her career came in 2000, when she won the role of Narusegawa Naru in the popular anime Love Hina. Other notable and defining career moments include taking the role of Honda Tooru in the anime Fruits Basket in 2001, and releasing her first music album (Mizutamari ni Utsuru Sekai) in 2000. She has since become one of the most popular anime voice actresses in Japan. Horie formed a temporary unit called Yamato Nadeshiko with the popular seiyuu Tamura Yukari in 2001. They released two singles, Mou Hitori no Watashi and Merry Merrily—the latter of which was an insert song in the Love Hina Christmas Special: Silent Eve. In October 2005, she founded Aice⁵, a J-Pop group consisting of four other seiyuu, to help launch their careers. Aice⁵ was officially disbanded on September 20, 2007. She has collaborated with a few other artists, such as Unscandal in 2005 and Kurobara Hozonkai, a Japanese Goth band, in 2007. She was employed by Arts Vision until mid-2007 due to a scandal within the agency's top