Yuki Matsuoka

Yuki Matsuoka (松岡由貴, born September 13, 1970, in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese actress, voice actress, and narrator affiliated with Production Baobab. She began working as a child actor in elementary school and made her debut in 1979, at age nine, in a Tirol Chocolate commercial alongside Sanma Akashiya. After studying acting in her teens, she trained at the Osaka school of Aoni Juku while attending high school and later graduated from Otemae Women's University in Nishinomiya. Matsuoka became widely known in anime and game voice acting through roles including Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga in Azumanga Daioh, Orihime Inoue in Bleach, Aiko Senoo in Ojamajo Doremi, Tsuruya in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and Alisa Bosconovitch in Tekken. In anime music, she also took part in "Ojamajo Carnival!! (おジャ魔女カーニバル!!)", the opening theme of Ojamajo Doremi.