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Love Live! Nijigasaki Member Kaori Maeda Makes Her Solo Artist Debut

 

 

The official website for voice actress Kaori Maeda, best known as Shizuku Osaka Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, has announced that she sill make her solo artist debut with the opening theme for the winter 2023 TV anime Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement. The title of the song is “Hikkata Coin ga Shimesu Hou” (The direction indicated by the shiny coin), and she is also cast as Sabine, one of the main characters of the anime.

 

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In 2016, Maeda participated in the three companies’ joint audition event “2016 Voice Actor Artist Development Program Selection” and won the Grand Prix in the final round. She made her professional voice acting debut in the following year. Her well-known anime characters also include Aria Futaba in Aikatsu Stars! (2017-2018), Yuzu Midorikawa in Kandagawa Jet Girls (2019), Yomi Takeda in TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls (2020), and Tōka Kuroitsu in Miss KUROITSU from the Monster Development Department (2022). 

 

 

Message from Kaori Maeda:

 

My debut as an artist has always been a dream of mine, so I’m really happy! Actually, the managers informed me of my debut at a surprisingly good time and in a very chic manner. Seeing the smiles on everyone’s faces, I slowly began to realize how happy I was and felt happy even more. My heart was fluttering, “I can’t wait to tell all my cheering fans about this!” Then I immediately thought, “No, no, don’t get too excited, I must try hard!” I feel like I was doing a hundred faces (laugh). I will do my best to become a big artist who can proudly boast the genre “Kaori Maeda” and make as many people as possible happy!

 

In addition to my long-awaited artist debut, I sing the theme song! I am so honored, because I never thought I would have an opportunity to sing an opening theme song for an anime! The anime is really interesting, and I would be happy if I could carefully express the worldview of the TV anime “Roukin,” which is filled with a positive feeling that makes you try. 

 

 

She also wrote on Twitter, “Singing has always given me strength, so I will do my best to be a person who can give courage through singing!”

 

 

 

 

“Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement” key visual:

 


 

Source: DMM.com press release

 

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