Kae Araki

Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo is a Japanese voice actress from Osaka, Japan. After standing in for Kotono Mitsuishi, the voice of Usagi Tsukino in the series Sailor Moon, when she was undergoing surgery for an ovarian cyst, Araki was given the role of Chibiusa in the same series. While training at a voice acting school, Araki acted as senpai to fellow voice actress Konami Yoshida, and they have since maintained a close relationship.

Early life

She was born in Osaka Prefecture. She moved to Hokkaido in second grade, to Kagawa Prefecture in the third grade and Kadoma in Osaka and Tomakomai in Hokkaido in the fourth grade.Template:Sfn Due to the work of her father, she moved seven times before graduating from high school.Template:Sfn

Since childhood, she longed for the theater world due to the influence of television.Template:Sfn She didn't want to be the main actress and just wanted to play.Template:Sfn She decided to follow the theatrical path in the fall of the third year of high school.

Career

After finishing high school in Hokkaido, she moved to Tokyo to become a stage actress. She entered the training school of the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society (Haikyō) and enrolled in the acting department for half a year. She joined the theater company because she could not get into the upper class on the advanced exam. Her voice work began after she was discovered by a voice actor office manager who saw Araki on stage.Template:Sfn Her first anime work was Maison Ikkoku. After that, Araki affiliated with Ken Production. Instead of voice work, the NHK reporter and scene moderators focused mainly on face-to-face work. She then transferred to Arts Vision, where animation was the main focus.Template:Sfn

In 1993, she played the main character Usagi Tsukino in the Sailor Moon anime series, for 7 episodes replacing Kotono Mitsuishi who was hospitalized.Template:Sfn The schedule required a substitute and Araki was selected.Template:Sfn Later, in the sequel to the series, she played Sailor Chibi Moon.Template:Sfn Her role was decided without an audition.<ref>『アニメージュ12月号増刊 ボイスアニメージュ VOL.5 』 徳間書店 、1995年、102頁 。</ref> In 1995, she played Miaka Yūki in Fushigi Yûgi, her first leading role in television animation.Template:Sfn

She was affiliated with 81 Produce from August 2003 to May 2010 and currently is freelancing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Filmography

Anime

Film

• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon (1992) as Jacqueline Simone
• I Can Hear the Sea (1993) – Yumi Kohama
• Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R The Movie (1993) – Chibiusa<ref name="btva"/>
• Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S The Movie (1994) – Chibiusa<ref name="btva"/>
• Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS: The Nine Sailor Soldiers Unite! Miracle of the Black Dream Hole (1995) – Chibiusa<ref name="btva"/>
• Digimon Adventure (1999) – Hikari Yagami

Dubbing

Original year	Dub year	Title	Role	Original actor	Notes
		Jōnetsu no Meisō	Natalie
		Taiketsu Spellbinder	Ben
		Amitie			CD drama
1983–1987		Fraggle Rock	Red Fraggle
1989–1991		Babar	Flora	Lisa Yamanaka, Lea-Helen Weir
1991		CD Theater: Dragon Quest	Poppy		CD drama
1993–2000		Boy Meets World	Morgan Matthews	Lily Nicksay
1994–1995		Blossom	Kennedy	Courtney Chase
1997		AIKa: Little Trigger Girl	Felnand Mizusumashi		CD drama
1999–2009		Ed, Edd n Eddy	Sarah	Janyse Jaud
2007–2010		The Tudors	Catherine of Aragon, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Parr	Maria Doyle Kennedy, Joss Stone, Joely Richardson
2001–present		Totally Spies!	Phoebe Simpson
1992–1995		Batman: The Animated Series	Baby-Doll	Alison La Placa
1997–1999		The New Batman Adventures	Baby-Doll	Laraine Newman
2003		Ouran High School Host Club	Ayanokōji		CD drama

Notes

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External links

• Kae Araki Template:Webarchive at GamePlaza-Haruka Voice Acting Database Template:In lang
• Kae Araki at Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database
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