Yoko Hikasa (日笠 陽子) is a Japanese voice actress and singer, known for voicing characters such as Kyoko Kirigiri in Danganronpa, Mio Akiyama in K-On!, Rias Gremory in High School DxD, Tomoe Udagawa in BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!, and Emilie in Genshin Impact.

Biography

Hikasa became interested in acting while watching Sailor Moon and Neon Genesis Evangelion, which coincidentally featured Megumi Hayashibara, who would also be in Shaman King. She attended Nihon Narration Engi Kenkyūjo, a voice actor training school. She formed a pop music group Ro-Kyu-Bu!, with Kana Hanazawa, Yuka Iguchi, Rina Hidaka and Yui Ogura. It takes the name for each characters for the anime series Ro-Kyu-Bu!. Their first single "Shoot!" was released on August 17, 2011, and was used as the opening theme for the series. The album Pure Elements was released on October 5, 2011. Hikasa has been married since 2015. In the K-On band, "Ho-Kago Tea Time", Hikasa learned to play the bass left-handed though she is right-handed. On January 20, 2023, Hikasa announced that she would continue working as a freelance actor following her departure from I'm Enterprise. On September 5, 2024, she founded her own agency called i.nari.

Filmography

Television animation

Drama CD

Original video animation (OVA)

Original net animation (ONA)

Theatrical animation

Video games

Dubbing roles

Live-action

Animation

Discography

Singles & albums

As the voice actor for Mio Akiyama in K-On!, she participated to four singles and two albums.

DVD/Blu-ray