Aina Aiba

Aina Aiba is a voice actress, professional wrestler and singer from Japan. She is affiliated with the talent agency Hibiki, and is best known for being the lead vocalist of Roselia of the BanG Dream! multimedia franchise, portraying the character of Yukina Minato, as well as voicing Claudine Saijō in the media franchise Revue Starlight and Tokoha Anjou in Cardfight!! Vanguard.

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Early life

Aiba was born in Hokkaido but raised in Osaka. She went to and graduated from Amusement Media Voice Actor Talent Academy in 2010.

Career

Before becoming a seiyuu, Aiba was a professional wrestler under the name Yūki Harima for about two years, working as a stage actress with the same name too. During her pro-wrestling career, she was part of the organization Actwres girl'Z, under their "Beginning" brand, and made her debut on September 6, 2015. Aiba fought five times before retiring from the ring and does MC work for New Japan Pro-Wrestling's matches.
Aiba debuted in voice acting by providing the voice of Tokoha Anjō in Cardfight!! Vanguard G: NEXT, replacing Emi Nitta. In 2017, she began voicing and performing in the franchise BanG Dream! as Yukina Minato of the band Roselia. In 2018, she began voicing Claudine Saijō from Revue Starlight.
Aiba made her professional singing debut from Bushiroad Music in November 2016 with her first st single "Yume no Hikari Kimi no Mirai", which was used as the ending theme for Future Card Buddyfight DDD. She restarted her solo singing career with the single "Lead the way", which was released on October 16, 2019. It was used as the opening theme for the anime Cardfight!! Vanguard: Shinemon.
On March 3, 2018, Aiba, who was a member of the unit Dōbutsu Biscuits x PPP, was one of the winners of the Singing Award during the 12th Seiyu Awards. In 2020, she and Roselia received the Singing Award at the 14th Seiyu Awards.