Kaede Hondo


Kaede Hondo is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with I'm Enterprise. She has had leading roles in several series, including Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama as Kokoro Yotsuba, Interviews with Monster Girls as Hikari Takanashi, Girlish Number as Yae Kugayama, Anime-Gatari as Minoa Asagaya, Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko as Kanami Eto, Comic Girls as Koyume Koizuka, Hinamatsuri as Hitomi Mishima, Magical Sempai as Sempai, Zombie Land Saga as Sakura Minamoto, Bofuri as Maple/Kaede Honjō, Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina as Elaina, and Star Detective Precure! as Mikuru Kobayashi/Cure Mystique. She won the Best New Actress Award at the 13th Seiyu Awards.

Biography

Born in Aichi Prefecture, She became interested in anime while watching Naruto. Hondo became interested in acting and modelling, after an incident during her fifth year of elementary, and when a woman came near and saying she has "a face that goes well with makeup". She had some research on her own job, and came to believe she was told she has a face suitable for an actress or a model. She would start auditioning for various acting and modelling jobs, but she did not initially consider voice acting as an option. As she had a desire to perform in front of people, she joined the theatre club. Hondo acted in school plays and also participated in activities, such as swimming, basketball, soft tennis, and softball. While in her third year of school, one of her instructors was a radio personality, and her experiences with them and the club influenced her to become a voice actress. In pursuit of this career, she enrolled at the Japan Narration Actor Institute. After completing her training, she became affiliated with the voice acting agency I'm Enterprise. She made her voice acting debut in 2015, playing minor roles in series such as Aoharu × Machinegun. She had a leading role for the anime series Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama.
Hondo played the roles for Keijo and Girlish Number. She and the other main cast members of Girlish Number also performed the series' opening theme "Bloom" and ending theme "Ima wa Mijikashi Yumemiyo Otome". She voiced Hikari Takanashi in Interviews with Monster Girls, Kon Tatsumi in Urara Meirocho, Minoa Asagaya in Anime-Gataris, Kanami Etō in Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko, Koyume Koizuka in Comic Girls, Hitomi Mishima in Hinamatsuri, Kohaku Tsukishiro in Iroduku: The World in Colors, and Sakura Minamoto in Zombie Land Saga.
At the 13th Seiyu Awards, Hondo was one of the winners for the Best New Actresses award. Other notable roles including Magical Sempai, Val × Love, Bofuri, Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina, I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles, Mieruko-chan, Takt Op. Destiny, and Deep Insanity: The Lost Child.

Filmography

Anime

Films

Video games

Dubbing

  • ''Freakier Friday''