Saori Hayami


Saori Hayami is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with I'm Enterprise. As a singer, she is signed to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Hayami won the 10th Seiyu Awards for Best Supporting Actress.

Early life and career

Hayami was born on May 29, 1991 in Tokyo, Japan as an only child. Hayami became interested in voice acting while attending elementary school. In 2004, she attended junior class of Nihon Narration Engi Kenkyūjo, a voice acting training school. Her career began when she passed an audition for I'm Enterprise in 2006, at the end of her second year in training school. Her voice acting debut was in the Indian Summer drama CD. In 2007, she made her anime debut and landed her first major role as Momoka Kawakabe, the main heroine in Touka Gettan. Since then, she has been active in voicing many other characters in anime-related media and other voice acting works. She placed #2 in 2015 Newtype x Machi Asobi Anime Awards for Best Voice Actress, while her character Yukino Yukinoshita won Best Female Character Award. Since 2011, she has hosted her own radio show, Hayami Saori no Free Style, which won Best Comfort Radio in general category at 3rd Aniradi Awards in 2017. Hayami attended the School of Human Sciences at Waseda University.
Hayami is known for her singing mainly through her work performing anime and character theme songs, such as Kaede Takagaki in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls franchise. Her debut single, "Yasashii Kibou", was released on August 12, 2015, with her writing the lyrics for all the songs in the single. The title song was used as the opening theme for the anime television series Snow White with the Red Hair, in which she voiced Shirayuki. Her second single, the double A-side single "Installation/Sono Koe ga Chizu ni Naru", was released on February 3, 2015, with her taking part in writing and composing both songs. The song "Sono Koe ga Chizu ni Naru" was used as the opening theme for the second season of Snow White with the Red Hair. Her first album, Live Love Laugh, was released on May 25, 2016. She then released a mini album live for LIVE bundled Limited Edition Live Blu-ray/DVD and CD from her first Japanese concert tour, Live Love Laugh, on December 21, 2016.

Filmography

Digital comics

Fly High!, Meru TachibanaDemon Love Spell, Miiko
  • Super Heroine Gakuen, Haruka Gōriki

Dubbing

Live-action

Animation

Anime-related songs

Touka Gettan, theme song performance Wagaya no Oinarisama., theme song performance Sekirei, theme song Performance Sekirei ~Pure Engagement~, theme song performance Sora no Otoshimono, theme song performance Basquash!, theme song performance Towa no Quon, insert song performanceMM!, theme song performance The World God Only Knows, theme song performance The World God Only Knows : Megami-Hen, theme song performance Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru, theme song performance Sword Art Online, character song performanceThe Idolmaster Cinderella Girls, song performancesE.X. Troopers, theme song performance Phantasy Star, theme song performance The Irregular at Magic High School, character song performancesYahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. Zoku, theme song performance Show by Rock!!, song performancesAkagami no Shirayuki-hime, theme song performance Akagami no Shirayuki-hime 2nd Season, theme song performance
  • Fukumenkei Noise, theme song performance Tsukimonogatari, theme song performance Fuuka, theme song performance, character songsYahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. Kan, theme song performance RWBY: Ice Queendom, theme song performance Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV, theme song performance I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness, theme song performance Monogatari Series Off & Monster Season, theme song performance Pseudo Harem, theme song performance