Akari Harashima

{{Infobox person

| native_name = 原嶋あかり

| native_name_lang = ja

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|3|9|df=y}}

| occupation = {{flatlist|

Voice actress
singer

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| years_active = 2011–present

| agent = Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society

| notable_works = {{Unbulleted list|The Idolmaster Million Live! as Iku Nakatani|Fire in His Fingertips as Megumi Sasahara}}

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{{nihongo|Akari Harashima|原嶋あかり|Harashima Akari|born 9 March 1990|lead=yes}} is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society.{{Cite web |title=原嶋あかり |url=https://haikyo.co.jp/profile/profile.php?ActorID=12750 |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society}} She is known for voicing Iku Nakatani in The Idolmaster Million Live! and Megumi Sasahara in Fire in His Fingertips.

Biography

Akari Harashima, a native of Hokkaido, was born on 9 March 1990.{{Cite web |title=原嶋あかり |url=https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=4567 |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=Animate Times |language=ja}} As an elementary school student, she decided to pursue a career as a voice actor after her older sister, an anime lover, said that it was an interesting career. Although there was a voice acting school in her prefecture of origin, she planned to move to Tokyo, which her mother vetoed until the former was in junior high school.{{Cite interview |last=Harashima |first=Akari |interviewer=Daiki Katō |title=声優・原嶋あかりの新しい可能性「chocoNekoβ」について直撃 - 自分の中身がカスカスになるまで出しきる気持ちで歌ってしまう |url=https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20160817-harashimaakari/ |access-date=2023-10-20 |work=Mynavi News |date=2016-08-17 |language=ja}}

Harashima entered the Amusement Media Academy as a 15th generation student while studying in high school.{{Cite web |date=2013-07-03 |title=原嶋あかり |url=http://www.aoni.co.jp/junior/ha/harashima-akari.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703041505/http://www.aoni.co.jp/junior/ha/harashima-akari.html |archive-date=2013-07-03 |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=Aoni Production}} She joined Aoni Production in 2010, and after spending some time as a freelancer joined Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society in 2015. In May 2019, she was cast as Megumi Sasahara in Fire in His Fingertips.{{Cite web |last=Sherman |first=Jennifer |date=2019-05-22 |title=Tanishi Kawano's Firefighter Romance Manga Gets Anime |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-05-22/tanishi-kawano-firefighter-romance-manga-gets-anime/.146985 |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Anime News Network |language=en}}

Harashima voices Iku Nakatani in The Idolmaster Million Live!, a spin-off of The Idolmaster franchise. As part of the franchise, she performed as part of the quartet TIntMe! in the 2021 single "The Idolmaster Million Theater Wave 13: TIntMe!" (which charted at #9 in the Oricon Singles Chart).{{Cite web |title=THE IDOLM@STER MILLION THE@TER WAVE 13 TIntMe!|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/775243/products/1377260/1/ |access-date=2023-10-19|website=Oricon News}} She reprised the role in Million Live's 2023 anime adaptation.{{Cite web |title=アニメ公式『アイドルマスターミリオンライブ！』全国の映画館にて全話先行上映決定！ #ミリアニ |url=https://millionlive-anime.idolmaster-official.jp/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=The Idolmaster Million Live! |language=ja}}

Harashima was the vocalist of a musical group called "ChocoNekoB" (styled chocoNekoβ).{{Cite news |date=2017-08-07 |title=声優・原嶋あかりchocoNekoβ、渡部恵子や小岩井ことりらと一周年イベント開催 |language=ja |work=Mynavi News |url=https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20170807-a248/ |access-date=2023-10-20}} In March 2018, the group's agency TA-Link's announced that the group's activities had been indefinitely suspended.{{Cite web |date=2018-03-31 |title=chocoNekoβ運営より皆様への大切なお知らせ |url=https://talinks.jp/blog-entry-48.html |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=TA-Link's |language=ja}}

She is a certified food sanitation manager. One of her hobbies is collecting {{ill|Kutusita Nyanko|ja|靴下にゃんこ}} merchandise.