Yui Horie

Yui Horie
堀江 由衣
Birth name Yui Horie
Born September 20, 1976 (1976-09-20) (age 35)
Origin Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan
Genres Pop
Occupations Singer, Voice actress
Years active 1997–present
Labels Starchild
Associated acts Yamato Nadeshiko, Aice5, Kurobara Hozonkai
Website www.starchild.co.jp/artist/horie

Yui Horie (堀江 由衣 Horie Yui?, born September 20, 1976 (1976-09-20) (age 35)) is a popular Japanese singer and voice actress.[1] She is sometimes affectionately nicknamed "Hocchan" (ほっちゃん Hotchan?) by her Japanese fans.

She hosts a radio show called "Horie Yui no Tenshi no Tamago" (堀江由衣の天使のたまご "Yui Horie's Angel Eggs"?) and is the founding member of the singing group, Aice5. She is also a member of the band Kurobara Hozonkai, with the name YUIEL. Her hobbies include shoulder massage, reading and cooking.

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Life and career

Horie was born in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan.

She debuted in 1997 in the video game Voice Fantasia and for several years had minor roles in various anime. She landed her first leading role as Haruka in Kurogane Communication. The turning point in her career was not until 2000, when she won the role of Naru Narusegawa in the popular anime Love Hina. Other notable and defining career moments were taking the role of Tohru Honda in the anime Fruits Basket in 2001, and releasing her 1st music album (Mizutamari ni Utsuru Sekai) in 2000. She has since become one of the most popular anime voice actresses in Japan.

Horie formed a temporary unit called Yamato Nadeshiko with the popular seiyū Yukari Tamura in 2001. They released two singles, "Mō Hitori no Watashi" (もうひとりの私?) and "Merry Merrily"—the latter of which was an insert song in the Love Hina Christmas Special.

In October 2005, she founded Aice5, a J-Pop group consisting of 4 other seiyū, to help launch their careers. Aice5 was officially disbanded on September 20, 2007.

She has collaborated with a few other artists, such as Unscandal in 2005 and Kurobara Hozonkai, a goth band in 2007.

Horie was affiliated with Arts Vision. However, she eventually left the agency in mid-2007 because of a scandal agency's top management, and became a freelance voice actress unaffiliated with any talent management firm.[2][3]

She has published 7 independent musical albums. Nearly all of them incorporate at least one track from an anime she has worked with. She currently releases music under the Starchild label (a subdivision of King Records).

Her radio show is "Horie Yui no Tenshi no Tamago" (堀江由衣の天使のたまご?) and can be listened to on the station JOQR (文化放送?) (AM 1134 kHz) at 10:00 pm on Sundays.

Recently, she won for Best Supporting Female Seiyuu in the 4th Seiyuu Awards.

Voice acting roles

Leading roles in bold.

Anime/video games

1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011

Drama CDs

Dubbing roles

Discography

Studio Albums

Compilation Albums

Singles/maxis

DVDs

Blu-ray

Anime-related songs

Interesting relationships with co-stars

References

  1. ^ Doi, Hitoshi (January 3, 2011). "Horie Yui". Seiyuu Database. Archived from the original on January 10, 2011. http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/horie-yui/. Retrieved January 10, 2011. 
  2. ^ (Japanese) "アーツビジョン事件を受けて堀江由衣が事務所を辞めたとの噂". NewAkiba.com. 2007-06-10. http://www.new-akiba.com/archives/2007/06/post_9739.html. Retrieved 2007-08-05. 
  3. ^ (Japanese) "堀江由衣　ほりえゆい". http://seigura.com/artist/detail/463. Retrieved 2007-08-05. 
  4. ^ Related article on the single (Japanese Wikipedia)

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