Have introduced more new gals for 2018 than any other year it seems but will be making this person the final one for a while, need to do a few more of these for the gals who have had only two or so posts to date. Maaya is someone who there should be plenty of posts for and can go way back in time with her activities. She may not look it but Maaya will be turning 29 two days after Christmas, that makes the date December 27th.
Maaya is the fourth voice actress that has been posted about, will add in the 'voice actress' label for the others if you want to check out who they are as I forget at times too. Her list of anime credits is too long to believe, she honestly must have over a hundred series already where she's done voices. Don't know if all of today's pics will bear a strong resemblance but she looks so much like Kii Kitano. They're close enough to be sisters and if you can be compared to KK that's a tremendous thing as she finished 19th on my all time top faves list.
Besides being such a busy voice actress Maaya has also found the time to be a singer and she's released so many songs the past four years. Never mind those two activities she's also voiced over two hundred video games and has hosted over ten radio shows, where does Maaya find the time? At the top is a promo video for her concert DVD "Magic Number" which will be released on December 12th, it's from her mini Spring tour. Hopefully there will be an event as that's the only activity she doesn't do often. You can also win autographed shirts and other items when you purchase the DVD, this is the cover for it along with a few concert pics.
Currently listening to Maaya's second full length album which came out on April 25th. It's as I expected as it's full of very upbeat, rocking songs as some are theme songs from animes. Here's some of the covers and promo pics for the album which is titled "Magic Hour". Just finished the album, all the songs are quite enjoyable but to me the best by far is "Romantic Dancer".
Those top two pics above are from her Instagram account and here are a few recent ones.
Shame Maaya doesn't appear in more regular dramas or films, she looks just as good if not better than most actresses you see on TV. But she has appeared in a few stage plays, her latest one "Love Letters" opened on November 14th at the Sunshine Theater. These are interview pics promoting the play with the Spice website.
More interview pics and these are from a May one with the '0101.co' site which is definitely an odd name, the interview was for the anime "Cat Gakureta Maaruishiawase(?)'.
Though Maaya was born in Tokyo she's somehow a massive Fukuoka Hawks baseball fan. On September 8th she made the long journey to the city to throw out the first pitch at their game.
Maaya is one conservative gal but she does have a few older gravure mag spreads. Will get to them eventually but will be working backwards with these intro posts as everything for today is from 2018, she also has a photobook that came out in 2014. Have three mag spreads and being a voice actress means you appear often in the Seiyuu Animedia magazine which is for that profession. She's been in four issues this year but for today will just have these pics from their September edition.
This is a brand new spread which is from a special Flash issue called 'Best of Late Autumn 2018'.
Final mag spread is quite a huge one and is from the March issue of Seigura. Not sure but think it may be another mag for voice actresses and it was promoting her February single "Aventure Bleu".
Final thing for today will be a video of Maaya's latest single "Youthful Beautiful". The song reached #7 on the charts and all of her eight singles have hit the top twenty. If you notice she's rare for a
J-Pop singer as she actually sings live at her shows and also has her own band, this performance is from the 'Songs of Tokyo' show.
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