# Yukari Tamura (田村 ゆかり)
**Yukari Tamura** (田村ゆかり, Tamura Yukari; born 1976 in [Fukuoka Prefecture](https://www.edgepedia.org/fukuoka-prefecture)) is a Japanese voice actress and singer whose singing career runs alongside one of the most extensive voice-acting catalogs in anime, with credited roles in hundreds of anime and game titles[1](https://www.fashion-press.net/profiles/11738/) • [2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html). She is widely known by the affectionate nickname "Yukarin"[3](https://reviewne.jp/people/5306/anime).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1976, Fukuoka Prefecture (Fukuoka City); speaks Hakata dialect[1](https://www.fashion-press.net/profiles/11738/) • [2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html) |
| Training and agencies | Japan Narration Acting Institute; formerly Arts Vision and I'm Enterprise; currently Amuleto[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html) |
| Voice-acting debut | 1997[4](https://otenki-girl.jp/en/tamura_yukari-en/) |
| Signature roles | Takamachi Nanoha (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha), Suzuha Amane (Steins;Gate), Rika Furude (Higurashi), Tenten (Naruto), Priscilla Barielle (Re:Zero), Jibril (No Game No Life)[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html) |
| Music debut | First single "summer melody", 23 May 2001; debut major-label album *Tenshi wa Hitomi no Naka Ni* (Konami)[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html) • [5](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/yukari-tamura-mn0002188895) |
| Concert milestones | Nippon Budokan in 2008; Yokohama Arena in 2010[1](https://www.fashion-press.net/profiles/11738/) |
| Current label | Teichiku Entertainment; private label Cana aria founded in 2017[6](https://www.teichiku.co.jp/artist/tamura-yukari/) • [7](https://www.lisani.jp/0000064820/) |
## Training and early career
Tamura decided to pursue voice acting as a career after receiving praise for her reading skills[8](https://koeitecmo.wiki/wiki/Yukari_Tamura), and trained at the Japan Narration Acting Institute (日本ナレーション演技研究所)[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html). A scholarly study of the voice-acting industry places her among the institute's alumni who "enjoyed popularity representative of an era", alongside [Megumi Hayashibara](https://www.edgepedia.org/megumi-hayashibara), Kikuko Mitsuishi (三石琴乃), and [Yui Horie](https://www.edgepedia.org/yui-horie) (堀江由衣, born 1976); the institute itself had been established to supply the anime industry with new young voice actors matched to the ages of the characters being cast[9](https://glim-re.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/5121/files/jinbunkagaku_26_131_173.pdf). Her agency history runs through Arts Vision and [I'm Enterprise](https://www.edgepedia.org/im-enterprise) before Amuleto[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html).
By the early 2000s she had voiced characters in high-profile anime such as *Kanon*, *Galaxy Angel*, and *Naruto*, often working alongside Yui Horie, with whom she released two singles in 2001 as the duo Yamato Nadeshiko[5](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/yukari-tamura-mn0002188895).
## Voice-acting career
Her agency lists a body of work spanning anime, games, narration, and tokusatsu (live-action special-effects) television[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html). Signature anime roles include **Takamachi Nanoha** in the *Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha* series, Suzuha Amane (and her mother Yuki) in the *Steins;Gate* series, Rika Furude in *Higurashi: When They Cry*, Tenten in *Naruto*, Elizabeth in *Black Butler*, Priscilla Barielle in *Re:Zero*, Pecora in *I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years*, and Jibril in *No Game No Life*[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html). In tokusatsu she played Navi in *Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger*[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html), a role she reprised in the 2013 *Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger* film[10](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848801).
Her game work is equally broad: Qiqi and Nahida in *Genshin Impact*, Himiko in *Fate/Grand Order*, Io Euclase in *Granblue Fantasy*, Komami in the *Yo-kai Watch* series, Theresa in *Honkai 3rd*, and Mari in *Pokémon Masters EX*, alongside roles in long-running series such as *Memories Off*, *Kanon*, and *AIR*[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html). Reviewers describe her range as covering innocent, hot-blooded, tsundere, taciturn, and elite character types, with many lead-heroine parts[3](https://reviewne.jp/people/5306/anime).
Recent screen roles show the career's continuity: Kana Ichikawa in *The Dangers in My Heart* (2023–2024, 18 episodes)[10](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848801) and lead parts in several 2026 titles including *Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance* as Takamachi Nanoha[4](https://otenki-girl.jp/en/tamura_yukari-en/).
## Singing career
Tamura began her solo recording career in 2001 with the single "summer melody"[2](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html), released through Konami, which had picked her that year for her debut major-label album *Tenshi wa Hitomi no Naka Ni*[5](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/yukari-tamura-mn0002188895). King Records, which carried her releases through the mid-2010s, describes her as a voice actress of wide vocal range who creates her own distinctive world as a singer, with concerts that draw the whole hall together through her cute performances[11](https://www.kingrecords.co.jp/cs/artist/artist.aspx?artist=15412).
**Commercial and stage milestones.** Her album *Spiritual Garden* was her first to enter the Oricon weekly top 10; she performed at [Nippon Budokan](https://www.edgepedia.org/nippon-budokan) in 2008 and at Yokohama Arena in 2010[1](https://www.fashion-press.net/profiles/11738/). Her radio program *Tamura Yukari no Itazura Kuro Usagi* ran for 13 years[1](https://www.fashion-press.net/profiles/11738/). In a 2013 interview around her tenth original album *Rasen no Kajitsu*, she noted that she had released an original album roughly every year or so while working full time as a voice actress[12](https://natalie.mu/music/pp/tamurayukari02).
**Independence and anniversary.** In 2017, marking her 20th debut anniversary, she moved to the private label Cana aria, increased her event and live appearances, and started the new radio program *Tamura Yukari no Otomegokoro♡Shōkōgun* on JOQR (Bunka Housō)[7](https://www.lisani.jp/0000064820/). A fellow singer's 2019 retrospective noted that in earlier years only a handful of top stars among voice actresses, Tamura and Yui Horie among them, sustained music careers, an era in which such performers were only just becoming able to release CDs[13](https://www.famitsu.com/news/201904/29175181.html).
**Recent releases.** Her recent albums include *I love it♡* (29 May 2024) and *Felice* (18 June 2025)[14](https://www.tamurayukari.com/). The single "Kameria", released 14 January 2026 on Teichiku, is the ending theme of the TBS-network anime *Eris no Seihai* and her first anime theme song, and first generally distributed single, since "Eien no Hitotsu" (August 2018), the opening theme of *ISLAND*; unusually for her, the song was produced entirely on delegation, with lyrics by the Sakuma Ryō and Kawashima Ryōsuke team after she read the original work[15](https://natalie.mu/music/pp/tamurayukari13). The full album *Hanbunko.* followed on 3 June 2026 with 11 newly written songs spanning bright pop and ballads[6](https://www.teichiku.co.jp/artist/tamura-yukari/).
## Live performance
Her annual tour brand, *LOVE ♡ LIVE*, produced *Wonderful Happiness* in 2025, recorded for a Blu-ray and DVD released 24 December 2025 from the [Tokyo Garden Theater](https://www.edgepedia.org/tokyo-garden-theater) show[16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N8EGZ2wiNo). The 2026 tour, *LOVE ♡ LIVE 2026 *Tibbar tibbar!*, ran from June to September across roughly twenty venues from Saitama to Hokkaido, with all-reserved seating at 11,000 yen including tax, and its live Blu-ray and DVD was announced for 20 January 2027[14](https://www.tamurayukari.com/) • [17](https://www.teichiku.co.jp/artist/tamura-yukari/love-live-2026/). A further *LOVE ♡ LIVE 2027* tour and a birthday event at Pacifico Yokohama on 27 February 2027 were announced in October 2026[14](https://www.tamurayukari.com/) • [18](https://www.teichiku.co.jp/artist/tamura-yukari/schedule/).
## In context
Tamura's career illustrates the "seiyuu idol" model of the 2000s, in which female voice actresses were promoted with idol-style music and fan-event activity; an academic survey of the period names her among the era's representative popular voice actresses[9](https://glim-re.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/5121/files/jinbunkagaku_26_131_173.pdf). Roughly twenty-five years after her first single, she continues to release new studio albums and tour nationally, and to take lead roles in new anime[6](https://www.teichiku.co.jp/artist/tamura-yukari/) • [4](https://otenki-girl.jp/en/tamura_yukari-en/).
## References
1. [Tamura Yukari profile, Fashion Press](https://www.fashion-press.net/profiles/11738/)
2. [Tamura Yukari official agency profile, Amuleto](https://amuleto.jp/talents/tamura_yukari.html)
3. [Tamura Yukari anime works list, Reviewne](https://reviewne.jp/people/5306/anime)
4. [Yukari Tamura voice actor profile, Otenki Girl](https://otenki-girl.jp/en/tamura_yukari-en/)
5. [Yukari Tamara biography and discography, AllMusic](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/yukari-tamura-mn0002188895)
6. [Tamura Yukari artist page, Teichiku Entertainment](https://www.teichiku.co.jp/artist/tamura-yukari/)
7. [20th debut anniversary interview on 'Princess ♡ Limited', Lisani!](https://www.lisani.jp/0000064820/)
8. [Yukari Tamura, Koei Tecmo Wiki](https://koeitecmo.wiki/wiki/Yukari_Tamura)
9. [Study of the Japan Narration Acting Institute and 1990s voice-actress idolization, Jinbunkagaku (NII institutional repository)](https://glim-re.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/5121/files/jinbunkagaku_26_131_173.pdf)
10. [Yukari Tamura filmography, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848801)
11. [Tamura Yukari artist page, King Records](https://www.kingrecords.co.jp/cs/artist/artist.aspx?artist=15412)
12. [Tamura Yukari 'Rasen no Kajitsu' interview, Music Natalie](https://natalie.mu/music/pp/tamurayukari02)
13. [Mai Imai 10th anniversary interview, Famitsu](https://www.famitsu.com/news/201904/29175181.html)
14. [Tamura Yukari Official Web Site](https://www.tamurayukari.com/)
15. [Tamura Yukari 'Kameria' interview, Music Natalie](https://natalie.mu/music/pp/tamurayukari13)
16. [LIVE Blu-ray & DVD 'LOVE ♡ LIVE 2025 *Wonderful Happiness*' trailer, official YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N8EGZ2wiNo)
17. ['LOVE ♡ LIVE 2026 *Tibbar tibbar!*' schedule and rules, Teichiku Entertainment](https://www.teichiku.co.jp/artist/tamura-yukari/love-live-2026/)
18. [Tamura Yukari schedule, Teichiku Entertainment](https://www.teichiku.co.jp/artist/tamura-yukari/schedule/)
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