generasia:Featured article for 2022 week 1
Amamiya Sora
Amamiya Sora (雨宮天) is a Japanese seiyuu and pop singer affiliated with Music Ray'n. Amamiya Sora's inspiration to become a voice actress came from a video reel of anime roles by Sawashiro Miyuki that she was introduced to in her second year of high school. In 2011, she auditioned for Music Ray'n's second Super Seiyuu Audition, and passed along with finalists Asakura Momo and Natsukawa Shiina. The three went on to form the idol group TrySail.
Amamiya started to amass popularity when she starred as the heroine Fujimiya Kaori in the 2014 anime Isshuukan Friends.. She placed #7 in Charapedia's poll for the most popular voice actresses of 2014 thanks in part to her roles as Asseylum Vers Allusia and Elizabeth Lyonesse in ALDNOAH.ZERO and Nanatsu no Taizai respectively, both of which became hit anime in that year. In March of 2015, she shared the award for Best Rookie Actress with Ueda Reina and Suzaki Aya at the 9th Annual Seiyuu Awards held at the JOQR Media Plus Hall in Tokyo. In September 2016, Amamiya released her first solo album Various BLUE, and held her first live concert entitled "Various SKY" in Osaka and Tokyo.
Her first and second best albums Amamiya Sora BEST ALBUM -BLUE- and Amamiya Sora BEST ALBUM -RED- are released this week on January 5th.
