is a Japanese voice actress

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Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and...

 and a former idol singer

Japanese idol

In Japanese culture, are media personalities in their teens and early twenties who are considered particularly attractive or cute and who will, for a period ranging from several months to a few years, regularly appear in the mass media, e.g...

. Sakurai is a member of I'm Enterprise

I'm Enterprise

is a voice talent management firm in Japan.-Female:*Mayako Nigo*Tomomi Hayasaka*Yōko Hikasa*Hiromi Hirata*Yōko Honda*Akiko Iijima*Asaka Imai*Michi Imase*Momoko Ishikawa*Yui Itsuki*Kumi Kawai*Yukiko Kikuchi*Rie Kugimiya*Natsuko Kuwatani*MAKO...

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Debut

At the age of 14, Sakurai debuted as a sub-member for "KISS Fairlies," a group that worked as campaign girls for KIJIMA Motorcycle Racing Team(Japan local). All members were over 15-years-old, aside from Tomo.

In age of "Lemon Angel"

At 17, she joined the idol pop unit, Lemon Angel, a counter project of Cream Lemon

Cream Lemon

is an erotic anime series with some in-depth storylines and classic artwork. The first Cream Lemon OVA was released in 1984, though Cream Lemon was not the first hentai OVA...

 coordinated by the same company that produced "Kiss Fairlies". The project contained comic, animated, and idol pop units. The unit played themselves in Midnight Anime Lemon Angel. She released 5 albums during her time in Lemon Angel.

After LEMON ANGEL

Sakurai joined a new video game idol unit and released 1 album with this unit. After leaving, she focused her career to mainly voice acting work.

Notable voice roles

• Marin in Akazukin Chacha
  Akazukin Chacha
  is a shōjo manga series by Min Ayahana. It was serialized by Shueisha in the manga magazine Ribon from 1991 and 2000 and collected in 13 bound volumes...
  
  
• Codemaster Amzen in Chaotic
  Chaotic
  Chaotic is originally a Danish trading card game. It expanded to an online game in America which then became a television program based on the game. The program is seen on 4Kids TV , Jetix, The CW4Kids, Cartoon Network and Disney XD. It was brought over to the United States from Denmark by Bryan C...
  
  
• Shayla Shayla in El Hazard
• Mylene Jenius in Macross 7
  Macross 7
  is an anime television series. It is a sequel to the show The Super Dimension Fortress Macross that takes place many years after the events of the first series following a cast of mostly new characters. The show ran from October 16, 1994 to September 24, 1995 at 11:00 AM, and 49 episodes were aired...
  
  
• Lena Sayers
  Lena Sayers
  is a character in the My-Otome anime and manga series. She is voiced by Tomo Sakurai.- My-Otome anime :...
  
   in Mai Otome
  My-Otome
  is an anime series created by Sunrise. Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, it is a spinoff of My-HiME anime series and as such My-Otome takes place in a new setting with new main characters....
  
  
• Makimachi Misao
  Makimachi Misao
  , known as Misao Makimachi in the Media Blasters dub, is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Rurouni Kenshin created by Nobuhiro Watsuki....
  
   in Rurouni Kenshin
  Rurouni Kenshin
  , also known as Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai X, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting takes place during the early Meiji period in Japan. The story is about a fictional assassin named Himura Kenshin, from the Bakumatsu who becomes a wanderer to...
  
  
• Kamiya Kaoru
  Kamiya Kaoru
  , known as Kaoru Kamiya in the Media Blasters English-language dub and Kori Kamiya in the English Sony Samurai X dub, is a fictional character from the Rurouni Kenshin universe created by Nobuhiro Watsuki as a main protagonist of the media franchise, which consists of a series of manga, anime,...
  
   in Rurouni Kenshin (audio drama)
• Meimi a.k.a. Saint Tail in Saint Tail
  Saint Tail
  , is a magical girl manga and anime series. Originally a twenty-four part manga by Megumi Tachikawa, the story was brought to television anime by producer Tokyo Movie Shinsha, with forty-three episodes and one short, broadcast by ABC...
  
  
• Chigusa Sakai in Shakugan no Shana
  Shakugan no Shana
  , also known simply as Shana, is a Japanese light novel series written by Yashichiro Takahashi, with illustrations by Noizi Ito. The series includes 25 novels released between November 2002 and October 2011 published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint...
  
  
• Sara in Shamanic Princess
  Shamanic Princess
  is a Japanese anime consisting of 6 OVA episodes. It chronicles the exploits of Tiara, an agent from the Guardian World, who has been sent to Earth to recover the Throne of Yord, a mystical object which is the source of magical energy in the Guardian World....
  
  
• Doll Licca in Super Doll★Licca-chan
• Mizuchi Saiou in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX
  Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
  Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, known in Japan as , is an anime spin-off and sequel of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime. It aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between October 6, 2004 and March 26, 2008, and was succeeded by Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's...
  
  
• Azusa Miura in iDOLM@STER: XENOGLOSSIA
• Karin Son in Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer
  Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer
  is a superhero-themed head-to-head fighting game produced by Technos Japan Corp. for the Neo Geo arcade and home console. It was the companys second attempt at a fighting game, following the Neo Geo fighting game version of Double Dragon. It features character designs by artist Masami Ōbari, who...
  
   (OVA and game)
• Asuka Sora in The World God Only Knows
• Shirona (Cynthia) in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl
  Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
  are role-playing games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. With the enhanced remake Pokémon Platinum, the games comprise the fifth installment and fourth generation of the Pokémon series of RPGs...
  
  

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