Aya Uchida

If you have watched much anime in the last fifteen years, Aya Uchida has probably been in your ears without you noticing it was the same person twice. Born in Ōta, Gunma Prefecture in 1986, she is best known as Kotori Minami in Love Live! School Idol Project — soft, warm, unmistakable. Then she turns up as Kaban in Kemono Friends, a completely different register, and as Hina Yayoi in Waccha PriMagi!. That range is the part I respect. A lot of voice actors find one timbre that works and live there comfortably for a career; playing Kotori and Kaban convincingly means genuinely rebuilding the instrument. She sings too — her single "Sign" served as an ending theme for The Quintessential Quintuplets — and she has worked as a television producer, which suggests an interest in how the whole machine runs, not just her booth. Fans call her Ucchi. Staying near the front of a crowded field this long is not luck.

Name (English)

Aya Uchida

Name (Japanese)

内田彩

Reading

うちだ あや

Born

July 23, 1986 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

Origin

Ōta-shi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

seiyū / singer / television producer

• Official sitehttps://across-ent.com/talent/women/aya_uchida.html
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/aya_uchi_da/
• Xhttps://x.com/aya_uchida
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya%20Uchida
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%85%E7%94%B0%E5%BD%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4822691

Tags

• Gunma Prefecture
• seiyū
• singer
• television producer

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.