Ayumi Kinoshita

Ayumi Kinoshita, born December 1982 in Chita, Aichi, and a graduate of Kinjo Gakuin University's junior college, is best known internationally for one role: Marika Reimon, Deka Yellow, in the 2004 Super Sentai series Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger — the show adapted in the United States as Power Rangers S.P.D. For a lot of Western fans, that is all they know of her, and it undersells her. Sentai casting is a peculiar career gate in Japan: it gives young actors enormous exposure for exactly one year, then releases them into an industry that has already typecast them. Kinoshita worked her way up from a Nagoya agency to Stardust Promotion, one of the country's major talent houses, and has since gone freelance, working as an actress, a voice actress, and a television personality. Twenty-plus years on from Dekaranger, she is still working, which in that cohort is not the default outcome. The through-line I see is durability rather than a single breakout — a performer who treated a costume role as a starting point instead of a peak.

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Name (English)

Ayumi Kinoshita

Name (Japanese)

木下あゆ美

Reading

きのした あゆみ

Born

December 13, 1982 (age 43)

Origin

Chita, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

160 cm

Occupation

actor / seiyū / tarento

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

Active years

2000 -

University

Kinjo Gakuin University

Spouse

Married

Works summary

Appearances

134 (2000–2025)

By year (titles with a known year)

2000: 3, 2001: 3, 2003: 1, 2004: 10, 2005: 11, 2006: 9, 2007: 4, 2008: 12, 2009: 11, 2010: 7, 2011: 9, 2012: 6, 2013: 6, 2014: 7, 2015: 6, 2016: 7, 2017: 4, 2018: 4, 2019: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 2, 2024: 4, 2025: 2, year unknown: 4

Debut work

顔泥棒

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.stardust.co.jp/section3/profile/kinoshitaayumi.html
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ayumi_kinoshita13121982/
• Xhttps://x.com/AyumiKinoshita9
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumi%20Kinoshita
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E4%B8%8B%E3%81%82%E3%82%86%E7%BE%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2673689

Tags

• Aichi Prefecture
• actor
• seiyū
• tarento

Last updated

September 29, 2026

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