Kaya Okuno

Honestly, voice actors are my favorite kind of famous because you fall for the voice long before you ever clock the face, and Kaya Okuno feels like exactly that sort of "the name lives in your ears" performer to me. There's something I love about her being from Morioka up in Iwate snow country, all that quiet northern stillness, and maybe it's pure projection on my part but I imagine it lends a steady, unfussy honesty to how she works a mic. Born in '91, she's right in that seasoned-but-still-hungry pocket, the kind of pro who clocks into the booth week after week and slowly becomes someone's comfort sound without ever needing a flashy spotlight. That slow-burn, sneaks-up-on-you appeal is the type I root for hardest, and I quietly hope she just keeps talking.

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Kaya Okuno is a Japanese voice actress born on March 1, 1991, in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. Formerly with 81 Produce and now freelance, she made her debut in 2014 as Kaya Kikuma in the idol anime Wake Up, Girls!.

Name (English)

Kaya Okuno

Name (Japanese)

奥野香耶

Reading

おくの かや

Born

March 1, 1991 (age 35)

Origin

Morioka, Iwate, Japan

Height

151 cm

Occupation

Voice Actress

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Blood type

A

Agency

Freelance

Active years

2014 -

Works summary

Appearances

262

By year (titles with a known year)

2013: 2, 2014: 12, 2015: 9, 2016: 8, 2017: 8, 2018: 6, 2019: 11, 2020: 12, 2021: 13, 2022: 10, 2023: 8, 2024: 3, 2025: 2, 2026: 5, year unknown: 153

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.81produce.co.jp/actor_search/index.php/item?id=173
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kaayaataaaan/
• Xhttps://x.com/kaayaataaaan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A5%E9%87%8E%E9%A6%99%E8%80%B6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16769863

Tags

• Iwate Prefecture
• Voice Actress

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.