Yūko Iida

There's something quietly impressive about Yūko Iida — she spent six years grinding through voice training school while most people her age were figuring out what to order for lunch, and that kind of patience tends to show up in the work. Her big break came through Cinderella Girls, where she's been voicing Kanade Hayami since 2014, and that franchise alone is a full-time career for some people — anime, games, music, live concerts, the whole package. But what I like is that she doesn't coast on it: she's stacked up a genuinely varied resume across Girls und Panzer, Witch Craft Works, MF Ghost, and even Pretty Cure. She grew up idolizing voice actresses who took on male roles in shows like Ranma ½ and Digimon, which tells you she was studying the craft, not just the fame. Low public profile aside — she is best known off-mic as a devoted Yakult Swallows fan — the output does the talking just fine.

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Yūko Iida is a Japanese voice actress born on September 9, 1992. She is active in the voice acting industry in Japan. A graduate of the Japan Narration Acting Institute, she has been with I'm Enterprise since 2010, began her career in 2011, and is best known as Kanade Hayami in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls.

Name (English)

Yūko Iida

Name (Japanese)

飯田友子

Reading

いいだ ゆうこ

Born

September 9, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Voice actress

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

Blood type

A

Agency

I'm Enterprise

Active years

2011 -

Works summary

Appearances

263

By year (titles with a known year)

2011: 1, 2012: 2, 2013: 11, 2014: 10, 2015: 8, 2016: 10, 2017: 16, 2018: 12, 2019: 8, 2020: 6, 2021: 5, 2022: 6, 2023: 5, 2024: 7, 2025: 2, year unknown: 154

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A3%AF%E7%94%B0%E5%8F%8B%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11666486

Tags

• Voice actress

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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