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My Take
For a lot of people outside Japan, Miyamura is one voice: Asuka Langley Soryu. That performance is so seismic it tends to eclipse everything else, which is a shame, because the rest of her resume is stranger and more interesting. Born in Kobe in 1972 and trained at Toho Gakuen, she also gave us Kazuha Toyama in Detective Conan and Casca in Berserk, three roles with almost nothing in common emotionally. What I keep returning to, though, is that she moved into sound direction and audio engineering. A voice actor's job is to deliver a performance; a sound director's job is to make everyone else's performance land. Those are opposite ends of the same room, and very few people willingly walk across it.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yūko Miyamura
- Name (Japanese)
- 宮村優子
- Born
- December 4, 1972 (age 53)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Rat
- Origin
- Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- actor / seiyū / singer / director of audiography / audio engineer
2. Background
- University
- Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Yūko Miyamura born?
Born December 4, 1972 (age 53).
Where is Yūko Miyamura from?
Yūko Miyamura is from Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
What does Yūko Miyamura do?
Yūko Miyamura works as actor, seiyū, singer, director of audiography, audio engineer.
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7. About this entry
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- Last updated
- 2026-07-26
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.