Yūko Miyamura

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.

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Name (English)

Yūko Miyamura

Name (Japanese)

宮村優子

Reading

みやむら ゆうこ

Born

December 4, 1972 (age 53)

Origin

Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

actor / seiyū / singer / director of audiography / audio engineer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rat

Blood type

O

Measurements

82 / 59 / 85

Agency

JAEプロモーション

University

Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music

Spouse

ナカタニD. / 1999 / 2000 / div. / 関隆行 / 2004 / 2016 / div.

Works summary

Appearances

332 (1994–2026)

By year

1994: 1, 1995: 5, 1996: 12, 1997: 12, 1998: 15, 1999: 10, 2000: 5, 2001: 9, 2002: 7, 2003: 7, 2004: 3, 2005: 3, 2006: 2, 2007: 1, 2008: 1, 2009: 2, 2012: 1, 2014: 1, 2015: 1, 2018: 2, 2019: 4, 2020: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 1, 2025: 2, 2026: 2

Debut work

勇者警察ジェイデッカー

Filmography / notable works

• Xhttps://x.com/386miyamura
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABko%20Miyamura
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%AE%E6%9D%91%E5%84%AA%E5%AD%90%20(%E5%A3%B0%E5%84%AA)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2279779

Tags

• Hyōgo Prefecture
• actor
• seiyū
• singer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. 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.