Kaori Fukuhara is a voice actress (born August 11, 1986 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan) whose breakout role is Cloud Cuckoo Lander Tsukasa Hiiragi in Lucky Star. She seems to have become typecast as a result for Moe ditz roles (sometimes bordering on Too Dumb to Live), but the ruthless moeblob mah-jong champion Koromo Amae from Saki could be considered a subversion on that.
Cast together with Aya Hirano and Minori Chihara to an extent, both costars on Lucky Star.
Hasn't done much voice acting with Emiri Katou (who played Tsukasa's twin sister Kagami) outside of Lucky Star, but the two are good friends, and have even done some musical jam sessions together (Kaori on bass and Emiri on drums). Apparently both used to play those instruments in high school. In Fall 2011, both ladies appeared in Ad-Lib Anime Laboratory an experimental ad-lib anime
in which they ad-libbed lines first which were then subsequently animated. They also released an album together in late 2012.
In 2019 Kaori married an unknown man, and in 2021 gave birth to her first child.
Notable Roles by Kaori Fukuhara:
- Ada Vessalius in PandoraHearts
- Asagiri Akane in Tsukiuta
- Astraea in Heaven's Lost Property
- Charlotte E. Firobisher in The Sacred Blacksmith
- Hime Haruno in Place to Place
- Inghild Bronikowski in Schwarzesmarken
- Koromo Amae in Saki
- Kuzuha Togashi in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
- Lam Hoa in Macross Frontier
- Lamia in Beelzebub
- Mamori Minamoto in Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE and Fire Emblem Heroes
- Maria Naruse in The Testament of Sister New Devil
- Nanami Minami in Yotsunoha
- Plug in Charger Girl
- Run in A Channel
- Seto in NEEDLESS
- Sophia in Granblue Fantasy
- Tsukasa Hiiragi in Lucky Star
- Yamane Byōinzaka in The Severing Crime Edge
