Kanae Itō is a Japanese voice actess. She was born on November 26, 1986 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, and was a member of two small seiyuu idol groups before getting her first big break - Amu in Shugo Chara!.
However, it was her role as Every-Girl Ruiko Saten in 2009's A Certain Scientific Railgun that cemented her status as a character actress, as her touching and sincere performance struck a chord with the audience as the dreamer we all once were, and are therefore able to relate to. Since then, role after diverse role has filled her resume as her popularity skyrocketed into the stratosphere.
Frequently works alongside with Aki Toyosaki, such as in Shugo Chara!, A Certain Scientific Railgun, To Love Ru, Hanasaku Iroha, Cat Planet Cuties, Cat God, Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing, Ōkami-san, Softenni, Sora no Manimani, and The World God Only Knows.
Not related at all to fellow voice actress Shizuka Itō, let alone Judge Lance Ito.
She announced she had gotten married to an unknown man on New Year's Day 2024.
Notable roles:
- Ai Ebihara, Mayumi Yamano and Yumi Ozawa in Persona 4
- Airi in Queen's Blade
- Akane and Homare Kinesaki in High School Fleet
- Alchemia in Code of Princess
- Amane in Cat God
- Amethyst (both of them) in Land of the Lustrous
- Amu Hinamori and Dia in Shugo Chara!
- Asuna Harukaze in Softenni
- Ayame in Senran Kagura
- Ayasa Tachibana in Harukana Receive
- Carrot in One Piece
- Campanella the Fool and Valerie in the Trails Series
- Crestia Bell/Suzuno Kamazuki in The Devil is a Part-Timer!
- Easy in Drifters
- Ehre in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
- Elena in Rune Factory Oceans
- Elsea de lute Irma in The World God Only Knows
- Erika Shinohara in Wolf Girl and Black Prince
- Eris in Cat Planet Cuties
- Fumino Serizawa in Mayoi Neko Overrun!
- Gray Wolf in Kemono Friends
- Hibari Takeda in God Eater
- Ikaru in Tokyo Ghoul: "Pinto"
- Izumi Akidzuki in Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl (Drama CD)
- Jun Kohinata in Tokyo Xanadu
- Kanon Kanase in Strike the Blood
- Kanonno Earhart in Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2
- Koume Suzukawa in Taishō Baseball Girls
- Leila Vergerius in the Japanese version of Rusty Hearts
- Lin in Arknights
- Lu Anon in Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
- Lucien Renlen in Bastard!! (1988) (2022 Netflix anime)
- Lumina in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
- Marguerite Gachet in the Japanese dub of Loving Vincent
- Meganée Akai in the Pretty Series franchise (Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream, Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future, Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live, PriPara, Kiratto Pri☆Chan, Waccha PriMagi! and Himitsu no AiPri)
- In addition to Meganée, she also voiced Kaname Chris, Sonata Amamiya's younger self and the Narrator in Aurora Dream, Hye In in Dear My Future, Starn in Rainbow Live, Shin's Mother in King of Prism and Tanto-chan in PriMagi
- Mari Nikaido in Anti Magic Academy The 35th Test Platoon
- Midori in Divine Gate
- Mihoshi Akeno in Sora no Manimani
- Miura Rinaldi and Elenoa Florian in Lyrical Nanoha
- Nana in To Love Ru
- Nanami Nanase in Gundam Build Divers
- Naoko Yanagi in Fly Me to the Moon
- Natsumi Hayamiya in Birdy the Mighty Decode
- Nhi (Younger) Trung of the Trung Sisters in Fate/Grand Order
- Oda Nobuna in The Ambition of Oda Nobuna
- Ohana Matsumae and Satsuki Matsumae (teenager) in Hanasaku Iroha
- RED in Hyperdimension Neptunia
- Rika Ayano in Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story
- Rin in Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage
- Ringo Akai in Ōkami-san
- Ruiko Saten in A Certain Scientific Railgun
- Sailor Mnemosyne in Sailor Moon Cosmos
- Sanae Nagatsuki in Squid Girl
- Sena Kashiwazaki in Haganai
- Shipka and RFB in Girls' Frontline
- Sturm in Granblue Fantasy
- The Supreme Kai of Time in Dragon Ball Xenoverse
- Timido Cute in Honkai Impact 3rd
- Tsubaki Hibino in Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu
- Wang Yuanji in Dynasty Warriors
- Yui in Sword Art Online
- Persona Vabel in Accel World vs Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight who is also a future version of Yui
- Ranka Kagurazaka in Valkyrie Drive -Bhikkhuni-
Tropes relating to her
- Woman of a Thousand Voices: A particularly versatile female seiyuu with a vast vocal range. She voices high school girls like Nana, older females like Sanae, and even little children like Yui.
