Maria Naganawa is a voice actress born in the Aichi Prefecture on August 5, 1995. A relatively new face in the industry, she is affiliated with I'm Enterprise. Starting her career sometime in late 2014 voicing relatively small roles, she became a household name practically overnight with her portrayal of Kanna Kamui in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
Due to her naturally high-pitched voice, she is often typecast as the Token Mini-Moe, not dissimilar to the likes of Tomoko Kaneda, Satomi Koorogi, and Kimiko Koyama before her.
Roles:
- Alicia in The Detective is Already Dead
- Amy Gilliam in Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn
- Ayana Amamoto in The Caligula Effect: Overdose
- Biscuit in Goddess of Victory: NIKKE
- Blanche de Médicis in Parallel World Pharmacy
- Celia in Don't Hurt Me, My Healer!
- Chizu Kawabata in Occultic;Nine
- Huohuo in Honkai: Star Rail
- Kamuri Sengoku in Slow Start
- Kanna Kamui in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
- Kibushi in In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki
- Komekko in KonoSuba
- Lady Chang Koehan in The King of Fighters All Star
- Laffey in Azur Lane
- La Krusche in Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle
- Linton in Dragon Project
- Lydie Malen in Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings
- Mare and Yumé in The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak
- Maria in Luminous Avenger iX
- Mary Anning in Fate/Grand Order
- Masako Negishi in Komori-san Can't Decline!
- Misa in Sdorica
- Mito Aino in Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story
- Mito Fujimori in Yuki Yuna Is A Hero A Sparkling Flower
- Natsu Yutori in Blue Archive
- Nazuna Hiwatashi in BNA: Brand New Animal
- Platelet Leader in Cells at Work!
- Pretty Cure
- Junna Tokura and one of the future timeline Cures in HuGtto! Pretty Cure
- Komugi Inukai/Cure Wonderful in Wonderful Pretty Cure!
- Pulao in Punishing: Gray Raven
- Raspberry Cookie in Cookie Run: Kingdom
- Ratatoskr in Fire Emblem Heroes
- Rie Matoba in Sword Gai
- Ruri in Divine Gate
- Saku "Loli" Momoi in Wasteful Days of High School Girls
- Shizuka Yoshimoto in The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You
- SIG MCX and Savage 99 in Girls' Frontline
- Soonie in Eversoul
- S'yne Lokk in The Rising of the Shield Hero
- Tamaki Honda in Magic of Stella
- Theiamillis "Theia" Gre Fortorthe in INVADERS of the ROKUJYOUMA!?
- Wamdus in Granblue Fantasy
- Weedy in Arknights
Tropes associated with Maria Naganawa:
- Vocal Dissonance: Unlike some of her seniors mentioned above, she is actually quite tall (154cm) compared to the national average, and yet her voice is soft and squeaky like that of a young child. Of the female cast of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid and Wasteful Days of High School Girls, she's actually among the taller ones.