Native name 寿 美菜子 Name Minako Kotobuki Years active 2005-present Role Actress | Genres J-pop Music group Sphere Instruments Vocals, keyboards | |
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Born September 17, 1991 (age 33) ( 1991-09-17 ) Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan Occupation Actress, voice actress, singer Website ameblo.jp/kotobukiminako-blog/ Albums Tick, My stride, Spring is here, Third Planet, 4 colors for you, A.T.M.O.S.P.H.E.R.E, Ho-kago Tea Time Movies and TV shows Tiger & Bunny, DokiDoki! PreCure, Guilty Crown, First Love Limited, Berserk Golden Age Arc I |
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Minako Kotobuki (寿 美菜子, Kotobuki Minako, born September 17, 1991) is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Tsumugi Kotobuki in the anime series K-On! about a high school girl band. The show launched her music career as she performed the opening and ending themes and joined three other voice actresses as the music group Sphere.
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- 2q7 100313 animetv minako kotobuki
- Aoi yuuki rie kugimiya minako kotobuki koi ni sesse tooryanse
- Acting career
- Music career
- Live action film
- Theater
- Overseas dubbing
- Singles
- Albums
- Filmography
- References

Aoi yuuki rie kugimiya minako kotobuki koi ni sesse tooryanse
Acting career

Born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, at the age of three years, Kotobuki, along with her parents, was caught up in the Kobe earthquake. Not long after having seen a 1997 Japanese film entitled Chikyuu ga Ugoita Hi ("The Day the Earth Moved"), all of these events inspired Kotobuki to pursue a career in voice acting.
Kotobuki's most notable role in the span of her voice acting career is Tsumugi Kotobuki from K-On!. She has also played various popular voice roles such as Karina Lyle/Blue Rose from Tiger & Bunny, Mitsuko Kongō from the Index and Railgun anime series, Yūko Nishi from A Channel, and Natsumi Aizawa from Natsuiro Kiseki.
Music career
Kotobuki began her musical career with the performance of the opening and ending themes of the 2009 anime series K-On! with fellow voice actresses Aki Toyosaki, Yōko Hikasa, and Satomi Satō. Shortly after, she performed the opening theme of the 2009 Hatsukoi Limited series with Aki Toyosaki, Ayahi Takagaki, and Haruka Tomatsu. The four are affiliated with Music Ray'n, an artist management and publishing group of Sony Music Entertainment. They are currently known as the musical group Sphere and released their first single, "Future Stream", on April 22, 2009.
Coupled with the release of her first album My Stride, Kotobuki had her first solo Japan-wide concert tour entitled Our Stride in 2012 spanning across four dates and venues starting from November 18 in Kobe's International House Kokusai Hall and ending on December 9 in Ōmiya's Sonic City Hall.
Kotobuki is said to be "the fastest learner on how to dance" among her peers as far as her being a member of Sphere goes so much that she even guides the other three members of Sphere on dancing. Even in singing, Kotobuki is said to learn just as fast, "a pro in harmonization" according to her fellow castmate in K-On!, Satomi Satō, and "someone who has good sense in pitch" according to one of K-On's staff members in charge of music.
During her stint in both seasons of the K-On! anime series, she and her fellow cast members were involved in two live events, and just like the character she portrayed in K-On!, she was in charge of playing the keyboard in both occasions. She also played the keyboard on some of her own songs during her Our Stride solo concert tour and on Sphere's first 2013 live event, Music Rainbow 02.
She also participated in the anime series, Aikatsu! and was the voice actress of Kanzaki Mizuki.