Acting, regardless of the medium, lets the actor expand and escape from their own personality. That's one of the reasons that Kaori Nazuka, the original voice of Eureka in Eureka Seven, became an actor. "When I was small, I didn't like myself and I wanted to try becoming other people," she said through an interpreter at a Sakura Con interview session. "I have a variety of other personalities that I get to use when I perform." Through its exposure on the Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, Eureka may be the best known of those characters, although fans need to get the home video release to be able to hear Kaori's original performance. "The role was a a very big role," she said. "It was very difficult in some ways to do from the beginning to the end. It ended up being a very close role to work, something I feel deeply about and connected with." Her second best known role among American fans may be the various versions of Subaru in the Dot-Hack universes. "From the anime and games it was quite difficult and the story was quite complicated. I played three different characters and I had to express the difference between those characters." Most recently, Nazuka has been part of the large case of Code Geass, the intense war story. "It is true that a lot of characters die in Code Geass because there's a war underway. The actors talk about this among themselves." It's up to the director to decide who lives and died in Geass, she said.

Nazuka got her big break thanks to another Sakura Con guest of honor, she said. That wish to become someone else led her to act in school plays, where she was noticed by Anime director Akitaroh Daichi, who cast her in several of his productions, including Grrl Power, Fruits Basket, and Now and Then, Here and There. "I have my own way of approaching the roles. The skills came through, and I'm happy to be able to play those roles." She really enjoyed the Fruits Basket series for its mixture of comedy and drama. Among series in which she has not appeared, Nazuka would like to have a role one day in the Detective Conan/Case Closed series. "It doesn't matter if its not a main character. I wouldn't mind if I played a girl who was shot," she joked. Nazuka also is a fan of a series twice as old as she, the Lupin III series. "I loved it when I was little - I would love to be seduced by Lupin," she said.