Aya Hisakawa - Anime Convention Personality of the Week - June 26, 2005
Actor
Aya Hisakawa has an exceptional number of top roles to her credit, fan
favorites that include Kerochan in Card Captor Sakura and Skuld in Oh
My Goddess, along with Sailor Mercury in Sailor Moon. Her characters
often have an edge to them - "What's wrong with calling an idiot an
idiot you idiot," was one of her lines as Sohma Yuki in Fruits Basket.
And sometimes those characters are superhuman, as in the recent Tenjo
Tenge series where she plays one of the Natsume sisters who can
transform her body from that of a child to a curvaceous woman. "She has
this very special ability - she can shrink herself - so she has these
two distinctive voices," Hisakawa said. "There aren't too many shows
where you can use two distinctive voices so it's a very good role."
Hisakawa said she went through a transformation of sorts when she
played Sailor Mercury, "the sailor scout of love and knowledge." Ami
was written to be the brains of the group, "a natural in math and
science...I was never that good when I was growing up and I'm still not
that good but for the brief moment when I'm staring at Ami's
picture in the studio, I'm a math genius. That's the magical nature of
voice actors." When the Sailor Moon series became popular in Japan,
Hisakawa remembered riding a train, spotting a girl carrying Sailor
Mercury merchandise and wanting to tell her she was the real Sailor
Mercury, "but I couldn't break her heart and I had to refrain from
talking to her."
Actor
Aya Hisakawa has an exceptional number of top roles to her credit, fan
favorites that include Kerochan in Card Captor Sakura and Skuld in Oh
My Goddess, along with Sailor Mercury in Sailor Moon. Her characters
often have an edge to them - "What's wrong with calling an idiot an
idiot you idiot," was one of her lines as Sohma Yuki in Fruits Basket.
And sometimes those characters are superhuman, as in the recent Tenjo
Tenge series where she plays one of the Natsume sisters who can
transform her body from that of a child to a curvaceous woman. "She has
this very special ability - she can shrink herself - so she has these
two distinctive voices," Hisakawa said. "There aren't too many shows
where you can use two distinctive voices so it's a very good role."
Hisakawa said she went through a transformation of sorts when she
played Sailor Mercury, "the sailor scout of love and knowledge." Ami
was written to be the brains of the group, "a natural in math and
science...I was never that good when I was growing up and I'm still not
that good but for the brief moment when I'm staring at Ami's
picture in the studio, I'm a math genius. That's the magical nature of
voice actors." When the Sailor Moon series became popular in Japan,
Hisakawa remembered riding a train, spotting a girl carrying Sailor
Mercury merchandise and wanting to tell her she was the real Sailor
Mercury, "but I couldn't break her heart and I had to refrain from
talking to her."
