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Saeko Chiba
12+ albums
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Saeko Chiba (千葉 紗子, Chiba Saeko?) is a prolific seiyū (voice actress) and singer who was born on August 26, 1977 in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, and grew up in Tokyo, Japan. -Biography- Biography Saeko Chiba took up ballet at a young age with ambitions of becoming part of Takarazuka Revue. However, having failed the entrance exam for Takarazuka Music School in her third year of middle-school she joined the Minami Aoyama Shoujo Kageki Dan (南青山少女歌劇団)(South Aoyama Female Opera Group, also called Nansho for short) a Stage (theatre) group for teenage girls. Having had several lead roles over the three years she spent with the troupe, Saeko was then cast in the lead voice acting role of Kotori Haruno in the Sega Dreamcast game Kita e. ~White Illumination. Having had a taste of being a seiyū and deciding that she preferred voice acting to performing on stage, Saeko decided to pursue the career full-time. Some of her earlier roles include Tsubaki Sakura in Kare Kano, Kitsune no Akane in Angel Tales and Elliot Chapman in Sci-fi Harry. Saeko was famed for her long, straight hair and seemingly cold outward appearance which led to her being cast in various tsundere and 'cool-girl' roles. She then cut her hair short in the spring of 2005 which strangely coincided with the increasing diversity of her roles, as Saeko herself noted on the Mai-HiME fandisc interview. Saeko has also pursued a singing career, with Yuki Kajiura(who wrote music for some of the Nansho stage shows) wri
