Biography
Hitomi Yoshida, a native of Chiba Prefecture, was born on 13 July 1984.[1] After living in Germany for a few years, she joined Gekidan Tohai and started working as a child actress in the early-1990s.[2] She was a regular cast member of Utate Odoronpa! [ja] from 2000 until 2007.[2][1]
In 2006, Yoshida debuted as a voice actress in the Japanese dub of the Pixar movie Cars,[3] voicing the twin characters Mia and Tia.[1] Later, she voiced Haru Miura in Reborn!, Yuku in Jewelpet Happiness, and Luciano in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.[1] In January 2014, she was cast as Win in Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart.[4] In March 2015, she was cast as Miyū Aikawa in Occultic;Nine.[5] In May 2015, she was cast as Mimi Tachikawa in Digimon Adventure tri.,[6] and she reprised her role in the 2020 film Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna.[7] In July 2015, she was cast as Muco, the titular character of Lovely Muco.[8] In July 2020, she voiced Rui Ōkami, the werewolf character in the Nocturne Boogie anime shorts.[9]
Yoshida was the singer of all four ending themes of Smile PreCure! and DokiDoki! PreCure, the ninth and tenth installments in Toei Animation's Pretty Cure franchise.[1] She sang (alongside Mayu Kudō [ja] and Tomoyo Kurosawa) "Pretty Cure: Eien no Tomodachi (2013 Version)", the theme song of Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2: Friends of the Heart.[10] She sang both ending themes of HappinessCharge PreCure!, the eleventh installment in Toei Animation's Pretty Cure franchise, and voices Ohana/Cure Sunset in the last series' 28th episode.[1][11]
Yoshida and Sora Izumikawa formed the singing duo Hitomisora for the 2008 anime Our Home's Fox Deity.[12] She was the singer of "Ring My Bell", the opening theme of the 2009 Heaven's Lost Property anime,[13] and she later returned for its sequel Heaven's Lost Property: Forte's theme song "Heart no Kakuritsu" and Heaven's Lost Property the Movie: The Angeloid of Clockwork's theme song "Second".[1] She also formed the unit Blue Drops with Saori Hayami for the Heaven's Lost Property franchise.[2] She and Tatsuhiko Yoshida [ja] sang the opening theme song of Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger (the 2018 entry of the Super Sentai metaseries).[14]
On 28 May 2014, Yoshida's album ".htm" was released from Nippon Columbia.[15] A second album, "10rder", was released from Nippon Columbia on 27 June 2018.[16]
She has also appeared in several stage productions, including as Chizuru Yukimura in the "Hajime Saito Edition" of the Hakuoki musicals, and she appeared in the live-action dramas Kōmyō ga Tsuji and The Embalmer.[1] In 2016, she began voicing Choromy, one of the puppet characters in the "Garapico" segments in Okaasan to Issho.[17]
Yoshida announced her marriage on 13 July 2016, her 32nd birthday.[3]
On July 1, 2024, she became a freelancer.[18]