Arts Vision

Arts Vision Incorporated (株式会社アーツビジョン Kabushiki-gaisha Ātsu Bijon) is a Japanese talent agency that employs a large number of high-profile voice actors. It was founded in 1984 by Sakumi Matsuda.

General information

Arts Vision was founded by former Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society manager Sakumi Matsuda as an independent corporation in 1984.

The studio became famous in the 1990s during a boom time in the popularity of voice actors, or voice-over acting. At its peak, the studio employed many of Japan's most popular voice actors, who became known as "Seiyū Idols." In 1997, however, many of those popular young performers moved to I'm Enterprise, a subsidiary agency also managed by Matsuda. Since that time few new performers have joined Arts Vision.

In 2003 Chihiro Suzuki and Masumi Asano moved from I'm Enterprise to Arts Vision, but in subsequent years the trend has been in the opposite direction, with artists such as Yukari Tamura and Natsuko Kuwatani moving from Arts Vision to I'm Enterprise.

Voice actors currently affiliated with Arts Vision

Female

• Anzu Haruno
• Ayaka Suwa
• Lynn
• Sayaka Aida
• Yuri Amano
• Azumi Asakura
• Kaoru Fujino
• Saki Fujita
• Tomoe Hanba
• Yumi Hara
• Risa Hayamizu
• Yayoi Jinguji
• Akiko Hasegawa
• Toa Yukinari
• Akiko Koike
• Akiko Kōmoto
• Masayo Kurata
• Miyuki Matsushita
• Kaori Mizuhashi
• Jun Mizusawa
• Eriko Nakamura
• Miki Narahashi
• Manami Numakura
• Chika Sakamoto
• Yūko Sasamoto
• Hekiru Shiina
• Asami Shimoda
• Yoshino Takamori
• Fujiko Takimoto
• Chiharu Tezuka
• Yumi Uchiyama
• Kumiko Watanabe
• Miho Yamada
• Kozue Yoshizumi

Narrator

Male

• Eisuke Asakura
• Isshin Chiba
• Michihiko Hagi
• Jun Hazumi
• Nobuyuki Hiyama
• Osamu Hosoi
• Sōichirō Hoshi
• Mitsuaki Hoshino
• Atsushi Ii
• Yoshio Kawai
• Yūji Mikimoto
• Hironori Miyata
• Kenichi Mochizuki
• Takashi Nagasako
• Tomomichi Nishimura
• Kazuo Oka
• Takeharu Ōnishi
• Akira Sasanuma
• Ikuya Sawaki
• Katsumi Suzuki
• Wataru Takagi
• Nobuo Tobita
• Kōsuke Toriumi
• Daiki Yamashita
• Daiki Hamano
• Tomoaki Maeno
• Yūichirō Umehara

Former voice actors

• Kae Araki
• Yu Asakawa - now freelance (since October 2014)
• Masumi Asano - now at Aoni Production (since 2007)
• Megumi Hayashibara - now founded independent agency Woodpark Office
• Yui Horie - now at VIMS (since 2007)
• Asami Imai - now at Kaleidoscope (since 2007)
• Yūki Kaji - now at VIMS
• Yumiko Kobayashi - now freelance (since 2007)
• Mami Kosuge now at Production Ace
• Kotono Mitsuishi - now freelance (since 2007)
• Toshiyuki Morikawa - now founded new agency AXL ONE (since April, 2011)
• Reizō Nomoto - attached at time of death (2006)
• Kumi Sakuma - now at Amuleto
• Nozomu Sasaki - now at 81 Produce
• Chihiro Suzuki - now independent (since February 1, 2010)
• Kenichi Suzumura - now founded new agency INTENTION (since April, 2012)
• Chiaki Takahashi - now freelance
• Yukari Tamura - now at I'm Enterprise (since 2007)
• Nao Tōyama - now at INTENTION
• Narumi Tsunoda - now at Honey Rush (since 2007)
• Yuji Ueda - now at Osawa Production
• Chisa Yokoyama - now at Bambina
• Eiji Maruyama - attached at time of death (2015)

External links

• Arts Vision web site