Asumi Nakata

Born             :  April 5, 1988
Origin           :  Tokyo, Japan
Occupations :  Model, Singer, Seiyū

Personal Life

Asumi Nakata (中田あすみ Nakata Asumi?) born April 5, 1988 is a female seiyū and a Japanese child model who was born in Tokyo, Japan. She is 173 cm (5 feet and 8.1 inches) tall.  She belonged to the talent agency Crayon, subsequently to Five Eight and Switch 58. At present, she belongs to Oscar Promotion.  She used to be called "Asumi Nakada" on TV, for instance, on the TV program 'Tensai Terebi-kun'. But now she is called "Asumi Nakata".
When she was a three-year-old girl, she started in show business with her younger sister. At the age of nine, she debuted as a singer of the duo 'crybaby' (Pony Canyon, produced by Seiji Toda) with Ayano Shiraishi in 1997.  She performed as a voice actress for the first time in Japanese anime Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch series that broadcast from April 2003 to December 2004. In two of the anime series, she voiced the heroine Lucia Nanami(Ruchia Nanami in Japanese).  On August 14 of 2005, she was invited to the Sixth Manga Fair (漫畫博覽會?) in Taiwan. She sang a theme song of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch "Legend of Mermaid" there.  She also provides the voice of Yusura in the Japanese anime series Himawari! that broadcast from April 2006.