Airi Eino

Airi Eino, a native of Sendai, was born on 19 January 1993.[2][3] She began studying dance in elementary school,[4] she won a district tournament for her junior high school badminton club.[5] Having heard of The Sickness unto Death in high school, she studied philosophy at Tohoku Gakuin University,[5] and in March 2015, she graduated from their Department of Comprehensive Humanities' Faculty of Letters.[6]

Despite being a fan of anime after seeing The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya,[5] she initially felt that it was impossible for her to become a voice actress.[7] However, she saw a Nico Nico Douga call for auditions for the voice acting unit Wake Up, Girls! and considered it only after thinking that she should audition for her favorite anime.[5] She was selected in the auditions, and on 29 July 2013, she was announced as one of Wake Up, Girls!' members.[8] She later reprised her role in the anime.[9] In December 2017, she was cast as Misanalia Boruenan in the baseball anime Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody.[10] In September 2019, she was cast as Risa Fujiwara in the baseball anime Tamayomi.[11]

She choreographed two Wake Up, Girls! songs, Chikatetsu Labyrinth and Tunago,[12][13] and she also was a choreographer for Hacka Doll THE Festival.[14]

Despite remaining in Sendai after joining Wake Up, Girls!,[15] she moved to Tokyo after graduating from Tohoku Gakuin University.[12]

She is a fan of her native Sendai's Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.[16] On 6 August 2017, he threw out the ceremonial first pitch in the game between Rakuten and Lotte at Kobo Park Miyagi.[17]