Key Birthdays!

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#1

I thought it’d be nice to have a birthday thread for all the people who work with Key~

The writers, sound producers, artists, and voice actors, as well as the great characters seen in Key’s Visual Novels deserve some recognition on their birthday, so here’s a thread to throw it all into!

Know about an upcoming birthday that relates to Key? Remind us all, and leave some extra information if you can~ It’s interesting to find out new things about the people who contribute to our fandom :stuck_out_tongue:

Characters Sorted by Date

January
1/3 Hijiri Kirishima
1/6 Makoto Sawatari
1/7 Ayu Tsukimiya
1/12 Kaya Naoe
1/17 Riki Naoe
1/18 Kouko Ibuki
1/29 Mai Kawasumi

February
2/1 Shiori Misaka
2/2 Miki Nomura
2/9 Ryouichi Mitani
2/17 Akane Senri, Youhei Sunohara

March
3/1 Kaori Misaka
3/6 Akria Inoue
3/13 Yuiko Kurugaya
3/25 Arizuki Shiina
3/27 Sakuya Ohtori
3/30 Midori Nishizono

April
4/1 A-chan Senpai
4/3 Misae Sagara
4/4 Kamome Kushima
4/5 Komari Kamikita
4/18 Jun Kitagawa
4/29 Shizuku Mizuori
4/30 Kengo Miyazawa

May
5/1 Naoyuki Okazaki
5/2 Kotarou Tennouji
5/4 Kyousuke Natsume
5/5 Sayuri Kurata
5/13 Kotomi Ichinose
5/21 Hairi Takahara

June
6/8 Shiroha Naruse
6/11 Mei Sunohara
6/12 Kano Kirishima, Kudryavka Noumi
6/13 Shimako
6/18 Shizuru Nakatsu

July
7/6 Ui Arizuki
7/12 Touka Nishikujo
7/20 Akio Furukawa, Fuko Ibuki
7/23 Misuzu Kamio
7/26 Kotori Kanbe

August
8/7 Yukine Miyazawa
8/22 Mio Nishizono
8/24 Chihaya Ohtori
8/27 Toshio Koumura
8/31 Tsumugi Wenders

September
9/1 Umi Katou
9/2 Rin Natsume
9/9 Kyou Fujibayashi, Ryou Fujibayashi
9/20 Ai Sorakado, Ao Sorakado
9/23 Akiko Minase

October
10/5 Sanae Furukawa
10/10 Tenzen Kanou
10/13 Haruka Saigusa, Kanata Futaki
10/14 Tomoyo Sakagami
10/18 Kyouko Misaki
10/21 Saya Tokido
10/30 Tomoya Okazaki

November
11/3 Haruko Kamio, Yuuki Himuro
11/6 Masato Inohara
11/11 Haruhiko Yoshino

December
12/2 Kobato Naruse
12/3 Sasami Sasasegawa
12/5 Yuusuke Yoshino
12/6 Mishio Amano
12/22 Minagi Tohno
12/23 Lucia Konohana, Nayuki Minase
12/24 Nagisa Furukawa

Characters Sorted by Series

Kanon
Makoto Sawatari: 6 January
Ayu Tsukimiya: 7 January
Mai Kawasumi: 29 January
Shiori Misaka: 1 February
Kaori Misaka: 1 March
Jun Kitagawa: 18 April
Sayuri Kurata: 5 May
Akiko Minase: 23 September
Mishio Amano: 6 December
Nayuki Minase: 23 December

Air
Hijiri Kirishima: 3 January
Kano Kirishima: 12 June
Misuzu Kamio: 23 July
Haruko Kamio: 3 November
Minagi Tohno: 22 December

Clannad
Kouko Ibuki: 18 January
Youhei Sunohara: 17 February
Misae Sagara: 3 April
Naoyuki Okazaki: 1 May
Ichinose Kotomi: 13 May
Sunohara Mei: 11 June
Akio Furukawa: 20 July
Fuko Ibuki: 20 July
Yukine Miyazawa: 7 August
Toshio Koumura: 27 August
Kyou Fujibayashi: 9 September
Ryou Fujibayashi: 9 September
Sanae Furukawa: 5 October
Tomoyo Sakagami: 14 October
Tomoya Okazaki: 30th October
Yuusuke Yoshino: 5 December
Nagisa Furukawa: 24 December

Little Busters!
Riki Naoe: 17 January
Yuiko Kurugaya: 13 March
Midori Nishizono: 30 March
A-chan Senpai: 1 April
Komari Kamikita: 5 April
Kengo Miyazawa: 30 April
Kyousuke Natsume: 4 May
Noumi Kudryavka: 12 June
Mio Nishizono: 22 August
Rin Natsume: 2 September
Kanata Futaki: 13 October
Haruka Saigusa: 13 October
Saya Tokido: 21 October
Masato Inohara: 6 November
Sasami Sasasegawa: 3 December

Kud Wafter
Kaya Naoe: 12 January
Riki Naoe: 17 January
A-chan Senpai: 1 April
Noumi Kudryavka: 12 June
Ui Arizuki: 6 July
Kanata Futaki: 13 October

Rewrite
Akane Senri: 17 February
Akira Inoue: 6 March
Sakuya Ohtori: 27 March
Kotarou Tennouji: 2 May
Shimako: 13 June
Nakatsu Shizuru: 18 June
Touka Nishikujo: 12 July
Kotori Kanbe: 26 July
Chihaya Ohtori: 24 August
Haruhiko Yoshino: 11 November
Lucia Konohana: 23 December

Summer Pockets
Miki Nomura: 2 February
Ryouichi Mitani: 9 February
Kamome Kushima: 4 April
Shizuku Mizuori: 29 April
Hairi Takahara: 21 May
Shiroha Naruse: 8 June
Tsumugi Wenders: 31 August
Umi Katou: 1 September
Ai Sorakado: 20 September
Ao Sorakado: 20 September
Tenzen Kanou: 10 October
Kyouko Misaki: 18 October
Kobato Naruse: 2 December

Voice Actors and Staff

Iizuka Mayumi: 3 January
Takahiro Baba: 21 February
Tamura Yukari: 27 February
Nojima Kenji: 16 March
Orihara Kōhei: 24 March
Kawasumi Ayako: 30 March
Yanase Natsumi: 10 May
Satō Akemi: 16 May
Yukino Satsuki: 25 May
Minaguchi Yūko: 26 June
Tanaka Ryouko: 28 July
Kitamura Eri: 16 August
Seki Tomokazu: 8 September
Horie Yui: 20 September
Sakaguchi Daisuke: 11 October
Nishimura Chinami: 18 November
Tōma Yumi: 20 December

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Ideas Topic!
#2

Sooo, here’s the first Birthday to celebrate!

The birthday of my favorite voice actor, Yukari Tamura, is coming up!
In case you don’t know, February 27th is her birthday! She was the voice of Mai Kawasumi from Kanon, Michiru from Air, and Mei Sunohara from Clannad~

She also did the voice of Bernkastel/Rika from the ‘When They Cry’ franchise, Kanako from OreImo, Suzuha from Steins;Gate, and Sakura from Da Capo!

Happy birthday Yukarin!

#3

I knew this would come in handy.

Kaori: 3rd of January
Hijiri: 3rd of January
Makoto: 6th of January
Ayu: 7th of January
Mai: 29th of January
Shiori: 1st of Febuary
Kurugaya: 13th of March
Akane: 21st of April
Komari: 4th of May
Sayuri: 5th of May
Kotomi: 13th of May
Mayu: 15th of May
Mio(One): 4th of June
Kud: 12th of June
Misaki: 12th of June
Kano: 12th of June
Fuuko: 20th of July
Misuzu: 23rd of July
Nagase: 8th of August
Kyou: 9th of September
Ryou: 9th of September
Akiko: 23rd of September
Mizuka: 26th of September
Haruka: 13th of October
Kanata: 13th of October
Tomoyo: 14th of October
Haruko: 3rd of November
Amano: 6th of Decmeber
Minagi: 22nd of December
Nayuki: 23rd of December
Nagisa: 24th of December

Feel free to correct me or mention things I missed.

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#4

I translated from my website (http://vnkeyfanclub.com/forum/threads/lich-sinh-nhat-key.88/)

Kanon

  • Tsukimiya Ayu: 7 January (B80/W52/H79) - 1m54 - 41kg (AB)
  • Minase Nayuki: 23 December (B83/W57/H82) - 1m64 - 47kg (B)
  • Sawatari Makoto: 6 January (B81/W55/H79) - 1m59 - 46kg (? fox… lol)
  • Misaka Shiori: 1 Febuary (B79/W53/H80) - 1m57 - 43kg (AB)
  • Kawasumi Mai: 29 January (B89/W58/H86) - 1m67 - 49kg (O)
  • Kurata Sayuri: 5 May (B84/W55/H82) - 1m59 - 45kg (A)
  • Minase Akiko: 23 September (B86/W57/H83) - 1m65 - 50kg (O)
  • Misaka Kaori: 1 March (B83/W55/H81) - 1m64 - 48kg (B)
  • Amano Mishio: 6 December (B80/W53/H79) - 1m59 - 44kg (A)

AIR

  • Kamio Misuzu: 23 July (B83/W55/H82) - 1m59 - 46kg (O)
  • Kirishima Kano: 12 June (B82/W53/H80) - 1m56 - 45kg (A)
  • Tohno Minagi: 22 December (B85/W58/H84) - 1m69 - 48kg (A)
  • Kamio Haruko: 3 November (B88/W57/H85) - 1m68 - 48kg (B)
  • Kirishima Hijiri: 3 January (B87/W59/H86) - 1m72 - 50kg (AB)
  • Michiru: ? (B72/W49/H70) - 1m45 - 39kg (?)
  • Kanna-bi no Mikoto: 18 January (?) - 1m57 - 40kg (AB)

CLANNAD

  • Furukawa Nagisa: 24 December (B80/W55/H81) - 1m55 - 43kg (A)
  • Fujibayashi Kyou: 9 September (B82/W56/H82) - 1m60 - 46kg (O)
  • Ichinose Kotomi: 13 May (B88/W58/H85) - 1m60 - 48kg (A)
  • Sakagami Tomoyo: 14 October (B86/W57/H82) - 1m61 - 47kg (O)
  • Ibuki Fuuko: 20 July (B78/W54/H79) - 1m50 - 41kg (B)
  • Miyazawa Yukine: 7 August (?) - 1m57 - 40kg (AB)
  • Fujibayashi Ryou: 9 September (?) - 1m59 - 47kg (O)
  • Sagara Misae: 3 April (?) - 1m66 - 51kg (B)
  • Furukawa Sanae: 5 October (?) - 1m58 - 45kg (A)
  • Ibuki Kouko: 18 January (?) - 1m61 - 49kg (AB)
  • Sunohara Mei: 11 June (?) - 1m52 - 42kg (A)
  • Okazaki Ushio: 24 December (TV anime official fanbook),
    someday in Febuary (Movie databook) (?) - ? - ? (?)

Little Busters!

  • Natsume Rin: 2 September (B77/W54/H80) - 1m53 - 43kg (O)
  • Kamikita Komari: 5 April (B83/W57/H84) - 1m59 - 45kg (A)
  • Saigusa Haruka: 13 October (B81/W59/H82) - 1m63 - 49kg (B)
  • Noumi Kudryavka: 12 June (B69/W51/H72) - 1m45 - 37kg (AB)
  • Kurugaya Yuiko: 13 March (B90/W60/H89) - 1m70 - 55kg (A)
  • Nishizono Mio: 22 August (B75/W55/H79) - 1m53 - 41kg (B)
  • Futaki Kanata: 13 October (B80/W57/H82) - 1m63 - 47kg (A)
  • Sasasegawa Sasami: 3 December (B78/W54/H81) - 1m54 - 43kg (AB)
  • Tokido Saya: 21 October (B83/W55/H82) - 1m56 - 44kg (?)

Rewrite

  • Kanbe Kotori: 26 July (B83/W54/H83) - 1m56 - 44kg (?)
  • Ohtori Chihaya: 24 August (B82/W55/H84) - 1m59 - 46kg (?)
  • Senri Akane: 17 Febuary (B86/W57/H85) - 1m60 - 47kg (?)
  • Nakatsu Shizuru: 18 June (B75/W52/H73) - 1m49 - 39kg (?)
  • Konohana Lucia: 23 December (B93/W59/H86) - 1m67 - 52kg (?)
  • (Miracle) Kagari : ???

There was also birthdays of the male characters, but I wasn’t interested =)

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#5

Dang it Minata, we want the males too XP

#6

Here’s a comprehensive list of the voice actors of AIR and their birthdates:

  • Hikaru Midorikawa (Yukito Kunisaki, game): 1968-05-02
  • Daisuke Ono (Yukito Kunisaki, TV anime): 1978-05-04
  • Tomoko Kawakami (Misuzu Kamio): 1970-04-25
  • Asami Okamoto (Kano Kirishima): 1974-12-22
  • Ryouka Yuzuki (Minagi Tohno): 1974-01-10
  • Aya Hisakawa (Haruko Kamio): 1968-11-12
  • Yumi Touma (Hijiri Kirishima): 1966-12-20
  • Yukari Tamura (Michiru): 1976-02-27
  • Hiromi Konno (Potato): 1975-09-13
  • Shin’ichirou Miki (Keisuke Tachibana, game): 1968-03-18
  • Kenjirou Tsuda (Keisuke Tachibana, TV anime): 1971-06-11
  • Nobutoshi Kanna (Ryuuya, adult): 1968-06-10
  • Chiwa Saitou (Ryuuya, child): 1981-03-12
  • Chinami Nishimura (Kannabi-no-Mikoto): 1970-11-18
  • Kikuko Inoue (Uraha): 1964-09-25
  • Keiko Han (Yaobikuni): 1953-04-05
#7

March 12th!
Happy Birthday to Chiwa Saitō, the voice actor of Child Ryuuya from Air TV and Kotori from Rewrite.
Chiwa-san is also known for her voice acting work, such as Senjougahara from Bakemonogatari, Homura from Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Asahina from Dangan Ronpa, and Natsumi from Keroro Gunsou!

Happy Birthday Chiwa-san!

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#8

It’s Kurugaya time in Japan. 3/13. Tons of artwork flying around.
Happy Birthday to best (okay, my favorite) route ~!

-Is the only person that thinks this-

Kurugaya is one of those characters in Little Busters where I found their story to be extremely touching on a personal level- But that’s for route discussion threads! Let us all appreciate the strong, intelligent woman that is Kurugaya! Cool (and dangerous) lover of cuteness. -3-

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#9

LIES! I liked Kurugaya’s most! (Even more than Refrain >.>) All the feels ;~;
Due to the mechanics of unlocking the ending, I like to think it is a ‘True Ending’ of the whole VN~

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#10

Post a thread for her route! You can copypasta from the other discussion threads to keep things consistent.

#11

18th March!
Today is the birthday of Shin-ichiro Miki, the voice actor of Keisuke from Air!
He also did the voice acting for many roles. Examples being Aikuro Mikisugi from Kill la Kill, James from Pokemon, Assassin from Fate/Stay Night, Toya/Tori from Cardcaptor Sakura, and Crim from the .Hack// franchise.

There’s a lot of childhood memories in his work~ Lots of nostalgia ><

Happy birthday Shinichiro-san!

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#12

Like @Yirba did, I decided to go on and do that to the rest of the Key works for this (avoiding repeats, that is). Starting with Kanon.

Tomoka Sugita (Yuichi Aizawa- 2006 anime/PSP game): 1980-10-11
Miwa Yasuda (Young Yuichi): 1977-12-6
Yui Horie (Ayu Ayu): 1976-9-20
Mariko Kouda (Nayuki Minase): 1969-9-5
Mayumi Iizuka (Makoto Sawatari): 1977-1-3
Akemi Sato (Shiori Misaka): 1980-5-16
(Mai’s voice actress [Yukari Tamura] has been done through a earlier post)
Yūko Minaguchi (Akiko Minase): 1966-6-26
Ayako Kawasumi (Kaori Misaka): 1976-3-30
(Sayuri is also covered in a previous post, but we have one other date to remember for her.)
Maaya Sakamoto (Mishio Amano): 1980-3-31
Tomokazu Seki (Jun Kitagawa): 1972-9-8

I shall provide more along this next week, hope we don’t miss anyone. I also skipped the jerk from Mai’s route for obvious grudges, and skipped the two switches from older to newer voices, since people shouldn’t bother themselves to hear them. Lol.

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#13

Wow, thanks~ That’s helpful ^^

Cries
Sad times… She was a great voice actor.

Yes, well done!

#14

Next up, Clannad.

Kenji Nojima (Tomoya Okazaki- Movie/Drama CD): 1976-3-16
Yuichi Nakamura (Tomoya- Anime): 1980-2-20 [Two other voice actors here that I cut out, one I wouldn’t have heard otherwise and one who I can’t find the birthday of anyway]
Mai Nakahara (Nagisa Furukawa): 1981-2-23
Ryou Hirohashi (Kyou Fujibayashi): 1977-8-5 [Kyou voiced by Ryou, lol]
Mamiko Noto (Kotomi Ichinose): 1980-2-6
Houko Kuwashima (Tomoyo Sakagami): 1975-12-12
Ryouko Tanaka (Tomoyo- Her after story): 1973-7-28 [Under a different name]
Ai Nonaka (Fuko Ibuki): 1981-6-8
Satomi Kourogi (Ushio Okazaki): 1962-11-14
Atsuko Enomoto (Yukine Miyazawa): 1979-11-1
Akemi Kanda (Ryou Fujibashi): 1978-11-10
Satsuki Yukino (Misae Sagara): 1970-5-25
Hikaru Midorikawa (Yusuke Yoshino): 1968-5-2 [Shamefully not his other role]
-Kouko Ibuki is the same as Akiko
Takeshi Aono (Toshio Koumura-Sensei): 1936-6-19
Ryoko Shiraishi (Kappei Hiiragi): 1982-9-7
Hiroshi Naka (Nayuki Okazaki): 1960-11-19
Miyoko Asou (Shino Okazaki): 1926-4-7
Ryotaro Okiayu (Akio Furukawa): 1969-11-17
Kikuko Inoue (Sanae Furukawa): 1964-9-25
Daisuke Sakaguchi (Youhei Sunohara): 1973-10-11
-Mei is the same as Mai and Michiru [All these M names, lolol]
-Illusionary world girl is the same as Sayuri and Misuzu
Akiko Yajima (Junk Doll): 1967-5-4

Finally, since the only other voice to pass away (that I know of) has appeared, here’s two things to remember. RIP.
Tomoko Kawakami (Various roles): 2011-6-9
Takeshi Aono (Koumura): 2012-4-9

Also there are some additional people, but this message is clogged enough, they shall be separated.

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#15

30th March!
Happy Birthday Ayako Kawasumi! The voice of Mizuka Nagamori and Kaori Misaka!
Outside of Key works, Kawasumi-san voiced a lot of characters, such as Henrietta from Zero no Tsukaima, Saber of Fate/Stay Night, Yuriko Aoki from Bakuman, and Kazumi Yoshida of Shakugan no Shana~

31st March!
And a Happy Birthday to Maaya Sakamoto~ Sakamoto-san voiced the character Mishio Amano.
She has gone on to voice a bunch of important characters, like Shiki Ryougi from Kara no Kyōkai, Aerith Gainsbourgh from FF7, Ciel Phantomhive from Black Butler and Aegis from Persona 3!

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#16

1st April!

Weee~ It’s Key’s favorite day of the year!

Today is the birthday of A-Chan from Little Busters! and Kud Wafter.
Happy Birthday A-Chan Senpai! Thanks for covering Futaki’s mistakes~ :stuck_out_tongue:

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#17

I’ve been forgetting. Well first the ones I missed from Clannad.

Mai Aizawa (Rie Nishina): 1981-8-21
Romi Paku (Katsuki Shima): 1972-1-22
Machiko Kawana (Boton): 1983-9-30

The final two characters are kind of… you’d have to be reminded of who they are.
For Tomoyo after… Tomo’s voice actress is harder to locate, and the other two are voiced by the same girl, the most reoccurring voice actress in Key works.

Keiko Suzuki (Takafumi, Kanako): 8-31 (lol her year was not mentioned).

#18

Now here comes the fun one. Little Busters.

Tomoe Tamiyasu (Riki Naoe-game, Rin Natsume, Sasami Sasasegawa- game): 1-3 (no year)
-Riki’s anime voice was provided by Yui Horie, who was Ayu from Kanon
-Kyousuke’s voice actor is the same as Yoshino Yusuke
Yuu Kamonomiya (young Kyousuke and Kengo, and Miyuki Koshiki): 4-25 (no year)
Nobutoshi Canna (Masato Inohara): 1968-6-10
Yuusei Oda (Kengo Miyazawa): 1969-9-19
Natsumi Yanase (Komari Kamikita): 1971-5-10
-Haruka and Kanata are both voiced by Keiko Suzuki, mentioned momentarily ago
Naomi Wakabayashi (Kudryavka Naomi) [no, I am not writing her full other name]: 1975-11-2
-Kurugaya’s voice is the same as Tomoyo’s AS voice
Shiho Kawaragi (Mio & Midori Nishizono): 1976-4-29
Yuiko Tatsumi (Mio- anime season 1, Midori-anime): 1987-9-17
Sora Tokui (Sasami- anime): 1989-12-26
-Sasami’s minions are voiced by people that voiced Clannad characters. Yukari: Kyou, Rei: Ryou, and Sakiko: Fuko
Harumi Sakurai (Saya Tokido): 1982-10-21
Toru Okawa (Kojiro Kamikita- anime): 1960-2-28

All other missing people are unmentioned.

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#19

Forgot a few more… although… never look up Shiina’s voice actress yourself. Yuuki Himuro’s voice actress is difficult to locate information on, and Ui Arizuki’s voice actress is a Mass Effect character as far as some notions care.

That leaves our current birthday girl as the only voice actress as a true listed one…
Rita (A-Chan-senpai)- 3/25. Sorry that we missed this, as she’s important not only as a voice here, but the singer of all LB vocal music.

#20

Finally Rewrite.
Masakazu Morita (Kotarou Tennouji): 1972-10-21
Chiwa Saito (Kotori Kanbe): 1981-3-12
Saya Shinomiya (Chihaya Ohtori): 11-13 (no year)
Eri Kitamura (Akane Senri): 1987-8-16

  • Shizuru is back to Keiko Suzuki
    Risa Asaki (Lucia Konohana): 7-12 (no year)
    Kana Hanazawa (Kagari): 1989-2-25
    Katsuyuki Konishi (Sakuya): 1973-4-21
    -Yoshino’s voice actor always existed on this earth instead of having a birthday.
  • Nishikujou’s voice actress is the same as Tomoyo AS
    Hiroki Tochi (Esaka): 1966-5-26
    Soichiro Hoshi (Midou): 1972-5-30

Too many others are not available, or are too minor for me to bother. All of these are at least on the setting page to hear voices.

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