Yui Horie

Yui Horie (堀江 由衣 Horie Yui, born September 20, 1976) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan.

She debuted as a voice actress in 1997, releasing her debut single "My best friend" on November 18, 1998. Since then, she has been involved in excess of 350 productions in addition to promotional material, concert performances, as well as charting several albums and singles. She has her own fan club, which affectionately refers to her as "Hocchan" (ほっちゃん).

As a seiyū, her first major role was as Multi in To Heart, and first came to attention as Naru Narusegawa in Love Hina. Since then, she has voiced many notably characters such as Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket, Ayu Tsukimiya in Kanon, Mayura Daidouji in Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok, Minori Kushieda in Toradora!, Siesta in The Familiar of Zero, Carla in Fairy Tail, Tsurara Oikawa in Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Yuki Cross in Vampire Knight, Riki Naoe in Little Busters!, and Hitomi in the Dead or Alive video game series, among many others.

In 2005, she founded her own musical group called Aice5 along with other renowned seiyūs: Masumi Asano, Chiaki Takahashi, Akemi Kanda and Madoka Kimura.

She is represented by VIMS, a division of the I'm Enterprise agency. She was previously affiliated with Arts Vision. On the musical side, she is affiliated with Starchild, a division of the King Records label.