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Takamori Natsumi
Furigana: たかもり なつみ
Romaji: Takamori Natsumi
Birthplace: Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture
Dialect: Kashu
Birthday: February 14, 1987
Height: 159 cm
Hobbies: Exploring cafes and coffee shops, drawing illustrations, and traveling alone
Special skills: Badminton, low sense of humour
Certification: Chinese character proficiency test level 3, secretary qualification test level 3, other
Experience: Graduated from Pro・Fit Voice Actor Training Institute
Debut work: Sakura Group 4 – "White Album"
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Life experience
Character Details
love for young girls
Painter
Takamori P
Takamori Natsumi phenomenon
Other stage names
Life experience
- Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, she moved with her family to Fukushima Prefecture as a child before returning to Yamanashi. She graduated from Kofu Municipal Kofu Commercial High School.
- From childhood through high school, she was always active in sports clubs. She participated in swimming, mini basketball, and volleyball, and joined the badminton club in high school, even competing in the Inter-High School Championships.
- After graduation, she worked as a station attendant at JR Ueno Station before becoming a voice actress.
- She attended Pro・Fit Voice Actor Training School and graduated in 2009 as part of the 10th class.
- The same year, she made her official voice acting debut as a member of the Sakura-dan in the TV anime “WHITE ALBUM.”
- In 2022, due to Pro・Fit ceasing operations, she officially transferred on April 1 to Raccoon Dog, an agency founded by fellow former Pro・Fit voice actor Nobuhiko Okamoto.
- On September 29, 2022, Raccoon Dog announced that Natsumi Takamori had developed a fever and tested positive for COVID-19 via PCR. She resumed work a few days later, on October 7.
- On January 25, 2024, Raccoon Dog announced that Takamori had experienced joint pain and fever, testing positive for influenza. She returned to work a few days later, on January 31.
Character Details
- She has slightly droopy, dark eyes, which she herself refers to as “ero-me” (seductive eyes).
- She is buxom; fellow voice actress Ms. Asuka Nishi and her junior from the same training school, Ms. Ai Kayano, both recall their first impression of Ms. Takamori being that she had a large chest.
- She cannot whistle and has never learned how.
- On the 2023 radio program “Nacchan Eri-chan no Erai! Sugoi!,” her catchphrase was “Urusee!” (Shut up!), which led to “Urusee!” being chosen as the program’s buzzword of the year for 2023.
- At age 6, she went to a theme park called “Yume no Kuni” on a company trip with her father and has never been back since.
- On the 24th episode of the radio program “Nacchan Eri-chan no Erai! Sugoi!,” she mentioned that as a child, she was bitten on her right arm by a village dog named Eru, leaving a scar to this day. At the time, her hand was spread open when the dog suddenly bit her; she screamed, and her grandfather chased the dog away, calling it a “bad dog.”
- On the same program, she shared that her sister believed in Santa Claus until junior high school, while she herself always thought Santa was just a fictional character from picture books.
- She has mentioned on a program that as a child, she was afraid of dark, narrow spaces like closets and also feared the corners of ceilings; she also found rooms with Buddhist altars and decorative photos scary.
- She also mentioned on her own radio show that in elementary school, she liked a boy sitting next to her so much that she would tease him.
- During junior high school, she went through a one-month rebellious phase.
- Around that time, she went to see cherry blossoms on a mountain with a boy she liked, but spent the whole time spacing out and then went home.
- On the radio program “Nacchan to Eri-chan no Erai! Sugoi!,” she mentioned that her mother told her during her junior high years that she would never get married.
- She also mentioned on the same program that she had served as a library committee member.
- She does not ride thrill rides or scary attractions at amusement parks.
- In high school, she studied Chinese for a short while but found it too difficult and eventually gave up. Later, at “THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls” 5th SSA Shanghai screening event in 2017, she learned a few basically useless words. Then, at the “Cinderella Girls” performance in Taiwan in 2018, she managed to read complete sentences using pronunciations written in katakana.
- After attending the FACG8 voice actor event in Fuzhou in 2019, she learned three Chinese phrases: “Hello everyone, my name is Natsumi Takamori, delicious.”
- At the same event, she performed live Japanese dubbing for a portion of the “Ne Zha” character from “One Hundred Thousand Cold Jokes” and thought that the original voice actress, Ms. Shan Xin, had a very cute voice.
- She has mentioned on her own program that when going abroad, she would like to visit local supermarkets.
- At the first part of the in-person event “Voice Actors from Yamanashi Prefecture Association Vol. 2,” she mentioned that she had traveled to Hong Kong and Macau.
- She owns a ZO-3 guitar at her parents’ house.
- She once accidentally called her teacher “Mom.”
- Her inspiration to become a voice actress came during middle school when she would read manga to her sister, voicing various characters and finding it fun.
- She has mentioned on a radio program that she always wears glasses to recording sessions.
- She describes her apartment as small.
- Her desired travel destination abroad is Finland.
- On “Natsumi Takamori’s P!t in Radio,” she famously said, “Spending on in-game purchases is culture.”
- During her time at Pro・Fit, her listed special skill was grip strength, recorded at over 40. She later joked about this on various programs and finally had it removed after transferring to her new agency. However, on April 15, 2017, shortly after turning 30, she appeared as a guest on the 13th episode of “Naomi Ozora and Hitomi Owada’s Toriseka” and recorded a grip strength of 33.6. Her profile at her former agency also stated that she could fall asleep anywhere, quickly.
- When asked why she often voiced flat-chested characters, she responded that she felt she had a “flat-chested” voice.
- If she had a time machine, she would want to photograph Japan’s Taisho era. On the Japanese live stream program for the mobile game “Reverse: 1999” called “Rainstorm Intelligence Bureau,” she mentioned that if she could go back in time, she would like to visit the Taisho era and experience “Taisho Roman” (Taisho-era romanticism).
- When she buys a female figure, she looks at the panties.
- On the program “A&G NEXT GENERATION Lady Go!!,” she once wore a red cheongsam, which she says she still keeps at home.
- Since her birthday is February 14, Valentine’s Day, she often receives chocolates and is unsure whether to give something back.
- On November 23, 2015, she announced on Twitter that she had started using PIXIV, posting an anthropomorphized illustration of her former agency Pro・Fit, and stated she aimed to participate in Summer Comiket 2016, though she ended up missing it.
- Later, she mentioned in an illustration on the official “SeiFre” Twitter account that she would be applying for Comiket, and subsequently revealed on her program “Takamori Jusensha” that she had submitted an application for Comiket 93. She confirmed on the 13th live broadcast of “Takamori Jusensha” that she was not selected.
- Her way of holding a pen when drawing is quite distinctive; typically people grip with their thumb and index finger, but Ms. Takamori adds her middle finger, placing it parallel to and below the index finger.
- She celebrated her 30th birthday with the four other hosts—fellow voice actresses Ms. Shiori Mikami, Ms. Mikako Komatsu, Ms. Rumi Ookubo, and Ms. Sumire Uesaka—from “A&G NEXT GENERATION Lady Go!!.”
- In 2023, he mentioned on the show "Nacchan to Eri-chan no Erai! Sugoi!" that he wanted to be friends with hot girls.
- Her favorite summer sweet is watermelon, and she often—she once said almost every day—eats it.
- She is on the “takenoko” (bamboo shoot) side of the “takenoko vs. kinoko” snack debate. She used to be on the “kinoko” (mushroom) side but switched to takenoko after seeing more people on that side.
- For tamagoyaki (Japanese omelette), she prefers it seasoned with soy sauce.
- When eating chocolate, she prefers bitter varieties, but when drinking black coffee, she eats sweet chocolate.
- She also likes white chocolate, even questioning whether it is technically chocolate.
- Among hot pot dishes, she particularly enjoys motsunabe (offal hot pot).
- Her midnight snack of choice is a parfait.
- The ice cream or popsicles she eats in summer and winter are completely different. In winter, she chooses vanilla-based and chocolate-based types with a slightly milky feel, while in summer, she prefers watermelon and melon popsicles.
- She enjoys drinking milk and coffee.
- She used to dislike milk tea, but there was someone who always treated the staff to milk tea after work; unable to tell that person she didn’t like it, she gradually got used to drinking it.
- She similarly disliked tapioca, but after having some kind of tapioca-containing beverage at a shop called “Yi Dian Dian” in Shanghai in late 2017, she became less averse. Later, after drinking oolong milk tea in Taiwan in 2018, she found it extremely tasty.
- At the end of 2023, she mentioned on a program that she had recently started enjoying Chinese tea.
- She cannot stand unadjusted soy milk but greatly enjoys adjusted soy milk.
- In an interview for “Voice Angel Vol1.1,” when asked if she could choose her gender at birth, which would she prefer? She answered she would want to be male, curious about what kind of man she would become.
- In 2017, she found crab in Shanghai delicious; in 2018, her schedule in Taiwan was too tight to try very local specialties; after visiting Fuzhou in 2019, she found Fujian cuisine mild and felt Chinese food was generally healthy.
- She enjoys drinking alone. She has mentioned she doesn’t particularly care for dry sake. She likes drinking beer in the summer but doesn’t in winter. Regardless of the season, she enjoys drinking lemon sour—a drink made with distilled liquor and lemon soda—at home.
- She likes eating alone, watching movies alone, and singing karaoke alone. On her radio program “Natsumi Takamori’s P!t in Radio,” there was a notable instance of her having a barbecue alone. On the “refill” segment of “Let’s Have Tea with Natsumi Takamori?,” while discussing ramen shops, she mentioned liking Ichiran because of its individual booths. On the radio program “Natsumi Takamori and Eriko Matsui: Sort of Like This,” she mentioned that she loves sushi and has eaten it alone, also noting her love for salmon.
- She is a big fan of the character Pyramid Head from the horror game series “Silent Hill,” referring to him as “Pyramid Head-sama” and considering him handsome. She also finds the nurses in the same series cute.
- On an extra segment of her program “Takamori Jusensha,” when discussing the game “Tokimeki Memorial 2,” she named Kaori Yaezaki as her favorite character.
- She has mentioned that when playing bishojo games—games with female characters—in the past, she would mostly skip through the voices, clicking through rapidly.
- She has a fascination with three-way intersections, claiming to have a folder dedicated to photos of them that she takes whenever she passes one. She also enjoys taking pictures of staircases.
- When asked about her favorite flower on an extra segment of “Natsumi Takamori’s P!t in Radio,” she answered Cleome. She doesn’t necessarily like it, just doesn’t dislike it, so she uses it as her answer. She also likes lily of the valley and really likes baby’s breath—kasumisou—feeling a bit happy when she receives it. In terms of types, she prefers more modest flowers. When it comes to spring, she of course likes cherry blossoms.
- She is a fan of comedian and actor Mr. Tsukaji Muga. On the 124th episode—her birthday—of “A&G NEXT GENERATION Lady Go!!,” she was moved to tears upon receiving a video message from him. Her favorite book is “Tsukaji Diary.” Her only liked tweet on Twitter is his reply to one of her tweets: a smiling face ^_^♪.
- Based on her tweets, she enjoys rock music and J-POP, particularly liking the songs of the Japanese rock band “Bushizakana Dokokai.”
- During the sixth episode of “TAKAMORI People’s Party Night,” upon seeing the song “Ifuudoudou” in the chat, she commented that she likes that song too.
- On the 24th episode of “Nacchan Eri-chan no Erai! Sugoi!,” she mentioned liking Jenny from the Barbie series.
- She likes “The King of Fighters” and has talked about it with fellow voice actor Mr. Tomokazu Sugita on Twitter. Her first anime crush is Mr. Chris from “The King of Fighters.”
- She bought volumes of “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” to prepare for voicing the young version of Mr. Jotaro Kujo. She mentioned receiving advice from Mr. Daisuke Ono, who voices the adult Mr. Jotaro Kujo, on her “Ora ora ora” during the fight with Mr. Alessi. After the 33rd episode of “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Egypt Arc” aired, she tweeted “Fuu… yare yare daze…” to which Mr. Sugita, who voices the young Mr. Joseph Joestar, teased her, saying “Maekawa-kun, do a JoJo impression.” She responded with her unique “Ora ora ora ora nyaa!!!” This moment was later illustrated by a fan and posted on PIXIV. She has also publicly performed a JoJo pose.
- In 2015, she “married” fellow Pro・Fit voice actress Ms. Marie Miyake in the online game “Final Fantasy XIV.”
- On the 47th episode of “Let’s Have Tea with Natsumi Takamori?,” she declared Ms. Eriko Matsui as her favorite, later becoming the “leader of the Matsueri faction” on the 156th episode of “Cinderella Radio☆.”
- She finds voice actress Ms. Haruka Yoshimura reliable and trustworthy; drinks with voice actress Ms. Shiori Mikami; and shares many similarities with voice actress Ms. Eriko Matsui.
- During a live stream for the anime “Denki-gai no Honya-san,” she and fellow voice actress Ms. Minami Tsuda slapped voice actor Mr. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka. At an in-person event “Chatting with Voice Actors” Part 1 in 2023, the two recalled the incident but had forgotten the reason, concluding it must have been a request from the production.
- During the 2020 New Year holiday, she traveled to Italy with voice actress Ms. Eriko Matsui, pushing two twin beds together to sleep side by side and even changing their Twitter profile pictures to matching ones.
- On the 33rd episode of “THE IDOLM@STER MUSIC ON THE RADIO,” she and voice actor Mr. Shunsuke Nakamura established a “Zuttomo”—forever friends—relationship.
- She once mentioned spending over eight hours at a café with voice actress Ms. Sayuri Hara.
- On “Takamori Jusensha” and in its doujinshi, she expressed a strong preference for B-cups, stating that among the breasts she has touched, the best belonged to Ms. Ayaka Fukuhara.
- On the radio program “Nacchan Eri-chan no Erai! Sugoi!,” she shared that she once fell asleep in Ms. Sumire Uesaka’s bathroom.
- On July 31, 2024, she tweeted that she had gone to Cebu Island in the Philippines with voice actress Ms. Risa Shimizu earlier in the year.
- She dislikes playing hide-and-seek; if forced, she would rather be the seeker than hide.
- She is not good at math and dislikes numbers.
- She is not particularly good at full-course French dinners.
- She dislikes people smoking around her. While her father used to smoke, he quit after taking up marathon running; she claims he runs 6 km daily.
- At the second part of the “Tokyo Sake Collection 2025” stage event, she mentioned her current favorite idol is Ms. Aika Sano from “CUTIE STREET.”
love for young girls
- She is well-known as a lolicon. Her trigger for becoming a lolicon was Ms. Rydia from “Final Fantasy IV,” who starts at age 7, leaves the party, and returns as an adult. She also has strong memories of Ms. Eiko Carol from “Final Fantasy IX.”
- Her favorite character in “Gensokyoku 3” was Satsuki—age 14—stating at the time, “The reason is that I’m a lolicon.”
- On the second episode of “Idol Master Web Radio – Wanpack Special – Nyan Nyan Radio, It’s Starting Nyan!,” she famously declared, “I am indeed a lolicon,” reiterating it on the third episode. On the fifth episode, when asked to imitate one of the 13 original idols, she chose Ms. Yayoi Takatsuki, a fitting choice for a Yayoi Producer, though she ended up exhausted.
- At an in-person event for “Takamori Jusensha” Part 1, she declared, “Young girls are a good thing; young girls are truly a good thing.”
- She once tweeted, “When I started playing Dragon Quest XI, because two young girls were following me, I ended up circling the village aimlessly.”
- She also likes characters who look like young girls but are actually much older.
- She identifies as a “relative lolicon.”
- For her, young girls equal peace.
Painter
- She is renowned for her drawing skills, even creating the hashtag #TakamoriArtClub on Twitter. Though not accepted, she once submitted a 4-panel manga to “Dragon Quest 4-panel Manga Theater.”
- As a child, she was good at drawing Pokémon and created a manga titled “Sodateya Monogatari”—Breeder Story—though she claims she can no longer draw like that.
- On November 23, 2015, she announced on Twitter that she had started using PIXIV, posting an anthropomorphized illustration of her former agency Pro・Fit, and stated she aimed to participate in Summer Comiket 2016, though she ended up missing it.
- Later, she mentioned in an illustration on the official “SeiFre” Twitter account that she would be applying for Comiket, and subsequently revealed on her program “Takamori Jusensha” that she had submitted an application for Comiket 93. She confirmed on the 13th live broadcast of “Takamori Jusensha” that she was not selected.
Takamori P
- She voices Ms. Miku Maekawa in “THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls.” She also plays the game herself and is a Producer, referred to by fans as Takamori-P.
- Initially, she learned about THE IDOLM@STER through a friend who was an avid Ms. Chihaya fan, seeing the Xbox 360 version, but didn’t own an Xbox herself. She first played the series with the 2009 PSP game “THE IDOLM@STER SP.” Due to a radio program job, she met Ms. Yayoi Takatsuki’s voice actress, Ms. Mayako Nigo, and having known about the series, they discussed it, leading her to choose the Yellow color associated with Ms. Mayako. She became a proper Producer starting with the first TV anime, and attended live concerts from the 7th onwards. For Cinderella Girls, she pre-registered for Mobamas before its official launch. In the game, she listened to everyone’s “U!”—a specific in-game voice—because she wanted to hear them all.
- She initially fell in love with THE IDOLM@STER through its music, particularly “my song.” She wants to sing many of the series’ songs and finds enjoyment in the aspect of nurturing idols.
- In Cinderella Girls, she likes all idols under 15—the U15 group—calling herself “Ms. Rina Ichihara’s dad” and “Ms. Yui Narumiya’s Producer.” For the original series, she is a fan of Ms. Yayoi Takatsuki, Ms. Takane Shijō, and Ms. Miki Hoshii. She finds Ms. Iori Myōga incredibly cute due to her love for Ms. Aimi Numakura’s voice. She likes the songs and costumes of Ryūgū Komachi. She finds Ms. Azusa Miura cute and enjoys her singing to the point of wanting to be her boyfriend.
- Her first professional contact with THE IDOLM@STER was an audition for the first CD for Ms. Anzu. She auditioned for other characters then but was not selected. For the second CD, she auditioned for Ms. Kirari, and at that time, Mr. Takashi Ishihara remarked, “This is for Mirai, isn’t it?”—laughs.
- On April 10, 2015, she tweeted an illustration revealing her preferences among Cinderella Girls characters, noting a preference for the Passion—Pa—type. The illustration included Ms. Mahiro Kitagawa, Ms. Ayame Hamaguchi, Ms. Yuzu Kitami, Ms. Rina Ichihara, Ms. Yui Narumiya, and Ms. Hijiri Mochizuki.
- On July 30, 2014, when the official Cinderella Girls Passion—Pa—homepage was released, she tweeted a response because Ms. Rina was in the bottom left corner of the image: “Rina～～～～ Papa is here… ah, I’m Miku.”
- On April 1, 2015, she received two Ms. Miku Maekawa cards from a Mobamas 10-draw ticket, adding “#NoLie” at the end of her tweet because it was April Fools’ Day.
- On Ms. Miku Maekawa’s birthday—April 22—in 2016, she celebrated by eating taiyaki, noting in the same tweet that she had had hamburg steak the day before. In 2017, she went for hamburg steak on her birthday.
- She once spent 10,000 yen trying to draw Ms. Miku Maekawa’s SR card in Mobamas, failing to get it, eventually obtaining it through points.
- On the day of the third collaboration between Cinderella Girls and Granblue Fantasy, “Fantasy Cinderella ~A New Visitor~,” she obtained Ms. Miku Maekawa within Granblue Fantasy.
- When the CGSS iOS version launched, she got SSR Ms. Rin Shibuya on her second 10-draw.
- At TGS 2015 on the YouTube GAME booth, she played CGSS live for the first time in front of an audience, tackling the Master difficulty of “Todoke! Idol” and successfully cleared it.
- On November 8, 2015, she tweeted a picture showing she had SSR Ms. Mio Honda, SSR Ms. Riina Tada, SSR Ms. Anzu Futaba, SSR Ms. Miku Maekawa, and SSR Ms. Minami Nitta.
- On December 21, 2015, the day SSR Ms. Rina Ichihara was added to the CGSS gacha, she used the kaomoji (^∀^三^∀^) in a tweet reply and drew the SSR the next day. On May 31, 2016, the day SSR Bride Ms. Miku Maekawa was added, she used the same kaomoji in a tweet reply.
- The day after the 5th Cinderella Girls General Election began, she tweeted, “Miku…! Can she avenge her last defeat…! (｀ω·´)”—she had placed second last time. She ultimately finished 8th in the 5th election. By the 6th election, there was no mention.
- On May 9, 2016, the day Ms. Nana Abe’s character story was added to CGSS, she tweeted, “Oh yeah, I’m going for it.”
- On June 28, 2016, the day limited SSR Ms. Uzuki Shimamura, limited SSR Ms. Rin Shibuya, and limited SSR Ms. Mio Honda were added to CGSS, she drew limited SSR Ms. Mio Honda.
- On May 31, 2017, the day after Bride SSR Ms. Rin Shibuya and Bride SSR Ms. Karin Dōmyōji were added to CGSS, she drew Bride SSR Ms. Rin Shibuya along with SSR Ms. Nao Kamiya and SSR Ms. Kaede Takagaki.
- For SideM, she likes Café Parade, initially interested in Mr. Reo Koyanagi. When the twins Mr. Yūsuke Aoi and Mr. Kyōsuke Aoi were announced, she reacted with, “Huh, really? Huh? Really? Love ♡.”
- In Shiny Colors, she is interested in Ms. Fuyuko Mayuzumi.
- On July 5, 2019, after listening to a preview of Ms. Rina Ichihara’s new solo song, she tweeted that it was so amazing she briefly lost consciousness, stating she couldn’t stop her “fatherly instincts.”
- In 2026, fans known as “Miku Producers” successfully crowdfunded a birthday advertisement for the character. After learning about it, Ms. Natsumi Takamori asked about its location on X, and on February 22, she visited the site in Harajuku, took photos of the advertisement poster, and posted them on the platform.
Takamori Natsumi phenomenon
- When Ms. Takamori addresses voice actress Ms. Chiyo Sakura by her nickname, she does so with a notably high pitch, represented in text as “Chiyo-chan!” This has led to fans calling any similarly high-pitched nickname delivery the “Natsumi Takamori Phenomenon.”
Other stage names
- Moritaka Minatsu (モリタカミナツ)
A mysterious woman who appeared on the radio program “A&G NEXT GENERATION Lady Go!!,” characterized by her scarf and sunglasses. With a languid air, she swiftly addressed listener questions, reports, and consultations. She kept the President of Swiss Bank waiting outside and seemed very busy. She has since handed things over to her daughter and is traveling abroad.
- Nachumi (なちゅみ)
“Although a bit spoiled, she’s Onii-chan’s favorite little sister—Nachumi.” A segment on “A&G NEXT GENERATION Lady Go!!” that started on April 12, 2012.
- Mitsuna Rimokata-san (ミツナ・リモカタさん)
A sponsor appearing on the segment of “Natsumi Takamori’s P!t in Radio” introducing products from amiami, referred to as the Information Center’s sponsor, Mitsuna Moritaka-san—ミツナ・リモカタさん—or Rimokata-san for short. She made her first live appearance at an event in February 2017. She also appeared in “Let’s Have Tea with Natsumi Takamori?” after “P!t in Radio” ended.
- Takamori Jusensha (高森重戦車)
A pen name used in the radio program “Takamori Jusensha” (高森重戦舎).