Kaede Hondo

Kaede Hondo voices Sakura Minamoto in the anime, Zombie Land Saga.

Biography
Hondo became interested in acting and modeling during her fifth year of elementary school, when a woman approached her saying she had "a face that goes well with makeup." Not immediately knowing what that meant, she did an investigation on her own later, and came to believe she was told she had a suitable face for an actress or model. Then she started auditioning for various acting and modeling jobs, but didn't succeed. Initially, she did not consider voice acting as an option. Although she gave up performing arts professionally, she had a desire to perform in front of people, so upon entering high school she joined the theater club. Due to her height, her voice, and her "baby face", she wasn't often chosen for roles like that of a mom or a nurse.

While in her third year of school, one of her instructors was a radio personality, and her experiences with him and the theater club influenced her to decide to become a seiyuu. When she finished high school, she went to university but told her parents that she would leave them when she became a seiyuu. She entered the Japan Narration Actor Institute and when she passed an audition sponsored by various entities in Nagoya, she dropped out of university and joined the I'm Enterprise agency. Her debut was in 2015 and since then she has voiced more than 25 characters, after Sakura Minamoto has continued to add protagonists in anime such as Tejina-senpai, Hensuki, Val x Love, Bofuri and Shadowverse.

Trivia

 * She likes spicy things, especially tabasco sauce and spicy ramen.
 * She has a dog named Lily.
 * She is not good at cooking but she likes to eat as she prefers to buy prepared food than to waste time in the kitchen.
 * She likes bright colors and unique clothing.
 * As a child, she was not very interested in anime but was a fan of Naruto and did voice imitations.

Kaede Hondo