Risa Taneda

Risa Taneda (種田 梨沙, Taneda Risa) is the seiyū for Ai Mizuno in the anime series, Zombie Land Saga.

Life
She became a fan of the “Harry Potter” series when she was a freshman year of high school, which deepened her longing for the fantasy world. Around this time, she became interested in dubbing while listening to radio related to voice acting and gradually got the idea that “I'd like to appear.” However, since high school, she entered prohibited from performing arts activities. She learned acting skills by herself. She entered the design department of the Art University in Tokyo, and acquired a first-class teacher (art) license for middle and high school.

She worked as a radio assistant for 10 months while in college and then auditioned for the talent agency Office Osawa where she has been ever since. Her debut as a seiyuu was in May 2010 on a CD Drama, and her first leading character came with Saki Watanabe (Shin Sekai Yori) in 2012.

Voice actor
She has participated in numerous anime and video games such as seiyuu and has performed songs as a character or as herself in openings and endings. In addition to Franchouchou and Iron Frill in Zombie Land Saga, she is a member of the group Petit Rabbit's (Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?), Rhodanthe* (Kin'iro Mosaic) and is part of The Idolm@ster franchise as the idol, Kotoha Tanaka.

On September 1, 2016, Office Osawa published an announcement stating that Risa Taneda paused her work for health reasons, had been receiving medical attention to treat an unspecified throat problem, but since there were no signs of recovery, it was better to enter hiatus. Due to the pause, in some roles originally played by Risa, she was replaced by other seiyuus to continue game and anime development, with Erina Nakiri (Shokugeki no Souma) being the most important.

On August 4, 2017, the agency announced that Risa Taneda would progressively return to her work and on October 6 she published a message:

“Due to my throat disease, it took me a while to recover to a level where I could do voice work. It was a longer and more painful break than I expected. To be honest, I feel that going back like this must be a miracle for me. During the break, I was saved by the many kind and supportive words.”

After her return, Risa decided to work at her own pace, taking up some characters in which she had not been replaced and having Ai Mizuno as the only new protagonist.

Trivia

 * Her favorite food is Japanese-style umeboshi, meat, and matcha-flavored stuff.
 * She likes to sing, and dance. In her spare time, she likes to read manga, watch anime and documentaries, and video games. Tane-chan can be defined as a seiyuu-idol-otaku.
 * Her favorite color is blue. There is a list of characters to which she has given voice and are distinguished by their bluish hues (from turquoise to violet) in their costumes, hair, or symbols: Ai Mizuno, Aya Komichi, Rize Tedeza, Yukina Himeragi, Xenovia Quarta, Yukari Hinata. Even Kaori Miyazono and Erina Nakiri who are blonde have blue in their uniforms.
 * On August 4, Risa Taneda announced that she was returning to voice act after overcoming her illness, which is ironic because it was the day that her character had died.