# Ai Furihata

Ai Furihata (降幡 愛, Furihata Ai, born February 19, 1994) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Nagano Prefecture. She is affiliated with Across Entertainment.
Furihata made her debut as solo singer in Fall 2020 with her first mini album, "Moonrise" as the first artist affiliated with a new music label under Bandai Namco Arts and Blue Sofa, Purple One Star. She is best known for her role as Ruby Kurosawa in the Love Live! Sunshine!! anime series.

## Biography

Furihata was born on February 19 in the Nagano Prefecture and her height is 148 cm. Furihata's hobbies are listening to music and collecting T-shirts. Some of Furihata's achievements include Word Processor Practical Certification Grade 2 and Calligraphy Skill Certification Grade 3.
In 2015, Furihata made her debut as a voice actress with Love Live! Sunshine!! as Ruby Kurosawa. While under Aqours, Furihata also grouped into its sub-unit CYaRon! along with Anju Inami (voice of Chika Takami) and Shuka Saitō (voice of You Watanabe). Furihata is nicknamed Furirin and Aiai by both Aqours members and fans.

## Works
### Voice acting roles
#### Anime

* Love Live! Sunshine!! as Ruby Kurosawa
* Orange as Saku (eps 13)
* Healin' Good Pretty Cure as Element Spirit Water
* Rail Romanesque as Iyo
* Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai as Gome-chan
* I'm Standing on a Million Lives as Majiha Pink
* Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror as Ruby
* Astro Note as Teruko Matsubara
* Girls Band Cry as Shiomi Miura
* Chūzenji-sensei Mononoke Kōgiroku as Atsuko Chuzenji

#### Anime films

* Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing as Airi Momoi

#### Video games

* The Alchemist Code as Lisbeth Van Rustburg
* Knights of Girls as Saturn; Comet; Sanadi
* KRITIKA as Zenith; Jennifer
* Love Live! School Idol Festival as Ruby Kurosawa
* Quiz RPG: Mahōtsukai to Kuroneko no Wiz as Kaede
* Shironeko Project as Alexander; Chitcho; Gries
* Icey as ICEY
* Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku as Airi Momoi
* Ash Arms as ZSU-37
* Yohane the Parhelion: Blaze in the Deepblue as Ruby

#### Dubbing

* Drift as Tina
* More than Blue as Bonnie (Emma Wu)

### Internet Program

* Love Live! Sunshine!! Aqours Niconama Kagai Katsudō ~Trio da yo! Ichi, Ni no Sunshine!!~ (Niconico, since February 5, 2016)

### Others

* Voice Academia (April 7, 2013 - March 30, 2014, BS Fuji) as assistant MC
* Tottemo Yasashii Amae-Chanas Amae-Chan

## Discography
### Studio albums

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Details | JPN Hot |
| Super Moon | Released: November 8, 2023 Label: Purple One Star Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 82 |

### Extended plays

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Sales |
| Title | Details | JPN | JPN Hot | Sales |
| Moonrise | Released: September 23, 2020 Label: Purple One Star Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 18 | 20 | JPN: 5,197 |
| Make Up (メイクアップ, Meiku Appu) | Released: December 23, 2020 Label: Purple One Star Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 48 | 45 | JPN: 2,472 |
| Memories of Romance in Summer | Released: April 27, 2022 Label: Purple One Star Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | — | 74 | |
| Memories of Romance in Driving | Released: September 28, 2022 Label: Purple One Star Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 35 | 40 | JPN: 1,533 |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart. |||||

### Singles

| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Sales | Album |
| Title | Year | JPN | JPN Sales | JPN Down. | Sales | Album |
| "City" | 2020 | — | — | 77 | | Moonrise |
| "Purple Eyeshadow" (パープルアイシャドウ, Pāpuru Aishadou) | 2020 | — | — | — | | Make Up |
| "Axiom" | 2021 | — | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "Secret Sugar" (シークレット・シュガー, Shīkuretto Shugā) | 2021 | — | — | — | | "Honeymoon" (single) |
| "Honeymoon" (ハネムーン, Hanemūn) | 2021 | 29 | 31 | — | JPN: 1,620 | "Honeymoon" (single) |
| "Higashi kara Nishi e" (東から西へ, "From East to West") | 2021 | 34 | 42 | — | JPN: 1,557 | Non-album single |
| "Play Boy" | 2023 | — | — | — | | Super Moon |
| "Fashion" | 2023 | — | — | — | | Super Moon |
| "Super Moon" | 2023 | — | — | — | | Super Moon |
| "Hohoemi no Oto" (ホホエミノオト, "Smile Note") | 2024 | 24 | 23 | — | JPN: 2,082 | Non-album single |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart. |||||||

### Video albums

* Ai Furihata 1st Live Tour Apollo at Zepp Diver City (Tokyo) (2021)