Miki Nagasawa

**Miki Nagasawa** (長沢美樹) is a voice actress involved in Bottleman. She voiced Eri Hocari in the Japanese dub of Cap Revolution Bottleman DX.

## Biography

Miki Nagasawa was born in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan on July 11, 1970. She is affiliated with the agency Atomic Monkey, after leaving her previous agency Haikyo. Despite being born in Hokkaido, she was raised for the majority of her life in Fukushima.

When she was in elementary school, she was deeply influenced by "Gone with the Wind" and its comic and movie adaptations, so she began her artistic pathway by writing novels. During 12th grade, Nagasawa initially thought of an announcer for media broadcasting, but later decided to become a voice actress.

She bought a magazine and applied through the magazine's attached application for Katsuta Voice Actor Academy, upon deciding to pursue voice acting. She originally thought she was never going to be destined to this career due to seeing the delivered application from the academy having been drenched in the rain, until the academy staff resent her another application form, which reignited her passion for this career path.

Nagasawa later departed from Fukushima to Tokyo for her career. She met actor Tomokazu Seki during her period at the voice actor training agency, although they didn't get to know each other for long. However, she occasionally still worked with him in different radio shows and animated programmes. She would later establish the voice actor agency Atomic Moneky with other fellow voice actors and theater troupe "HEROHERO-Q".

Her popularity had risen after voicing characters like Maya Ibuki from *Neon Genesis Evangelion* and Sakura Kuriyagawa from *Key the Metal Idol*, and she later got the chance to be a member of the *Brave Command Dagwon* series.

## Trivia

* She was born on the year of the Dog Zodiac.
* Her blood type is A.
* Vampire Princess Miyu is the first anime that Nagasawa got to voice a protagonist.
* She mostly voices straightforward and outgoing girls, and lively boys. But she sometimes takes roles for the more tsundere type of older female characters.
* Due to her childhood love for Gundam, Nagasawa had thought of naming her child "Amuro Ray", who is the protagonist of the first Gundam series, while also considering to become an astronaut. However, others were very against her idea of naming a potential child with her favorite character. She later realized her chance of using "Amuro Ray" as a name had been taken when she learned of the debut of singer Namie Amuro, whose name already has "Amuro" included.
* She habitually greets others with "がっつんわ!! (*gattsun wa*)", which is a greeting she coined after once making curry rice and then naming her curry with said expression.
* She was colleagues with comedian Atsushi Tamura at the same Italian restaurant when she was 19 years old and working part-time at the restaurant.
* She is acquainted with Ryota Iwasaki, who attended the Atomic Monkey Voice Acting and Acting Institute and received guidance from her. She would later recruit him as a member for the theater troupe "HEROHERO-Q".

## Gallery

### Notable Characters

Miyu (*Vampire Princess Miyu*)Maya Ibuki (*Neon Genesis Evangelion*)

## Links

### References

1. ↑ http://www.atomicmonkey.jp/jp/archives/sarumaga/nagasawa-sumika
2. ↑ http://www.joqr.co.jp/blog/big-bang/archives/2012/08/post\_160.html
3. ↑ http://www.raichosha.co.jp/mm/00056.html