Yoshioka Mayu

Yoshioka Mayu (吉岡茉祐)

Personal Information
Birthday	November 7, 1995 (age 29)
Hometown	Osaka, Japan
Nickname	Mayushī (まゆしぃ), Mayu-chan (まゆちゃん)
Height	159 cm (5 ft 2.6 in)
Blood Type	O
Professional Information
Agency	81 Produce
Debut Year	2013
Status	Active
Social Medias
Agency Profile	Yoshioka Mayu @81 Produce
Twitter	@yoshioka_mayuC
Instagram	@yoshioka_mayuc

Yoshioka Mayu (吉岡茉祐, born November 7, 1995) is a Japanese seiyuu and singer from Osaka Prefecture. While she studied stage acting in high school, she ended up learning to also sing and dance when getting her first main role as the mysterious former idol Mayu Shimada in an idol anime called Wake Up, Girls! where she also performed in a seiyuu idol group also named Wake Up, Girls! and usually served as the group's center.

In 2015, she won a Special Award at the 9th Seiyu Awards for Wake Up, Girls! along with fellow members Aoyama Yoshino and Tanaka Minami.

In 2016, she joined the coed seiyuu idol unit D-selections along side fellow WUGer Aoyama Yoshino. She also was part of the temporary seiyuu idol unit Happy Clover (related to the anime Anne Happy♪, 2016).

In 2019, she started a radio show with Yamashita Nanami (another WUGer) called "Mayu Yoshioka and Nanami Yamashita's Kotodama ☆ Pancake" (『吉岡茉祐と山下七海のことだま☆パンケーキ』 aka "KotoPan").

In mid April 2024, she announced the release of vertical-scrolling webcomic called Raidol!! ~I Made My Idol Debut in the World of Different Voices <Isekai>~ (『ライドル‼～異声界＜イセカイ＞でアイドルデビューしちゃいました～』) via an announcement on her agency's YouTube channel.^[1]

Music career[]

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The start of her music career was also her first seiyuu role with the seiyuu idol unit Wake Up, Girls! (2014 to 2018) related to the anime Wake Up, Girls! (2014+). She was usually the center of the group. With the group, she released 9 singles with all of them reaching the the top 40 of the Oricon singles charts and the first two peaking at #18 and #19. The group also did a collaboration single with the singer May'n which reached #18 on the Oricon singles chart. The group held many solo and joint live events from 2014 to 2018.

Anime roles[]

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Main roles[]

Haruka Kiritani in Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage (ONA Petit Seka 2022 shorts, ONA Journey to Bloom 5 ep 2023 shorts)
Tilarna Exedilika in Cop Craft (2019, Special Edition: Beautiful Female Knight! Pursue the Captive Fairy! special 2019 recap)
Ren Ekoda in Anne Happy♪ (2016)
Sakura Kirishima in Hundred (2016)
Mayu Shimada in Wake Up, Girls! (The Movie: Seven Idols 2014 movie, S1 2014, Zoo! 2014 shorts, Shadow of Youth & Beyond the Bottom 2015 movies, New Chapter S2 2017)

Notable supporting roles[]

Haruka Kiritani in Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage (The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing 2025 movie)
Gran Maria in Farming Life in Another World (2023)
California Sea Lion in Kemono Friends (S2 2019)
Aer in In Another World With My Smartphone (2017)
Ayame in Hacka Doll The Animation (2015 shorts)