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Kanae Itō

Japanese voice actress and singer from Nagano Prefecture

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ50022 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kanae Itō (伊藤 かな恵, Itō Kanae) (born November 26, 1986) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Nagano Prefecture.

Biography

After graduating from high school, Ito attended the Amusement Media Academy in 2007. She was a member of the groups Koetchi (こえっち) and Rirachitchi (りらちっち), before they were disbanded between December 16, 2005 and January 28, 2007. She played Mega-nee Akai in Pretty Series. Her role was praised by critics, and later appeared in radio serials, drama CDs and video games. Itō played Fumino Serizawa in Mayoi Neko Overrun! and Airi in Queen's Blade. She and Aki Toyosaki starred on several series, including Shugo Chara!, To Love-Ru, The World God Only Knows, Hanasaku Iroha and A Certain Scientific Railgun (they also hosted the A Certain Scientific Railgun web radio show, Radio no Railgun). Itō won the awards at the 4th Seiyu Awards and the 5th Seiyu Awards.

Filmography

Anime series

2007

Hatara Kizzu Maihamu Gumi – Kumi

Shugo Chara!

Editorial summary

“Kanae Itō” enters the record as japanese voice actress and singer from Nagano Prefecture. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kanae, Japanese and voice can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2007, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-11-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kanae, Japanese and voice.
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Why this record matters

“Kanae Itō” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kanae, Japanese and voice provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50022. VIAF identifies the subject as 3532163335727403270003. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2007 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kanae Itō” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.