Ai Nonaka

Biography

Ai Nonaka (野中 藍, Nonaka Ai; born June 8, 1981) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She works for Aoni Production and was formerly a member of the voice actor unit Drops, which included fellow voice actor Akemi Kanda, Tomoko Kaneda, Mariko Kōda, and Ryōko Shiraishi. In high school in Fukuoka, she was head of the drama club and her ambition was to play male roles in the famous all-female Takarazuka Revue.

Personal life and career

Nonaka's initial interest in voice acting started after watching YuYu Hakusho. While self-proclaiming that she really would have preferred an acting career, but due to her height, as well as her interest in anime, she ultimately pursued voice acting after high school and graduated from the 21st batch of students from the Tokyo branch of Aoni's Seiyū Coaching School.
In December 2009, she announced both on her blog and web radio, "Radio Kouza Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou Dai Ichi" (ラジオ講座よくわかる現代魔法第一) episode 30, that she has passed and acquired level 2 certification in aromatherapy. This was again announced while Nonaka was featured in the January 25, 2010, broadcast of Anison Plus.
Nonaka has a regular column, "Ai-pon no O'Toriyose Hyaku Sen" (アイぽんのお取り寄せ100選), in monthly voice magazine, Seiyū Animedia (声優アニメディア). She has been featured three times in Anison Plus since the program started on July 7, 2008, (July 28, 2008, January 26, 2009, January 25, 2010).
On August 20, 2017, she announced on both her blog and YouTube channel that she married someone outside the voice acting business days earlier on August 16 of that same year. On January 5, 2019, she announced on her blog that she had given birth to their first child the previous year.
On December 15, 2020, she tested positive for COVID-19 and was recovering from the disease, but had fully recovered that month by December 24.
On June 8, 2021, she announced her pregnancy with a second child, with the second child being born later that year on September 1.

Video games

12Riven – Myū Takae
Another Eden – Myunfa
Ape Escape 3 – Sayaka
Arknights – Glaucus
Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island – Annie Eilenberg
Azur Lane - Honoka
Blaze Union: Story to Reach the Future – Emilia and Pamela
Clannad – Fuko Ibuki
Code 18 – Hikari Haruna
Cross Edge – Meu
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round – Honoka
Dead or Alive 6 – Honoka
Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 – Honoka
Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation – Honoka
Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus – Kana Iriya, Kanade Takatsuki
Dragon Ball Xenoverse – Time Patroller (Female 4)
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – Time Patroller (Female 4)
Dynasty Warriors 7 – Bao Sanniang
Epic Seven - Alencia
Fate/Extra – Caster (Nursery Rhyme), Alice
Fate/Grand Order – Mary Read, Medea [Lily], Nursery Rhyme, Frankenstein's Monster
Final Fantasy Type-0 – Aria
Food Fantasy (2018) – Apple Pie
Food Girls 2: Civil War – Long'er
Girls' Frontline – HK416
Gloria Union – Locomoco and Pamela
Granblue Fantasy – Karteira, Konoka Konoe
Grand Chase: Dimensional Chaser - Myung Hwarin
Magia Record – Kyouko Sakura
Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis – Lene Kier
Mega Man X: Command Mission – Cinnamon
Memories Off: Yubikiri no Kioku – Orihime Hoshitsuki
NieR Replicant – Yonah
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable – Kyouko Sakura
Puyo Puyo Quest - Kyouko Sakura
Riviera: The Promised Land – Serene
Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon – Tori or Torte
Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash – Honoka
Shining Force EXA – Catheana
Shining Wind – Mao
The King of Fighters All Star – Honoka
The King of Fighters EX2: Howling Blood – Miu Kurosaki
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel – Towa Herschel
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II – Towa Herschel
Tokyo Xanadu – Towa Kokonoe
Toukiden: The Age of Demons – Hatsuho
Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive Xtreme – Honoka
Warriors All-Stars – Honoka
WarTech: Senko No Ronde – Baek Changpo
Wrestle Angels: Survivor – Cutie Kanai, Noel Shiraishi
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Tora
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse – 100-Series Realian
Yakuza 5 – Azusa Osawa
Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone – Pamela and Emilia
Ys: The Oath in Felghana – Elena Stoddart

Drama CD

2009
Koroshiya San – Kyuu Onna san
Toradora! Drama CD Vol. 2 – Kihara Maya
Drama CD Himawari – Ariesu
Drama CD Persona – Ayase Yuka
Bouso Rettou Seishun Hen – Chihou no Jidai ga Yatte Kita! – Higuchi Kyouko
Transistor Teaset – Denki Gairozu – Ooshiro Kagami
Yggdra Unison – Pamela, Emilia
2010
MM! – Shizuka Sado
2011
Puella Magi Madoka Magica – Kyoko Sakura

Animation

Chuggington – Koko
High Guardian Spice – Sage

DVDs

Ai Pon the Films (Released March 3, 2007)
Ai Nonaka's "No Tear x No Live 2008" (Released August 6, 2008)