Beatmap Listing » Yuuko (CV: Kotobuki Minako) - Mermaid Sisters / Summer breeze

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Mermaid Sisters is an insert song for the 5th episode while Summer breeze is also an insert song for 7th episode from the anime A-Channel. The theme of these songs are referring to romance in summer season, as this beatmap was mapped into osu!.

It was both sung by Yuuko, and voiced by herself when that time she was 19 years old back May 2011 (4 months before her 20th birthday on that time).

This is a Japanese name; the family name is Kotobuki.

Kotobuki Minako (born September 17, 1991) is a Japanese artist and voice actress that is known for voicing her characters, such as Kotobuki Tsumugi from K-ON!, Kongou Mitsuko from Toaru series, Nanami Touko from Bloom into You, Tanaka Asuka from Hibike! Euphonium and many more.
Under her agency Music Ray'n (a part of SME or Sony Music Entertainment Japan), she teams up as a first member under a Japanese seiyuu unit, sphere. She is also considered the strongest and youngest member among the four.

She is also fluent in Kansai dialect, as she was born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture (of course, Nagata-ku). On the other hand, she voiced few characters with fluency in her own dialect, notably Suehara Kyouko from Saki: Zenkoku-hen, and Yuuko from A-Channel.
On January 2020, she studied abroad to the United Kingdom until November 2021, hence continues her career as both seiyuu and artist.

On July 24, 2023, the voice actress reported about her marriage.

寿美菜子様、結婚おめでとうございます。