Risa Kubota

Kubota was born in Saitama Prefecture on August 2, 1995.[1][2] During her nursery school years, she had few friends, but she was fond of playing outside and playing dodgeball. In elementary school, she developed skills in physical education and home education. She also developed an interest in making sweets. Upon entering high school, she enrolled at an all-girls school, where she continued to practice making sweets while making friends. It was also during this time she began to become interested in pursuing a career as a voice actress.[3]

In 2015, Kubota enrolled in a voice acting training school operated by the talent agency Mausu Promotion, belonging to the same class as Takako Tanaka.[1][3] During her training, she played her first voice acting role in the mobile game Cross Summoner.[4] Upon completion of her training, she formally became affiliated with Mausu Promotion in 2017.[1] That same year, she played her first main role in an anime, voicing the character Ren in Konohana Kitan.[5] In 2018, she was cast as Rosetta in the multimedia project Lapis Re:Lights and became a member of the idol unit Lights;[6] she would later reprise the role for its anime television series adaptation in 2020.[7] Also in 2020, she would play the roles of Iu Shindo in I'm Standing on a Million Lives and Roko Sekino in Dropout Idol Fruit Tart;[8][9] she and her fellow cast members also performed the opening and ending themes for Dropout Idol Fruit Tart.[10]

• Official agency profile (in Japanese)
• Risa Kubota at Anime News Network's encyclopedia