Kira Buckland (born July 16, 1987) is an American voice actress who has provided voices for English dubbed Japanese anime, cartoons, and video games. Some of her major roles are Jolyne Cujoh and Reimi Sugimoto in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Mitsuri Kanroji in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, 2B in Nier: Automata, Hiyoko Saionji and Kirumi Tojo in the Danganronpa series, Trucy Wright in the Ace Attorney series, Ari in the Class of '09 series, Qingyi in Zenless Zone Zero, Celine and Elise Schwarzer in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series, Akane Toriyasu and Inkyu Basu in Yandere Simulator, Talim in Soulcalibur VI (including 2B as its guest character), Beatrice in Re:Zero, Izumo Kamiki in Blue Exorcist, Heart Aino from Arcana Heart series in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Falke in Street Fighter V, Edna in Tales of Zestiria, Mary Saotome in Kakegurui, Yung in Godzilla Singular Point, Ayumi Otosaka in Charlotte, Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld in The Asterisk War, Kuki Shinobu in Genshin Impact, and Marie in Skullgirls.
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Early life
Buckland was born on July 16, 1987, in Anchorage, Alaska.
Career
Buckland started voice acting in 2004 where she worked on numerous projects such as radio dramas and computer/video games. She rose to prominence online for voicing characters in Newgrounds Flash animations and series on YouTube under her Internet pseudonym "Rina-chan". She participated in parodies, collaborations and original works.
While a student at West High School, she became president of the anime club and with the president of the anime club from Dimond High founded the first Alaskan anime convention , Senshi-Con, based in Anchorage, Alaska. She won the Anime Expo 2007 Idol Voice Acting competition, as well as the Sakura-Con 2007 animated voice acting award. She is primarily known for her voice work on video games and English anime dubs.
Personal life
Buckland graduated with a degree in Japanese and is proficient in Spanish. She moved to Southern California in 2011 and worked miscellaneous jobs while training to be a professional voice actor, such as a feline neonatal caregiver.
Before her professional career, Buckland was familiar with the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and got a tattoo of a star on the back of her neck which resembles the Joestar Birthmark. During her career she expressed a desire to voice of the character Jolyne Cujoh in an official project. She would eventually voice the character in the anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean.