Aguri Onishi

Aguri Onishi was born on May 2, 1997 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Her common voice actress nicknames are "Agupon" and "Agumeeshon". She voices Ayumu Uehara, one of the main characters in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.

Her call and response during concerts begins with "Chikyuu no minna, tadaima!" (lit. Everyone on Earth, I'm back!), to which the audience replies "Okaeri!" (lit. Welcome back!). She then says, "Uchuu ni todoku kurai ookina koe wo kikasete kudasai! Se~no!" (lit. Please let me hear your voice that's loud enough to reach outer space! Ready~?), and the audience replies "Ayumu!" She then finishes with "Arigato gozaimasu. Uchuu ichi shiawase desu!" (lit. Thank you so much, that made me the happiest girl in the whole universe!).

Her call-and-response is a reference to Choboraunyopomi's 4-koma manga where Ayumu, as part of the Famitsu group, went to Mars and was popular as a school idol there.

Her image color during concerts is light pink.

Background
She is one of the original members of the idol group x21 who joined back in January 28, 2013, but left on April 16, 2017. She played as Satomi Kanbara in the live-action movie adaptation of Saki.

She voices Karla in Kono Healer, Mendokusai, Fubuki Kitakaze in and Rena, a member of seiyuu-idol unit SPR5, in Shoumetsu Toshi. She is a former member of seiyuu unit Prima Porta.

She is a solo artist under a joint venture between Universal Music Japan and Nippon Columbia. Her debut single "Honjitsu wa Seiten Nari" was released on March 3, 2021.

Health Issues
On August 1, 2022, Aguri tested positive for COVID-19.

Personality & Hobbies
Her hobbies include reading and karaoke. Her special skills are folding small paper cranes, alto saxophone, and finding the good in people.

She is also revealed to be an ESFP-T personality type.

Etymology

 * The name Aguri means "second, Asia" (亜) (a), "beautiful black jewel, nine" (玖) (ku/gu) and "glassy, lapis lazuli" (璃) (ri).
 * Aguri's surname Onishi means "big, great" (大) (o) and "west" (西) (nishi).

Trivia

 * Aguri is under the talent agency Link-Plan, a subsidiary of Akari Kito's former agency Pro-Fit.
 * Aguri is the eighth voice actress in the Love Live! franchise to be diagnosed with the coronavirus disease after Tomoyo Kurosawa (Tsuki Watanabe), Nako Misaki (Chisato Arashi), Moeka Koizumi (Shioriko Mifune), Miyu Kubota (Karin Asaka), Natsumi Murakami (Ai Miyashita), Akari Kito (Kanata Konoe), and Sayuri Date (Kanon Shibuya).

Gallery

 * Please refer to this voice actress' Image Gallery.