Yui Kondo

Yui Kondo was born on 28 June 1988 in Kanagawa Prefecture.[1][2] She became interested in voice acting during her later years in elementary school, and she originally planned to enter a voice acting training school after junior high school, but her parents encouraged her to go on to high school.[2]

During high school, Kondo first participated in a trial enrollment at the Nihon Kogakuin College Voice Acting and Acting Department, and she later enrolled in the school in 2007.[2] She appeared as a Dream Challenger on Dream Dream Party , Akira Kamiya and Megumi Toyoguchi's radio show on Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, but sat out of their graduation episode due to ill health.[2] She passed an agency audition shortly before her graduation, and she joined Kenyu Office.[2]

In August 2013, Kondo was cast as Furano Yukihira in Noucome.[3] In November 2014, she was cast as Freya Schwertleite in Kadenz Fermata Akkord: Fortissimo.[4] In December 2014, she was cast as Mikoto Kiba in Triage X.[5] In March 2015, she was cast as Kuon Glamred Stroheim in XBlaze Lost: Memories.[6] In October 2015, she was cast as Corneria in Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book.[7] In March 2016, she was cast as Road Camelot in D.Gray-man Hallow.[8] In July 2017, she was cast as Biwa Hayahide in the Uma Musume Pretty Derby multimedia franchise,[9] and she reprised her role in the 2018 anime adaptation.[10] In June 2019, she was cast as Tao Mongarten in Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout.[11] In August 2023, she was cast as Riche Hayashi in Pon no Michi.[12]

Kondou voices Karen Shinomiya in The Idolmaster Million Live!, a spin-off of The Idolmaster franchise. As part of the franchise, she performed as part of a quartet in the 2013 single "The Idolmaster Million Live Theater Performance 07" (which charted at #5 in the Oricon Singles Chart).[13] She reprised the role in Million Live's 2023 anime adaptation.[14]