is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Chiba Prefecture. Kusuda is currently affiliated with Just Pro. Kusuda is best known as Nozomi Toujou in Love Live! School Idol Project series, and has worked with the other Love Live! girls in singing multiple songs that have charted on Oricon. Kusuda's other major roles include Suko in Million Doll and Rose in Rilu Rilu Fairilu. Her nickname is "Kussun".
Career Prior to entering the anime industry, Kusuda worked in a maid cafe in Akihabara called Cafe la vie en rose. Kusuda decided to become a voice actress after seeing a stage performance of Junko Takeuchi (the voice of Naruto Uzumaki). Kusuda made her debut as a voice actress as Nozomi Tojo in the media franchise Love Live!, and she separately formed the duo unit, Please&Secret, with co-star Pile, who voiced Maki Nishikino. In 2013, Kusuda joined the idol unit Tabikare Girls, which released its first single that November. Kusuda released a CD on November 6, 2013, together with a new JTB Music Unit called "Tabi College Girls" (タビカレガールズ), together with Yui Watanabe, Rikako Yamaguchi, Rika Nishimori, and Mami Sumi.
She is also as a member of a mini unit in Love Live! project series, Lily White, alongside Riho Iida (voice of Rin Hoshizora) and Suzuko Mimori (voice of Umi Sonoda).
Filmography Television anime Title Year Role Notes Source Inumarudashi 2011 Kindergartner Penguindrum 2011 Adults, children Gon 2012 Frog Arpeggio of Blue Steel 2013 Student B Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ maji LOVE 2000% 2013 Children Karneval 2013 Nurse Love Live! 2013 Nozomi Tojo Leo Friends: The Tale of Sparkly Friends 2013 Female employee Ojarumaru 2014 Bicycle 17th series episode 69 "The Talkative Tools" (おしゃべりな道具たち Oshaberi na Dōgu-tachi) Girl Friend Beta 2014 Eri Minaguchi Hamatora 2014 GATE 2015 Delilah Futsū no Joshikōsei ga Locodol Yattemita 2014 Kana Mikoze (Yui Mikoze's younger sister, Does not appear in staff roll) PriPara 2014Sadako Super Radical Gag Family 2014 Yūta Ōsawagi Love Live! 2nd Season 2014 Nozomi Tojo Re:␣Hamatora 2014 Female High School Student A, Female Announcer, Child A Nyuru Nyuru!! Kakusen-kun 2015 Nyururin Million Doll 2015 Sūko Rilu Rilu Fairilu 2016 Rose Fairy Tail 2018 Zeref Dragneel (young)
Theatrical animation Title Year Role Notes Source Love Live! The School Idol Movie 2015 Nozomi Tojo
OVA
Title Year Role Notes Source Snow Halation 2010 Nozomi Tojo Natsuiro Egao de 1, 2, Jump! 2011 Nozomi Tojo Mogyutto "LOVE" de Sekkin Chuu! 2012 Nozomi Tojo Wonderful Rush 2012 Nozomi Tojo Mighty Lady: The Series 2012 Operator
Games Title Year Role Notes Source Girl Friend Beta 2012 Eri Minaguchi The Guided Fate Paradox 2013 Sherieru Ayanokoji Love Live! School Idol Festival 2013 Nozomi Tojo
Discography
Singles Year Title Peak Oriconchart position 2018 16
Albums Year Title Peak Oriconchart position 2015 First Sweet Wave 5 2016 Next Brilliant Wave 3 2017 18 2018 35 2019 The Life 15
Please&Secret With Pile Year Title Peak Oriconchart position 2013 O.P.E.N FANTASY 42 2014 23 2014 22
References
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