Tomori Kusunoki

Biography

Kusunoki was born in Tokyo on December 22, 1999. She began taking piano lessons at age three. During junior high school she was a member of the brass band and served as student council president; in high school she joined a light music club. Her interest in anime developed during her second year of junior high, inspired by Kana Hanazawa's performance in Kobato.

To pursue voice acting, she auditioned as a singer for Sony Music Artists and received the special prize. She debuted as a voice actress in 2017 with a background role in Eromanga Sensei, and later that year was cast as Kirara in Kirara Fantasia. In 2018 she voiced Hazuki Kagimura in Märchen Mädchen and Llenn in Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, for which she sang the ending theme 'To see the future'. That year she also joined Konami's BandMeshi♪ project as Yokaze Tsuyuri and was cast as Setsuna Yūki in the Love Live! franchise.

In 2019 she played Melida Angel in Assassins Pride and performed its ending theme 'Ijin-tachi no Jikan'. She debuted as a solo artist under Sacra Music in 2020 with the EP 'Hamidashimono', the ending theme of The Misfit of Demon King Academy. In 2021 she was diagnosed with a congenital disorder causing pain and numbness during strenuous movement, leading her to refrain from large-movement activities. In 2022 the diagnosis was confirmed as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and on March 31, 2023, she retired from voicing Setsuna Yūki and Nana Nakagawa due to difficulty with stage performances; Coco Hayashi succeeded her as Setsuna.

On January 1, 2026, Kusunoki announced her marriage to someone outside the entertainment industry whom she had been dating since their student days.