Riko Kohara


Riko Kohara is a Japanese voice actress and guitarist from Gifu Prefecture. She is currently affiliated with Object.

History

Kohara graduated from ESP College of Entertainment, a vocational school that specializes in electric guitar and basses. According to her friend in high school, Kohara switched from vocals to guitar when her guitarist band mate asked to switch their position. While she was in vocational school, she studied under BURNY's guitarist Masanori Kusakabe, who is also from Gifu Prefecture. Therefore, Kohara inherited Kusakabe's guitar playstyle.
In July 2011, Kohara became a member The Sketchbook, a real band based on a fictional band in Sket Dance universe along with Hiroshi Tada and Yuu Watanabe, in which three of them performed opening, endings, and insert songs for the anime. The band disbanded on March 25 as the personnel wanted to focus on their own dreams.
In 2014, Kohara debuted as voice actress with her first role as a vegetable-hater boy in Soreyuke! Anpanman.
In 2018, Kohara joined The Third, a backup band in the mixed-media franchise BanG Dream!. She joined the band as its guitarist during its first live on March 25, 2018 at Shimokitazawa Garden. The band was later renamed to Raise A Suilen and its members received their own in-universe characters, with Kohara voicing the guitarist Rokka Asahi. Kohara used to perform with a Gibson Les Paul, but switched to Strandberg after joining RAS.

Filmography

Television anime series