Sayaka Nakaya


Sayaka Nakaya is a Japanese voice actress and former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She is from Iwate. While with AKB48 she was a member of the subunit No Name. Her biggest role as a voice actress was as the title character Chitose Sakuraba in the anime series Chitose Get You!!.

Career

Nakaya passed AKB48's generation 3 audition on December 3, 2006. She is one of 20 girls who passed from among 12.828 candidates. She was first on stage at AKB48 Theater as part of Team B on April 8, 2007. On August 23, 2009, a reshuffle was announced and Nakaya was transferred to Team A.
On December 2, 2010, an audio book of Moshidora read by her received "Audio Book Award 2010". The audio book gets awarded based on consumer votes in FeBe! audio book website. She also provided voice in the anime series of Moshidora.
Along with fellow member from Team K Miku Tanabe, Nakaya formed a unit called Baby Gamba. The unit released a single DVD "Ee Janaika" under label Avex on September 14, 2011. Baby Gamba is a character in anime series Ganba no Bōken, a series based on kids book "Bōkentachi Gamba to 15-hiki no Nakama" by Otsuka Saito.
On December 13, 2011, her name was chosen along with 9 other members to voice characters in AKB48's original anime series AKB0048.
An autobiography of her, titled "Hisenbatsu Idol" was published in 2012. When she was a member, she was one of 4 AKB48's anime fan who is called "wota 4".
On Team K Waiting Stage on March 2, 2013 at night, Nakaya suddenly announces her departure as an AKB48 member to taking part in a voice acting audition. 4 days later at the same stage, she had her last and graduation concert as an AKB48 member. At the same time, she also quit from her former agency Mousa.

Filmography

Anime

Singles with AKB48

YearNo.TitleRoleNotes
200912"Namida Surprise"B-sideSang on "Shonichi"
200914"River"B-sideSang on "Hikokigumo" with Theater Girls
201016"Ponytail to Shushu"B-sideSang on "Boku no YELL" with Theater Girls
201018"Beginner"B-sideSang on "Nakeru Basho" with DIVA
201019"Chance no Junban"B-sideSang on "Kurumi to Dialogue" with Team A
201120"Sakura no Ki ni Naro"B-sideSang on "Area K" with DIVA
201121"Everyday, Katyusha"B-sideSang on "Hito no Chikara" with Under Girls
201123"Kaze wa Fuiteiru"B-sideSang on "Vamos" with Under Girls Baragumi
201124"Ue kara Mariko"B-sideSang on "Rinjin wa Kizutsukanai" with Team A
201225"Give Me Five"B-sideSang on "Jung ya Freud no Baai" with Special Girls C
201226"Manatsu no Sounds Good!"B-sideSang on "Mitsu no Namida" with Special Girls
201227"Gingham Check"B-sideSang on "Do Re Mi Fa Onchi" with Next Girls
201228"Uza"B-sideSang on "Scrap & Build" with Team K
201229"Eien Pressure"B-sideSang on "Watashitachi no Reason"
201230"So Long!"B-sideSang on "Yuuhi Marie" with Team K

Collaborations and character songs