In the 2011 Hunter x Hunter anime, Kurapika is voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro in Japanese and Erika Harlacher in the English dub. In the earlier 1999 adaptation, Kurapika was voiced by Yuki Kaida in Japanese and Cheryl McMaster in English. Because most fans asking this question today usually mean the 2011 series, the profile below focuses on Miyuki Sawashiro, Kurapika’s Japanese voice actor in the 2011 adaptation.
Japanese Voice Actor: Miyuki Sawashiro
Date of Birth
June 2. Aoni Production lists her birthday as June 2 and ORICON identifies her as a Tokyo-born voice actress and narrator. Public sources commonly list her birth year as 1985, though Aoni’s current profile itself displays only the month and day.
About Miyuki
Miyuki Sawashiro is one of the most recognizable seiyuu of her generation, known for a wide vocal range that lets her move convincingly between cool, restrained characters like Kurapika and more flamboyant or intense roles such as Fujiko Mine, Bishamon, and Daki. Her agency profile and ORICON biography both place Hunter × Hunter among her signature works, alongside long-running franchise roles in Lupin the Third, Sword Art Online, Durarara!!, Kakegurui, and GeGeGe no Kitaro.
Sawashiro debuted after winning an audition for Di Gi Charat, and she has since built a career across anime, games, narration, dubbing, and occasional live-action screen work. That breadth matters for Kurapika: her performance combines calm intellect, suppressed grief, and explosive moral intensity, which fits the character’s arc especially well in the 2011 series. The official Hunter × Hunter staff listing from Nippon TV names her directly as Kurapika’s voice actor.
Hometown
Tokyo, Japan is the hometown most consistently documented in current agency and ORICON profile material. Some database-style sources differ, but Aoni Production and ORICON both identify her with Tokyo as her place of origin, so that is the safest published attribution.
Career Highlights
Sawashiro’s Kurapika is one of her best-known shonen roles, but it sits within a much larger body of headline performances. Aoni Production lists major anime credits including Kurapika in Hunter × Hunter, Fujiko Mine in Lupin the Third, Bishamon in Noragami, Sinon in the Sword Art Online series, Celty Sturluson in Durarara!!, Kirari Momobami in Kakegurui, Toko Fukawa/Genocide Jack in Danganronpa, and Daki in Demon Slayer: Entertainment District Arc.
She is also highly decorated within the seiyuu industry. The Seiyu Awards records show she won Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Seiyu Awards, Best Lead Actress at the 4th Seiyu Awards, and the Overseas Fans’ Award at the 5th Seiyu Awards. Those awards help explain why she is so often cast in characters who need both technical precision and emotional force.
Full Current Filmography
The list below reflects documented credits visible in Aoni Production’s official profile and ORICON’s profile at the time of writing, organized by medium. Because agency pages are selective rather than fully archival, this is a source-limited documented filmography and may not be exhaustive.
Anime
- Di Gi Charat — Petit Charat / Puchiko
- Rozen Maiden — Shinku
- Onegai My Melody — Kakeru Kogure
- Basilisk — Hotarubi / young Ogen
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei — Maria Tarou Sekiuchi
- Library War — Asako Shibasaki
- CANAAN — Canaan
- Kimi ni Todoke — Ayane Yano
- Bakemonogatari — Suruga Kanbaru
- Tegami Bachi — Lag Seeing
- Arakawa Under the Bridge — Maria
- Durarara!! — Celty Sturluson
- Beelzebub — Beel Bou
- Uta no Prince-sama — Haruka Nanami
- Hunter × Hunter — Kurapika
- Space Brothers — Serika Ito and additional roles
- Zetsuen no Tempest — Hakaze Kusaribe
- Danganronpa: The Animation — Toko Fukawa / Genocide Jack
- Noragami — Bishamon
- Sword Art Online series — Sinon
- PSYCHO-PASS — Shion Karanomori
- Kaito Joker — Queen
- Go! Princess Precure — Cure Scarlet / Towa Akagi
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin — Crowley Hamon
- Kakegurui — Kirari Momobami
- Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku — Hanako Koyanagi
- Fruits Basket — Kyoko Honda
- One Piece — Charlotte Pudding
- Record of Ragnarok — Brunhilde
- Demon Slayer: Entertainment District Arc — Daki
- Digimon Ghost Game — Gammamon
- GeGeGe no Kitaro (6th series) — Kitaro
Animation / Feature Film / Related Screen Roles
- Shin Evangelion / Evangelion rebuild-era credits — Sakura Suzuhara
- Death Note: Light Up the New World — Arma (voice)
- Kamen Rider Decade — Kivala (voice)
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles — Momo (voice)
- Natsuzora — Chikako Shiromoto / Sora’s voice
- Kasouken no Onna Season 21 — Kazuho Mizuki
Dubbing
- Crash Landing on You — Yoon Se-ri (Son Ye-jin)
- The Lion King — Shenzi
- Aladdin — Dalia (Nasim Pedrad)
- Dumbo — Colette Marchant (Eva Green)
- Aquaman — Queen Atlanna (Nicole Kidman)
- My Little Pony — Twilight Sparkle
- The Carrie Diaries — Carrie (AnnaSophia Robb)
- Noah — Ila (Emma Watson)
- Kick-Ass series — Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz)
- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City — Jill Valentine (Hannah John-Kamen)
Games
- Persona series — Elizabeth
- Street Fighter series — Cammy
- Granblue Fantasy — Katalina Alize
- Final Fantasy XV — Aranea Highwind
- Dragon Quest Heroes series — Maya
- Final Fantasy Type-0 — Sice
- Tales of Xillia — Milla Maxwell
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle — Jolyne Cujoh / Irene
- League of Legends — Miss Fortune
- Like a Dragon / Yakuza series — Makoto Makimura
Narration / Stage
- Narration: Hodo Station, Saturday Station, Sakurai Ariyoshi THE Yakai, NEWS na Futari, Kateika
- Stage / reading productions: VOICARION, READING HIGH, The One, Watashi no Atama no Naka no Keshigomu
Critical Reception
Sawashiro’s reputation is backed by formal industry recognition rather than just fan discussion. The Seiyu Awards records confirm wins for supporting actress, lead actress, and overseas fan recognition across three consecutive award cycles, which is unusually strong proof of peer and audience esteem.
Her standing also shows up in broader media coverage. ORICON’s profile highlights Hunter × Hunter, Lupin the Third, Durarara!!, and GeGeGe no Kitaro among her defining works, while Anime!Anime! reported on GeGeGe no Kitaro receiving a Galaxy Award special prize, quoting Sawashiro reacting emotionally to the honor. Taken together, those sources support the view that she is not just prolific, but widely regarded as a top-tier lead performer in anime and related voice work.
Useful source links:
Aoni Production profile (https://www.aoni.co.jp/search/sawashiro-miyuki.html)
Seiyu Awards record archive (https://www.seiyuawards.jp/winning/index.php)
ORICON profile (https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/233677/)
Anime!Anime! report on GeGeGe no Kitaro and the Galaxy Award (https://animeanime.jp/article/2020/06/12/54280.html)
Social Media
Instagram: @miyuki_sawashiro_0602 (https://www.instagram.com/miyuki_sawashiro_0602/ )
English Voice Actor: Erika Harlacher
Date of Birth
August 29, 1990 is the date most commonly listed in major industry/profile databases for Erika Harlacher-Stone, although her personal website does not display her birth date directly.
About Erika
Erika Harlacher-Stone is an American voice actress best known for English-language anime dubs and game performances. For Hunter × Hunter (2011), she voices Kurapika in the English dub, a casting credit documented by both dub-cast listings and voice-credit databases. Her official credits page also highlights Kurapika among her main anime roles, alongside Violet Evergarden, Yumeko Jabami, Jeanne d’Arc/Ruler, Elizabeth Liones, and Ami Kawashima.
She has built a strong profile across both anime and games. On her official site, she lists major game roles including Ann Takamaki in the Persona 5 games, Aiba in AI: The Somnium Files, Kyoko Kirigiri and Kaede Akamatsu in Danganronpa, and Kyrie in Final Fantasy VII Remake. That mix of anime leads and game leads is a big reason she is one of the most recognizable modern English dub performers.
Hometown
Her hometown is Camarillo, California, U.S. in widely cited biographical sources, though her personal site does not currently publish a hometown field.
Career Highlights
Kurapika is one of Harlacher’s headline anime roles, but her official credits show a broader pattern of lead and main-character casting. In anime, her own site lists Violet Evergarden in Violet Evergarden, Yumeko Jabami in Kakegurui, Ruler/Jeanne d’Arc in Fate/Apocrypha, Elizabeth Liones in The Seven Deadly Sins, Kurapika in Hunter × Hunter, and Ami Kawashima in Toradora! as standout parts.
In games, Ann Takamaki in Persona 5 is arguably her most search-visible role outside anime dubbing, and her official credits also emphasize Aiba, Kyoko Kirigiri, Kaede Akamatsu, and Kyrie. Behind The Voice Actors likewise identifies her with major recurring credits such as Kurapika and Ann Takamaki, reinforcing how central those roles are to her public profile.
Full Current Filmography
The list below reflects documented credits from Erika Harlacher’s official credits page, supplemented where useful by widely used credit databases for role confirmation. Because her official page explicitly says “select titles,” this is a source-limited documented filmography and may not be exhaustive.
Anime / Animation
- Accel World — Blood Leopard
- The Asterisk War — Claudia Enfield
- Demon Slayer — Shinobu Kocho
- Fate/Apocrypha — Ruler / Jeanne d’Arc
- God Eater — Hibari Takeda
- Granblue Fantasy: The Animation — Djeeta
- Hunter × Hunter — Kurapika
- Kakegurui — Yumeko Jabami
- Kill la Kill — Sukuyo Mankanshoku
- Re:Zero — Crusch Karsten
- Shopkins — Bubbliesha
- Sword Art Online — Sasha, Siune
- The Seven Deadly Sins — Elizabeth Liones
- Toradora! — Ami Kawashima
- Violet Evergarden — Violet Evergarden
- Yo-kai Watch — Hailey Anne
- Your Lie in April — Emi Igawa
- Yuki Yuna Is a Hero — Mimori Togo
Video Games
- AI: The Somnium Files — Aiba
- Danganronpa — Kyoko Kirigiri
- Danganronpa 2 — Kyoko Kirigiri
- Danganronpa V3 — Kyoko Kirigiri, Kaede Akamatsu
- Final Fantasy VII Remake — Kyrie
- Kingdom Hearts III — Atmospheric Voices
- Monster Hunter Rise — Yomogi
- Persona 5 games — Ann Takamaki
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — Ann Takamaki
Critical Reception
Harlacher’s work is regularly singled out in English-dub coverage, especially for emotionally demanding lead roles. In a review of Violet Evergarden: The Movie, Bubbleblabber called her work as Violet “nothing short of masterful” and said she handled the role’s emotional material “amazingly.” That is one of the clearest published examples of critics highlighting her performance directly rather than only praising a dub in general.
More broadly, review coverage around shows featuring Harlacher has tended to describe the dub casting and acting positively. Anime News Network’s review of Yuki Yuna Is a Hero, one of her notable lead roles, said the cast was “appropriately chosen” and handled the acting capably. Taken together with her steady run of lead roles on her official credits page, the pattern suggests she is regarded as a dependable lead actress for both dramatic and high-energy material. That last point is an inference from the consistency of her credited leads and the tone of published reviews.
Useful source links:
Official website (https://erikalynnharlacher.com/)
Official credits page (https://erikalynnharlacher.com/credits)
Kurapika English cast credit (https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Hunter-x-Hunter-2011/Kurapika/)
Persona 5 cast credit (https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Persona-5/)
Violet Evergarden: The Movie English dub review (https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2021/10/english-dub-review-violet-evergarden-the-movie/)
Social Media
X: @ErikaHarlacher (https://twitter.com/ErikaHarlacher)
Instagram: @withakinsta (https://www.instagram.com/withakinsta/)
TikTok: @withakerika (https://www.tiktok.com/@withakerika)
YouTube: withakgames (https://www.youtube.com/@withakgames)
