Orihime Inoue in Bleach is voiced by Yuki Matsuoka in the original Japanese version. In the English dub, the character is voiced by Stephanie Sheh. Official Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War character materials still list Matsuoka as Orihime’s Japanese voice, while voice-cast databases continue to pair Matsuoka and Sheh as the main Japanese and English performers for the character across the franchise.
Japanese Voice Actor: Yuki Matsuoka
Date of Birth
September 13, 1970. Yuki Matsuoka’s official Production Baobab profile lists her birthday as September 13, and public filmography sources identify her birth year as 1970.
About Yuki
Yuki Matsuoka is a Japanese actress, voice actress, and narrator affiliated with Production Baobab. Her official agency profile highlights Orihime Inoue in Bleach, Aiko Senoo in Ojamajo Doremi, Tsuruya in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya franchise, Ayumu “Osaka” Kasuga in Azumanga Daioh, and Evangeline A.K. McDowell in Negima! among her major anime credits. Public profiles also consistently identify her with Alisa Bosconovitch in the Tekken franchise.
For Bleach fans, Orihime remains one of Matsuoka’s defining roles. The official Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War character page continues to list her as Orihime’s voice actor, showing that the role remains central to her public identity more than twenty years after the anime began.
Hometown
Matsuoka’s official agency profile lists her as being from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Public summaries sometimes give a more specific Osaka ward, but the agency page uses the broader Osaka Prefecture wording, so that is the safest primary-source version.
Career Highlights
The key credit for this query is Orihime Inoue in Bleach. Behind The Voice Actors lists Matsuoka as Orihime’s Japanese voice across the original TV series, films, games, and newer franchise entries, while the official Bleach anime site still credits her in Thousand-Year Blood War.
Outside Bleach, Matsuoka is also widely known for Ayumu “Osaka” Kasuga in Azumanga Daioh, Tsuruya in the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise, Aiko Senoo in Ojamajo Doremi, Evangeline A.K. McDowell in the Negima! franchise, Eucliwood Hellscythe in Is This a Zombie?, and Alisa Bosconovitch in Tekken. Those roles are the ones most consistently surfaced by her agency page and major public voice-acting databases.
Full Current Filmography
The list below reflects documented public credits verified from Yuki Matsuoka’s official Production Baobab profile plus major public role databases available as of March 20, 2026. Because no single public source exposes a full official chronological master list across anime, games, dubbing, narration, and radio work, this should be treated as a source-based documented filmography rather than a guaranteed exhaustive master list.
Anime and Anime Films
2001 onward — Ojamajo Doremi series — Aiko Senoo. Matsuoka’s agency page lists this among her main anime appearances.
2002 onward — Azumanga Daioh — Ayumu “Osaka” Kasuga. Public voice-acting databases list Osaka among Matsuoka’s signature roles.
2004 onward — Bleach franchise — Orihime Inoue. Behind The Voice Actors lists Matsuoka as Orihime across multiple Bleach TV, film, and game entries, and the official anime site continues to credit her in Thousand-Year Blood War.
2004 — Appleseed — Hitomi. Her agency profile lists APPLE SEED among her anime credits.
2005 onward — Negima! series — Evangeline A.K. McDowell. Her official profile lists the role among her major anime credits.
2006 onward — The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series — Tsuruya. Both her agency page and public role databases list Tsuruya as a major recurring role.
2009 — Nyoron! Churuya-san — Churuya-san. Public role databases list this spinoff role separately.
2010 — The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya — Tsuruya. Public voice-acting databases document the film credit.
2010–2011 — Omamori Himari — Kuesu Jingūji. Public role databases list this among her notable 2010s anime work.
2011 — Is This a Zombie? — Eucliwood Hellscythe. Public databases list this as another prominent role.
2011–2014 — Maken-Ki! entries — Tomika Amado. Public databases document her recurring role across series entries and OVA material.
2011 — Tekken: Blood Vengeance — Alisa Bosconovitch. Public role databases list the film credit.
Video Games
2007 onward — Bleach games — Orihime Inoue. Behind The Voice Actors lists Matsuoka as Orihime in Bleach game entries including Shattered Blade, Soul Resurreccion, Brave Souls, and Rebirth of Souls.
2007 — Tales of Innocence — Hermana Larmo / Vritra. Matsuoka’s agency profile lists both names for the role.
2008 onward — Tekken franchise — Alisa Bosconovitch. Her agency page and public databases both identify Alisa as one of her best-known game roles.
2010 onward — Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s PORTABLE — Amy Limiette. Listed on her official profile.
2010s — Shingeki no Bahamut — Otohime. Listed on her agency page among game credits.
2010s — Granblue Fantasy — Fenrir. Listed on her agency page.
2010s — Princess Connect! Re:Dive — Aira. Listed on her official profile.
2010s — Azur Lane — Odin. Listed on her official profile.
2010s — Kandagawa Jet Girls — Benikage Kamui. Listed on her official profile.
Dubbing and Other Media
Matsuoka’s official profile also documents dubbing work, including Power Rangers franchise roles and multiple live-action dub credits, as well as narration and radio/media appearances. The same profile lists other work such as ぶらり途中下車の旅 audio-description narration and radio programs including ガイナックス電波 and Club AT-X やっぱりアニメが好き。
Critical Reception
The strongest public evidence for Matsuoka’s standing as Orihime is long-term franchise continuity. She has remained the credited Japanese voice for Orihime across the original anime, movies, games, and Thousand-Year Blood War, and the official Bleach site still presents her in the role. That strongly suggests her performance is treated as the definitive Japanese interpretation of Orihime. That is an inference from the casting record, not a direct quoted review.
There is also strong public evidence of role prominence beyond a single database entry. Her agency profile puts Bleach first among her highlighted anime works, and public voice-acting databases identify Orihime as one of the characters she is best known for.
English Voice Actor: Stephanie Sheh
Date of Birth
April 10, 1977. Public industry-facing sources list Stephanie Sheh’s birth date as April 10, 1977, and identify her birthplace as Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. IMDb’s public biography also says she was raised in California.
About Stephanie
Stephanie Sheh is an American voice actress, ADR director, writer, and producer. Her official website describes her as a performer who also works behind the scenes in areas such as voice directing, recording, producing, and script adaptation. For Bleach, she is the English dub voice most closely associated with Orihime Inoue, and Behind The Voice Actors identifies her as the performer who has voiced Orihime most often in English across the franchise.
Sheh is also one of the most recognizable English-dub actors of her generation. Behind The Voice Actors highlights Hinata Hyuga, Orihime Inoue, and Tharja among her best-known roles, while public filmography summaries also consistently associate her with Mitsuha Miyamizu in Your Name, Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon, Yui Hirasawa in K-On!, and Mikuru Asahina in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Hometown
The most consistently documented birthplace is Kalamazoo, Michigan, while the clearest public biographical note says Sheh was raised in California. I did not verify a primary personal page using a separate official “hometown” label, so “Kalamazoo-born, raised in California” is the safest wording.
Career Highlights
For this query, Sheh’s key credit is Orihime Inoue in Bleach. Behind The Voice Actors lists her as Orihime in the 2006 TV series, multiple Bleach films, games such as Bleach: Shattered Blade, Bleach: Soul Resurreccion, and Bleach Rebirth of Souls, plus Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War. That long franchise continuity makes her the definitive English voice of Orihime for most dub viewers.
Outside Bleach, her major public-facing roles include Hinata Hyuga in Naruto, Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon, Mitsuha Miyamizu in Your Name, Yui Hirasawa in K-On!, Mikuru Asahina in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Illyasviel von Einzbern in the Fate franchise, and Rebecca Chambers in the Resident Evil game line. Her official website also emphasizes her broader behind-the-scenes career in ADR and production.
Full Current Filmography
The list below reflects documented public credits verified from Stephanie Sheh’s official website, Behind The Voice Actors, IMDb, and major public filmography summaries available as of March 20, 2026. Because her credits span acting, directing, producing, writing, and games, this should be treated as a source-based documented filmography rather than a guaranteed exhaustive master list of every credit.
Anime and Anime Films
1999 — Tenshi ni Narumon — Silky. IMDb’s public biography identifies this as one of Sheh’s first major roles.
2000 — FLCL — Mamimi Samejima. IMDb’s public biography identifies this as another early breakout role.
2000s onward — Naruto franchise — Hinata Hyuga, Rin Nohara. Public filmography summaries consistently list Naruto among her signature roles.
2006 onward — Bleach franchise — Orihime Inoue. Behind The Voice Actors lists Sheh as Orihime in the TV series, films, and multiple games.
2000s–2010s — The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya — Mikuru Asahina. Public summaries consistently list Mikuru among Sheh’s major anime roles.
2010s — K-On! — Yui Hirasawa. Public summaries consistently include Yui among Sheh’s best-known performances.
2010s — Sword Art Online — Yui. Public filmography summaries list the role among her notable anime work.
2010s — Fate/stay night franchise — Illyasviel von Einzbern / Sitonai. Public filmography summaries document this as one of her recurring anime-franchise roles.
2010s — Little Witch Academia — Lotte Jansson. Public summaries list Lotte among her best-known performances.
2010s — Sailor Moon / Sailor Moon Crystal — Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon in the Viz dub. This is one of the most prominent roles associated with Sheh in English-language anime dubbing.
2016 — Your Name — Mitsuha Miyamizu. Public filmography summaries list this among her notable film-anime performances.
2022–present — Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War — Orihime Inoue, Isane Kotetsu. Public filmography summaries list both credits.
2024 — Ranma ½ — Nabiki Tendo. Public filmography summaries list this among her recent anime credits.
2025 — Your Forma — Echika Hieda. Public filmography summaries list this as a recent anime credit.
Western Animation and Other Animation
2010s — X-Men — Armor. Public summaries list this among her notable non-anime animation credits.
2010s — DC Super Hero Girls — Katana. Public summaries list Katana among her recurring animation roles.
2023–2024 — Barbie: A Touch of Magic / related Barbie animation work — Renee Chao. Public filmography summaries list this among her recent animation credits.
Video Games
2000s onward — Resident Evil franchise — Rebecca Chambers. Her official website explicitly says she is the current voice of Rebecca Chambers.
2000s — Devil May Cry 4 — Kyrie. Public filmography summaries list this among her notable game roles.
2000s — Tales of the Abyss — Natalia. Public summaries list the role among her game credits.
2007 — Persona 3 FES — Metis. Public summaries list this as a documented game credit.
2010s–2020s — Trails series — Estelle Bright. Public filmography summaries list her across multiple entries, including Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter and Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter.
2023 — Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon — Little Ziyi, additional voices. Public summaries list this credit.
2023 — Mortal Kombat 1 — Harumi Shirai. Public summaries list this credit.
2024 — Shadow Generations — Maria Robotnik. Public summaries list this among her recent game roles.
2025 — Silent Hill f — Kimie Shimizu. Public summaries list this as a recent announced credit.
Production / ADR / Other Work
Stephanie Sheh’s official website says she has worked as a recording engineer, voice director, producer, and ADR/script adapter, showing that her career extends well beyond acting alone. Public summaries also list later credits in casting and voice-direction-related work.
Critical Reception
Stephanie Sheh’s public reputation is especially strong in English-dub fandom because she is consistently identified with marquee roles across multiple major franchises. Behind The Voice Actors highlights Hinata Hyuga, Orihime Inoue, and Tharja as her most recognizable performances, which is strong evidence of sustained audience association even though it is not formal newspaper-style criticism.
For Orihime specifically, the strongest evidence is franchise continuity. Behind The Voice Actors lists Sheh as Orihime across the main TV anime, films, games, and Thousand-Year Blood War, which strongly supports the view that her performance is the definitive English interpretation of Orihime. That is an inference from the casting record rather than a direct quoted review.
Social Media
I found a public Bluesky profile that appears to use Stephanie Sheh’s name, but I did not verify it from her official website in the retrieved results, so I’m omitting the section rather than risking an inaccurate listing.
