Mako Morino

Mako Morino (杜野 まこ) is a Japanese voice actress, television personality, and singer from Tomiya, Miyagi, affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. After her 2009 debut on Sendai Television's Arakashi Saturday, she moved to Tokyo and worked as a television reporter and voice actress. She is known for voicing Ageru-chan in Hanakappa, Yuki Himekawa in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls, and Chiyori in WIXOSS.

Biography
Mako Morino, a native of Tomiya, Miyagi, was born on 24 January 1987. Wanting to be a professional volleyball player in elementary school, she played the sport for fourteen years until she was a university student. However, while in junior high school, the libero position was introduced to volleyball, and she was automatically assigned to this position (which does not allow serving) due to her height, so she stopped aiming to become a professional.

While looking for a job in nearby Sendai and Tokyo, she was approached about the entertainment industry, and she joined an agency and in 2009 began appearing on Arakashi Saturday, a Saturday morning variety show on Sendai Television. Shortly after joining the agency, she wanted a "name that sounds like Sendai", and after discussions with her manager, she decided with the stage name Mako Morino, referring to Mori no Miyako, the nickname for Sendai.

In 2010, she left Arakashi Saturday and moved to Tokyo. In 2014, Morino voiced Chiyori in Selector Infected WIXOSS and its sequel Selector Spread WIXOSS. In 2017, she starred in Katato The Animation, the spinoff animated shorts from the Cinderella Nine franchise. In 2023, she joined Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society.

Morino voices Yuki Himekawa in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls, a sub-franchise in The Idolmaster franchise. Since then, she has performed as a singer on several Idolmaster music releases, including the 2015 single "The Idolmaster Cinderella Master 032: Yuki Himekawa" (which charted at #11 on the Oricon Singles Chart) and the 2016 album ''The Idolmaster Cinderella Master Passion Jewelries! 003'' (which charted at #3 on the Oricon Albums Chart). She reprised her role in the anime adaptation The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Theater.

She was a regular assistant for Miura Daisuke no Hama-ban and Tsunagaru Seven, and she was a reporter for Smile Gourmet, Yumeguri Tetsudō, News Every, Ī Izu Mitsuketa, and News Harbor. She was also an MC for Television Kanagawa’s We Baystars and was Yokohama DeNA BayStars presenter for Happy Monday Baseball. In 2021, she collaborated with Sendai restaurant Kosen to serve a brand of beef tongue called Makotan (まこたん).