Minami Shinoda

Minami Shinoda (篠田 みなみ) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Chiba Prefecture. She is known for voicing Haru Kasukabe in Tokyo 7th Sisters, Makoto Kobata in Flying Witch, Kyōko Machi in Interviews with Monster Girls, and Rika Matsudo in Rinkai!

Biography
Minami Shinoda, a native of Chiba Prefecture, was born on 3 June 1994. During her youth, she spent some time living in Singapore and started learning Sōran Bushi and jazz dance. She joined the Japan Narration Actor Institute during her first year of high school to study acting and later knew that she wanted to pursue voice acting as a career.

In 2014, she starred as Haru Kasukabe in Tokyo 7th Sisters, her first role she won by passuing a voice acting audition. In April 2014, she started working as the Tuesday host of Maji! Anirabu team. In April 2016, she was cast in her first anime starring role as Makoto Kobata in Flying Witch; she and her-co-star Eri Suzuki also sang the anime's ending song "Nichijō no Mahō". She later starred as Kyōko Machi in Interviews with Monster Girls (2017). In September 2018, she was appointed as a Dōgo Onsen Tourism Goodwill Ambassador along her Onsen Musume character Izumi Dōgo. In 2020, she stepped down from Gekidan Tokyo Suzuki-ku's production of ''Heroine A Go Go! Ano Hi no Mahō Shōjo'' due to complications from nasopharyngitis. She left VIMS and become a freelancer on 31 August 2021. In 2024, she was cast as Rika Matsudo in Rinkai!.

She is a certified Korean Language Proficiency Test Beginner Level.