__Height:__ 150 cm (4'11")
__Talent:__ Early to bed, early to rise

A girl who has the same first and last name as [Sakuta](https://anilist.co/character/127221/Azusagawa-Sakuta)'s first crush. She is a shy middle school girl, but reliable and kind.

She bumps into Sakuta, while holding an umbrella over an abandoned cat in the rain.

~!It is later revealed that the older Shouko that Sakuta encounters is from the future, and is able to return to the past due to her puberty syndrome.!~

There's a rumor about a mysterious phenomenon called "puberty syndrome." For example, Sakuta Azusagawa is a high school student who suddenly sees a bunny girl appear in front of him. The girl is actually a girl named Mai Sakurajima, who is Sakuta's upperclassman who is also a famous actress who has gone on hiatus from the entertainment industry. For some reason, the people around Mai cannot see her bunny-girl figure. Sakuta sets out to solve this mystery, and as he spends time with Mai, he learns her secret feelings. Other heroines who have "puberty syndrome" start to appear in front of Sakuta. 
(Source: Anime News Network)

__Height:__ 154 cm 
__Agency:__ AXL-ONE

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A Japanese voice actress and singer-songwriter under entertainment agency Axlone (2017–) and record label King Records (2015–), having previously been under entertainment agency Sony Music Entertainment (2010–2017). She has been active as a voice actor since 2010, debuting in the anime Occult Academy voicing the character Akari Okamoto, while debuting as a singer-songwriter in December 2015.

Inori was born in Tokyo, where she began watching anime in kindergarten. She first became aware of voice acting when, after watching a stage play adaptation of an anime, she read the stage pamphlet and asked her parents about a person mentioned in it. She found out that she wanted to become a voice actor at the age of six, and in elementary school, she listed voice acting as her desired future career. 

In middle school, Inori joined her school's tennis and theater clubs; however, she quit the theater club due to feeling too embarrassed when appearing on stage. Around the same time, her mother found a magazine advertising a voice-acting audition, which she participated in and won.

(Source: Wikipedia, edited)

**Non-anime roles:**
- Mei Amanohokosaka - Xblaze Code: Embryo/Lost: Memories (VG)
- Iris - Memento Mori (VG)
- Soline - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Furina - Genshin Impact (VG)
- Balloon Party - Reverse: 1999 (VG)

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In Fujisawa, where the skies are bright and the seas glisten, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. His blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted with the appearance of his first crush, Shouko Makinohara. For reasons unknown, he encounters two Shouko's: one in middle school and another who has become an adult.
 
 
As Sakuta finds himself helplessly living with the Shouko's, the adult Shouko leads him around by the nose, causing a huge rift in his relationship with Mai.
 
 
In the midst of all of this, he discovers that the middle school Shouko is suffering from a grave illness and his scar begins to throb...
 
 
(Source: Aniplex USA)

Sequel to the film Seishun Buta Yarou wa Randoseru Girl no Yume wo Minai.
 
 After encountering various girls going through Puberty Syndrome, Sakuta Azusagawa's high school days have come to a close, and he is now a university student. He enrolls at a university in Kanazawa-hakkei alongside his girlfriend Mai Sakurajima, a nationally famed actress. Off campus, he stumbles upon an out-of-season miniskirt Santa. Precognitive dreams, an anonymous online singer, poltergeists buzzing on social media... A mysterious tale with enigmatic phenomenons surrounding girls with wavering hearts starts again. Puberty continues...
 
(Source: Crunchyroll)

March begins, and there is only one month left in the third term. Sakuta Azusagawa is about to celebrate the graduation of his girlfriend Mai Sakurajima. As he waits for Mai at Shichirigahama beach, an elementary school-aged girl who looks like Mai did when she was a child actress appears in front of him. While reflecting on this mysterious encounter, he receives a phone call from his father. Kaede’s mother never came to terms with what happened to Kaede. Having been hospitalized for so long, their mother finally wants to see her daughter. To fulfill their mother’s wish, Sakuta makes the decision to meet face-to-face–something they haven’t done in a long time. He’s unable to hide his nervousness about all this. Never-before-seen scars begin to appear on Sakuta’s body. Could these be warning signs of a new type of puberty syndrome? 
(Source: Fathom Events)

Book 1 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.
 
Out of sight, out of mind! Bunny girls do not live in libraries. This is simply common sense. And yet, that's exactly where Sakuta finds one in the wild. More bewildering is who the bunny girl is: Mai Sakurajima, a girl one year older than Sakuta, famous at their school for her acting career even though she's currently on break. To top it all off, it seems like no one else in the library can see Mai at all, no matter what she does or...wears. Wanting to find out more about this mystery and maybe get a little closer to this beautiful upperclassman in the process, Sakuta launches an investigation to discover why an unforgettable bunny girl keeps becoming totally invisible.
 
(Source: Yen Press)

Bunny girls do not live in libraries. This is simply common sense. And yet, that's exactly where Sakuta runs into one in the wild. More bewildering is who the bunny girl is: Mai Sakurajima, an upperclassman and well-known actress currently taking a break from industry work. Wanting to find out more about the mystery surrounding Mai (and maybe get a little closer to her in the process), Sakuta launches an investigation to figure out what's making this bunny girl invisible to everyone around them.
 
(Source: Yen Press) 
Note: Chapter 17 and 18 of the magazine publication were merged into chapter 17 of the tankoubon release; chapter count reflects the tankoubon release.

Theatrical follow-up to Seishun Buta Yarou wa Santa Claus no Yume wo Minai. 

"Actually, I’m Touko Kirishima."
 
The audience erupted in excitement upon learning that the true identity of the mysterious, wildly popular internet singer was none other than the nation’s favorite actress, Mai Sakurajima. The scene was exactly the same as the dream Sakuta Azusagawa had seen on Christmas Eve.
 
Starting with Mai’s shocking confession on April 1, the impossible events that everyone once dreamed of keep happening one after another.

The social media hashtag "#Yumemiru," where dreams come true, has vanished, and as Sakuta struggles with the disconnect between the reality before him and his own perception, he receives a message from a version of himself in an alternate reality.
 
―Stop Touko Kirishima,
 
―Before reality is rewritten.
 
To restore the world to its original state, Sakuta sets out to find Touko Kirishima. This is a story about overcoming the "Adolescent Syndrome". 

(Source: Crunchyroll News, edited)

Book 6 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.
 
SUPERSTRING (OF FATE) THEORY!
 
​Sakuta is doomed. His girlfriend, Mai, has just discovered that while she was away, he’s been living under one roof with his first love, the now-college-aged Shouko. While the three of them try to navigate this complicated love triangle, the mystery surrounding Shouko only deepens when the younger version of herself checks into the hospital. What will become of this middle schooler whose only dream is to grow up? Why did Sakuta’s old flame come barging into his life again after all this time? And exactly how does Sakuta fit in?
 
(Source: Yen Press)

Book 7 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.
 
 UNDOING WHAT CAN’T BE UNDONE.
 
Sakuta had been ready to give up his life, but nothing could have prepared him to keep living like this. Now he must find a way to carry on even when it feels like tomorrow will never come. And even if it does, why should he care when the love of his life is already gone? Of course, he can always count on Shouko to show him the way forward in his darkest hour, just like she did all those years ago. As he gathers the strength and courage Mai gave him, Sakuta readies himself to do whatever it takes to rewrite the past. 
 
(Source: Yen Press)

Book 3 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.
 
SOMETIMES MORE IS JUST CRAZY! 
Just before summer break, Sakuta encounters Shouko Makinohara, a girl in junior high with the same name and face as his first love. Of course, that should be impossible, since she would be in college by now. Then, as if one mystery wasn't bad enough, Adolescence Syndrome strikes again. His impassive friend from the science club, Rio, discovers she has a doppelgänger. One of the Rios is forced out of her house and winds up staying at Sakuta's apartment. Definitely not the girl he expected to find himself living with...And when Mai insists she's going to sleep over, too, Sakuta's summer vacation descends into pure chaos.
 
(Source: Yen Press)

Book 2 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.
 
How far can a fake relationship go?
 
Mai is no longer invisible--she's acting again, and she finally said yes when Sakuta asked her out for the millionth time. Life couldn't be better for Sakuta...until he wakes up and finds himself reliving the morning before she agreed to date him!
 
Assuming this weird time slip to be another case of Adolescence Syndrome, Sakuta begins searching for clues and stumbles upon the first-year Tomoe. Though the last time they saw each other involved getting kicked in the butt, now she's desperately trying to avoid getting asked out by the boy her friend is crushing on so she won't be ostracized. One ruse leads to another, and soon news spreads that Sakuta is Tomoe's boyfriend. Now how is he going to explain this to Mai...?
 
(Source: Yen Press)

Book 5 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series.
 
GUESS WHO’S BACK?
 
​After years without contact, Sakuta has received a letter from his first love, Shouko, asking to meet at Shichirigahama Beach. Of course, now that he’s in a happy relationship, he’s not quite sure how to respond...or how to explain the situation to his girlfriend, Mai. Maybe he’ll just focus on helping his panda-loving, stay-at-home sister achieve her goal of returning to school for the time being. But this is easier said than done, given that she hasn’t left the house for two whole years...
 
(Source: Yen Press)