Koko Hayashi

Coco Hayashi (林 鼓子, Hayashi Koko, born 15 May 2002) is a Japanese voice actress and singer associated with 81 Produce and Avex Pictures. She is best known for voicing Ayumi Hayashi in Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter! and Mirai Momoyama in Kiratto Pri Chan.

Coco Hayashi was born on 15 May 2002 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, to an anime-loving father. She was a member of Space Craft Junior as a child and appeared in Oha Suta by 2013.

She participated in a live event of voice actor Nana Mizuki and aspired to be a voice actor influenced by her performance. After receiving the recommendation of her father, she successfully auditioned in 2017 avex×81produce Wake Up, Girls! AUDITION. Her career started when she starred as Ayumi Hayashi in the 2017 Wake Up, Girls! spinoff New Chapter!, and she formed the unit Run Girls, Run! with Yūka Morishima and Nanami Atsugi.

In 2018, she voiced the lead character of Kiratto Pri Chan, Mirai Momoyama, and she starred in King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars as Nagisa Takahashi. She also won the Best New Actress Award at the 13th Seiyu Awards alongside Kaede Hondo, Rina Honnizumi, Manaka Iwami, and Tomori Kusunoki. She also voiced a schoolgirl in the 2019 Love Live! Sunshine!! film.