Jenny Yokobori

Jenny Yokobori
Born	Jennifer N Yokobori (1997-02-11) February 11, 1997 (age 28) [1] [2] [3] Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Occupation	Voice actress
Years active	2013–present

Jennifer N. Yokobori (born February 11, 1997) is an American voice actress. She is best known for voicing Yoimiya in Genshin Impact ^[4] and Kuromi and Cinnamoroll in Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures .

Career

In 2018, Yokobori began her voice acting career when she voiced the character known as Elice in the online video game Fire Emblem Heroes .

Yokobori provided the American voice of Dashi in the children's animated series Octonauts , which premiered on Netflix in 2020.

In 2021, Yokobori provided the English voice of Yoimiya in the video game Genshin Impact . ^[5] The same year, she replaced Tress MacNeille as the voice of Kumiko in The Simpsons , starting with the thirty-second season when the show was working towards a goal to not have white actors perform non-white characters. ^{[6] [7]} She is currently the youngest voice actor in the main voice cast and the only one born after the series started airing in 1989.

Filmography

Film and TV

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Sterling Silver	Young Sterling's Classmate
2016	All In	Partier
	Vinyasa Flow	Yoga Student
2017	Campus Catwalk	Nina Takahashi
2020	Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls	Nakayama (voice)
	Central Park	Japanese Girl (voice)	Episode: "Rival Busker"
	Octonauts and the Caves of Sac Actun	Dashi	US dub
	Baby	Aurora	English dub
	The School Nurse Files	Radi, Gweong-Hwa	English dub
	Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef	Dashi (voice)
	Akudama Drive	Execution Division Pupil	English dub
	Sweet Home	Additional voices (voice)	English dub
	Droners	Mina / Mawu / Lion Lilly / Chameleon Crab / Piranicus (voice)
2020–present	Rainbow High	Jade Hunter (voice)	Main role; seasons 1-2
		Ainsley Slater (voice)	seasons 1-2
	Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures	Kuromi / Cinnamoroll (voice)
	Pokémon	Horace / Hatenna / Hattrem / Hatterene (voice)	English dub
2021	Edens Zero	Xiaomei (voice)	English dub
	Seal Team	Geraldo's Watch, Additional voices (voice)
2021–present	The Simpsons	Kumiko Albertson (voice)	Succeeding Tress MacNeille
2022	Blue Period	Umino (voice)	English dub [8]
	Odd Taxi	Shiho Ichimura (voice)
	The Boys Presents: Diabolical	Laser Baby (voice)	Episode: "Laser Baby's Day Out"
	Spriggan	Yoshino Somei (voice)	English dub [9]
	Romantic Killer	Saki (voice)	English dub [10]
2024	Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid	Rio Futaba (voice)	Film; English dub [11]
	The Grimm Variations	Scarlet (voice)	ONA; English dub, Episode 2: Little Red Riding Hood
	Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai	Rio Futaba (voice)	English dub [12]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Smite	"Jenny" XJ-9 Wakeman, other characters
2017	Fire Emblem Heroes	Elice, Eleonora Yumizuru	[13]
2020	XCOM: Chimera Squad	Terminal	[13]
	Ghost of Tsushima	Additional Voices
	Wasteland 3	Lt. Connie Zeng
	NBA 2K21	Lower Bowl crowd
	Demon's Souls	The Phalanx
2021	Genshin Impact	Yoimiya	[5]
	Mary Skelter Finale	Gallows	[14]
2022	Relayer	Venus	[15]
	Ghostwire: Tokyo	Erika, Koomote, Girl A, Boy A	[16]
	Paladins	Kasumi
	Goddess of Victory: Nikke	Diesel, Maiden	[17]
2023	Honkai: Star Rail	Xueyi	[18]
	Street Fighter 6	Yua	[5]
	Master Detective Archives: Rain Code	Martina Electro	[5]
	Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters	Anri	[5]
	Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising	Nier	[5]
	Arknights	Projekt Red, Deepcolor	[19] [20]
	Fortnite	Evie	[21]
	Cookie Run: Kingdom	Black Lemonade Cookie	-
	Omega Strikers	Finii [22]	[22] [23]
	Rune Factory 3 Special	Marian	[5]
	Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless	Additional voices	[24]
2024	Yars Rising	Emi "Yar" Kimura	[25]

Animation

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2021	Death Battle	Ryūko Matoi	Episode 141: "Shadow VS Ryūko"
	Pokémon Evolutions	Miki	Episode 7: "The Show"	[5]

Writer/Director

Year	Project	Role
2020	Rainbow High	Director
	Gods School	Writer

References

1. N, Gabe (Aka ProjectPikachu1) [@Projectkylo] (January 14, 2020). "When is your birthday?" (Tweet). Retrieved September 23, 2021– via Twitter.
2. Yokobori, Jenny [@JennyYokobori] (January 14, 2020). "It's February 11! ♒" (Tweet). Retrieved September 23, 2021– via Twitter.
3. Yokobori, Jenny [@JennyYokobori] (January 18, 2015). "I'm turning eighteen in 24 days and I have no idea how to birthday" (Tweet). Retrieved September 23, 2021– via Twitter.
4. Schwarz, John (March 1, 2021). "Tress MacNeille Steps Down As The Voice Of Comic Book Guy's Wife "Kumiko Albertson"". www.bubbleblabber.com. Bubble Blabber. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
5. "Jenny Yokobori (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved August 12, 2023A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
6. Porter, Rick (February 22, 2021). "'The Simpsons': Harry Shearer to Stop Voicing Black Character". www.thehollywoodreporter.com. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
7. "The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 11 Review: The Dad Feelings-Limited". www.japanfm.fr. JapanFM. January 4, 2021. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
8. "Blue Period (2022)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved January 28, 2022A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
9. "Spriggan (2022)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
10. @JennyYokobori (October 27, 2022). "💕✨ Role announcement! ✨💕 You can hear me as Saki in "Romantic Killer" on Netflix! This show is absolutely adorable and it was such a joy to be a part of it. Plus, I got to play BFFs with one of my favorite people, @DeneenMelody who CRUSHES it in her first lead!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
11. "⭐ Sakuta Azusagawa: @ThatStephenFu ⭐ Mai Sakurajima: @tsunderica ⭐ Kaede Azusagawa: @KayliMills ⭐ Tomoe Koga: @LizzieRFreeman ⭐ Rio Futaba: @JennyYokobori ⭐ Nodoka Toyohama: @CristinaVee ⭐ Shoko Makinohara: @LoveRisaMei". Twitter. February 23, 2024. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
12. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (December 3, 2024). "Crunchyroll Reveals Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai English Dub Cast, Tuesday Debut". Anime News Network . Retrieved December 3, 2024.
13. Milligan, Mercedes (October 26, 2020). "Sanrio Sets Voices, Writers for New 'Hello Kitty and Friends: Supercute Adventures'". Animation Magazine . Retrieved February 26, 2024.
14. Yokobori, Jenny [@JennyYokobori] (September 30, 2021). "#MarySkelterFinale is out today and I play Gallows! I've never gotten to play a character like her before and it was a total blast to help bring her to life. Thank you to @BangZoom, @mummynyan, and @TonyOliverVA!" (Tweet). Retrieved October 4, 2021– via Twitter.
15. Kadokawa Games. Relayer. Clouded Leopard Entertainment. Scene: Ending credits, at 13:49, English Cast.
16. Tango Gameworks. Ghostwire: Tokyo. Bethesda Softworks. Scene: Ending credits, at 7:38, English Cast.
17. Yokobori, Jenny [@JennyYokobori] (November 5, 2022). "Happy #NIKKE launch day, Commanders 😉✨ Happy to announce that you can hear me as Diesel and Maiden in this thrilling, new game ✨ now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go retweet all the cute Diesel art that @NIKKE_en has been posting 🥹✨💕" (Tweet). Retrieved January 19, 2023– via Twitter.
18. Yokobori, Jenny [@JennyYokobori] (May 19, 2023). "I just got the okay ✨👀🚄 I'm happy to announce that you can hear me as Xueyi in #HonkaiStarRail Thank you so much to @honkaistarrail and Hoyoverse for having me and to @newphilms for your direction! I'm so thrilled to be a part of this beautiful game ✨" (Tweet). Retrieved September 8, 2023– via Twitter.
19. "I'm the English voice of Projekt Red in #Arknights!". Twitter. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
20. "I voice Deepcolor in @ArknightsEN!". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved November 7, 2023.
21. "What's up, heroes? 😎 Honored to announce that I voice Evie in the latest update of Fortnite.🔫
    Thanks to @FortniteGame, @EpicGames, and @thejbblanc for having me!
    See you out there ✌🏻#FortniteChapter4Season2 #FortniteMEGA #Fortnite #FortniteChapter4". Twitter. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
22. "Finii". Omega Strikers Wiki. Retrieved September 24, 2023.
23. "PlayOmega/status/1677045933341655049". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved September 24, 2023.
24. "Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless (2023 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
25. "Yars Rising Review: Hacking My Brain". Tilting At Pixels. Retrieved January 14, 2025.

External links

• Jenny Yokobori at IMDb