Akeno Watanabe

Akeno Watanabe (渡辺 明乃) is a Japanese voice actress. She is most known for voicing Gloria Costello in the Stone Ocean anime and Miuccia Miuller in Eyes of Heaven.

Watanabe has voiced characters in various anime and video games, including Rose in the Street Fighter series, Midnight in, Tayuya in , Villetta Nu in , Liz Thompson in , Halle Lidner in , Hitch Dreyse in , and Riesbyfe Stridberg in.

Biography
Akeno Watanabe was born on November 18, 1982, in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture. Originally a child actress in a theater company, Watanabe decided to become a voice actress after being inspired by.

In 2001, she made her debut playing the role of Fuko Kuzuha in the anime. Since then, she has gone on to have various roles in anime and video games, as well as dubbing for Western films. Because of her husky voice, she is often typecast as either young men or adolescent women.

Watanabe is most known for voicing Rose in the Street Fighter series, a character heavily inspired by Lisa Lisa. In the fifth game, she says the line "Gimme a break!" (やれやれだわ) during her taunt, in reference to Jolyne Cujoh from Stone Ocean.

She is also close friends with Mamiko Noto, the voice actress for Yukako Yamagishi.