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Death Stranding's Japanese cast gets even more prestigious with the addition of veteran voice actress and talented singer Maaya Sakamoto.
Hideo Kojima reported that another recording session for Death Stranding‘s Japanese dub was held on February 27. He tweeted a photo with himself, Kenjiro Tsuda, who voices protagonist Sam Bridges/Norman Reedus, and Maaya Sakamoto, revealing she’s part of the Japanese cast.
Like Houchu Ohtsuka, whose participation was announced a few weeks ago, Maaya Sakamoto is voicing a character which wasn’t revealed yet.

Maaya Sakamoto joins the two other women part of the Japanese cast revealed so far: Nana Mizuki who voices the woman with an umbrella, confirmed to be a Mary Poppins reference, and Kikuko Inoue, who voices the character modeled after Lindsay Wagner.
Unlike most of the seiyuu revealed in Death Stranding so far, Maaya Sakamoto never voiced a character in a Kojima game and this is her first time working with him.

Maaya Sakamoto is one of the most popular seiyuu in anime and games, having voiced characters such as Lightning and Aerith in Final Fantasy, Ryougi Shiki and Jeanne d’Arc in the Nasuverse, Aigis in Persona, Kai in Valkyria Chronicles 4, La Mariposa in Dead or Alive, and the list goes on.

Credit: Twinfinite

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[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Kojima earned and deserves every praise that he gets. I pray to God everyday that he lives a very long life so we can get to play DS and his future games. Can't wait to hug him soon.

 

[mckmas8808]

No amount of money is being held back for this game.

 

[Fake]

First KH and now FF. Damn, this game will be everything in one package.

 

[Jigsaah]

Maaya Sakamoto is my favorite Japanese singer. "Kiseki no Umi" is a fantastic song from the Macross frontier anime. Also Look up "Here" from one of her albums. She does sometimes record in English as well.

It's awesome Kojima is doing this.