__Height:__ 164cm
 __Likes:__ Sweet things, being praised, being envied
__Hates:__ Momiji, bitter things
 __Special skills:__ Playing innocent, martial arts

A high school girl who has the power to absorb Happiness energy that gives her beauty, brains and health. She is lonely, because of her self-centered ego, and never had to have work hard for herself.   ~!In episodes 5 &amp; 6, Ichiko unknowingly opened up an aging box set up by Momiji that turned her into a child. To escape Momiji's clutches, she temporarily becomes Michiko so that she can seek refuge in Keita's house, all the while hiding her true identity as Ichiko. It is at this time that her typically selfish and self-centered personality is humbled by the sincere love Keita and his family show for each other, despite poverty-stricken conditions. It is the first time Ichiko has ever acknowledged pure kindness, and so she becomes motivated to use her remaining time as Michiko to exercise kindness herself. !~  Despite of her strong denials, she is starting to develop feelings for Keita, she also envies him and his siblings for being happy despite of having little in life.    (Source: Wikipedia, ANN Forums)

At the expense of the people and things around her, Sakura has absorbed so much "happiness energy" that she has caused an energy imbalance in the world. In order to return balance to the world, the Poverty God, Momiji, sets out to take away Sakura's ability to absorb this energy. Will Momiji be able to put a stop to Sakura's absorbing abilities, or will the God succumb to her happiness? 
(Source: FUNimation)

__Height:__ 156 cm (5'1")

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__Introduction__
Kana Hanazawa is a voice actress, actress, singer, former child actress, and talent represented by Office Osawa. In July 2020, she married fellow voice actor [Kensho Ono](https://anilist.co/staff/95819), whom she had been dating since 2017. 

__Early Career__
Hanazawa originally became a child actress at the age of 8. Amongst other roles, she starred in the well-known TV school show _Appare Sanma Daisensei_ and the TV series _Gakkou no Sensei_. At that time she was contracted to Big Apple, and later to Five Eight and Smile Monkey.

__Voice Acting Career__
At the age of 14, she made her voice acting debut in 2003 as Holly in _[Last Exile](https://anilist.co/anime/97/)_. Three years later in 2006, she was selected for a major role in TV Tokyo's anime mecha series _[Zegapain](https://anilist.co/anime/878/)_. She was playing the main character's childhood friend, [Kaminagi Ryouko](https://anilist.co/character/2578/), and her performance was one of the main reasons for the character's popularity amongst fans. It was afterwards that she came under contract at prestigious voice acting talent agency Office Osawa in 2007.

Hanazawa went to university in 2007, while at the same time, she began to make her mark as a voice actress. She was voted in 2010 as "Best Female Voice Actress" by listeners of the radio program Nonko and Nobita's Anime Scramble. She graduated from university in 2011, and in the same year became a full-time voice actress.

Hanazawa won Best Supporting Actress at the 9th Seiyuu Awards for her role as [Kosaki Onodera](https://anilist.co/character/52723/) in _[Nisekoi](https://anilist.co/anime/18897/)_. She also won Newtype's Best Voice Actress award in 2015 and later in 2018.

__Music Career__
On February 23, 2012, it was announced that Hanazawa would launch her official website. A few days later, during the Kana Hanazawa Solo Debut Presentation Party event, it was announced that she would release four singles within a year: "Hoshizora Destination" on April 25, "Hatsukoi no Oto" released on July 18, "Happy Endings" on October 24 (an ending theme for _[Zetsuen no Tempest](https://anilist.co/anime/14075/)_), and "Silent Snow" on January 16, 2013. Her first album Claire was released on February 20, 2013, and her second album 25 was released on February 26, 2014. She released an album title Blue Avenue in April 2015 and went on a concert tour starting at the Nippon Budokan on May 3. The Blu-ray release of the show, Live Avenue Kana Hanazawa in Budokan, ranked number six in sales.

__Trivia__
- She was invited to Anime Festival Asia 2010 on stage.
- She used to be a junior idol in Akihabara where hundreds of people came to watch her, which is how she got her breakthrough for her acting career in commercials before becoming a voice actress.

**Non-anime roles:**
- [Marie](https://anilist.co/character/89069/Marie) - Persona 4 Golden (VG)
- Illya - Memento Mori (VG)
- Marian - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Modernia - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Alice Kuonji (Caster) - Fate/Grand Order (VG)

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/brinapalencia) | [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brinakins/) | [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/brina.palencia.7)

Brina Michelle Palencia is an American voice actress who has voiced a number of English-language versions of characters featured in anime. She's a graduate of University of North Texas. [Gino Palencia](https://anilist.co/staff/104093), her brother, also works for Funimation.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Sakura Ichiko is a 16 year old girl who leads a charmed life and is blessed with beauty, brains, and health. She has an abundance of “Happiness Energy”, which can make people happy, but at the cost of absorbing all the “Happiness Energy” from her surroundings. She has caused the energy balance of the world to become unbalanced and because of this, she becomes the target of a Poverty God named Momiji. Momiji goal is to remove Ichiko’s power of absorbing other people’s Happiness Energy and to return all the energy she has taken to its rightful place. 
(Source: Akiba-station)
 
Included chapters: 
Volume 6: Binbougami Ga!' Is! 
Volume 6: You Binbougami! 
Volume 10: Extra Round: You'll Put Them in the Most Delicious Place Of All 
Volume 11: Extra Round 1: It's Better to Grow Up Slowly 
Volume 11: Extra Round 2: Did Somebody Call for a Prince!!! 
Volume 13: Extra Round 1: I'm Glad the Three of Us Could Come 
Volume 13: Extra Round 2: A Pet's Misbehavior is the Owners Responsibility You Know 
Volume 16: Art Book Extra Round: Come Here 
Oneshot: not included in any volume, in was published in Weekly Shounen Jump to promote the main series, which ran in Jump SQ

One summer day... a Binbogami, Momiji, accidentally killed her main character, Ichiko, even though it was an important time before the anime adaptation... Momiji's cover-up has begun!!

Ichiko Sakura