Rena Hasegawa
Rena Hasegawa is a Japanese voice actress and a former singer. Hasegawa started her career as a member of the idol girl group NGT48 in 2015. In 2016, she was promoted to a full-time member on the group's Team N3. In 2018, she was transferred to Team G, which later merged with Team N3 to become a unified first generation in 2019. On May 18, 2019, she left the group to pursue voice acting.
Early life
From her fourth year in elementary school to her third year in middle school, Hasegawa played baseball on a co-ed team.Career
Music career
Hasegawa auditioned for AKB48's then-upcoming Niigata-based sister group, NGT48, on July 25, 2015, having been fascinated with the group after watching AKB0048. She was accepted as a kenkyūsei, and on January 10, 2016, during the grand opening of NGT48's theater, she debuted as a full-time member with 15 other girls to the group's newly established Team N3. NGT48 later made their major label debut on April 12, 2017, with the single "Seishun Dokei." In 2018, Hasegawa appeared in the live-action film adaptation of the novel Midnight Bus. She was later transferred to the group's newly established Team G. She also participated in the South Korean reality competition series, Produce 48, representing NGT48 with Team N3's Noe Yamada. Hasegawa was eliminated during the first round and finished at 71st place.In 2019, after Team G co-captain Maho Yamaguchi was forced by the NGT48 management to apologize for publicly alleging that she was assaulted in December 2018, Hasegawa removed "NGT48" off her social media profiles to show support. The NGT48 management responded by merging Team N3 and Team G together into a "first generation" group, with their final performances as their original teams on April 21, 2019. During Team G's performance on April 21, Hasegawa, along with Riko Sugahara, announced her decision to graduate from NGT48 in solidarity with Yamaguchi. Hasegawa held a final performance with Yamaguchi and Sugahara on May 18, 2019.
Voice acting career
During Hasegawa's graduation speech, she announced she was pursuing voice acting. On June 10, 2019, Hasegawa announced that she signed with Crocodile Ltd. with the help of Yasushi Akimoto. She took voice acting lessons from the sound company BloomZ. She was first assigned as the PR reporter for the second season of Dropkick on My Devil! and later made her voice acting debut as Konomi Seki on Sapporo Otome Gohan.Since its inception in 2019, Hasegawa also participated in the cross-media project Idol Bu Show, playing the part of the character Kokoro Kakegawa in the correlated radio drama shows and events, among other things, and taking part in the productions of two CD albums as part of the in-story unit X-UC: Current Xanadu, released on January 8, 2020, and Papier Mache Idol, to be released soon.
This was followed up in with her second participation, announced in June 2020, in another cross-media project: Den'on-bu. Hasegawa is to play the role of the in-scenario character Shian Inubosaki.
Discography
Filmography
Live-action
Radio
| Year | Title | Network | Notes |
| 2019 | Nezucchi, Hasegawa Rena no Seiyuu-san Totonoimashita! | BSN | Ongoing, airing every Thursday from 21:15 to 21:45, features tarento Nezucchi and a voice actress guest in every episode |
| 2019 | Coco-Roco Crocodile | Nishinippon Broadcasting | Ongoing, aring every Friday from 11:00 to 11:15, features members from the Crocodile agency |
| 2019 | Hasegawa Rena's Ponchan-nel! | Nicovideo | Ongoing, airing every Monday at 20:00. Spin-off of Nezucchi, Hasegawa Rena no Seiyuu-san Totonoimashita! |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes |
| 2018 | Produce 48 | Herself | Mnet | Reality competition series; finished in 71st place |
| 2019 | Gyōretsu Tamago | Herself | Chiba TV | Variety show; regular panelist |
Theater
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2020 | Tatsu no Otoshigo | Mero |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2018 | Midnight Bus | Sachiko Kimura | Supporting role |
| 2019 | Lunch Time Hajimechatta | Mei Yashiki | Direct-to-DVD short drama series |
Voice acting
Anime
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2019 | Dropkick on My Devil! | Herself | PR correspondent |
| 2019 | Sapporo Otome Gohan | Konomi Seki | Season 3, 12-episode series aired in the Sapporo area and promoted by the Sapporo Cultural Broadcast. Lead role; debut voice acting role |
| 2020 | Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It | Guest character | Episode 11 appearance |
| 2020 | Dropkick on My Devil! | Guest character | Season 2, episode 3 appearance |
Video games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2019 | Shishi no Gotoku: Sengoku Haō Senki | Nene | Guest voice |
| 2019 | Q&Q Answers | Pipa Jing |
Dubbing
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2019 | Dilili to Paris Jikan Ryokou | Camille Claudel | |
| 2019 | Run Away: Hong Kong Dasshutsu | Xiuping | |
| 2019 | Pororo, the Snow Fairy Village Adventure | Pororo | |
| 2020 | End of Nightmare | Anton's mother | Japanese edition of the movie "Quiet Comes the Dawn" |
| 2020 | Big Wish: Mahou ni Negai wo | Sophia | Japanese edition of the 3D animation movie "Salma's Big Wish" |
| 2020 | Toys & Pets: Minna de Mirai he Dai-bouken | Time Bot | Japanese edition of the 3D animation movie "Tea Pets" |
| 2020 | Magic World: Beast to Yami no Shihaisha | Faye's mother; other | Japanese edition of the movie "The Magic Kids - Three Unlikely Heroes" |
| 2020 | Elf to Fushigina Neko | Angela | Japanese edition of the movie "The House Elf" |