Meet Sally Amaki, the voice actress-idol whose funny videos regularly go viral: ‘Sometimes you just gotta vent' - CNA Lifestyle
CNA Lifestyle spoke with popular voice actress Sally Amaki about how she got her start in anime and just how much trouble her candid videos have landed her in.
Voice actress-singer Sally Amaki at the 10th Crunchyroll Anime Awards in May 2026. (Photo: Crunchyroll)
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Hazeeq Sukri 11 Sep 2026 07:25AM (Updated: 11 Sep 2026 11:26AM) Bookmark Bookmark Share WhatsApp Telegram Facebook Twitter Email LinkedIn Set CNA as your preferred source on Google Add CNA as a trusted source to help Google better understand and surface our content in search results. Read a summary of this article on FAST. Get bite-sized news via a newcards interface. Give it a try. Click here to return to FAST Tap here to return to FAST FAST Earlier this year, I sat down with American voice actress, singer and idol Sally Amaki ahead of her fourth consecutive hosting stint at the 10th Crunchyroll Anime Awards in Tokyo, Japan.
Dressed in a mauve tulle dress and wearing a wide smile, the Los Angeles-born entertainer looked every inch the picture-perfect idol.
But if you’ve scrolled through her social media, you’ll know that the 26-year-old is anything but your conventional idol.
As a teenager, Amaki moved from Los Angeles to Japan to pursue a career in voice acting. After initially struggling with auditions, she landed a spot in 22/7, the voice-acting idol group and multimedia project produced by the prolific Japanese producer Yasushi Akimoto, whose credits include AKB48 and HKT48.
However, Amaki soon began attracting attention for something beyond her voice acting.
In 2017, clips of Amaki speaking English during her livestreams began circulating online, with viewers enamoured by the striking contrast between her Japanese- and English-speaking personas.
In Japanese, she came across as a polished, respectful idol that one would expect. Switch to English, however, and a far more comedic side emerged – one that was happy to crack morbid jokes, dole out memes and make unfiltered observations about everyday life.
The clips helped her find an audience beyond Japan, with her bilingualism and internet-native humour becoming a defining part of her appeal.
This popularity grew even more when she started her own YouTube channel, where she shares glimpses of her life as a voice actress and idol, alongside chaotic comedy skits.
Even her subtitles are a part of the joke.
In some of Amaki’s older videos, the English captions were less-than-literal translations of what she was actually saying, adding another layer of humour for fans.
