Rie Takahashi to Go on Hiatus for Surgery

Voice actress Rie Takahashi will take a short hiatus for surgery on her vocal chords. She will be back in about a month.

Takahashi posted her statement on her X (formerly Twitter) social media account, and you can also read the agency’s statement on the 81 Produce website. She assured fans and associates that she’s feeling well, and that she’s decided to undergo surgery for the future of her voice acting career. The statement from 81 Produce went into a bit more detail about the surgery in question. For a while, Takahashi had been going to a doctor for hoarseness, and the doctor advised her to undergo the surgery.

Voice polyps and nodules are fairly common in voice actors, as well as other careers that focus on speaking for long hours at a time, and so it’s not rare for someone to take a hiatus to recover or get surgery. For example, in 2023, Kaito Ishikawa (Dimitri in Fire Emblem: Three Houses) had to undergo surgery, and he also took a month’s hiatus from voice-acting work.

Rie Takahashi is a voice actress and singer who started her career around 2013. Some of her major voice-acting roles include Ai Hoshino in Oshi no Ko, Hu Tao in Genshin Impact, Mash Kyrielight in Fate/Grand Order (replacing Risa Taneda), and Emilia in Re:Zero.

Rie Takahashi will go on hiatus for about a month. She should resume her normal work activities in early May 2025.