Chieko Higuchi

Artist

Chieko Higuchi is a Japanese female voice actress and stage actress from Mitaka in Tokyo. Known for her gentle voice and soft acting style, she also handles vocal work alongside her voice acting roles. In anime, she performed both the opening theme 'Daisuki na Shoes' and the ending theme 'Deary' for the TV anime 'Offside,' giving the opening and closing of this soccer-themed sports youth drama a unified vocal presence. Both tracks were written by Shoko Omori with music by Nao Asada and arrangement by Masayuki Sakamoto, offering fresh pop numbers that complement the players' sweat and ambition on the pitch. Having a single vocalist handle both the OP and ED is itself one of the show's distinctive sonic traits.