She performed voice acting scenes and anime songs in the competition, and now she is back in America where she is training to become a bi-lingual Japanese-American voice actress and singer. Los Angeles middle-school student Kyoka was the only American girl to make it to the 2012 Talent Scout Caravan Top 10 finals in Tokyo, Japan. At the Octofinal competition in Tokyo, Tadokoro performed Hirano Aya's "Lost my music," from the anime series "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya". The 2011 auditions focused on anime voice actresses, and the winner was 17-year-old Tadokoro Azusa from Ibaraki prefecture. The winner received a management contract with top Japanese talent agency HoriPro, a singing contract with BANDAI Group music label LANTIS, and a prize of 1,000,000 Yen. The competition was open to girls 12-18 years old of any race who wished to become anime voice actors/singers in Japan. In 2011, HoriPro Talent Agency's 36th Talent Scout Caravan held auditions in 14 cities, including Los Angeles, with a total of 12,000 applicants.
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