You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 226.

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I'm excited to present to you my interview with the very talented Alejandra Reynoso.

In the world of animation, she's probably most famous for playing Flora in Winks Club for Nickelodeon,

and Cypha in the popular Netflix animated series, Castellvania.

In games, she's played Gallica in Metaphor Re Fantasio,

Neon and Stranger of Paradise, Final Fantasy Origin, and Dawnbreaker in Dota 2.

In anime, she's Monica Everett in Secrets of the Silent Witch, Hitomi Takamine in the medalist,

Asa in the series of Monanouke films, and the lead character Liko in the new Pokemon Horizon series.

I first came across Alejandra and her work when we were both cast in Pokemon Horizons,

where I play the adventurous Pokemon Professor, Freed. I heard Alejandra's performance as Liko and found it hopeful, idealistic, and endearing.

Then I was pleasantly surprised when right after Pokemon Horizons, we were both cast in the

anime movie Mononoukee Phantom in the Rain, where she voiced one of the main female leads,

Asa, and I voiced the medicine seller. In that film,

Alejandra played a grounded, confident young woman who was negotiating the complicated

politics of the Japanese imperial court. After hearing her in both roles, I was really

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