Minami Takayama (高山 みなみ Takayama Minami?), stage name of Izumi Arai is a Japanese voice actress who voiced Nina Williams, young Kazuya Mishima, and Jin Kazama in Tekken: The Motion Picture.
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- In video games, she is the current voice actress for Pai Chan in the Virtua Fighter series and Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, Pit from the Kid Icarus series since Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Knuckle Joe from the Kirby series.
- She is one half of the Japanese pop duo Two-Mix. She composes their songs and is also the lead vocalist.
- She married famous manga artist Gosho Aoyama, creator of the Detective Conan/Case Closed manga, on her 41st birthday, May 5, 2005. They were later divorced on December 10, 2007.
- She is also the voice actor of Aoyama's Detecitve Conan manga protagonist Conan Edogawa in the Detective Conan anime series.
- She has also voiced another of Aoyama's manga characters; Yaiba Kurogane in the anime adaption of Yaiba.