Anna Yamada
Anna Yamada is the female lead of The Dangers in My Heart, a middle school girl who works as a magazine model and actress and falls for the quiet boy in the library. She is voiced by Hina Yomiya in Japanese and Katelyn Barr in the English dub.
About Anna Yamada
Anna Yamada is the star of Kyotaro Ichikawa's class: tall, cheerful and already working as a magazine model and actress under the name Anna Akino. She is also a huge eater, a library snack smuggler and much stranger, warmer and lonelier than her idol image suggests, which is exactly what Kyotaro slowly discovers.
Appearance
Anna is tall for a middle school girl, noticeably taller than Kyotaro, with long dark hair and an easy, open smile. At school she wears her uniform like everyone else, but her work means she also appears in magazine shoots and on set in a model and actress's wardrobe. Her height, which she is sometimes self conscious about, is part of what makes her stand out in every crowd scene.
Personality
Anna is bright, friendly and a bit of a goofball. She sings little songs to herself, sneaks snacks into the library, and treats Kyotaro with a natural warmth that completely disarms him. She is not naive, though. She notices more about people, and about Kyotaro, than she lets on, and she can be quietly bold when it matters, in ways that leave him speechless.
Background & Story
Anna built a working career while still in middle school, modelling for magazines and acting under the name Anna Akino. It is a glamorous life from the outside, and a lonely, judged one from the inside. Her visits to the school library start as escapes, for snacks and quiet, and become something else when the boy who is always there starts to see her as a person rather than an idol. Through the seasons, Anna grows from cheerful mystery to someone choosing, step by step, to be honest about what she feels.
Powers & Abilities
- A working model and actress: Anna models for magazines and acts under the name Anna Akino while still in middle school. The work gives her poise and experience well beyond her classmates, and it also means her time, image and behaviour are constantly managed by adults.
- A famous appetite: Anna loves food with a sincerity that becomes a running joke and a tell. The snacks she smuggles into the library are how many of her early scenes with Kyotaro begin, and sharing food becomes one of the ways she gets close to him.
Key Relationships
- Kyotaro Ichikawa: The quiet boy in the library who sees her as a person first. Their relationship is the heart of the series, growing from awkward small talk to a confession across two seasons.
- Moeko Sekine: Her close friend, who knows Anna well enough to read her crush early, and who both teases and protects her over it.
- Chihiro Kobayashi: Another of Anna's close friends, part of the group Anna spends her school days with.
Quick Answers
Who voices Anna Yamada?
Anna is voiced by Hina Yomiya in Japanese and by Katelyn Barr in the English dub.
Is Anna Yamada a model?
Yes. Anna works as a magazine model and actress while in middle school, under the professional name Anna Akino. Season 3 will show more of her entertainment work.
Why does Anna go to the library?
At first, for quiet and for snacks she is not supposed to eat there. It becomes the place where she can relax away from her idol image, and where she keeps meeting Kyotaro.