Kira Buckland (b. July 16, 1987) is an American voice actress. Kira graduated from University of Alaska, Anchorage, majoring in Japanese. Since winning the Anime Expo 2007 AX Idol Voice Acting competition she has been working professionally with Bang Zoom! Entertainment. Prior to that, she has voiced roles in over 1,000 flash animations, radio dramas, and computer/video games and was the founder of the first Alaskan anime convention Senshi-Con based in Anchorage, Alaska.. She started voice acting in 2004 on various online websites, under the well-known alias of "Rina-chan,". In February 2009, Kira returned to Senshi-Con as a guest.