She was just over fourteen years old when she appeared in Shinkenger, making her one of the youngest actors to play a Ranger in Super Sentai, though the character of Kaoru was seventeen years old. Though the youngest actor to play a Sentai Ranger is Hisashi Sakai who was twelve when he portrayed Kou of the Howling New Star (KibaRanger) (who was nine years old) in Gosei Sentai Dairanger, the only main character child ranger, and Shota Taguchi who was portrayed Kotaro Sakuma (Koguma Skyblue) in Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger, and also she was still the youngest actress to play a Ranger until the place was taken by Yuno Fuse, who was just thirteen when she portrayed a character who briefly used the powers of Gokai Yellow in the Christmas episode of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.