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Biography

Early life

Saito was born on April 22, 1991, in Shōwa,

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, Japan. He is the eldest of three siblings, with two younger sisters. He started wanting to become a voice actor in high school, inspired by Akira Ishida's role as Koyemshi in '' Bokurano''. Prior to that, he wanted to become a musician or a novel writer.

Voice acting career

Saito joined the second

’s Audition in 2008. In that audition, a total of 1,035 people participated with only 33 going to the final audition to decide who would win and stay training under the talent agency. He won the audition for the male category and started taking voice acting classes at ''81 ACTOR'S STUDIO'' afterwards, while still attending high school. In 2009, Saito won the "Judges' Special Prize" in the recitation competition at the 33rd . Veteran voice actor

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was one of the judges present at that time. He started his career as a voice actor in 2010, voicing minor roles in a few anime and video games. He put less focus on his career as a voice actor during his first two years to focus himself on his studies at

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. After graduating from college in 2014, he started to take on more important roles. The first major role that he got through audition was Tasuku Ryuenji in the anime series ''

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''. In the same year, Saito got other major roles as Tadashi Yamaguchi in the anime series ''

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in the anime series ''

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'', and Twelve in the anime series ''

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''. At the

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in 2015, Saito won the "Best Male Newcomer" award for his role as Twelve in the anime series ''

''. He shared the award with

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. In March 2019, he and the other members of Hypnosis Mic received a singing award in the 13th Voice Actor Awards.

Music career

Saito made his debut as a solo artist in 2017, under

. He released his first single on June 7, 2017. His second single was released on September 6, 2017. The song was used as the opening theme song to ''

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''. Saito released his third single on June 20, 2018. For his third single, he took upon himself songwriting duties, writing lyrics and music for all songs featured on it. Saitō released his first album, quantum stranger, on December 19, 2018. On February 24, 2019, Saito held his 1st solo live concert entitled "Saito Soma 1st LIVE quantum stranger(s)" in Maihama Amphitheater. A blu-ray edition of the concert was released on June 5 of the same year the concert was held.

Personal life

On January 24, 2022, Saito tested positive for

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Filmography

TV anime

Original video animation (OVA)

Original net animation (ONA)

Animated films

Video games

Drama CD

Boys love CDs

Stage

TV Show

Dubbing roles

Discography

Singles

EPs

Digital Albums

Studio Albums

Character song

Concerts

Personal Concerts

Other concerts

Awards

References

External links

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