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Career

Sugita was born in

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. When he was in elementary school and watched the TV anime '' Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai'', he noticed that the character Hyunckel had a much lower voice than he had imagined from reading the original manga, and thought he was "still cool," but the moment he said his special move, Sugita realized that it was the same voice as Phoenix Ikki from ''

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). In junior high school, he was a member of the tennis club and served as the head of the club, while in high school, he joined the

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club (1-dan). When he was a child, he wanted to be a temple priest, and in high school he wanted to be a home economics teacher, a confectioner, or a designer. At the time, when he thought about writing a script for a stage performance at a school event and added sound effects and background music to a recording of his own voice, his older brother heard it and suggested that he try to find a job that made use of him voice and speech, which led him to become a voice actor. While still in high school, he won the Myuras &

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Award at the Voice Actor Spring School sponsored by the Japan Narration Actor Institute, and entered the Myuras Actors School (now the Vocal and Dance Division of the Japan Narration Actor Institute), while at the same time belonging to the Myuras entertainment agency. At the age of 17, he made his voice acting debut as a gift announcement narrator for ''

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. In 1999, when he was a prep school student, he got his first regular role in an anime production with ''

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'', and continued his voice acting career while studying until he graduated from university. After the dissolution of Myuras in 2001, he joined Atomic Monkey after a period of freelancing, and made his first leading role playing Hideki Motosuwa in the anime series ''

''. Sugita played the leading roles in both ''

'' (

) and ''

'' (

), greatly increasing his fame. In 2009, he won the Best Actor in supporting role award at the 3rd Seiyu Awards. In October 2013, he won the Male Voice Actor Award at the "

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'', Chamber K6821, also won the Mascot Character Award. In 2010, he starred in a live-action film '' Wonderful World'', alongside

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and

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."" On April 1, 2020, Sugita left Atomic Monkey, the company he had been affiliated with for many years, and established AGRS Inc. with Kai Itō, a lawyer well versed in the entertainment industry, as an advisor and himself as the representative director.

Filmography

Anime series

Original video animation

Original net animation

Anime films

Live-action films

Video games

Tokusatsu

Drama CD

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'': Usui Takumi * '' Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker – Heiwa to Kazuhira no Blues'': Kazuhira Miller * ''

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'': Keisuke * ''Aitsu no Daihonmei'': Yamanaka *''

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Doki Doki☆Drama CD'': Akira Tonouchi

Dubbing

Live-action

Animation

Awards

References

External links

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Tomokazu Sugita
at GamePlaza-Haruka Voice Acting Database
Tomokazu Sugita
at Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database * * *
Tomokazu Sugita
at CD Japan {{DEFAULTSORT:Sugita, Tomokazu 1980 births Living people Japanese male video game actors Japanese male voice actors Male voice actors from Saitama Prefecture 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors