Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (松岡 禎丞) is a Japanese voice actor from Hokkaido affiliated with the talent agency I'm Enterprise. Honored at the 6th Seiyu Awards for Best New Actor in 2012 and the 10th Seiyu Awards for Best Lead Actor in 2016, he is best known for being the voice of Kirito from Sword Art Online, Inosuke Hashibira from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Fūtarō Uesugi from The Quintessential Quintuplets, Sora from No Game No Life, Sōma Yukihira in Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Bell Cranel from Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Hajime Aoyagi from Yowamushi Pedal, Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti from Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, Xiao from Genshin Impact, Mechamaru Ultimate from Jujutsu Kaisen, Vash the Stampede from the 2023 reboot of the Trigun series, Trigun Stampede, and Daniel Harper from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom. As of June 17, 2019, he is the current official Guinness World Record holder for the most unique sound bites provided by a voice actor, exceeding 10,000 words in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: MEMORIA FREESE.

Biography
At the age of 15, Matsuoka was inspired by Akira Ishida's performance as Kaworu Nagisa in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which Matsuoka watched at the recommendation of a friend, and first learned about the voice acting profession.

While aspiring to become an auto mechanic in his senior year of high school, he searched for a voice actor school in Hokkaido, but went to Tokyo after receiving advice that it would be difficult to succeed without going to a school in the capital. After graduating from Yoyogi Animation Gakuin while working as a newspaper scholarship student, he joined the Japan Narration Actors Institute. After auditioning in 2009, Matsuoka became a member of I'm Enterprise agency. In the same year, he made his debut as AKX20000 in Eden of the East.

In 2011, he starred in the role of Narumi Fujishima in Heaven's Memo Pad for the first time, and won the Best Rookie Actors at the 6th Seiyu Awards in 2012.

In 2012, he started voicing Kirito in Sword Art Online, and continues to reprise the role as of 2023.

At the 1st Aniradi Awards on March 21, 2015, he along with fellow radio personality Ai Kayano in "No Radio No Life; Gamer Brothers will start doing radio." won the "RADIO OF THE YEAR Best Radio Award" and the "BEST RETURN HOPE RADIO Revival Hope Radio Award."

On March 12, 2016, he won the Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 10th Seiyu Awards.

On June 17, 2019, he appeared on YouTube channel "Danmachi FES 2019-TV Anime Danmachi II and Dan Memo 2nd Anniversary Is It Wrong to Have an Event Together? Special-Public Live Broadcast !!" where Guinness World Record certified him for the most unique sound bites provided by a voice actor, exceeding 10,000 words in ''Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: MEMORIA FREESE.

On October 2, 2021, as a collaboration project between the Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night film and the Yomiuri Giants, he appeared in the Giants game with Hiroki Yasumoto, and became a pitcher for the opening ceremony. Matsuoka continued to collaborate during the match with a cap shuffle game with Yasumoto to liven up the venue.

Video games

 * Grand Chase Dimensional Chaser Global as Lass Isolet
 * Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker as Fandaniel/Amon/Hermes
 * Tales of Arise as Law
 * Granblue Fantasy as Chat Noir, Baldr
 * Dream Meister and the Recollected Black Fairy as Itsuki
 * Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya
 * Shiratsuyu no Kai as Tsukamoto Ryouta
 * Glass Heart Princess as Doumyouji Gai
 * Glass Heart Princess : Platinum as Doumyouji Gai
 * Phantasy Star Nova as Seil
 * Under Night In-Birth as Chaos
 * Octopath Traveler as Therion
 * Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya
 * Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya
 * Tears to Tiara 2 as Hamil
 * Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Out of Order as Masaki Ichijō
 * Mugen Souls Z as Ace
 * Chaos;Child as Takuru Miyashiro
 * Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth as Male Protagonist
 * Chaos Rings III as Male Protagonist
 * Sword Art Online: Lost Song as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya
 * Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya
 * Sword Art Online: Memory Defrag as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya, himself (live action)
 * Accel World vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya, Graphite Edge (uncredited)
 * Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya
 * Sword Art Online: Integral Factor as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya
 * I-Chu as Hikaru Orihara
 * Nights of Azure as Professor Alucard
 * Fairy Fencer F as Zenke
 * Otogi: Spirit Agents as Hijiri
 * The Alchemist Code as Reimei
 * Dragalia Lost as Hope, Emile (uncredited)
 * Brown Dust as Seto
 * Fire Emblem Heroes as Hrid
 * The Idolmaster SideM as Shouta Mitarai
 * Our World is Ended as Iruka No. 2
 * Extraordinary One as Garuda
 * Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: MEMORIA FREESE as Bell Cranel, Argonaut, and Erebus
 * Arena of Valor as Lu Bu (Japanese Server), Kirito (SAO Skin) & Inosuke Hashibira (KNY Skin)
 * Arknights  as Arene
 * Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland as Nicodemus David Dieter
 * Onmyoji as Koroka
 * Punishing: Gray Raven as Lee
 * Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA- as Yakushi Nyorai
 * Genshin Impact as Xiao
 * Cookie Run: Kingdom as Herb Cookie
 * Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya
 * A Certain Magical Index: Imaginary Fest as Kakeru Kamisato
 * Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions as Juan Díaz
 * Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team as Tomeya Akai
 * Rune Factory 5 as Lyka
 * Pokémon Masters EX as Ingo
 * Alchemy Stars as Sylva
 * Sword Art Online: Last Recollection as Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya
 * Master Detective Archives: Rain Code as Yomi Hellsmile
 * Panic in Sweets Land as Evil King
 * Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku as Reki Bakuno

Original net animation (ONA)

 * Oblivion Battery (2020) as Junpei Chihaya
 * The Way of the Househusband (2021) as Pet Cat
 * Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- (2022) as Lars Ul Metallicana
 * Gaiken Shijō Shugi (2022) as Keisuke Hasegawa
 * Gamera Rebirth (2023) as Joe

Original video animation (OVA)

 * Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito as Yukiya Naruse
 * The Comic Artist and His Assistants as Yūki Aito
 * Hori-san to Miyamura-kun as Izumi Miyamura
 * Hybrid Child as Tsukishima
 * Star-Myu: High School Star Musical as Akira Ugawa

Drama CDs

 * Gal☆Gun as Motesugi Tenzou
 * Senaka Awase no Koi as Nikaido Fumito
 * Hitorijime Boyfriend as Ohshiba Kensuke
 * Bathroom Yori Ai o Komete 2 as Ogura Tomohiko
 * Brother Shuffle! as Hajime
 * Gosan no Heart as Miki Toshihisa
 * Megumi to Tsugumi as Yamada Tsugumi
 * Tamayura as Asakura Michitada
 * Shuuen no Shiori Project -Shuuen Re:act- (終焉-Re:act-) as E-ki
 * Yoru to Asa no Uta as Asaichi
 * Kono Ore ga Omae Nanka Suki na Wakenai as Taisei Fujima
 * Smells Like Green Spirit as Futoshi Mishima
 * Requiem of the Rose King (2016, 2017) as Prince Edward
 * Kakkou no Yume (2018) as Yuuzi Seno
 * Seirei Gensouki as Rio (Amakawa Haruto)
 * L'étranger series as Mio Chibana
 * Mo Dao Zu Shi (2020) as Nie HuaiSang/Jou Kaisou
 * Tashiro-kun, Kimi tte Yatsu Wa. (2021) as Yuuta Ebihara
 * Tearmoon Empire  (2022, 2023) as Abel Remno

Voice-over comics

 * Nisekoi as Raku Ichijō

Live action

 * Voice II (2021) as Hentai Belt (voice)
 * Kamen Rider Geats (2022) as the Vision Driver, Laser Raise Riser, Zillion Driver,Dooms Geats, and Suel (voice)

Dubbing

 * Christine (2019 4K Ultra HD edition) as Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham (Keith Gordon)
 * Gran Turismo as Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe)
 * Hard Hit as Jin-woo (Ji Chang-wook)
 * The Hurricane Heist as Will Rutledge (Toby Kebbell)
 * Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as Noa (Owen Teague)
 * Lookism as Park Hyung Seok/Keisuke Hasegawa
 * Mechamato as MechaBot
 * Ready Player One as Sho (Philip Zhao)