Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (松岡 禎丞, Matsuoka Yoshitsugu; born September 17, 1986) 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?, Noi Komazawa from Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, Nijee from Star Detective Precure!, 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, Helios from the 2021 reboot of the Sailor Moon series, Sailor Moon Eternal, Vash the Stampede from the 2023 reboot of the Trigun series, Trigun Stampede, and Zanka Nijiku from Gachiakuta. 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 in a mobile game, exceeding 10,000 words in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Memoria Freese.
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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 voiced Kirito in Sword Art Online and reprised his 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."
In 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.
Filmography
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
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: Akito the Exiled 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)
