Tomokazu Sugita

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Tomokazu Sugita
Native name 杉田 智和
Born (1980-10-11) October 11, 1980 (age 32)
Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Occupation Voice actor
Agent www.atomicmonkey.jp
Notable credit(s)

Tomokazu Sugita (杉田 智和 Sugita Tomokazu?, born October 11, 1980 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actor employed by Atomic Monkey.[1] Best known for his role as Gintoki in Gintama, he also voices Kyon in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Ragna the Bloodedge in Blazblue. He is also one of the three hosts on the radio show Bururaji (BlueRadio) promoting the videogame Blazblue which is produced and released on Nico Nico Douga.

He plays the male lead, Yuichi Aizawa in Kanon. At the 33rd Anime Grand Prix, his voice character Gintoki Sakata won the most favorite male character which means Sugita's character roles consecutively won the most favorite male character in 2009 and 2010 Anime Grand Prix. Uniquely, those characters are from different anime: Kyon from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2009) and Gintoki Sakata from Gintama (2010). Sugita and Yūichi Nakamura also work together in the Blazblue series as the protagonist Ragna and antagonist Hazama respectively. Also, Nakamura voiced Sugita's counterpart character in Gintama, Kintoki.

In 2010, he was part of a live-action film, Wonderful World, along with fellow voice actors, Mamoru Miyano, Tomokazu Seki, Rikiya Koyama, Yuka Hirata, Showtaro Morikubo and Daisuke Namikawa.[2]

Sugita won for "Best Supporting Actor" in the Third Seiyu Awards.

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  1. ^ "杉田智和プロフィール" (Japanese). Retrieved February 3, 2010.
  2. ^ "Namikawa Directs 1st Film: Live-Action Wonderful World". December 8, 2009. Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-08/namikawa-directs-1st-film/live-action-wonderful-world (Accessed January 30, 2010).
  3. ^ Maeda, Hisashi (November 2007). "The Official Art of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya". Newtype USA 6 (11): pp. 133–139. ISSN 1541-4817. 
  4. ^ "かってにコープス祭" (Japanese). Retrieved February 3, 2010.
  5. ^ "『キューティクル探偵因幡』放送局&第3弾キャスト情報を公開 - ニュース - アニメイトTV" (in Japanese). Animate. Retrieved February 09, 2013. 

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