Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (松岡 禎丞) is a Japanese voice actor from Hokkaido affiliated with the talent agency I'm Enterprise.

In the same year, he made his debut as AKX20000 in Eden of the East.

After auditioning in 2009, Matsuoka became a member of I'm Enterprise agency.

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.

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, Bell Cranel from Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Sorata Kanda from The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, Sora from No Game No Life, Arata Kasuga/Astral Trinity from Trinity Seven, Sōma Yukihira from Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Fūtarō Uesugi in The Quintessential Quintuplets, Masamune Izumi from Eromanga Sensei, Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti from Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, and Inosuke Hashibira from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

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.

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.

At the age of 15, Matsuoka was inspired by Akira Ishida's performance as Kaworu Nagisa from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and from the game Tales of Eternia, 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.

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 Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night movie 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.