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 Kamen Rider on SKY PerfecTV!. In 1999, when he was a prep school student, he got his first regular role in an anime production with Cybuster, 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 Chobits. Sugita played the leading roles in both Gintama (Gintoki Sakata) and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Kyon), 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 "Newtype x Machi★Asobi Anime Awards 2013", and his role in Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Chamber K6821, also won the Mascot Character Award. In 2010, he starred in a live-action film Wonderful World, alongside Mamoru Miyano, Tomokazu Seki, Rikiya Koyama, Yuka Hirata, Showtaro Morikubo and Daisuke Namikawa.<ref>""{{cite news|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-08/namikawa-directs-1st-film/live-action-wonderful-world|title=Namikawa Directs 1st Film: Live-Action Wonderful World|date=December 8, 2009|work=Anime News Network|access-date=January 30, 2010}}</ref> 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 Maid Sama!: Usui Takumi Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker – Heiwa to Kazuhira no Blues: Kazuhira Miller Togainu no Chi: Keisuke Aitsu no Daihonmei: YamanakaGakuen Alice Doki Doki☆Drama CD'': Akira Tonouchi Dubbing Live-action Animation Awards References External links Tomokazu Sugita at GamePlaza-Haruka Voice Acting Database Tomokazu Sugita at Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database Tomokazu Sugita at CD Japan 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