Tomokazu Seki

Tomokazu Seki (関 智一, Seki Tomokazu, born September 8, 1972) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and singer. He has worked with Haikyou productions. He is the co-founder of Atomic Monkey.

Career

He landed his first role in 1993 anime Mobile Suit Victory Gundam as Tomache Massarik. Some of his most notable roles include Shinichi Chiaki from Nodame Cantabile, Gilgamesh from Fate/stay night, Rob Lucci from One Piece, Gundam characters Domon Kasshu and Yzak Joule (from G Gundam and Gundam Seed, respectively), Kyo Sohma from Fruits Basket, Shinya Kogami from Psycho-Pass, Ichiro Miyata from Hajime no Ippo, Haru Glory from Rave Master, Chichiri from Fushigi Yuugi, Toya Kinomoto (Sakura Kinomoto's older brother) from Cardcaptor Sakura, Van Fanel from The Vision of Escaflowne, Suneo Honekawa in Doraemon and Ken Hidaka from Weiss Kreuz, alongside Hiro Yūki, Takehito Koyasu, and Shinichiro Miki. Koyasu and Miki, along with Seki, have also voiced in Initial D and Gravitation, and Nobuo Terashima in Nana, as well. His has also voiced the roles of Ryūki Shi in Saiunkoku Monogatari, and in Lucky Star as the recurring guest character, Meito Anizawa.

He has portrayed a wide variety of characters, ranging from comical to dramatic. Very often, the characters he voiced have very comical sides to their seriousness, such as Sagara Sousuke in the Full Metal Panic series, Kenichi Shirahama in Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi, Toji Suzuhara in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Pierre Bolnezeu in Yakitate!! Japan and Yoshimitsu from Tekken.

He also starred in the 2010 live-action film, Wonderful World, with fellow voice actors, Mamoru Miyano, Tomokazu Sugita, Rikiya Koyama, Yuka Hirata, Showtaro Morikubo and Daisuke Namikawa, who is also the director of the film. Before this, he launched Gekidan Herohero Q Company, his own dramatic company, and is also active as a stage actor.

In 2016, Seki was cast as Luche Lazarus in the CGI feature film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV.

Tomokazu Seki is set to return as Sagara Sousuke of Full Metal Panic iv-invisible-victory in spring 2018.

TV roles

Series

• Wild Strawberry - Takeshi