History Creator / YoshitsuguMatsuoka

We need to describe Yoshitsugu Matsuoka. [[Literature/NoGameNoLife Let's begin the game]]!

He won the best lead actor at the [[http://myanimelist.net/news/45143454 10th annual seiyuu awards]]. As of 2019, he holds the current official Guinness World Record for the most unique sound bites provided by a voice actor, exceeding 10,000 words in ''Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon: Memoria Freese''.

* ''LightNovel/TheDetectiveIsAlreadyDead'' as Bat

* ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'' as the Vision Driver, Laser Raise Riser and Sueru

* ''LightNovel/GirlishNumber'' as Jūzō Matsuoka

* ''LightNovel/HeavensMemoPad'' as Narumi Fujishima (one of his earliest lead roles)

* ''LightNovel/HowToRaiseABoringGirlfriend'' as Tomoya Aki

* ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' as Sorata Kanda

* ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'' as the Vision Driver and Laser Raise Riser

One of the more prominent male seiyuus making a name for himself who started cropping up during the 2000s, '''Yoshitsugu Matsuoka''' [松岡 禎丞] (born September 17, 1986 in Hokkaido) first debuted as Shouta Mitarai of ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster''. However, it wasn't until the early 2010s when his roles started to increase, particularly ''Literature/SwordArtOnline''[='=]s [[StarMakingRole Kirito]]. Due to the success of SAO, he became [[PigeonholedVoiceActor typecast]] as NiceGuy [[HaremGenre harem]] protagonists or vanilla heroes (or StockLightNovelHero), earning him the [[FanNickname title]] of the "Harem King" in the anime community.

* ''Literature/KingsGame'' as Toshiyuki Abe\

* ''Literature/KingsGame'' as Toshiyuki Abe

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}} Stampede'' as Vash the Stampede (replacing Creator/MasayaOnosaka)

* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' as Xiao

* ''LightNovel/BladedanceOfElementalers'' as Jio Inzagi

* ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' as Godō Kusanagi

* ''LightNovel/EromangaSensei'' as Masamune Izumi and [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Kirito]] (as a [[TheCameo cameo appearance]])

* ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'' as Masaki Ichijō

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' as Nicol Ascart

* StarMakingRole: Kirito from ''Literature/SwordArtOnline''; also applies to a lesser extent towards Shunsuke in ''VideoGame/ChousokuHenkeiGyrozetter'' and Godou in ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' thanks to all three titles being released at the same time in 2012.

* ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'' as the Vision Driver and Laser Raise Raiser

* ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'' as the Vision Driver

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' as Spearman

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' as [[Characters/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeonBellCranel Bell Cranell]] (PlayingAgainstType since the character has a much younger sounding voice than his usual characters and is a DistressedDude who often needs rescuing)

* ManOfAThousandVoices: Most of his roles are [[NiceGuy Nice Guys]] with [[StockLightNovelHero similar]] [[UnwantedHarem characteristics]], so he rarely gets a chance to show off. When he does, however, such as [[Manga/AkameGaKill Lubb]][[LovableSexManiac ock]], [[Literature/NoGameNoLife So]][[ShowyInvincibleHero ra]], [[Anime/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled Yukiya]] [[EvilGenius Naruse]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell]] [[DistressedDude Cranel]], [[Manga/ToLoveRu Naka]][[HopelessSuitor jima]], [[Manga/DevilsAndRealist Si]][[DudeLooksLikeALady tri]], and now [[Manga/FoodWars Soma]] [[HotBlooded Yukihira]], [[Literature/HighSchoolDXD Freed]] [[EvilIsHammy Sellezen]], [[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Inosuke]] [[NoIndoorVoice Hashibira]] the results are suitably epic. And then he voices [[Literature/ReZero Be]][[AxCrazy tel]][[PlayingAgainstType geu]][[ArcVillain se]], of all people...

* PlayingAgainstType: Despite the above, he is quite capable of bucking his usual roles in spectacular fashion. Some notable instances of this are the totally insane Betelgeuse in ''Literature/ReZero'', the ArrogantKungFuGuy with NoIndoorVoice Sora in ''Literature/NoGameNoLife'', the sadistic murdering Wang in ''Manga/DarwinsGame'', ChickMagnet JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Kirihara in ''Literature/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'', the calculating ChildProdigy TechnoWizard Nail Saionji in ''Anime/YuGiOhSEVENS'', the nice but quite arrogant Soma Yukihira in ''Manga/FoodWars'', the HotBlooded NoIndoorVoice [[TheBerserker berserker]] Inosuke Hashibira in ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', and the AxCrazy sociopathic terrorist Majima in ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''.

We need to describe Yoshitsugu Matsuoka. [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Let's begin the game]]!

* ''LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates'' as San-Daime

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' as Freed Sellezen (PlayingAgainstType as he is a psychotic villain)

* ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'' as Sora (PlayingAgainstType as he is very arrogant with NoIndoorVoice)

* ''Manga/ShuumatsuNoWalkureRecordOfRagnarok'' as Loki

* ManOfAThousandVoices: Most of his roles are [[NiceGuy Nice Guys]] with [[StockLightNovelHero similar]] [[UnwantedHarem characteristics]], so he rarely gets a chance to show off. When he does, however, such as [[Manga/AkameGaKill Lubb]][[LovableSexManiac ock]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife So]][[ShowyInvincibleHero ra]], [[Anime/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled Yukiya]] [[EvilGenius Naruse]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell]] [[DistressedDude Cranel]], [[Manga/ToLoveRu Naka]][[HopelessSuitor jima]], [[Manga/DevilsAndRealist Si]][[DudeLooksLikeALady tri]], and now [[Manga/FoodWars Soma]] [[HotBlooded Yukihira]], [[LightNovel/HighschoolDXD Freed]] [[EvilIsHammy Sellezen]], [[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Inosuke]] [[NoIndoorVoice Hashibira]] the results are suitably epic. And then he voices [[Literature/ReZero Be]][[AxCrazy tel]][[PlayingAgainstType geu]][[ArcVillain se]], of all people...
* MrExposition: Most of his heroes provide {{Info Dump}}s at one point or another. [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Kirito]] and [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]] (when he's not being his normal {{Jerkass}} self) in particular sound like they could be narrating a BBC documentary.

* PlayingAgainstType: Despite the above, he is quite capable of bucking his usual roles in spectacular fashion. Some notable instances of this are the totally insane Betelgeuse in ''Literature/ReZero'', the ArrogantKungFuGuy with NoIndoorVoice Sora in ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', the sadistic murdering Wang in ''Manga/DarwinsGame'', ChickMagnet JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Kirihara in ''Literature/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'', the calculating ChildProdigy TechnoWizard Nail Saionji in ''Anime/YuGiOhSEVENS'', the nice but quite arrogant Soma Yukihira in ''Manga/FoodWars'', the HotBlooded NoIndoorVoice [[TheBerserker berserker]] Inosuke Hashibira in ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', and the AxCrazy sociopathic terrorist Majima in ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''.

* EvilIsHammy: Whenever he's casted as a villian expect him to chew the scenery. A LOT.

!!Tropes associated with Yoshitsugu Matsuoka include:

* HaremGenre: Often plays the male protagonists. It's a bit of a fandom joke that his fellow female seiyuus are ''his'' harem.

* {{Irony}}:
** He actually wanted to be a car mechanic before he was introduced to voice acting. Right now, he's too busy to even learn driving, let alone owning a car.
** Despite being typecast as the "Harem King" and commonly charming female seiyuu in events and interviews (unintentionally so), he is a famously shy person who has difficulty even looking people in the eyes. That said though, he's gotten far more confident as his popularity started to skyrocket, although he's still pretty quiet compared to his fellow seiyuu.
* LargeHam: He can really ham it up with the best. Whilst he has a very calm BBC Narrator sort of voice, when he needs to scream or make goofy noises, he's really good at it.

* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' as [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineKazutoKirigaya Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya]] (he reprises the role whenever Kirito shows up in various media, including games such as ''VideoGame/DengekiBunkoFightingClimax'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfArise''- the latter making it a case of TalkingToHimself, as seen directly below.)