Hitoshi Doi(Thổ tỉnh nhân chí,Doi Hitoshi,born October 17, 1963[1])is the owner of an English-languageanimeandvoice actorinformation website, which was established on June 10, 1994.[1]
Hitoshi Doi | |
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Thổ tỉnh nhân chí | |
| Born | October 17, 1963 Chigasaki, Kanagawa,Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | University of Chicago(BS) University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa(MS) |
| Occupation | Organizer of theSeiyuu Database |
| Years active | 1994–current |
| Website | www |
Personal website and voice actor database
editBorn inChigasaki, Kanagawa,[1]Doi got his undergraduate degree in Applied Math atUniversity of Chicagoin 1985, and his master's degree in Information and Computer Science atUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoain 1987. Following college, he worked as a software engineer where he has worked on operating systems. In an interview with Sailor Week, Doi said that the anime that turned him into anotakufan wasKimagure Orange RoadandSailor Moon.When he was watching, he noticed the voices of many of the characters sounded familiar, and started comparing cast listings from the closing credits. He also learned that the voice actors sing songs, have radio shows and other things. He started collecting the data and created the seiyuu database. On June 10, 1994, he made his website public. Doi said that back then net access meant working in a science or math job, or majoring in that at school.[2]
Doi's personal website contains over 94,000 individual pages, and he is considered to be one of the best known fans of anime andvoice actingin the English-speaking world.[1][3]In addition to personal information, his views on variousanimeandmangaseries, and information on his hobbies, Doi's site contains a massive "Voice Actor Database". In 2001, the database contained over 50,000 entries,[4]and it is considered by anime fans to be a definitive source ofJapanese voice actinginformation.[3]In 1998, Mary Grigsby called two of his sites "two of the more informative World Wide Web URL addresses", and used his site as a reference.[5]
Hitoshi Doi was interviewed onCBC'sUndercurrents,about theotakuculture.[6]
Doi was a guest of honor at the 1999Anime Northconvention inToronto.[7]
See also
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References
edit- ^abcd"Hitoshi Doi".Hitoshi Doi official website.Retrieved2006-08-11.
- ^"#SailorWeek interview with Hitoshi Doi - iconiQ The Soundtrack Orchestra".iconiquestra.org.6 July 2014.Retrieved20 November2016.
- ^ab"Guests' Web Picks".Anime Web Turnpike.1999-08-30.Retrieved2006-08-11.
- ^"Seiyuu Database surpasses 50,000 entries".Anime News Network.2001-11-02.Retrieved2006-08-11.
- ^Grigsby, Mary (1998). "Sailormoon:Manga (Comics)andAnime (Cartoon)Superheroine Meets Barbie: Global Entertainment Commodity Comes to the United States "The Journal of Popular Culture32(1) 59-80doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1998.3201_59.x
- ^"#Sailorweek Interview with Hitoshi Doi".iconiQ: The Soundtrack Orchestra. July 6, 2014.RetrievedAugust 19,2016.
- ^Wilner, Norman. "Anime fest invades Toronto."Toronto Star. June 18, 1999. Entertainment Start Page 1. Retrieved on April 1, 2012.
External links
edit- Official website
- Hitoshi Doi's anime pageat theWayback Machine(archive index)
- Hitoshi Doiconvention appearances on AnimeCons.com