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Tomokazu Seki

Japanese actor and voice actor (born 1972)

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Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ284401 ↗
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Tomokazu Seki (関 智一, Seki Tomokazu; born September 8, 1972) is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He previously worked with Haikyō. He is honorary president of and affiliated with Atomic Monkey and the chairman of theater company HeroHero Q. He is a special lecturer at Japan Newart College.

Career

Seki landed his first role in the 1993 anime Mobile Suit Victory Gundam as Tomache Massarik. Some of his most notable roles include Shinichi Chiaki from Nodame Cantabile, Gilgamesh from the Fate franchise, Rob Lucci from One Piece, Gundam characters Domon Kasshu and Yzak Joule (from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, respectively), Kyo Sohma from Fruits Basket, Whisper from Yo-kai Watch, Kanji Tatsumi from Persona 4, Shinya Kogami from Psycho-Pass, Ichiro Miyata from Hajime no Ippo, Haru Glory from Rave Master, Toya Kinomoto (Sakura Kinomoto's older brother) from Cardcaptor Sakura, Van Fanel from The Vision of Escaflowne, Suneo Honekawa in Doraemon, Enrico Pucci from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Chichiri from Fushigi Yuugi, and Ken Hidaka from Weiss Kreuz, alongside Hiro Yūki, Takehito Koyasu, and Shin-ichiro Miki. Koyasu and Miki, along with Seki, also had voice roles in Initial D as Keisuke Takahashi, Gravitation, and Nobuo Terashima in Nana. Seki has also voiced Ryūki Shi in Saiunkoku Monogatari, recurring guest character Meito Anizawa in Lucky Star, and Shōji Tōkairin in You're Under Arrest and related media, along with Sakiko Tamagawa, Akiko Hiramatsu, and Yoshiko Sakakibara.

On November 20, 2017, Seki apologized on the online radio program Unizon for an incident which had taken place a day earlier, during an event for the online radio program A&G All Star 2017, where he had instructed Yusuke Tonozaki, a newbie voice actor from his agency, to ask voice actress Rina Hidaka to have sex with him (one of them both) as a joke.

Filmography

Television animation

Original net animation (ONA)

Original video animation (OVA)

Theatrical animation

Drama CD

Card Captor Sakura Original Drama Album 1 (1998) – Tōya Kinomoto

Abunai series 1: Abunai Shuugaku Ryokou – Izumi Sudou

Abunai series 4: Abunai Campus Love – Wataru Sawada

Anatolia Story – Kikkuri

Angel Sanctuary – Sandalphon

Beauty Pop – Narumi Shogo

Buso Renkin – Moon Face

D.N.Angel Wink – Satoshi Hiwatari

Dragon Knights – Rath Eryuser

Everyday Everynight – Enohara Midato

FAKE ~A Change of Heart~ – Dee Laytner

Fate/Zero – Gilgamesh

Fruits Basket – Kyo Sohma

Gaki/Kodomo no Ryoubun – Kayano Hiromi

Gaki no Ryoubun series 1: Kayanoke no Okite – Hiromi Kayano

Gaki no Ryoubun series 2: Hasumi Koukou – Hiromi Kayano

Gaki no Ryoubun series 3: Saikyou Hiiruzu – Hiromi Kayano

Gaki no Ryoubun series 4: Uwasa no Shinzui – Hiromi Kayano

Gaki no Ryoubun series 5: Akuun no Jouken – Hiromi Kayano

Gaki no Ryoubun series 6: Manatsu no Zankyou – Hiromi Kayano

Gaki no Ryoubun series 7: Monster Panic – Hiromi Kayano

Gaki no Ryoubun series 8: Bunkiten Vol.1 Hottan – Hiromi Kayano

Gaki no Ryoubun series 9: Bunkiten Vol.2 Haran – Hiromi Kayano

Genso Suikoden II Drama CD – Luca Blight

Haou Airen – Hakuron

Juvenile Orion – Kusakabe Kaname

Kimi ga Suki Nanosa – Tsugumi Kanou

Love Celeb – Ginzo Fujiwara, Hakuron

Mekakushi no Kuni – Naitō Arō

Mossore

Niji no Irie ~Trouble Studio~ – Kiwa Irie

Rolex ni Kuchizukewo – Kazuya Yuu

Rurouni Kenshin – Sagara Sanosuke

Saiunkoku Monogatari – Ryūki Shi

Sakurazawa vs Hakuhou series 1: Shokuinshitsu de Naisho no Romance – Katsumi Hirose

Samurai Deeper Kyo – Shinrei

Suikoden II – Luca Blight

Tokyo Junk 1 & 2 – Yuuichi Sakura

Yatteraneeze! – Takashi Masaki

Radio

Fate/Zero Radio material – Gilgamesh

Saiunkoku Monogatari – Ryūki Shi

Video games

2nd Super Robot Wars Z Saisei-Hen – Gou

Another Century's Episode 2 – Domon Kasshu

Apocripha/0 – Sapphirus Hawthorne

Assassin's Creed II (Japanese version) – Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Japanese version) – Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Japanese version) – Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Atelier Lise ~Alchemist of Ordre~ – Client Marif

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle – Kanji Tatsumi (DLC)

Bleach Wii: Hakujin Kirameku Rondo – Arturo Plateado

Burning Rangers – Lead Phoenix

Daraku Tenshi – The Fallen Angels – Haiji Mibu

Dark Chronicle – Osmond

Evil Zone (Eretzvaju) – Danzaiver – Sho Mikagami

Fate/stay night – Gilgamesh

Fate/tiger colosseum – Gilgamesh

Fate/Unlimited Codes – Gilgamesh

Fate/Extra CCC – Gilgamesh

Fate/Grand Order – Gilgamesh, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star – Gilgamesh

Fate/Extella Link – Gilgamesh

Fate/Samurai Remnant – Gilgamesh

God Eater 3 – Hugo Pennywort

Gradius The Slot – Ace

Granblue Fantasy – Gawain, Nicholas-[Original JP name]-(Shiro), Mepple (Mepple and Mipple), Suneo Honekawa

Guilty Gear Xrd – Lucifero, Answer

Guilty Gear -STRIVE- – Lucifero

Hakuouki Reimeiroku – Ryunosuke Ibuki

Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 1 – Morimura Tenma

Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 2 – Taira no Katsuzane

Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3 – Minamoto no "Kurou" Yoshitsune

Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 4 – Sazaki

Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 5 – Seiryuu

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kizuna – Riku Furude

Honkai Impact 3rd – Siegfried Kaslana

Initial D Arcade Stage series – Keisuke Takahashi

Invisible Sign series – Aizawa Shun

J-Stars Victory VS – Koro-Sensei

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R – Enrico Pucci

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Last Survivor – Enrico Pucci

Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash – Panda

Katekyo Hitman Reborn DS: Fate of Heat II – Bligganteth

Kamen Rider: Battride War Genesis – Great Leader of Shocker

Legend of Dragoon – Dart Feld

Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (Japanese version) – Plastic Man

Lunar: Silver Star Story – Kyle

Marvel vs.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tomokazu Seki” is japanese actor and voice actor (born 1972). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tomokazu, Seki and Japanese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1993, 2017, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-09-08. For this dossier, Tomokazu, Seki and Japanese is the immediate research focus.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q284401. VIAF identifies the subject as 176113842. The Library of Congress control number is no2011140702. 5 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972, 1993, 2017 and 1998.

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