Hitoshi Doi

Hitoshi Doi (土井 仁志, Doi Hitoshi^?) was born October 17, 1963 in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.^[1] Doi was a Japanese baseball player, winning several awards during his career. He also runs an English language anime and seiyū information website, which was established on June 10, 1994.^[1]

Baseball career

Doi's baseball career began in 1989, and he has won awards^{[clarification needed]} in 1992, 2001, and 2002.

Personal website and Seiyū Database

Doi's personal website contains over 94,000 individual pages, and he is considered to be one of the most well-known fans of anime and voice acting in the English-speaking world.^[1][2] In addition to personal information, his views on various anime and manga series, and information on his hobbies, Doi's site contains a massive "Seiyū Database". In 2001, the database contained over 50,000 entries,^[3] and it is considered by anime fans to be a definitive source of Japanese voice acting information.^[2] 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.^[4]

Hitoshi Doi was interviewed on CBC's Undercurrents, about the otaku culture. The interview premiered November 22, 1996 on CBC.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Hitoshi Doi". http://www.usagi.org/doi/doi.html. Retrieved 2006-08-11. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Guests' Web Picks". Anime Web Turnpike. 1999-08-30. http://classic.anipike.com/guestpick/stephentsai-083099.html. Retrieved 2006-08-11. 
3. ^ "Seiyuu Database surpasses 50,000 entries". Anime News Network. 2001-11-02. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=1238. Retrieved 2006-08-11. 
4. ^ Grigsby, Mary (1998). "Sailormoon: Manga (Comics) and Anime (Cartoon) Superheroine Meets Barbie: Global Entertainment Commodity Comes to the United States" The Journal of Popular Culture 32 (1) 59-80 doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1998.3201_59.x

External links

• Hitoshi Doi's site

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