:Kikunosuke Toya
{{Short description|Japanese voice actor}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Eastern name order|Toya Kikunosuke}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Kikunosuke Toya
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| native_name = 戸谷 菊之介
| native_name_lang = ja
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|11|30}}
| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan
| occupation = Voice actor
| years_active = 2022–present
| agent = Sony Music Artists
| notable_works = {{Unbulleted list|Chainsaw Man as Denji|UniteUp! as Akira Kiyose|The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons as Mikoto Yuzuki|The Elusive Samurai as Fubuki}}
| awards = Seiyu Award for Best New Actor Award (2024)
| module = {{Infobox Japanese
| kanji = {{linktext|戸}}{{linktext|谷}} {{linktext|菊}}{{linktext|之}}{{linktext|介}}
| kana = とや きくのすけ
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{{Nihongo|Kikunosuke Toya|戸谷 菊之介|Toya Kikunosuke|born November 30, 1998|lead=yes}} is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Sony Music Artists. After spending some time doing comedy, drama, and piano as a high school student, he won the Special Award at Sony Music Artists' 6th Anistoteles' audition in 2017, and he made his debut in 2022 as Denji, the main character of the anime Chainsaw Man. He has starred as Akira Kiyose in Sony Music Entertainment Japan's UniteUp! project, Donny in Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Mikoto Yuzuki in The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons, and Fubuki in The Elusive Samurai. In 2024, he won the Best New Actor Award at the 18th Seiyu Awards.
Early life
Toya, born on November 30, 1998,{{Cite web |title=[戸谷菊之介] プロフィール |url=https://www.sma.co.jp/s/sma/artist/495 |access-date=March 23, 2024 |website=Sony Music Artists |language=ja}} is a native of Tokyo{{Cite news |date=October 8, 2022 |title=いま大注目の"彼"は誰？ 「チェンソーマン」主演声優に抜擢！ 戸谷菊之介、23歳の素顔 |url=https://crea.bunshun.jp/articles/-/38283 |access-date=March 23, 2024 |work=Crea Web |language=ja}} and of Kanagawa Prefecture.{{Cite news |date=December 30, 2022 |title=『チェンソーマン』デンジ役声優、実はネコ好き♡「見た目だけじゃなくて匂いもすごく好きです」…戸谷菊之介を直撃 |url=https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/rentoku/omoshiro/202212/0015924293.shtml |access-date=March 23, 2024 |work=Kobe Shimbun |language=Japanese}} Toya has an older brother and older sister. As a young child, he lived for years in Thailand due to his parents' work.{{Cite interview |last=Toya |first=Kikunosuke |interviewer=Mika Abe |title=戸谷菊之介：さまざまな作品で鍛えられ、さらなる高みへと羽ばたく最中【前編】 |url=https://cocotame.jp/series/043236/ |work=Cocotame |date=July 21, 2023 |access-date=March 23, 2024}} He began playing the piano at the age of three, and he was invited to accompany a chorus competition while in junior high school due to his skills and once unsuccessfully auditioned to play jazz piano for a school club. While in high school, he posted covers on YouTube and Nico Nico Douga, was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band, and was part of a volunteer comedy group who performed at school festivals and graduation parties.{{Cite interview |last=Toya |first=Kikunosuke |interviewer=Hidekuni Shida |title=戸谷菊之介：TVアニメ『チェンソーマン』でデンジ役を務める注目の声優 |url=https://cocotame.jp/series/034435/ |access-date=March 23, 2023 |work=Cocotame |language=ja}}
Career
After spending some time in a high school drama club, he was offered both a lead role and the opportunity to be screenwriter and director for a school festival class play. Auditioning for several comedians' offices and training schools, and going to acting workshops, he learned that he could make people laugh through acting, so he decided to pursue acting. In October 2017, when he was 18 years old, he won the Special Award at Sony Music Artists' 6th Anistoteles' audition;{{Cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/artist/124160|title=戸谷菊之介|work=コミックナタリー|publisher=ナターシャ|access-date=August 6, 2022}}{{Cite interview |last=Toya |first=Kikunosuke |interviewer=Mika Abe |title=戸谷菊之介：さまざまな作品で鍛えられ、さらなる高みへと羽ばたく最中【後編】 |url=https://cocotame.jp/series/043254/ |work=Cocotame |date=July 22, 2023 |access-date=April 21, 2024}} he had been inspired to participate by Inori Minase's win of the Anistoteles' Grand Prix. He subsequently decided on a career in voice acting.{{Cite news|url=https://seigura.com/news/100215/ |title=戸谷菊之介「周りの空気を明るくできるような声優になりたいです」|access-date=November 26, 2022 |date=November 25, 2022|work=声優図鑑|publisher=主婦の友インフォス}} Afterwards, in 2019, he was part of the first graduating class of Megumi Ogata's private acting school Team BareboAt, which opened in the same year.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/202208060000453.html|title=緒方恵美「チェンソーマン」主役抜てきの"教え子"声優戸谷菊之介にエール|work=日刊スポーツ|publisher=日刊スポーツ新聞社|access-date=April 21, 2024}}
In October 2018, Toya was cast in DMM Games' Wind Boys! project.{{Cite news |last=Pineda |first=Rafael Antonio |date=October 19, 2018 |title=DMM Games Reveals Wind Boys! Project |language=en |work=Anime News Network |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-10-19/dmm-games-reveals-wind-boys-project/.138359 |access-date=March 23, 2024}} In 2019, he appeared in the music video for {{ill|Owarikara|ja|オワリカラ}}'s song "Fetish!". In 2022, he starred in his first main role as Denji in the anime Chainsaw Man,{{Cite news|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2244818/full/|title=『チェンソーマン』10月放送開始 PV&キャスト公開で出演は戸谷菊之介・楠木ともり・坂田将吾・ファイルーズあい|work=ORICON NEWS|publisher=oricon ME|date=August 5, 2022|access-date=August 6, 2022}} with Ogata herself giving him words of encouragement. In his Anime News Network review for "Rescue", the fourth episode of Chainsaw Man, James Beckett praised Toya's performance as Denji, saying that Toya "nail[ed] Denji's particular mix of ferocity, mania, and brazen idiocy".{{Cite news |last=Beckett |first=James |date=November 3, 2022 |title=Chainsaw Man ‒ Episode 4 |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/chainsaw-man/episode-4/.191523 |access-date=March 23, 2024 |work=Anime News Network |language=en}}
He stars as Akira Kiyose in Sony Music Entertainment Japan's UniteUp! project, and in addition to reprising his role in the anime and being part of the tie-in trio unit Protostar, he sang the anime's theme song "Unite Up!" alongside the rest of the cast.{{Cite news |date=November 6, 2022 |title=『UniteUp!』スペシャルステージレポ【AGF2022】 |url=https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1667653312 |access-date=March 23, 2024 |work=Animate Times |language=ja}} He also starred as Donny in Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Mikoto Yuzuki in The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons, and Fubuki in The Elusive Samurai. In November 2023, he was a guest at the North American premiere of Four Knights of the Apocalypse at Anime NYC 2023.{{Cite news |last=Mateo |first=Alex |date=November 2, 2023 |title=Anime NYC Screens World Premieres for High Card Season 2 Anime, English Dub for Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet Film |language=en |work=Anime News Network |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-11-02/anime-nyc-screens-world-premieres-for-high-card-season-2-anime-english-dub-for-detective-conan-the-/.204067 |access-date=March 23, 2024}}
In 2024, Toya won the Best New Actor Award at the 18th Seiyu Awards.{{Cite news |last=Loo |first=Egan |date=March 9, 2024 |title=Kana Ichinose, Kazuki Ura Win 18th Annual Seiyū Awards |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-03-09/kana-ichinose-kazuki-ura-win-18th-annual-seiyu-awards/.208519 |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=Anime News Network |language=en}} He will star as Minoru Kudou in the third season of The Irregular at Magic High School and Hadis Teos Rave in The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor.
Filmography
=Animated series =
=Animated films =
=Video games=
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Role !Ref. | |||
| rowspan="2" | 2021 | Binding Boyfriend | Shindo Aki | |
| Wind Boys! | Osei Kiyoshima | ||
| rowspan="3" | 2023 | One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e | Mamoru Sumii | |
| Shadowverse | Bolt Demon, sealing magician, creator of secret medicine |
=Dubbing=
==Live-action==
- Jurassic World (2025 The Cinema edition) (Zach Mitchell (Nick Robinson)){{cite web |url= https://www.thecinema.jp/special/shin-roku/|title= ザ・シネマによる吹き替え|access-date= January 17, 2025|work= The Cinema}}
==Animation==
Awards
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Award !Result !Ref. |
| 2024
|Seiyu Award for Best New Actor |{{Won}} |
References
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{{Seiyu Award for Best Rookie Actor}}
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Category:Japanese male video game actors
Category:Male voice actors from Kanagawa Prefecture