Hitoshi Doi

All you want to know about Hitoshi Doi

Hitoshi Doi (土井仁志, Doi Hitoshi^?) was born October 17, 1963 in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.^[1] Doi was a baseball player in Japan, 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].

1 Baseball career
2 Personal website and Seiyū Database
3 References
4 External links

Baseball career

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

Personal website and Seiyū Database

Doi's personal website contains over 9,4000 individual pages, and he is considered to be one of the most well-known fans of anime and seiyū (voice actors) 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 in 2001^[3], and it is considered by anime fans to be a definitive source of seiyū 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.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Hitoshi Doi". Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
^ ^a ^b "Guests' Web Picks". Anime Web Turnpike (1999-08-30). Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
^ "Seiyuu Database surpasses 50,000 entries". Anime News Network (2001-11-02). Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
^ 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