Voice Actor Focus: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and the Overpowered Protagonist

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Yoshitsugu Matsuoka is a male Japanese voice actor who first debuted in the anime Eden of the East back in 2011. Since then, Matsuoka has played countless roles in various kinds of anime, breathing life into characters of various types.

However, since the emergence Matsuoka's most famous role, that of Sword Art Online protagonist Kazuto «Kirito» Kirigaya, it has become fairly common for the characters he plays to be overpowered in some way, or the centre of a harem. The actor's talent is without a doubt, but in some ways, the appearance of Matsuoka on a show's voice acting credits can tell you a lot about the character in question.

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One thing that a lot of the protagonists voiced by Matsuoka have in common is the fact that they're very popular with the female characters in their close circle, or eventually become a hot commodity amongst the various women in their lives. They become a magnet for damsels in distress, and win them over not with directed charm or flirtatious banter, but with the overwhelming power of their ability to do virtually anything. This tends to coincide with their overpowered nature, where characters voiced by this particular voice actor tend to be incredibly adept at pretty much anything, and if they're not, they learn faster quicker than the time it takes for lightning to strike the ground.

Characters voiced by Matsuoka that fit this description include Sword Art Online's Black Swordsman, Kirito, Mob Psycho 100's Teru Hanazawa, as well as the Food Wars! protagonist Soma Yukihira, Kimetsu no Yaiba: Demon Slayer's Inosuke Hashibira, as well as Sora from No Game No Life. These characters are known for achieving incredible feats in insurmountable