, also known as'' Anri'' (あんり),
is a Japanese stage, film, TV, and voice actor, affiliated with Ruby Parade. He is also a member of the performance unit Tokyo Ryūsei-gun
since 2012
Biography
Yūya Asato was born on December 4, 1987, in
Okinawa Prefecture
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,
Japan
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. After graduating high school, he was enrolled into a preparatory school but decided to quit midway through his summer course to move to
Tokyo
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.
In January 2011, he joined Ruby Parade after being introduced to an event company president through an acquaintance.
Since then, he has appeared in various
2.5D musical and stage play adaptations such as Kagami Taiga in
Kuroko's Basketball
is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Tadatoshi Fujimaki. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from December 2008 to September 2014, with its chapters collected in 30 volumes. ...
and F6 Ichimatsu from Osomatsu-san on Stage: Six Men's Show Time. In 2017, he landed his first anime voice acting role as Kai von Granzreich in ''
The Royal Tutor'', which he also portrayed in the tie-in stage adaptations and theatrical movie.
Filmography
Theater
Films
TV series
Anime
Game
Discography
CD
References
External links
Official site
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Yūya Asato Twitter
Official Fanclub
Official Blog
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1987 births
Living people
21st-century Japanese male actors
Japanese male stage actors
Japanese television personalities
Japanese male voice actors
Male voice actors from Okinawa Prefecture