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Well, he's a seiyuu born in Tokyo in 1986. Nobuhiko Okamoto is most known for his Star-Making Role as Accelerator from To Aru Majutsu no Index, in which he not only won the Best New Actor Award in the Third Seiyuu Awards, he also went on to win the award for Best Supporting Actor in the Fifth Seiyuu Awards.
He's worked with Yuu Kobayashi and Mariya Ise at least twice. Ditto with Ayumi Fujimura. What's front-and-center, however, is that he seems to have developed a (friendly) rivalry with Atsushi Abe as they've prominently faced-off in at least three series' to date. His typecast seems to lie within The Stoic or Casanova type roles pending on the type of series he is in. Also, the late Keiji Fujiwara played roles who were father figures to his own.
Last but not least, he's married to his fellow seiyuu Asuka Oogame. And was accused of cheating on her in 2020, which was a bit of a hit on his career for a while.
Notable roles:[]
- Luke Ainsworth in The Sacred Blacksmith
- Katsuki Bakugo in My Hero Academia
- Takumi Usui in Kaichou wa Maid-sama
- Yorito Morimiya in Sola
- Eiji Nizuma in Bakuman｡
- Makoto Kashino in Yumeiro Patissiere
- Issei Tsumuhana in Ookamikakushi
- Yasumi Natsu in Potemayo
- Gau Meguro in Nabari no Ou
- Haruto Terai in Hatsukoi Limited
- John Brown in Ghost Hunt
- Gorou Amaji in Akikan!
- Shin Kanzato in Persona -trinity soul-
- Musashi in Shugo Chara!
- Accelerator in To Aru Majutsu no Index
- Yoichi Karasuma in Asu no Yoichi
- Layfon Alseif in Chrome Shelled Regios
- Sixteen-year-old Nier in NieR Replicant
- Leicester Maycraft in Shukufuku no Campanella
- Takumi Tsuzuki in Mayoi Neko Overrun
- Yumeji Fujiwara in Yumekui Merry
- Rin Okumura in Blue Exorcist
- Hisaya Miki in Beelzebub
- Origami Cyclone (aka Ivan Karelin) in Tiger and Bunny
- Tsukasa Mikuni in Corpse Party: Book Of Shadows
- Kyouhei Huga in Kamisama Dolls
- Kenji Kido in Guilty Crown
- Katsuki Bakugou in My Hero Academia
- Prince Alcryst in Fire Emblem: Engage (massive Playing Against Type, he's a male Shrinking Violet)
- Genya Shinazugawa in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Nobuhiko Okamoto provides examples of the following tropes:
- No Indoor Voice: His voice acting for hammy characters such as Bakugo, Nishinoya and Accelerator requires lots of yelling. This damaged his vocal cords to the point that he needed surgery, but fortunately, he recovered quickly and it didn't affect his career much.
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