Mamoru Miyano

Mamoru Miyano (宮野真守) (born June 8, 1983) is a Japanese seiyū, actor, and singer from Saitama. He is best known for his roles on Ouran High School Host Club, Death Note, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, and Kōtetsu Sangokushi. At the 2007 Seiyu Awards he was nominated for two awards for his role as Light Yagami in Death Note, and in 2008, he won the "Best Voice Actor" award at the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair. At the 2008 Seiyu Awards, Miyano won "Best Lead Actor Award" for his role as Setsuna F Seiei in Mobile Suit Gundam 00, and as Hakugen Rikuson in Kōtetsu Sangokushi.

Miyano began his career as a musician in 2007. Under the King Records label he released his debut single, "Kuon" (久遠), in May. In March 2009, his debut album Break was released. Miyano was married in late 2008. He and his wife are now parents to a boy.

Acting career
Miyano started his seiyū career in 2002, providing the voice of Riku in the Japanese version of the PlayStation 2 video game Kingdom Hearts. He then voiced Kiba, the main character of anime series Wolf's Rain. He returned as the voice for Riku in the 2004 Game Boy Advance game Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and in Kingdom Hearts II in 2005, and in Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories in 2007.

In 2006, Miyano voiced Light Yagami for the anime version of the manga Death Note. In 2007, for his role as Light Yagami, he was nominated for two awards at the first Seiyu Awards: "Best Lead Actor Award" and "Best New Actor Awards". Also in 2007, Miyano went on to provide the voice of Setsuna F Seiei, the main character of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. He won his first award, "Best Voice Actor", at the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair for his portrayal of Light Yagami and Setsuna F Seiei. In 2008, Miyano took on the role as Setsuna F Seiei again, for the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam. He won his first Seiyu award for the roles of Setsuna F Seiei and of Hakugen Rikuson in Kōtetsu Sangokushi. He has also voiced Zero from the popular series Vampire Knight and Vampire Knight Guilty. He also acted as Death The Kid in the anime Soul Eater.

He also provided the voice of Tamaki Suoh in the extremely popular anime/manga Ouran High School Host Club, as well as being a voice actor for Vampire Knight, Anime/Manga, playing the role as Zero.

In addition to voice acting, Miyano has also appeared on camera. His first acting job was in 1992 in Tokusou Exceedraft, where he appeared in a flashback as a child in a Yakuza member's past. In 2003, Miyano joined the cast of The Prince of Tennis Musical playing Tetsu Ishida (石田 鉄). He made his film debut in 2006's The Prince of Tennis. In 2009, he has voiced Ultraman Zero from the new movie, Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie.

In 2010, he will star with fashion model and actress Ayumi Uehara and fellow voice actors, Tomokazu Sugita, Tomokazu Seki, Rikiya Koyama, Yuka Hirata, Showtaro Morikubo and Yuko Kaida in the film, Wonderful World, directed by Daisuke Namikawa. Later, he reprise back as voicing Ultraman Zero again in the new movie, Ultraman Zero The Movie: Super Deciding Fight! The Belial Galactic Empire.

Musical career
In May 28, 2007 under King Records, Miyano made his debut as a singer with the single "Kuon" (久遠). Kuon debuted at #47 on the Oricon charts and was used as the ending theme song for anime series Kōtetsu Sangokushi. On June 13, 2007, with fellow seiyū Romi Park the duo released a collaboration single entitled "Fight", which debuted on the Oricon at #73. On June 4, 2008 he released his second single, "Discovery", which was the intro song for PlayStation 2 video game Fushigi Yūgi: Suzaku Ibun. The song debuted at #24 on the chart.

In August Miyano released the character single "Soup/Hakosora", under the name Mamoru Miyano comes across Setsuna F Seiei (宮野真守　ｃｏｍｅ　ａｃｒｏｓｓ　刹那・Ｆ・セイエイ); it debuted at #18. In December he released his third single, "...Kimi e" (…君へ), which also debuted at #18. On March 11, 2009 Miyano released his debut album, Break, which debuted at #20. On April 11, 2009, a month after the release of his album, Miyano went on his first tour, 1st Live Tour 2009: Breaking.

Albums

 * 2009: Break
 * 2010: Wonder