Tomokazu Seki

Tomokazu Seki (関 智一) is a Japanese voice actor, actor and singer. He is credited for his role as Enrico Pucci in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean anime. He is honorary president of and affiliated with the agency Atomic Monkey.

Seki is well known for a wide variety of roles in other works, including Rob Lucci in ', Domon Kasshu in ', Gilgamesh in ', Kanji Tatsumi in ', Hashida Itaru (Daru) in ', Panda in ', Sanemi Shinazugawa in ', Hadlar in ' (2020), and in .

Biography
When Seki was a child, he frequently watched stage performances and movies and wanted to be an actor. However, he was not comfortable with publicly showing his face as a celebrity (although he stated that this is not the case now) and decided to become a voice actor instead. Originally, he had been enrolled in a regular high school, but decided that wasn't enough, so he attended training schools such as Katsuta Voice Actor Academy and Haikyo Voice Actors Studio. This later became one of his reasons to drop out of university and continue to pursue a career in voice acting.

His debut as a voice actor was dubbing the role of a farmer in the foreign anime  in 1991. In 1993, he received his first regular role as Tomáš Masaryk in . After getting casted as Keisuke Takahashi in the first season of  in 1998, one of his breakthrough roles, he decided to get a driver's license to perform better for the role.

Aside from voice acting, Seki is also an avid collector of manga and figurines. In his YouTube channel, he showcases merchandise from which he had played a part in, such as ', the Fate series, Persona 4, ', and many more. He is a big fan of  and owns an almost life-size statue of the robot along with his other collections.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Seki is a longtime fan of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and had expressed his excitement during the announcement of the anime adaptation of Diamond is Unbreakable in 2015. Similar to his fellow voice actors in Stone Ocean's main cast, he had also auditioned for a role in the previous seasons of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but never got a part.

Before shooting for his voice cast reveal as Pucci in the pre-distribution event, Seki arrived an hour early just to shoot an extra dramatic scene for his entrance as a joke. According to him, being a voice actor for JoJo is a challenge and required him to do extensive research for his role as Enrico Pucci.