- He once had a motorcycle accident on August 7, 2006, which took him almost a month to regain his conciousness.
- After retiring from karate club in his school, he moved to the theater club and would then wanted to become an actor and wanting to enter Osaka University of Arts, but failed the entrance exam.
- He unwittingly joined Aoni Production's training school after looking at its advertisements on a theater magazine. At that time, he didn't know that the school is a training school for voice actors.
- He debuted in 1994, voicing a student in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 4 drama CD, and had his first TV anime role voicing a minor character in Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai.
- He frequently appears in works directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, starting from his role in Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase, and would make appearance in other series such as PaniPoni Dash!, Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei, the Monogatari series, Natsume Yuujinchou, and Arakawa Under the Bridge.
- He won the "Most Valuable Seiyuu" award at the 13th Seiyuu Awards.
- He won several "Most Voted" awards in the Seiyuu Awards from the sixth to tenth awards, making him inducted to the Hall of Fame.
- He won "Best Lead Actor" and "Best Personality" at the Third Seiyuu Awards, and "Best Supporting Actor" at the Second Seiyuu Awards.
- Before playing the role of Trafalgar Law in One Piece, he has played several minor characters in the series, including a minor pirate in the very first episode of the series.
- He hosts the radio show Dear Girl Stories with Daisuke Ono.
- He is credited under the alias Kousuke Kanda in the Oukyuu Yasoukyoku visual novel.
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