Tokyo Anime Award
In 2011, he played the main character Kotetsu T. Kaburagi in the anime "Tiger &amp; Bunny" and won the 11th Tokyo Anime Award for Best Voice Actor and the 6th Seiyu Awards for Best Actor in leading role. In the same year, he left Theater Company Subaru, where he had worked for 27 years, and started a new company, Hirata Production Japan.