Seiji Maeda, a native of Osaka Prefecture, was born on 1 July 1993,[2][3] the son of a football coach.[4] He played football in elementary school and tennis in junior high and high school.[4] He was inspired to go into voice acting by "Neon Genesis Evangelion", later recalling in an interview with Da Vinci that he was "interested in experiencing something that [he] couldn't in [his] own life alone and in being able to play someone other than [himself]".[4] He was educated at Osaka Visual Arts Academy [ja], where his mentor was Musui Terada [ja],[5] Afterwards he moved to Tokyo and attended a training school in the metropolis, followed by a vocational school where he learned swordsmanship.[4]
Maeda had been considering early retirement if he "couldn't make a living from acting by the time [he] was about 25" when he passed the audition for his agency Hibiki, where the narrator was Shuta Morishima.[4] In May 2018, he joined Bushiroad's From Argonavis project,[6] and later became the bass player of tie-in band Argonavis, playing Wataru Matoba.[7] He was a guest at CharaExpo USA 2018 at the Anaheim Convention Center.[8] He starred as Tatsuya Tachibana in Cardfight!! Vanguard: Shinemon and Samuel Fredson in Cardfight!! Vanguard will+Dress.[9][10]
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