When he was watching, he noticed the voices of many of the characters sounded familiar, and started comparing cast listings from the closing credits.
He also learned that the voice actors sing songs, have radio shows and other things.
Doi said that back then net access meant working in a science or math job, or majoring in that at school.
[2] Doi's personal website contains over 94,000 individual pages, and he is considered to be one of the best known fans of anime and voice acting in the English-speaking world.
In 2001, the database contained over 50,000 entries,[4] and it is considered by anime fans to be a definitive source of Japanese voice acting information.