Shūgo Nakamura

is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with Across Entertainment and Lantis. He is best known for voicing Teru Tendo in The Idolmaster SideM, Issei Kuga in TsukiPro, and Tomoki Takashima in Young Disease Outburst Boy. Biography Shugo Nakamura, the youngest of four sons, was born on 28 July 1988 in Okinawa Prefecture, and moved to Tokyo after graduating high school. He became interested in music as a junior high school student, and he was a vocalist and guitarist for a local band. Although he intended to be a musician there, he decided to pursue an acting career after watching a stage performance, and he was subsequently educated at R&A Voice Actors Academy. In 2015, he was cast as Teru Tendo in the SideM installment of The Idolmaster franchise, and subsequently appeared in both its anime television adaptation and the Wakeatte Mini! spinoff. His nickname came from the idea of a listener to SideM's radio show, 315 Pro Night. In 2016, Nakamura appeared as Issei Kuga in Quell, one of four musical groups in Tsukino Talent Production's TsukiPro idol anime. His character's tie-in single, SQ QUELL Kachōfūgetsu "Hana"-hen, was released on 23 March 2018, and it charted at #41 on the Oricon Singles Chart on 2 April.