Career
Doi"s personal website contains over 94,000 individual pages, and he is considered to be one of the most well-known fans of anime and voice acting in the English-speaking world. In addition to personal information, his views on various anime and manga series, and information on his hobbies, Doi"s site contains a massive "Voice Actor Database". In 2001, the database contained over 50,000 entries, and it is considered by anime fans to be a definitive source of Japanese voice acting information.
In 1998, Mary Grigsby called two of his sites "two of the more informative World Wide Web URL addresses", and used his site as a reference.
Hitoshi Doi was interviewed on Canadian Broadcasting Company"s Undercurrents, about the otaku culture. Doi was a guest of honor at the 1999 Anime North convention in Toronto.