Top 10 Seiyuu of Legend
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 3, 2009 07:16 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Idol, Megumi Hayashibara, Rankings, Seiyuu, Statistics
Oricon has conducted a survey of the Japanese public, asking them which seiyuu they consider “legendary,” and the results are instructive, covering every kind of voice actor and actress from acting geniuses with decades of experience and hundreds of roles to idol-seiyuu distinguished by their taste in swimsuits…
1. Nobuyo Ōyama / 大山 のぶ代 (Doraemon/Doraemon)
2. Akira Kamiya / 神谷 明 (Kinnikuman/Kinnikuman, Hokuto no Ken/Kenshiro)
3. Masako Nozawa / 野沢 雅子 (Dragon Ball/Son Goku, Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro/Kitaro)
4. Yasuo Yamada / 山田 康雄 (Lupin III/Arsène Lupin III) (RIP)
5. Minami Takayama / 高山みなみ (Detective Conan/Conan, Kiki’s Delivery Service/Kiki)
6. Kōichi Yamadera / 山寺 宏一 (GitS/Togusa, Cowboy Bebop/Spike Spiegal)
7. Noriko Hidaka / 日高 のり子 (Ranma ½/Akane Tendō, Inuyasha/Kikyo)
8. Mayumi Tanaka / 田中 真弓 (One Piece/Luffy, Urusei Yatsura/Ryuunosuke Fujinami)
9. Megumi Hayashibara / 林原 めぐみ (Evangelion/Rei Ayanami, Slayers/Lina Inverse)
10. [Joint] Keiko Toda / 戸田 恵子 (Anpanman/Anpanman, Thomas the Tank Engine/Thomas)
10. [Joint] Aya Hirano / 平野 綾 (Haruhi/Haruhi, Lucky Star/Konata Izumi)
Obviously this list is taking into account sheer mainstream success rather than otaku fervour or ability to rally a horde of stalkers into buying CDs, so it is inappropriate to complain of a lack of idols, not that this will stop devotees howling about the omission of Rie Kugimiya or similar…
In case you were wondering about Nobuyo Ōyama, now 73, she once looked quite different:
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They are voice actor, don't expect they'll have beautiful face. This kind of ranking is completely understandable here.
Look at Aya's face is very effective way to turn you off. I should keep a picture of her, just in case.
1. Hirano, Aya
2. Kugimiya, Rie
3. Kitamura, Eri
4. Nonaka, Ai
5. Horie, Yui
6. Mizuki, Nana
7. Noto, Mamiko
8. Sakamoto, Maaya
9. Inoue, Marina
10. Koshimizu, Ami
This list is about talented seiyuu, not girls you want to bed.
I kinda agree with that annon... I wouldn't want Horie Yui "to bed" but I'm frickin in love with her voice
Fuck yeah, Sakamoto Maaya, why the fuck no one else mentioned her.
They're too busy fapping at Aya Hirano.
FFS, Aya Hirano must be the most overrated seiyuu ever. Besides, she's only good at doing bitchy and annoying characters' voices.
Megumi Hayashibara should be no#1
followed by Yui Horie
Holy Cloning Tanks, Batman!
Am I the only one here who thinks Seiyuu #3 looks like a Japanese Carrot Top?!? Please tell me I'm not seeing things. T_T
You aren't seeing things, everything you see and seen is nothing but illusion, even your mom.
Megumi <3
No Hirotaka Suzuoki? No Shuuichi Ikeda?
Japan, I am disappoint.
1. norio wakamoto
2. norio wakamoto
3. norio wakamoto
4. norio wakamoto
5. norio wakamoto
6. norio wakamoto
7. norio wakamoto
8. norio wakamoto
9. norio wakamoto
10. norio wakamoto
The fact that he wasn't on the list invalidates it.
What fuck is this. Where`s Norio Wakamoto?
Inoue Kikuko (17 years old) should be on the list.
Aya She's good but not Legendary -_-"
Where is MAMIKO NOTO? <3
Just remembered why Noriko Hidaka sounds familiar to me. She's Soujiro Seta from Kenshin.
Speaking of Kenshin, i'm surprised Sakamoto Maaya isn't in the list.
She's also Noriko from Gunbuster, and Erica from Sakura Taisen.
RIE KUGIMIYA!!
should've split the list between genders so we could have 10 males and 10 females...
Megumi Hayashibara deserves a higher place.
Megumi Hayashibara is legendary.
All your new seiyuu are losers.
\o/ Indeed these are/were some of the greatest. \o/
For once Japan puts together a list that is not a failure.
lol@Konata v.a.
Seriously....Aya is way too overrated.
The American list
1) Yuri Lowenthal
2) Yuri Lowenthal
3) Yuri Lowenthal
4) Yuri Lowenthal
5) Yuri Lowenthal
6) Yuri Lowenthal
7) Yuri Lowenthal
8) Yuri Lowenthal
9) Yuri Lowenthal
10) Every VA that ISN'T Yuri Lowenthal
Seriously...that guys in ****ing everything.
Number one would be either Steven Blum or Tara Strong, hands down. Them's some legends in voice acting.
Yep, those two. What kind of name is Yuri Lowenthal anyways...
Aya Failrano.
Shitty seiyuu, ugly bitch and hardly a legend.
10/10 would be trolled again.
I'd mention Miyano Mamoru also. I think that his work is awesome
*FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP*
Haha, I get the idea that lately someone is really pissed at Hirano, it's the second or third time I see news trolling her, not that I care though...
I guess Thomas the Tank Engine sounds a lot better in Japanese then it does in English if Thomas' seiyuu can make it in the top 10 (unless she only made it because of nostalgia).
WTF!!!!
Where is Norio Wakamoto !!!!!!!
Hayashibara-san should be top-5 at least. She's made a plethora of roles you couldn't possibly remember them all! She was even Shantoto in Disidia!
Why u always put dat aya pics haha.
>Hirano on the list
>No Wakamoto
...
Is Nobuyo Ōyama / 大山 のぶ代 (Doraemon/Doraemon) seiyuu still doing Doraemon's voice nowadays? Last I heard, she has retired and Doraemon is now voiced by someone else.
Nobuyo Ōyama when she was young she looked hot. Now she's a grandma.
#4, the guy who plays Lupin, looks just like the character!
BTW, is it me or does Japan have really crap taste in anime? Their polls are continuously ridiculous, either based mostly in recent (crappy) animes, like when K-On topped every poll or it's rooted in shows for little kids like doraemon.
BTW....no Hocchan?!?!?
Hirano Fumi...Lum. Always and forever my favorite.
Number 9 Megumi is my favorite from that list, so many roles she did that I loved... number one is Lime from SMJ XD
Love her music as well.
I wanna kill Aya's forehead in the FACE.
You forgot to mention her hair style.
Toru Furuya?
Nobuyo Oyama looks, in the first picture, quite beautiful... like a very classy lady
anime is not so beautiful now, is it?
There is far more than ten seiyuus, who deserve to be on the list. For example: Sumi Shimamoto - Kyoko Otonashi, Hiromi Tsuru - Madoka Ayukawa. This two roles alone made them legendary.