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.
This list gets my approval.
Being younger of course my favourite is Megumi Hayashibara - good to see her in the top 10.
What the bloody hell Aya Hirano =.=. Where is my Nana Mizuki!!!???
the most similiar to the character is lupin seiyuu ^^
just saw Megumi Hayashibara....
damn...my hopes and wishes are...=.=
WHERE THE FUCK IS NORIO WAKAMOTO???
Blaspheme!!!!!!!
Blaspheme!!!!!!!
Blaspheme!!!!!!!
Blaspheme!!!!!!!
Aya Hirano shouldn't be in that list, and put Nana Mizuki in her place :S
WHERE IS MY KUGIMIYA RIE T^T
Yaay, Megumi Hayashibara.
She makes the list pleasant to my eyes.
Just a question. What do you people have against Aya Hirano?
Agree, her private life aside, Haruhi and Konata were just perfect. Lucy Heartfilia is pretty good too
Forgot to mention it but...couldn you post a better pic of Aya?
Keiko Toda.
I love Rei!
What the fuck is with some of the recommendations I see here? The title clearly says legends.
People who gained their popularity in the last few years don't count. "Favorite" and "most fappable" don't fit either.
Where's Junko Iwao?
Ootani Ikue (Pikachu, Chopper from One Piece) so deserves to be mentioned
OMAE WA MOU... SHINDEIRU!
aya hirano go to hell bitch
WHERE IS NORIO WAKAMOTO?
Akira Kamiya and Koichi Yamadera are men amongst men.
Megumi Hayashibara FTW, indeed.
Lastly, lack of Maaya Sakamoto is just ridiculous.
how the fuck did dekobitch get there
...no Mizuki Nana?
Wha!? Didn't know Son Goku by Dragon Ball's seiyuu was a female... the voice is good though~ Then... so does the Son family... Dora-e-mon~ XD
What? Where is Hiromi Tsuru and Kappei Yamaguchi?
Spike Spiegel. With "e".
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! WHERE IS NORIO WAKAMOTO!?
Where the heck are Seki Tomokazu, Ueda Yuji and Kappei Yamaguchi..?
All hail Hayashibara-sama, btw :3
Sorry, they're not legendary... They're just veterans!
Holy shit!! of all the picture to use (aya) ugh please someone wash my eyes!!
Yeah i lol'd so hard when i saw "that" too
Hirano's forehead could be used as a billboard. That may come in handy someday.
No Romi Paku? :<
Totally agree with 2, 6 and 9, i would personnally add Kugiyama Rie-sama for her godlike talents, love her so much for everything she has done until now, so many epic roles ^^
Disappointed that Iijima Mari didn't make it up there. :(
She's not a seiyuu anymore, she's a singer!
Megumi-chan FTW!
No Hiromi Tsuru on the list = fail
To all people here that mentioned, Sakamoto, Kugimiya, Noto and a host of others:
Give them time. The seiyuu mentioned on this list had been at it for quite some time and left a indelible mark that we should be pretty thankful for in some point of our lives. Wakamoto might crack the list in months time; Sakamoto, Kugimiya and Noto have time on their side and will cement their careers as they keep at it. That also goes for some of the current seiyuu as well. Horie will also get recognition as well, so you can wait on that.
Bullshit.
Aya Hirano's inclusion disproves everything you just said.
No Norio Wakamoto? WTF? WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?!?!
Megumi Hayashibara Should be in the top 3. My goodness.
Ranma Satome
Video Girl Ai
Lina Inverse
Saber Marionette Lime
Momiji Fujimiya
Rei Ayanami
Faye Valentine
You couldn't pop in an 80's or 90's anime into your VCR (remember that kiddies?) and not hear her - she's in everything
Oh god that hirano aya picture reminds me of something out of a horror game
As the list went on and on, I was thinking "heads will roll if Hayashibara Megumi is not on this list." But she is, and all is well. :)
I really like the voice of gintoki and ragna.
Yes
Doraemon
The cat is across the south east asia.
Rental videos and most of the airings were subbed rather than dubbed.
Parents and next generations growing up from 1960s would have heard Doraemon voice. Basically everyone 20 years and older would have heard her voice. Also take into account the declining birth rate so the younger generations who wouldn't vote for the older seiyuus can't muster the number to vote current generation seiyuus in to the top 10.
huuuummmmmm haruhi's voice owas great, until every other character hirano did was like haruhi with a different mood
Aya hirano looks like shit in the picture..it scared me...
I know, dude. It's scary when shit looks like shit.
Wow Seiyuu for Lupin does look like him
which is a first for me
also one who's aged to 73 man it's like looking into an old high school yearbook o__O
I never knew that the seiyuu of Lupin III always drew himself in his work... I am so amazed right now.
I don't know about you guys but that #1 looks pretty hot...
What about Tanaka Rie?( Chii's voice was great! in Chobits)
And Tanaka Atsuko? (Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the shell)
Where's Wakamoto Fucking Norio?!! Where is Inoue Kikuko?!!
Hayashibara Megumi should have at least been ranked higher...
List needs more NORIO WAKAMOTO and Hocchan. This list was fairly credible until that joint #10. I'm guessing they just added Aya so that they wouldn't piss of otaku who only care about recent anime.
Seconding that.
No Wakamoto? What the hell?
And no Hiyama Nobuyuki, either.
Fuck you, listmakers.