None other than scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano herself has been unseated from her position as most followed seiyuu, with even her fascinating antics not enough to spare her the humiliation of being overtaken by the actor behind one of her on-screen peons.
The ranking:
1. Tomokazu Sugita – 285,516
2. Aya Hirano – 272,915
3. Yuichi Nakamura – 211,070
4. Yukari Tamura – 180,873
5. Eri Kitamura – 138,855
6. Rie Tanaka – 126,080
7. Yūki Kaji – 112,965
8. Akio Ōtsuka – 110,815
9. Marina Inoue – 108,001
10. Ayana Taketatsu – 96,682
There is some wonderment at Hirano’s loss (although she still has enough followers to populate a small if terrifying city), as well as the fact that Taketatsu only started her account at the end of November:
“Debuynan is doing so well after starting so late!”
“Is Sugita that interesting?”
“He picks fights with all kinds of people!”
“Number 4 isn’t following any other seiyuu – doesn’t she have any seiyuu chums?”
“The life-liners outnumber our SDF soldiers…”
Those looking for the executive digest of Hirano’s antics might do well to follow Sankaku Complex on Twitter.
Arnold Schwartzenegger would fucking pwn Yuuki Aoi, Kana Hanazawa and all those other noob seiyuu. Fuck them all.
@09:11 You really are a sad and worthless individual.
like your ass who likes whores like fat ass Ayana Taketatsu? Yup, I guess you’re right. ;3
Taketatsu should get raped in the ass and her entrails ripped out from her vag!
Tomokazu Sugita
compared to his voice actor as main character in shuffle, honey and clover, and chobits
I like sakata gintoki better
weird, funny and gore mix into one anime…
INFERNO DIVIDER!!!!!
Sugita = Gilgamesh. Charisma Rank A+ = this should explain everything.
When Ayana “Fat Slut” Taketatsu dies, no one would give a fuck. They would piss and shit on her grave.
Why the hell do you hate her so much?!
She’s an amazing Seiyuu, so go troll elsewhere.
Something tells me you’re the same creep that follows her around. Saying she’s an amazing seiyuu is like saying Hitler is a sensitive man. It’s just, not right. Also, you lack evidence as to why you think this poor excuse for a seiyuu is “amazing.”
Obvious weeaboo response is obvious. Even a little baby can outdo “Fat Slut” Taketatsu at voice acting.
hahaha! I love you too.
Cripes, you’re a psychopath.
Ayana Taketatsu: Future Snuff Film Super Star! :3
Ayana “Fat Ass Slut” Taketatsu needs to get raped and murdered. The whole thing should be videotaped for the world to see. And for all the sissy otaku to cry over. Fuckasses! :3
I wish someone got someone to rape and kill Ayana “Fat Ass Kunt” Taketatsu. And they should videotape her death for the world to see.
Ayana Taketatsu needs to fucking die already.
The only reason for Ayana “Fat Slut” Taketatsu to have a twatter account is for her to get stalked raped and have her fucking throat slit. And her carcass pissed on and set on fire. :3
# of twitter followers doesn’t mean shit.
Well ,for Tomokazu Sugita it’s quite obvious that those crazy Japanese female otaku (i’m not gonna use the derogatory term because i’m crazy as well) would swarm around him.
I’m a guy and i’d probably chase him down as well. LOL!
Actually, he has a lot of male fans in Japan as well.
Tired seeing comment ‘where my xxxxx, not in the list’ in all top list topic. Lets comment about what in the list, what you’ve been missing, why they’re popular but you totally blur and holed up on the only anime you know and you’ve seen.
Btw, Sugita deserve the 1st place. You dont know him? Google please
lolwhut kana hanazawa isnt event in there ???
even . typo
why does aya always look sort of…cross-eyed
lol…
however, I will admit Sugita’s antics are really funny on all of his radio shows
– Super Robo Wave~
– Bururaji
– Danshi koukousei Nichijou Kaiwa
what IS Sugita’s twitter account by the way?
Yuichi Nakamura, the seiyuu of some badass male protagonist.
Eri Kitamura & Yukari Tamura, the seiyuu of most adorable loli character.
I approve those ranking.
SUGITA IS GOD! SUGITA IS GOD! SUGITA IS GOD! EVERYBODY SAY!
>No Itou Shizuka
Okay fuck this.
This list is valid.
1. Tomokazu Sugita – this is about right.
2. Aya Hirano – 272,915 – this is hot air.
the rest are about right.
Tomokazu Sugita: Fightin’ Round the World?
Sugita is fucking awesome.
Where is my Kobayashi Yuu? 🙁
She hasn’t been doing much lately.
hirano looks rediculous with that haircut.
So she’s bad when she’s not a “Virgin Idol” … But then she’s bad when on top of that she’s not the Top “Skank” in Japan… (in the Voice actress industry)
A little twisted non-logic there.
Does anyone know if Rie Tanaka or Asami Imai have twitter accounts?
Come to think of it, Imai and Sugita have done a BlazBlue radio show along with Kanako Kondou. The three of them are hilarious together. I kinda miss the time Sugita picked on Kondou, calling her Kondom…
imai does have a twitter
I think she is Asamingosu or something like that…
but I haven’t seen her active…
No Kana-tan? Me sad TwT
No Horie Yui-chan T_T
Well, she has a Twitter account. But her account is shared with other people like this one:
https://twitter.com/#!/kuronekounion
It’s not mistaken It’s SUGITA!!!
Ok ok people, calm down. I mean, we all know if Wakamoto Norrrio was on Twitterrr he’d be numberrr one.
Oh yeah, and Sugita is awesome.
erf… none of my top seiyuu are in… think moeblob own the top… as always…… boring >_>
What the fuck are you smoking?
something to make him think Sugita is moe
lol
Maybe this that Anon likes him a lot.
I myself am a fan of Aoi Yūki.
She’s probably got her own secret Twitter account or something which she keeps private, but yeah surprising Aoi-chan doesn’t have a Twitter account for fans either…
if not too much work could you post what anime/game they are most famous from? I can barely recognise any simply by name.
I keep seeing comments about “Rie Kugimiya”
Well I’m gonna go ahead and say it
“Rie Kugimiya” is a good seiyuu but I’m getting tired of her, sorry.
I am tired of her tsundere roles. Although I’ve heard the role she plays in Gintama (which sorta makes me not want to watch it more) she does have some good non-stereotypical roles of hers (such as Alphonse, and my favorite Hayakawa Misaki). Although, I am starting to like Iori more and more…
The complete opposite for me.
I never get tired of Rie Kugimiya.
Same here! Rie’s awesome!
Is there a longer list somewhere? I want to see where Yuu Asakawa @Julia320 ranks. (She’s Sakaki from AZUMANGA DAIOH, Shiryuu Chouun from IKKI TOUSEN, and currently ANASTASIA from BRAVE 10, among many other roles.) Ms. Asakawa only has 11K followers at the moment, but she may be the seiyuu most followed by English-speaking anime fans due to her English tweeting and her OtakuVerse Zero hosting duties.
Don’t forget she is a Vocaloid too, Luka, which has another separate fan base.
who gives a shit
true, but this list means I want to see what some of these people tweet about
I do.
““Number 4 isn’t following any other seiyuu – doesn’t she have any seiyuu chums?””
Yukarin isn’t even following Nana-chan?
I thought she was BFF’s with Hocchan too.
Then again, many of the OG seiyuu probably don’t have twitter accounts.
awh my aya with curls <3
ganbare Aya!
To answer all the “where’s X?” and “seiyuu X should be on this list.” questions, most of the seiyuu that you mentioned don’t have any twitter account.
The word Twitter should probably appear somewhere in the first paragraph as some people appear to not quite get it…
Good job, Gin-san. I would follow him too.
I vote Megumi Nakajima
Hey bunch of retards, this is a TWITTER FOLLOWERS ranking, not a popularity poll.
Yeah, it would be nice if Artefact actually mentioned that at any point in the post. Doesn’t even link the original source or links to the seiyuu’s Twitter accounts. What a gyp.
It says “followed” in the title and “Twitter” in the tags. I think given the audience we need not be explaining what Twitter is and how its “follower” system works?
That’s the same fucking thing.
Sure it may be a popularity contest in spirit, but this is based on an actual quantifiable number, instead of most of the lists where it’s just a swarm of opinions.
not really. lots of popular seiyuu don’t have twitter accounts.
That’s true, but this is SPECIFICALLY for which Seiyuu are the most popular on twitter.
I’m surprised Yukari Tamura can still be on the list. I know people/sancom were making fun of her no-make-up face and ears.
But seriously, she is 35 and when make up being done right, she can still looked stunningly beautiful like she used to be.
She doesn’t look ugly despite the age…
I agree. Yukarin is gorgeous!
I also think she is very cute.
No Kana Hanazawa? Shame on you!
Aya-nyan’s working on that, but HanaKana’s probably the kind of person who doesn’t have a PC, let alone an Internet connection.
if she has a twitter, I would like to know
Exactly what i thought
Where’s Wakamoto?
Away from a PC, being awesome.
Sakata Gintoki
Hidenori (Danshi koukousei no nichijou)
Besides Gin he has voiced a certain cynical tsundere narrator protagonist that you are forgetting
Shin-Hokuto Musou
Motosuwa Hideki-CHOBITS
Kyon/John Smith/Clerk Sugita-Haruhi Suzumiya/Lucky Star
Hoshi-Arakawa Under the Bridge
Subaru-X 1999 TV series
That Man-Guilty Gear Overture
Switch-Sket Dance
And Many More…
If you start to list all great characters Sugita Tomokazu has voiced with great success… You’ll just end up with a very long list.
Ragna The BloodEdge too!
oh right, Sakata Kintoki
It more like “Top 10 Most Stalked Seiyuu”
then aya just rank 1st isn’t it?
No Sakamoto Maaya ? oO
She’s married now. She broke the hearts of her creepy otaku stalkers already, but since she’s not a skank nor a typical idol, she’s safe.
Maybe only westerners like rie kugimiya?
Not true, if you look at the sales of DVDs, almost all of anime where Rie Kugi played tsundere loli had relatively high sales(despite how shitty some of them are)
could someone post the most popular anime char done by the voice actor behind their name?
Thnx,
Too lazy to search for the most popular. I’ll just write my favorite character or anything that come to my mind.
Aya Hirano – Morikawa Yuki (White Album. I still like Yuki more than Haruhi somehow)
Yukari Tamura – Yamada (B-gata H-Kei)
Eri Kitamura – Takanashi Miu (Papakiki)
Ayana Taketatsu – Nakano Azusa (You KNOW where)
Just copypasta their names in AniDB or even Wikipedia you lazy bum.
Hanazawa Kana should be at least in top 3. How can anyone dislike that voice?
Kana Hanazawa should kill herself.
Because it is incredibly annoying, especially when used 14 times the same season.
lol, just.. lol.
Every spot should be held by rie kugimiya from 1 to 10
are you retarded or something?
I tend to follow Kugimiya Rie and Shizuka Itou personally, most the names above I don’t even recognize =p
Ah, Shizuka Itou and her drunken adventures. XD
Are you me?!
I am the dark presence within your head, and I command you to KI… oh wait, wrong topic.
Yes i am you
Well well, this is quite the pleasant surprise, Sugita has that many followers??
“Is Sugita that interesting?”
he almost godlike
Who were you quoting sir? Well, I guess I an agree with your point, his voice is very unique
Yes indeed he does.
Why? Because he’s awesome.
Even if he may not be that active in the seiyuu scene, he frequents and participates in numerous radio talk shows which, if I may add most of the time hilarious and entertaining to watch, attracts many folks.
If he’s not making fun of himself while entertaining you with his antics and personality on radio, he’s probably doing it with someone too.
Who does he voice? I dont follow seiyuu’s much, soz.
Sir I believe you are mistaken,… not Followers,.. But rather the correct term is “Stalkers”.
^_^
They tend to do that yes…
hmmm… I do like some of these seiyuu. But the one I’m most fond of is Kugimiya Rie, and she didn’t make the list.
Such sadness
Uh, does she do twitter to begin with?
12,000 votes isn’t exactly a landslide. Aya still wound up a decent second compared to the other entries.
Eri Kitamura on top 5?!
Wow, I thought people didn’t give a shit. Nice to see one of my favorites.
Yeah, I was surprised to see her in the top 5 too. Rather awesome 😀
I sort of give a shit
Akio Ohtsuka? I wonder how Snake’s twitter would be.
I get a lot more follow requests on twitter since I started following Japanese accounts. That’s not what I’d expect, but hey, sometimes you get surprised.
Well, Nakata Jouji tweets in English sometimes too…
What?! I had no idea Jouji Nakata had a Twitter account! Maybe i should get a Twitter account…
Hanazawa Kana and Aoi Yuuki would dominate were they on Twitter.
No, they would get stalked, raped, murdered and thrown in a dumpster to rot. And guess what would happen, NOTHING!!! :3
I lol’ed.
no Hanazawa Kana in list? THIS IS MADNESS!!!
no rie kugimiya ? BLASPHEMY I TELLS Y!!!1
Why would anyone follow her? It’s not like we are all her fans or anything.
I see what you did there.
Then do you have the link for KugiRie’s Twitter account? If not, your statement is invalid.
Only a few seiyuus has a Twitter account. It’s not like you expect Koyasu, Hayashibara, or even Kikuko Inoue to have a Twitter account so you can follow them.