Seiyuu fans have selected the voice actresses with that most essential talent in abundance – a sexy voice, along with the skill to put it to good use.
1. Atsuko Tanaka
2. Miyuki Sawashiro
3. Yoko Hikasa
4. Yukana
5. Shizuka Ito
6. Rie Tanaka
7. Aya Endo
8. Eri Kitamura
9. Kobayashi Yu
10. Nana Mizuki
11. Hiromi Hirata
12. Marina Inoue
13. Romi Paku
14. Maaya Sakamoto
15. Ai Orikasa
16. Eiko Masuyama
17. Harumi Sakurai
18. Haruka Tomatsu
19. Ryoka Yuzuki
20. Yuri Amano
Someone important (well, sort of) is not on this list, but I will agree with #1.
#2 is ridiculous especially when compared to #1.
Is Miki Itou not popular enough? She has this really sexy MILF-y tone of voice. Sachiko-sama of Marimite and Miyo Takano of Higurashi for example. 🙁
Would have also loved to see Michiko Neya and Aya Hisakawa on that list.
not enough love for eri and kobayashi…
Kikokou Inoue?
Where’s Arai Satomi? ^^
Is the person that plays Soho Reina from Witchblade in this this ? I find her voice sexy 😮
I swear that the authors on this site are actually trolling when they write lists of names. They almost never use a consistent name-order, even within a single post. Please compare “Yoko Hikasa” (Hikasa Youko) to “Kobayashi Yu” (Kobayashi Yuu). It’s really disappointing that a site devoted to far-east news doesn’t get something so simple right.
How is Emperor Wakamoto not number one on this list?
Everyone involved in its creation should be deeply, deeply ashamed.
One still better than zero, dudes. Most of these voices not bad but pretty forgettable and for a few of them thaks to almighty for it.
We’ll be hearing more of Atsuko Tanaka in JJBA, she voices Lisa Lisa…
Yes, badass GITS major’s seiyuuu!
Again, the word “female” is missing in the title…
>Yukana
I like this ranking.
Miyuki Sawashiro, Eri Kitamura, Yu Kobayashi, Haruka Tomatsu… This list is perfectly fine!
Although I would put Yu Kobayashi’s dark voice at #1.
Where is Kana Hanazawa? My heart doesn’t melt when I hear her for no reason…
Aya Endo is a good choice
Her voice has a magnetic tinge that sounds so hot.
No Yuu Asakawa? and no Norio Wakamoto?
Marina Inoue instead of the 17 yrs old Kikuko Inoue?
No Satsuki Yukino? Fail.
> Romi Paku
Thank you and goodnight.
Wheres the girl who did Inabas voice from kokoro connect? Is shes not at the top this list is void.
shes #2 you fucking retard
I didn’t say she wasn’t on the list, I said where is she. I don’t know her fking name because I’m not a goddam loser like you who would care to know hahaha.
Fucking Christ, Miyuki Sawashiro is No.2.
Even as a big fan of hers, she definitely comes after that amazing GITS voice.
Hey where is Minori Chihara?
Wonder if Gotouza-sama would know.
YES! Paku Romi!~
what about nakai kazuya and noto mamiko? 🙁
Put some characters in there so I know the shit they are talking about.
Yukana and Endo Aya’s voice are god-tier.
Such gentle and calming voice that can make you melt.
15. Ai Orikasa
Ryoko for the win! 🙂
What the …???
Where’s Aya Hisakawa?
1 st name I agree with 100%. The rest……meh, I could care less really.
Ryōko Tanaka where?
Her voice is absolute sex as Kurugaya in Little Busters!
No Asakawa Yuu, list is invalid.
THIS, very much.
I mean, when she is not included in “most popular” lists one can understand that. She is just not the “idol” type, she does quality, not mass popularity. Yuu-sama leaves “idoling” to Luka Megurine, and it appears to be a wise decision, at least no chance of scandals because of creepy otaku.
But not including her in “sexiest voices”?! Baloney!
>15. Ai Orikasa
That’s one obaasan I’d rail.
Am I the only person why get diamond hard boner upon hearing wakamoto’s voice?
I got a set of manly beard, mustache, eyebrows and six-packs instead
missing aya hirano here
bu in retrospective, many people nowadays see her only as a slut^^
Hirano, that slut was overhyped, super overrated, she has fallen o her rightful place.
I like the voice actress who voices Princess Mina Tepes from Dance in the Vampire Bund.. her voice is cool.
Yuuki Aoi. Great voice, but not well known enough for a list like this. Heck, most of the seiyuu here are likely there just because they are well known. Any major list will be distorted by a particular seiyuu’s fanbase.
I wish Kotori Koiwaii worked on her death metal a bit. The mean tone of Kigurumi’s silent remarks signifies she could be amazing.
puchiko is sexy-nyu. ^^
Bitch please! Norio Wakamoto and Tomokazu Sugita will shut this list down in less than 5 secs!
Actually any list regarding any topic should have Wakamoto at the top.
No Kana Asumi or Satomi Arai? Their voice are uniquely sexy IMHO… especially the latter.
I’d also loved to add Yui Horie and Kaori Mizuhashi to that!
Kaori? Sure. Yui? Pass. She has a decent voice but it all sounds the same anymore. Her work last decade was so much better (think Naru from Love Hina). Now she’s type-casted…like Kugimiya Rie is for pure tsundere roles.
Whether a seiyuu’s doing one or multiple role is fine though.
What’s not, is the people who berated them as if they have absolute authority over the seiyuu. Positive, building comments are one thing but what I see here are mostly deconstructing jeers a.k.a flaming. Don’t go forcing ideas on others when you never even stepped into their shoes, people.
Specialization doesn’t mean you only do one thing. As specialized as modern society has become, we all wear many hats.
To be clear, it doesn’t make her bad at all. But I do think it limits her reach to outside the top 10.
Well, even in the history of humanity there’s something called ‘specialization’. I don’t get why people still keep fussing if a seiyuu only does one type of character, when it obviously suited their voice’s characteristics.
No Kotobuki Minako? No Hayami Saori? :<
No Saito Chiwa? No one find Aoi Kimi or Hitagi Senjougahara sexy?
23 voters did, she ranked 25th.
You know how the Japanese versions always have to have bonus material.
Saito Chiwa <3
Theres only 1! Kikuko Inoue.
Inoue-san has a very *sweet* voice, one I could listen to for hours…but it’s not sexy. No doubt she could make it so, but she doesn’t.
Agreed! That Kikuko is not on the list is shocking.
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned her. Such a shame but good that I’m not the only one who was looking for her on this list.
Don’t know there names but the actress who does Holo/Horo and Shinobu from Bakemonogatari.
Yeah, this list is shit. It doesn’t have Ami Koshimizu (Holo), Miyu Matsuki (Kuuko) or most importantly, Satomi Arai (Kuroko). Without them and their orgasmic voices, this list is shit.
You do realise they’re not the same VA? Epic Fail.
Yes hence the use of names, plural not name singular, and that would be a super epic fail for you sir.
The way it’s written implies that the same actress does both roles. How is it any different from something like “The actress who does Haruhi Suzumiya and Konata Izumi”? “The actresses who do Holo/Horo and Shinobu from Bakemonogatari” would be what you’re looking for.
Yumi Tōma Where sorry ?
Sorry I don’t see Norio Wakamoto in this list therefore this list is invalid.
What? No HanaKana?
Fukuyama Jun (Mariandale) should be #1 （ ´∀｀）
Fukuyama Jun (Lelouch) should be number one…
Yukana.
Her voice is sweet ear sexings.
Agreed. Nanasaki represented the first time I actually enjoyed listening to stand-alone, audio-only character monologue.
Mah nigga.
The first name I searched for on this list.
Haha, yeah. Same thing.
Asami Imai
Kobayashi Yuu… *shivers in fear*
That’s beyond sexy… almost to the realm of ‘sounding slutty’ already.
Who can name all the seiyus on the list that have voiced characters in eroges?
My favorite would be… Shizuka Ito.
Sakurai Harumi <3
No Horie Yui = Invalid List
Sexiest voices missing from the list
* Hisakawa Aya
* Inoue Kikuko
* Mamiko Noto
* Koshimizu Ami
* Horie Yui
Wrong decade for anything decent as a seiyuu.
Sayaka Ohara where?? her voice can be so sexy
She’s #24 or so.
Good catch. It’s too low for Irisviel but at least it’s some recognition.
I’d say this is maybe the biggest gap in the list. Although Horie Yui ought to be here too — Nyaa! and Itou Kanae — no Sena? no Fumino? no Saten-san?
I’m a surprised by number 1 even though she was wonderful as Kiyama-sensei.
And Kitamura Eri should be higher than 8 (like 1), especially after roles such as Suzutsuki Kanade and Liliana Kraňčar. I’m glad to see Hikasa Youko highly-ranked as well. The most vile insult is pure candy coming from her. I had to watch episode 4 of Zombie 2 after thinking about this.
But overall, at least the top sixteen, is pretty good. I could listen to about 11 of them all day. Come to think of it, I guess I do. Sigh.
How can they fucking forget Noto Mamiko and Kawasumi Ayako?!?!?!
You mean the voices of my classmates Ana Coppola and Matsuri Sakuragi?
I gotta go stand in the hallway. 😉
Mamiko Noto voice is soft and gently not really I would call sexy, and Kawasumi Ayako voice tend toward cuteness rather than sexy.
But the same could be said about many of those that actually wound up on the list, Aya Endou for one.
Noto Mamiko does a little ero voice acting in Mnemosyne along with Kugimiya Rie.
After Orsola Aquinas, I can’t agree. She’s got to be the sexiest nun ever.
And if Noto Mamiko started doing eroge, I’d have to buy a PC. While a lot of her roles seem to involve her never completing a sentence without halting, I’d almost be willing to give up my liver to Hagoromo Gitsune.
I’m just glad that kugimiya rie is NOT on the list: THE one trick pony of the one trick ponies.
1. Atsuko Tanaka
2. Miyuki Sawashiro
3. Yoko Hikasa
THANK THE HEAVENS!!!! I think Sawashiro should be first , nut cant complain about badass Kusanagi Motoko (GITS) seiyuu first!! A 50 year old at that!! AWESOME, why do I fell type b otaku are not te only voters in this list????? 🙂 🙂
There’s a number of non-one-trick-pony roles that she did. Don’t speak like you know everything there is about a seiyuu, you otaku wannabe.
Kugimiya fanboys are like COD players. Completely blind to the crap they are gorging.
@ Anon 22:17
While it is true that people should be left to their own personal tastes so long as they don’t interfere with others, I do think Anon 11:56 makes a point: some things tend to be overhyped because the people who like them never bothered to expand their horizons and experience stuff of arguably higher quality (or worse, some of them automatically assume that what they like is the best there is and outright refuse to give anything else a fair shot).
Of course, people can like what they like, but if a MAJORITY of people enjoy crap, and they can’t at least try to look beyond their current interests, then the industry is only going to pander to their shitty tastes. This is why Squenix milked Final Fantasy VII to death with that damnedable compilation, and thanks to the likes of Call of Duty and Halo, there’s almost no place for you in western mainstream gaming if you’re not a Michael Bay-level war fetishist. In Kugimiya’s case, her fanboys are the reason why J.C. Staff couldn’t adapt some of the light novels featuring her worth crap.
Anonymous 11:56, you’re so full of crap.
If people liking said crap aren’t bothering others, who the fuck are you to tell them who’s pathetic?
Level of patheticness:
Haters who like to feel all out superior in order to attract attention that they otherwise would not get >>>>>> People who like “crap”
all of you suck including me. I suck, you suck, twilight sucks, obama sucks, clinton sucks, generous billionaires suck.
we are all shit and we all have our own opinions and personal stubborn facts. example- anon1 loves nanoha, anon2 hates her and thinks she’s shit and states that as fact. 1. the fact that nanoha is shit is anon2’s fact, not yours anon1 so agree to disagree and move on.
And how bout you haters who think that only your opinion’s the best thing in this world? Don’t be so nihilistic; the world don’t revolve around your pitiful brain.
pathetic > disgusting.
At least dog crap knows its place, fanboys who gorge on crap and think it’s the best thing in the world are pathetic.
And you haters are like dog crap in the middle of a road, disturbing and disgusts people who walk on it.
I’m guessing you’ve never heard her as Shannon from Umineko? It’s because she’s type-casted, you fool.
A one-trick pony Rie is not. Have you even heard her non-tsundere voice roles?
Happy from Fairy Tail…
First two almost always give me an instant boner.
The more articulate tsunderes are fine anyway though. Just the way Emiri Katou’s ones are.
You know she played Rokujou Miharu? Yeah, that’s about as far from a tsundere as you can possibly get.
I agree with Anon 11:00. I consider myself firmly against Kugimiya type-casting, but even I’d be willing to say that when she isn’t being type-casted, she’s actually quite good. Seriously, go watch her role in Rosario+Vampire, it’s hard to even tell that it’s her. I’d be willing to say that her standard voice is quite cute as well, but unfortunately, I can’t listen to it anymore without shitty characters like Louise and Aria coming to my mind. -_- Would be nice if I could displace such characters from my head at some point, because they’re about the only thing ruining her more decent roles for me.
The secretary of Ric’s father in Arakawa Under the Bridge, the one that has the hots for Shiro the lawnmower guy! Bet you guys didn’t know about that!
06:30
You must be a girl or gay.
OMG ALPHONSE IS SUCH A SEXY BEAST
Nene from Potemayo.
And kagura from gintama
@ Anon 11:45
I was just stating an example. Although, I did choose Mizore as my example because I find her to be the most far removed from Rie’s standard tsundere voice (at least out of the roles that I’ve heard so far), whereas with characters like Alphonse and Ikuto, it’s still somewhat easy to tell that it’s her. At any rate, they all demonstrate that the so-called “tsundere queen” can actually do something besides tsundere. In fact, much like any professional seiyuu, she’s actually landed a ton of roles coming in all sorts of archetypes; it’s just that her tsundere roles have been the most over-hyped ever since Shana, thus why we mainly hear about them.
@ Anon 13:51
Never saw MariMite, but if Touko’s non-tsundere, then see above.
don’t forget her role as Touko Matsudaira from Marimite.
there’s also Alphonse Elric (FMA) as well as Ikuto Noguchi (Digimon Savers).
Have you heard a real VA that is not a one trick pony?
You’re right, all that stuff about her doing Alphonse in FMA? Pssssh, who needs it, she never did that right? We should ignore it.
Hysterica from Vampire Bund? Nope. Not her.
Hatsur from Nyaruko-san? Naaaaah.
We should all just hate things because they happen to be popular and make wholly inaccurate statements cause why not.
You’re right, all that stuff about her doing Alphonse in FMA? Pssssh, who needs it, she never did that right? We should ignore it.
Hysterica from Vampire Bund? Nope. Not her.
Hatsur from Nyaruko-san? Naaaaah.
We should all just hate things because they happen to be popular and make wholly inaccurate statements cause why not.
Somebody hasn’t heard the moan.
Sadly not many have watched Mnemosyne.
Indeed, that’s about the closest thing to hentai she’s ever done, at least on a credited basis.
I lol’d at the amount of butthurt Kugimiya fanboys
She’s a bad VA and you know it
Just because her voice is annoying doesn’t mean she doesn’t know how to ACT.
At least the “butthurt fanboys” are talking nicely. I’d say it’s you haters who are butthurt.
Yukarin is conspicuously absent from this list.
Yukarin has a cute voice, but not really sexy.
I’d say she can be sexy if the role allows for it. Check out the fake sex scene at the end of C3 Cube X Cursed X Curious ep 05. Or there’s B Gata H Kei.
There’s a difference? j/k
No, she actually has a really sexy voice.
Those seiyuu listed are quite accurate. Every single one of ’em has an incredibly sexy voice.
My vote goes to Miyuki Sawashiro, Yuu Kobayashi, and Harumi Sakurai (It’s sad how underrated she is).
Sawashiro’s “French” in Moyashimon Returns is quite disgusting, though.
Probably because this list concentrates on mainstream seiyuus. Harumi Sakurai aka KAZANE’s main forte is hentai.
“Forte” reminds me of the very passable Mayumi Yamaguchi.
The other issue though is that the VAs that stand out more through their awesome singing, examples of which could be Minoru Chihara, Nana Mizuki or Rieka Yazawa, weren’t being considered either. Not that Rie Tanaka or Yukana are bad at this, though.
Yeah, that’s too bad. Them again, her Hentai roles are always so sexy (Dat voice!).
Top 20 seiyuu who are past their prime
I’d gladly take any one of them.
Most of them listed are in their early-to-mid 20s…
Because ‘prime’ only refers to age? Your naïveté betrays you.
lol 9:31 is a lolicon
Well crap, I don’t know almost any of these names, I just recognize the voices when I hear them. 🙁
Where the fuck is Mamiko Noto :/
I always found her voice to be more gentle and calming than sexy.
You should let Nina Fortner read you the picture book again then.
Heh, she does have some sexy voiced characters, but I think her gentler one’s outnumber them.
Yuri Amano, the voice of Kiyone Makibi from TENCHI MUYO, made the top 20?
I approve.
Ryoka Yuzuki isn’t rated high enough.
I agree at the very least she should be in top 10
Inoue Kikuko isn’t rated at all.
They may be rated, but absent from the list. Yuu Asakawa or Ryoko Shintani didn’t make it either.
I agree that the visual aspects of the voiced character (or the seiyuu) is what makes the voice itself come across as sexy.
For instance, I find Chiaki Omigawa’s voice sexy when she does Mutsumi from SYD or HanaIro’s Minko, but not quite so with Arakawa’s P-Ko, Maria Holic’s Komachi or Hotori from SoreMachi.
who the fuck put Rie Tanaka on this list1? seriously her voice makes EARS BLEED!
Kana Hanazawa where?
The list is for ‘sexiest voice’, not ‘boringest voice’.
Then how the bleedin hell did Eri Kitamura make it on here?
Or episode 10 of Campione. Or getting her teeth brushed in Nisemonogatari.
Or listen to Darjeeling in Girls und Panzer.
Exactly. Watch OniAi ep 5. Around the 21 min mark she uses one of her sexiest voices ever.
Eri Kitamura has a really sexy voice… you probably haven’t heard much of her roles.
Under my desk, sucking my nuts.