Seiyuu fans have been exercising themselves over the question of which seiyuu look as if they will still be active even 10 years hence, should they avoid attrition due to age, career change, scandal, or the fickle tastes of their fans – and as usual, it is the male seiyuu who seem most likely to stay the course…
1. Mamoru Miyano
2. Yuuichi Nakamura
3. Kana Hanazawa
4. Miyuki Sawashiro
5. Jun Fukuyama
6. Rie Kugimiya
7. Hiroshi Kamiya
8. Aya Endo
9. Haruka Tomatsu
10. Tomokazu Sugita
11. Kanae Ito
12. Yui Horie
13. Takahiro Sakurai
14. Aki Toyosaki
15. Hiro Shimono
16. Ai Kayano
17. Nana Mizuki
18. Kana Ueda
19. Nobuhiko Okamoto
20. Eri Kitamura
aya Hirano
to me, there will be only one Megumi Hayashibara and Akira Kamiya,period.
no kobayashi yuu… wtf
NORIO WAKAMOTO WILL BE AROUND FOR ETERNITY!
I don’t know who any of these people are.
Need Yuuki Kaji.
Poor dude only voiced beta, he need to voice more glorious motherfucker like in Under Night in-Birth
List is sure missing:
Maria Inoue
Noto Mamiko
Miyu Irino
Makino Yui
Tanaka Rie
Chihara Minori
Misato Fukuen
Park Romi
Goto Yuuko
MAKO
You realize that MAKO has been dead for a while right? I wish he weren’t, but that doesn’t make it so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAKO
lol that’s too funny he died in 2006
BAKA-BAKA-BAKA’s!!!!! Mitsuishi Kotono is only 45 and she is still going strong!
You forgot Aya Hirano, hohoho.
She’ll still be changing hairstyles and having orgies with band members, that’s for sure…
And you’ll still be practicing in your room in the hope of actually joining the band.
even if he did not practice in his room in hope of joining something…. does it really matter to you? music is best enjoyed without making sense.
I’d practice to join her band. I’d fuck her real good.
I’m just glad that Hanazawa Kana is slightly younger than me. Knowing JP’s life expectancy, I’ll die before she stop working
If she quit VAing… I’ll have one less reason to live for…
I have no idea who any of these are 😀
Fuck you and that other guy.
Megumi Nakajima
Underrated seiyuu
Emperor Wakamoto Norio
hello i am an anti-SERN envoy and i would like to tell you all that Hououin Kyouma still there
i know it might sound almost impossible, but i at least still want to hear Norio Wakamoto after 10 years
You do realize that he has to eventually die so that he can teach God to enunciate properly for the End Times, right?
Or perhaps he IS God. He just came down from heaven to practice his speech-making skill in preparation for the End Times.
I second this.
I HAZ APPROVEN OF THIS LIST
Inoue Kikuko. She’s only 17.
Kikuko will be 50 in next September. But dor me she will be a No.1 beautiful Japanese Lady forever!
Juu Nanasai DESUUUUUU!!!!!
Where’s Hatsune MikuMiku?
I don’t even know half of the seiyuus in there.
Yukana, where ?!
there are male seiyuus?
Looks like i watched the right animes to avoid them so far.
Good luck trying to avoid an anime with Fukuyama Jun in it.
And they are worshiped as idols. The male seiyuu take their own creepy photoshoots that get sold on tiny cards to obsessed fans. Just not maybe as bad as bikini photos…
You might have said that as a joke, but this is actually a serious issue.
Yes, there are male seiyuus, and they tend to fare better than their female counterparts.
Harem anime particularly helps with this. I mean, do you care who the males are voiced in those shows? Not really, that means whoever landed those role gets an easy ride to build up experience (even the most generic harem male gets a few lines)
Furthermore, in most non-harem anime, the general rule of thumb is that male roles outnumber female roles. Most villains and mooks are males. Authority figures are usually males. Male roles also tend to be more important in the story. It’s not so different with Hollywood or other media that feminists complain about (and they do have a point here)
This also applies to games (both Japan made, or dubbed western ones), as seiyuu are often hired to work for those.
Well of course there are male seiyuus >.>
They just aren’t worshipped as idols like the female seiyuus are
I just realized how horrible that is.
How about Koyasu Takehito? He’s already been around for ages, is in tons of shit and is “young” enough to still be able to do it ten years from now.
Veterans of his caliber and above are probably assumed to always be around until they retire, or die
Norio Wakamoto, Toru Furuya, Shuichi Ikeda, etc.
10 years, more like forever…
On the other hand, he’ll only be remembered as the guy with the most roles in anime ever, not a guy who is a singer nor a mangaka!
In fact, he has broken promises when it comes to his pet projects… One got cut short, the other one didn’t take off!
Yay Mamoru. I really hope he is around for a very long time.
Satou Rina
I’m deaf, so it doesn’t matter to me.
really..?
I guess subtitling every anime does help deaf people
enjoy TV show
At least you’re not blind as that would make watching anime a LOT harder! 😛
You know Drama CD is also fun to listen. So meh~
Still, that’s not watching anime.
Hiro Shimono
Tomokazu Sugita
Faith in humanity restored.
Though we can still arguably add Kaori Mizuhashi, Kana Asumi and Kenichi Suzumura to the list.
Kazuya Nakai is not a bad addition too IMHO
PUT YA GANZ ON
HIYA WI GOU!!!
HERE WE GO!!!
I want ayahi takagaki and chiaki takashi too !
Fujiwara Keiji is still alive n kickin’ for this list, dawg!
No Ogura Yui
🙁
What about jouji nakata and wakamoto
I can safely bet that “Age” it what matters to both of them.
Norio Wakamoto is already at 67, and the list states in 10 more years.
But I do hope he’ll be still around. Can’t remember anyone with more characteristic voice that his.
http://youtu.be/yIHpOsvx1zY?t=2m11s <- the old guy, Matsudaira
Im surprised that Yuka Iguchi and Kana Asami aren’t on the list. They’ve become quite popular of recently and have one of those easily recognizable voices like Rie Kugimiya, Aya Endo, Kana Hanazawa, and Eri Kitaura
It’s Kana Asumi, Bro, and yeah she’s not even in the big list. Lack of popularity I guess when compared to the top 45.
Minako Kotobuki where?
Popular and in her early 20’s.
Sugita ftw
from the cardcaptor’s onii-chan to gilgamesh… coolest mofo there ever was.
That’s Tomokazu Seki, not Sugita
Rie will be 43 (44?).
Yui Horie is in her thirties right now. Maybe she’ll voice more mature characters by then?
Keep wishing. Naru from Love Hina was fantastic. Now it’s all the same voices and styles. Rie is similar, but at least she has a whole class and style of characters (tsundere) so it might persevere.
Kikuko Inoue is forever 17 and still pretty sure she still has the range to do an elementary school child to a mature business women.
what does it matter? her voice wont change
That’s right! Her voice will never change!
Uh, just how many popular Seiyuus does Japan have…? Top 20 seems a rather wide range to me.
And 10 years also seems like a wide time span, considering how everything, from common objects to artists, is each passing day becoming more ephemeral and forgettable, not because of a lack in quality, but because they purposedly make things last for short since it… seems to be more profitable, I guess.
Kana Hanazawa is in pretty much every other series. She’s the Christopher Walken of seiyuu.
Christopher Walken….that’s the best comparison that you can come up with?
Kana Hanazawa is like the Nolan North of seiyuu.
I think Sugita is the Nolan North of seiyuu. Hanazawa would be… the Laura Bailey of seiyuu.
Tara Strong?
Pfft pathetic.
Chris Walken has been in hundreds of TVs and shows, active since 1966 and working nonstop since 1975 (the only year he wasnt in a movie was 2010)
When I compared Hanazawa with Walken I mean it in terms of career path. Kana will be a seiyuu that you will see in works every year for at least a decade, if not longer.
But since you only seem to know voice actors I’ll humor you.
Kana Hanazawa is on her way to be the next Megumi Hayashibara.
Doubt you’ll understand it, but so be it.
Christopher Walken is also a great dancer,check out his MTV winning video, Weapon of Choice.
You’re right I don’t understand. What’s pathetic is that out of all the great Hollywood actors out there you used Christopher Walken…
Morgan Freeman by leaps and bound has had a better career then Walken not to mention Like Hanazawa Kana you hear his voice every other commercial.
*hundreds of movies and TV shows
Definitely agree with her being near the top of the list.
I have to say I can’t recall a single incident reported by Sankaku that otaku would have been scandalised a male voice actor isn’t supposedly a virgin anymore.
well, not reported on sankaku, but japanese fangirls went INSANE when mamoru miyano got married and announced he and his wife were expecting a baby… some retards even said “i hope she has a miscarriage!”
If a key opens lots of locks then its a master key but if a lock is opened by lots of keys then its a shitty lock.
so i should open less dimension doors to animes?
That key-lock metaphor is flawed and shitty and any time anyone uses it to justify a bullshitty sexist point of view I know to never listen to a single other thing they have to say.
But, there have been cases of female fans of male seiyuu blowing up over them getting girlfriends or wives, Mamoru Miyano being the most famous example, with some of his fans allegedly praying that she would miscarry. The difference is his career didnt suffer despite all the wank. Maybe its just because female seiyuu otaku are a lot less fucking retarded than male ones.
Female fans are arguably worse, as they are just as obsessive even though they should be aware of how ridiculous and sexist the whole “these people must remain single for MY sake” thing is. The difference their preference of seiyuu just doesn’t affect sales as much as it does with men.
Oh my, you seem like such a pleasant person to throw off-handed jokes around. Though I have to admit, personally, I enjoy the company of those that are capable of both giving and taking jabs in jest, rather than those that become offended over trivial comments.
Hanazawa Kana…
I swear to god she’s been in EVERY anime I’ve watched recently. Minor roles or not, she’s still everywhere!
00. Noto Mamiko
Where is Ayana Taketatsu ? She should be active in 10 years. She’s younger than me ( still 24 )!
-_-;
So a List of people that will be surely forgotten in the next 5 years, got it.
How about a list of Top 20 things no one even bothered to open up the list to look at list?
The list is missing minami takayama….. Drum roll… Voiced Conan from detective Conan….. And we all know that show will go on for like until forever…..even after like 20 years Conan is still 7-8 years old?
So yeah just like One Piece and Pokemon.
Only difference being One Piece has a actual plot…looking at you Pokemon…
wasn’t the point of the show to catch every pokemon to become a pokemon master? I don’t know how many pokemon there are now but last time I watched the show he had like 10 out of 150.
Goddamn, just realized that the reason why Ash never wins the championship is because the show would effectively be over.
Bah , this is so easy
Add One Piece / Bleach / Naruto /Gintama / Fairy Tail / Put Whatever seemtoendlessmanga here
All Seiyuu in those anime , probably will be stay until the rest of Your life
10 Years is easily pass
lol
lol gotta feel sorry for the guy who did the voice for Ishida/Sasuke. A main character in 2 of the big animes of the decade Bleach ended and Sasuke has practically been non-existent in Naruto in the last year or 2. Guy is practically out of a job.
Most of them in the list up there aren’t even in any of those anime you’re hatin’. Go back to your cave and rot there.
Really??
Gintama has Tomokazu Sugita/Rie Kugimiya
One of the newest long manga like Magi has Kana Hanazawa/Haruka Tomatsu/Takahiro Sakurai in it
And I’m not saying even one bit I hate those anime
Stupid jerk , go back to kindergarten and learn how to read
Where the fuck are they in one piece? bleach? naruto? fairy tail? You said that up there- oh wait, you’re just fucking illiterate.
Well, it is given that the seiyuu for the main characters for those anime will still have that role as long as the anime is going. Unless they screw up bad or die.
Though, this list seems more like an Otaku/shut ins stalker list of pure – soon to be waifu – seiyuu.
Amusingly, a few famous shounen “seemtoendlessmanga” protags (Goku, Luffy, Conan, Naruto) are voiced by women
I wonder how many otaku fap to those seiyuus? Goku’s is like… 76?
Sooo…
Nakamura Yuuichi, Jun Fukuyama, Hiroshi Kamiya, Tomokazu Sugita, Hiro Shimono, Nobuhiko Okamoto and Takahiro Sakurai are girls for you, eh?
If you realized it, they made almost half of the list.
And if you realized it, this world got more women than men nowadays.
And if you realized it, your argument’s invalid.
And if you realized it, you’re a hater.
So GTFO already.
Soooo…
Nakamura Yuuichi, Tomokazu Sugita, Jun Fukuyama, Hiroshi Kamiya, Hiro Shimono, Takahiro Sakurai and Nobuhiko Okamoto are girls for you, eh?
And if you can count, they made almost half of the list.
And if you realize it, this world got more women than men nowadays.
And if you realize it,your argument’s invalid.
And if you realized it, you’re a hater.
So GTFO already.
Will be still watching anime in 10 years?
I’ll stop watching when I move out of the basement, maybe.
And I think that will never happen.