Top 25 Boy Voicing Female Seiyuu
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 10, 2012 05:02 JST
- Tags: Evangelion, Full Metal Alchemist, Rankings, Rie Kugimiya, Seiyuu, Shota
The fact that young boys in anime are overwhelmingly voiced by female seiyuu has given rise to this unusual ranking, looking at just who manages the best boyish shonen voices…
1. Romi Paku (Edward Elric)
2. Rie Kugimiya (Alphonse Elric)
3. Junko Takeuchi (Gon Freecss)
4. Mitsuki Saiga (Wolfram von Bielefeld)
5. Megumi Ogata (Shinji Ikari)
6. Kanako Mitsuhashi (Killua Zoldyck)
7. Minami Takayama (Edogawa Conan)
8. Sawashiro Miyuki (Kurapika)
9. Yuuko Sanpei (Renton Thurston)
10. Junko Minagawa (Ryoma Echizen)
11. Mayumi Tanaka
12. Matsumoto Rika
13. Yuu Kobayashi
14. Ikue Ootani
15. Yuki Kaida
16. Noriko Hidaka
17. Nozawa Masako
18. Akeno Watanabe
19. Mamiko Noto
20. Motoko Kumai
21. Ikezawa Haruna
22. Junko Noda
23. Aya Hirano
24. Kikuko Inoue
25. Mutsumi Tamura
For those wondering why Aya Hirano appears in the ranking:
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It's not gay if they are actually girls
Its not gay if you have anal sex with a guy while you think about a girl, ooooor what?
Why isnt Sakamoto Maaya (Ciel Phantomhive) on the list? ;O
Because black butler was a shitty anime made to appeal to shota-loving fujoshi and any retard could've voiced him and they'd still cream their panties.
The same could be said about any female seiyu from any ecchi anime. Just because the show was shit doesn't mean the voice actor was terrible.
You now realize Kuririn and Gohan have female voice actors as well.
But putting that aside, if Dende is enough to put Aya Hirano on this list there probably isn't that much competition.
I'm surprised Park, who is an ethnic Korean managed number 1.
park supporters outnumber racists, cuz even within the racist numbers there's still a lot who love park. you can love jackie chan, but hate chinese.
I don't know why you're surprised, because she's really popular among male and female Seiyuu fans in Japan.
I thought Namek-ians didn't have genders?
They don't. that last comment is meaningless.
This made my day thank you :)
Well.
Maybe it just wasn't appropriate to show their big, green shlongs on TV?
Do it in theatres. We have American blue already, let's go for a sentai colour.
They haven't got boobs so they are male (this can be applied to flat womens too).
good list I guess
No Kitamuri Eri? I am disappoint.
Nyaruko: Ma-hiro-san!
Sekai ha Dark!
My thoughts exactly.
I fucking knew the first one would be Romi Paku before even clicking this.
I don't even know modern seiyuu that well - I'm more Hayashibara-era. I read this and thought:
"Romi Paku?"
*click*
1. Romi Paku
"Well... alright then. I wonder if people will be weeping and gnashing teeth in the comments this time?"
holy crap didnt realise it was a women that did shinji's voice!! He always sounded meek but never too femine thats incredible. I could hear it more with kurama but wow they are really amazing seiyuu- probably when I hear shinji now I will hear it.
As far as I know she also voiced Sailor Uranus. Kinda ironic if you think about it - she's supposed to be a boyish-type lesbian.
KitaEri, as fantastic a seiyuu as she is, sounds terrible in her male roles (Nyarlko's lead was cringe worthy in just about every aspect) so it's no wonder she's not in it. Kugimiya isn't anything special in boy roles (so many others could've voiced Al and sounded similar) either compared to many of the others on the list but she just got picked out of popularity. Romi totally deserves the first place, though. Her boy characters sound more manly than many tough characters voiced by guys.
Only time i'll say the japanese voices from DBZ SUCK!
Cuteness should be reserved for lolis only not bald-heads and aliens.
One of the few Anime, so far, where the Dubbed versions WAY outclass the the orginals.
GITS is another that comes to mind...
I disagree. Atsuko Tanaka (Major Kusanagi) and Akio Otsuka (Batou) really outclassed their Dub counterparts.
Are people really surprised by females voicing young male characters? This is like.. a common thing for most animation, regardless of country. It's so they can get a young sounding voice without having to worry about the character's voice changing due to puberty.
Awesome that romi paku is #1,
But i think Mitsuki Saiga should be ranked higher.
That woman is more masculine than other male seiyuu with her voice and looks.
Whe I saw the article on the front page, first thought that came to mind was Romi Park as Loran Cehack. So I was pretty excited when I saw her for number one, even if they used a different character as the example.
Needs Marina Inoue and Shiraishi Ryoko.
No Hisakawa Aya? Fail.
No Ryoko Shiraishi as Hayate Ayasaki? I call shenanigans.
Boyish? Sorry mang, most of these voices are girly no matter how you look at it.
What?! So, you've never heard Mitsuki Saiga & Romi Park?
IKR lol. I was like where's Matsuoka Yuki (VA of Ichigo and Orihime). Ichigo actually does sound like a man XD.
She only voiced Ichigo as a kid in the flashbacks.
turapuru desu?
How is Rina Satou not on this list? She does a better job of making Negi Springfield in Negima sound like a boy than his male American voice actor does (I'm sorry Greg Ayres, but you are absolute SHIT in this role, the one massive disappointment in what was otherwise a pretty good dub).
So you watch redubs. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
Why should he be ashamed of himself, just because he happens to avail himself (apparently non-exclusively) of a viewing option that happens to be out there?
For some odd reason, whenever I think of female Seiyuu voicing male characters I always remember Mamiko Noto as Kouta from the Anime Kanokon.
Lol,Mayumi Tanaka (Monkey D.Luffy) in #11?Seriously?
People remember Rika Matsumoto (Jim in Outlaw Star), but what about Yuka Imai?
I chuckle at the reversal of Shakespearean plays, that had men playing female parts...think of a guy playing Juliette... heh, heheheheheheh
Your avatar.... you did it on purrrpose didn't you?
Mariko Sakou (Pico, from Boku no Pico) - where?
10. Junko Minagawa (Ryoma Echizen)
mada mada dane.
who the hell ranks this...so failed...where's youko hikasa, she's sounds sexy and hot
So... Which male characters did she voice?
I don't doubt whoever gets the top ten. Except possibly Kugimiya. But then, it shows that Kugimiya can be a good boy, too.