Seiyuu fans of both sexes have come together to vote for the voice actors and actresses with the voices they find most pleasing to the ear in this unusually balanced ranking…
The ranking, together with signature roles:
1. Akira Ishida
(Evangelion’s Kaworu Nagisa)2. Hiroshi Kamiya
(Monogatari’s Koyomi Araragi)3. Takahiro Sakurai
(Monogatari’s Meme Oshino)4. Miyuki Sawashiro
(Monogatari’s Suruga Kanbaru)5. Kana Hanazawa
(Monogatari’s Nadeko Sengoku)6. Rie Kugimiya
(Toradora’s Taiga Aisaka)7. Mai Aizawa
(Nichijou’s Mio Naganohara)8. Hikaru Midorikawa
(Gundam Wing’s Heero Yuy)9. Jun Fukuyama
(Spice & Wolf’s Kraft Lawrence)10. Takehito Koyasu
(Sergeant Frog’s Keroro)11. Mamiko Noto
(Negima’s Nodoka Miyazaki)12. Junichi Suwabe
(Bleach’s Grimmjow Jeagerjaques)13. Kanae Ito
(A Certain Scientific Railgun’s Ruiko Saten)14. Yuichi Nakamura
(Clannad’s Tomoya Okazaki)15. Daisuke Ono
(Haruhi Suzumiya’s Itsuki Koizumi)16. Yui Horie
(Monogatari’s Tsubasa Hanekawa)17. Mamoru Miyano
(Death Note’s Light Yagami)18. Koji Yusa
(Bleach’s Ichimaru Gin)19. Yukari Tamura
(Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha’s Nanoha Takamachi)20. Haruka Tomatsu
(Sword Art Online’s Asuna)21. Maaya Sakamoto
(Evangelion’s Mari Makinami Illustrious)22. Nana Mizuki
(Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha’s Fate Testarossa)23. Mai Nakahara
(Clannad’s Nagisa Furukawa)24. Houko Kuwashima
(Clannad’s Tomoyo Sakagami)25. Iwao Junko
(Card Captor Sakura’s Tomoyo Daidouji)
ALL HAIL HANAZAWA
No Hayami Saori, really?
Hayamin would be at the top of my list. She actually does have a “beautiful” voice. Yuuki Aoi, on the other hand, although she is my favorite seiyuu, definitely does not have a beautiful voice. On the male side, for me it is Koyasu Takehito above all.
Kanae Itou in 13? Mamiko Noto in 11? No Eri Kitamura? No Aya Endou? No Shizuka Itou? No Hikasa Yoko? I’d like to see Marina Inoue there as well.
That’s a lot of fail for one list.
Note there are a few good choices here, like HanaKana, Horie Yui, Yukarin, Mai Nakahara… but other than Hanazawa, they’re all too low.
And I forgot about Ohara Sayaka.
Sena on picture, no mentioning Sena 😐
Nowadays the Japanese only remember the seiyuus who do gained the spot for being notorious in the scene. The truth is some of them are biased for an upcoming anime/game/VN to be released there.
I like people who still vote for the seiyuu who did the job in the past decades (yes, I’m talking to you Koyasu, Midorikawa), and the seiyuus who are popular in the past, but now only have lesser screen time to voice their characters. (I only remember Junko Iwao in Madoka as a teacher for eps. 1, and 10.). Shame on the people who vote the veterans on the bottom of this list!
Seriously, I am agree with the people here for this list for the lack of these following people:
Megumi Hayashibara
Koichi Yamadera
Norio Wakamoto
Jouji Nakata
Tomokazu Seki
Rie Tanaka
Romi Park
Yuu Kobayashi
Maaya’s husbando (Kenichi Suzumura)
Sayaka Ohara (Kikuko Inoue’s potential successor)
Kaori Mizuhashi
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Asami Imai
Glad there are no l♥♥i-types here. (Aoi Yuuki, Ayana Takehatsu, Yui Ogura, etc.)
And those who wondered who are at the bottom 25:
26. Eri Kitamura
27. Yukana
28. Ryoutaro Okiayu (Tezuka-buchou!)
29. Yuki Kaji (not Kajiura, LOL)
30. Yuko Minaguchi (the original Yamato Nadeshiko)
31. Kikuko Inoue (DAT YAMATO NADESHIKO)
32. Sumi Shimamoto (one of the earlier original Yamato Nadeshiko seiyuus. Dissidia Final Fantasy fans know her as the Japanese Cosmos.)
33. Aya Hirano (HERE SHE IS PEOPLE!)
34. Shimono Hiro
35. Ayako Kawasumi (Mamiko and KanaHana’s predecessor)
36. Kana Asumi
37. Tetsuya Kakihara
38. Masako Ikeda (again, in Dissidia, Cloud of Darkness. And the seiyuu known for being a narrator.)
39. Miyu Irino (a.k.a. Sora in Kingdom Hearts.)
40. Masakazu Morita (GOOD MORNING ICHIGO!)
41. Kouki Miyata (he is the Japanese Phineas in Phineas and Ferb.)
42. Aya Hisakawa (Sailor Mercury)
43. Ai Kayano
44. Keiko Han (another veteran Sailor Moon seiyuu)
45. Yoko Hikasa
46. Eiko Masuyama (the seiyuu known for Cutey Honey, the predecessor of Sailor Moon. R.I.P.)
47. Yoshiko Sakakibara (another veteran seiyuu)
48. Yumi Touma
49. Mai Fuchigami
50. Ayuru Ouhashi
47.
(sidenote: and what the heck with the Christina Aguilera on the thumbnail?)
Ayana Taketatsu*
typo’ed.