TV Asahi announced the best seiyuu ranking based on the poll of popular seiyuu in celebration of one hundred years of anime history on Monday. TV Asahi asked two hundred seiyuu to nominate seiyuu whom they respect.  *1. Kouichi Yamadera*2. Masako Nozawa *3. Keiji Fujiwara *4. Miyuki Sawashiro *5. Tomokazu Seki *6. Mayumi Tanaka *7. Minami Takayama *8. Ryuusei Nakao *9. Toshio Furukawa 10. Akio Ootsuka 11. Megumi Hayashibara 12. Toshiyuki Morikawa 13. Hidekatsu Shibata 14. Junichi Suwabe 15. Kotono Mitsuishi 16. Akiko Yajima 17. Yoshiko Sakakibara 18. Kiyoshi Kobayashi 19. Yoku Shioya 20. Shigeru Chiba 21. Noriko Hidaka 22. Akira Kamiya 23. Kaneta Kimotsuki 24. Yuuji Mitsuya 25. Hiroaki Hirata 25. Sumi Shimamoto TV Asahi also did the same ranking on 2011 but asked one hundred seiyuus last time, as well as similar ranking three months later. Source: Nijimen |
tsubasaloverJan 12, 2017 9:55 AM
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| Kinda curious if they do such a thing with cartoon voice actors Well regardless idgas bout this ranking |
| ... Noticing top 2 are the same as last time. |
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| Wow that guy on number 1 spot won during both times. Just checked him he has some impressive roles, so I guess its justified. Also a lot of current overrated VA's are not on the list, so I guess its a good thing. |
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| I didn't realize Miyuki Sawashiro was so popular, and yet Go Princess Precure didn't do very well (Despite being great series) |
| I'm really glad that Seki is on the list. I think it's a good one. |
| ok :p |
| Hayashibara lost three places... At least, the professionals remember the big names, even the ones who started before the "seiyû madness" (like the Dragon Ball women, Is there a place to consult an extended list? The origin website only gives the 25 first places too. I really wonder how low Ishida "scored". Seki: I didn't even recognize his voice (Tomash) when I watched Victory Gundam. ^^" @Ramkec He is (or at least was) also very active in foreign films dubbing, and was "the official voice" for some US actor (forgot who). He even made the japanese Roger Rabbit. |
| Really good list imo, since all of them are very good in their jobs. I still miss some names like Akira Ishida, Daisuke Namikawa or Jouji Nakata, however. Also, as a very big fan of Junichi Suwabe, I'm VERY glad of seeing him in that list. That man is great. |
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Rei366 said: The show only announced top 25 to begin with, unfortunately.Is there a place to consult an extended list? The origin website only gives the 25 first places too. I really wonder how low Ishida "scored". |
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| Glad to see Toshiyuki Morikawa listed. He has such a great and versatile, yet still dominant voice, I just love it. Hope to see/hear him voicing more main characters in the future. |
| The fact that just about every person on that list is an older veteran makes Miyuki Sawashiro's appearance even more amazing, especially with her being in the top 5. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
alexrus said: Outside of Miyuki Sawashiro everyone here is over 50. I think it makes sense the people the popular seiyuus today (i.e. the younger ones) look up to are the older actors.Nice top by pros. No Hanazawa and other s...uper actors. |
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| Happy to see Miyuki Sawashiro & Tomokazu Seki in the top 5. Great list. |
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| i like how i never heard over 80% of them (some of their characters in my language when i was younger) so no idea who they are =D also i want grandma from aria the animation (yoshiko matsuo)! also 100 years anime =O |
winddevil1Jan 12, 2017 11:49 AM
favorite "new girls" from summer <3 ... click sig for older seasons and more possible picks (rip all the other choices) |
Paulo27 said: I think you meant over 40. Tomokazu Seki and Junichi Suwabe e.g. are under 50.alexrus said: Outside of Miyuki Sawashiro everyone here is over 50. I think it makes sense the people the popular seiyuus today (i.e. the younger ones) look up to are the older actors.Nice top by pros. No Hanazawa and other s...uper actors. |
| These guise are all old af. |
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Shuhan said: These guise are all old af. thankfully at least it's not an assortment of MAL waifus like hanakana |
| the official MAL hall of fame/cursed comments is now open for business - you are welcome to PM me any potential quotes to include |
| >no aoi yuuki Meh. |
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| Only one of my favorites made the list D: |
Sad said: Shuhan said: These guise are all old af. thankfully at least it's not an assortment of MAL waifus like hanakana If they polled anime fans Im sure Hanakana/etc. would be at the top. I can understand these results since they polled Voice actors, but if a regular fan agrees with the results I would have to say ur a hipster. Case and point. |
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DateYutaka said: Shuhan said: If they polled anime fans Im sure Hanakana/etc. would be at the top. I can understand these results since they polled Voice actors, but if a regular fan agrees with the results I would have to say ur a hipster. im a fan i thre is few isuues i have with the list but its the bets one ov seen like this Yeah thats because ur a hispter elitest Date-chan. You are so out of touch with the common anime fan. |
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Shuhan said: If they polled anime fans Im sure Hanakana/etc. would be at the top. I can understand these results since they polled Voice actors, but if a regular fan agrees with the results I would have to say ur a hipster. Case and point. Actually, Niconico held a poll of their own today/yesterday (depending from where you live). HanaKana is in Top-25, but Yamadera still on the first place, and way ahead of everyone else. |
| It seems like old actors are ftw. |
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| *3. Keiji Fujiwara *4. Miyuki Sawashiro My 2 favorite voice actors in the top 5. Amazing. |
| :3 |
| People who watched the "ranking event" on Tv or were on 2ch while it was on air should know about it - but as Japanese TV Asahi always does... they "removed" a lot of Seiyuu that did not work for their channel's anime etc. So there were quite a few Seiyuu with more points than the 2nd or 3rd place in the roulette as you could see - but they just were removed by the end of the show. Well, that's how Japanese Tv works - so this is actually a ranking voted by Asahi TV instead of a ranking voted by 200 Seiyuu. |
cure_potatoJan 12, 2017 4:49 PM
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cure_potato said: if true its sad af o_OPeople who watched the "ranking event" on Tv or were on 2ch while it was on air should know about it - but as Japanese TV Ahashi always does... they "removed" a lot of Seiyuu that did not work for their channel's anime etc. So there were quite a few Seiyuu with more points than the 2nd or 3rd place in the roulette as you could see - but they just were removed by the end of the show. Well, that's how Japanese Tv works - so this is actually a ranking voted by Asahi TV instead of a ranking voted by 200 Seiyuu. |
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| It's very impressive to see Miyukichi in the top 5. I'm also glad to see that Fujiwara Keiji and Seki Tomokazu ranked so highly, but the lack of Nakata Jouji is a bit disappointing... |
cure_potato said: People who watched the "ranking event" on Tv or were on 2ch while it was on air should know about it - but as Japanese TV Asahi always does... they "removed" a lot of Seiyuu that did not work for their channel's anime etc. So there were quite a few Seiyuu with more points than the 2nd or 3rd place in the roulette as you could see - but they just were removed by the end of the show. Well, that's how Japanese Tv works - so this is actually a ranking voted by Asahi TV instead of a ranking voted by 200 Seiyuu. The roulette went way too fast to see any points at all. I could only see series titles. Do you have any specific examples? They had several people from DB and One Piece (those roles were really put forward) and none of those 2 series air on TV Asahi. Now I agree that the contents they chose to put forward for the winning seiyuu could be oriented towards TV Asahi shows, Doraemon being the prime example. That's quite understandable though. Shuhan said: I can understand these results since they polled Voice actors, but if a regular fan agrees with the results I would have to say ur a hipster. It's not about being a hipster but about age demographic of the respondents. I'm in my late 30s and am quite satisfied with this ranking. A teenager is more likely to pick someone closer to their own age. Same goes for music tastes. But not all anime fans are in their teens or early 20s. It's a very wide public these days, even if the older folks may not post on MAL forums or similar so much. I was a little shocked that Inoue Kazuhiko and Koyasu Takehito didn't make this list. I can think of a few others but the lack of those two really struck me. |
| [quote=pandora18 message=49309210] cure_potato said: People who watched the "ranking event" on Tv or were on 2ch while it was on air should know about it - but as Japanese TV Asahi always does... they "removed" a lot of Seiyuu that did not work for their channel's anime etc. So there were quite a few Seiyuu with more points than the 2nd or 3rd place in the roulette as you could see - but they just were removed by the end of the show. Well, that's how Japanese Tv works - so this is actually a ranking voted by Asahi TV instead of a ranking voted by 200 Seiyuu. The roulette went way too fast to see any points at all. I could only see series titles. Do you have any specific examples? They had several people from DB and One Piece (those roles were really put forward) and none of those 2 series air on TV Asahi. Now I agree that the contents they chose to put forward for the winning seiyuu could be oriented towards TV Asahi shows, Doraemon being the prime example. That's quite understandable though. I'm not sure where you watched it - and if you watched it live. But on the "first running" you sure could see the names/titles of series/voiced characters & the points on the roulette pretty good I'd say. There were people selected into the ranking with 300-400 points while people with 500-600 points weren't even named in the show - but you could see those when the show was live in TV. As for example you could see series like Monogatari Series, Nisekoi, Hunter x Hunter, Naruto etc. and their seiyuus in the roulette with more points - but they weren't ranked so yeah. I don't have any "screenshots" etc. since I was watching live and din't care about it in the end anymore since -that's Japanese TV. [you just gotta deal with these facts since they keep happening] You might find a lot of info in the 2 channel threads where people are still complaining about the "cheated" results - also the twitter hashtag with the show's title should show a few things. |
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| Megumi will always be #1 to me. Nice to see Junichi Suwabe getting recognition though. That man certainly has a sexy voice. Edit: I just noticed Wakamoto DIDN'T make the list this time. A part of me has become sad. |
NTADJan 12, 2017 9:26 PM
| Aw come on ... Masako Nozawa #2!? She's fucking overrated. Super limited and sounds like an old grandma on steroids for the voice of Goku. |
| Sad that Ishida Akira got taken off. |
cure_potato said: I'm not sure where you watched it - and if you watched it live. But on the "first running" you sure could see the names/titles of series/voiced characters & the points on the roulette pretty good I'd say. There were people selected into the ranking with 300-400 points while people with 500-600 points weren't even named in the show - but you could see those when the show was live in TV. As for example you could see series like Monogatari Series, Nisekoi, Hunter x Hunter, Naruto etc. and their seiyuus in the roulette with more points - but they weren't ranked so yeah. I don't have any "screenshots" etc. since I was watching live and din't care about it in the end anymore since -that's Japanese TV. [you just gotta deal with these facts since they keep happening] You might find a lot of info in the 2 channel threads where people are still complaining about the "cheated" results - also the twitter hashtag with the show's title should show a few things. Yeah I did watch it live. I saw the names of those series you mentioned but it was too fast to see any corresponding points. They might have been seiyuu who ranked lower than 25th? Hunter x Hunter was most likely for Sawashiro Miyuki though, since they showed bits of that. I re-watched bits on Youtube and can't see those names anymore. The points displayed on the left of the roulette seem to correspond to the rank in question. I'll try to see if anyone made screenshots of that 1st version. Edit : I rewatched more of the video on Youtube, paused it several times and you were right ! Some people with high scores who clearly were not ranked judging from the displayed series. Someone was up there in the 700s !! Someone featured in Gundam and Dragon Ball Z, hmmm.... |
pandora18Jan 12, 2017 11:52 PM
waalex11 said: Aw come on ... Masako Nozawa #2!? She's fucking overrated. Super limited and sounds like an old grandma on steroids for the voice of Goku. She is 81 years old. 12345678910 |
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Fans. Koichi Yamadera is on the top with 5,1% of votes, Akira Ishida is second with 3,3% of votes and Miyuki Sawashiro is the third with 2,1% of votes. (There was about 1000 names available for voting) |
| Wow... no Park Romi? |
crx07 said: I'm amazed she got here, and not only that, it's top 4. I think she's too young for seiyuus to adore. That is true, but you should keep in mind that she's been around for almost 20 years already since she started out so young. She can almost qualify as a veteran already. |
| Damn the only 1 I know is Miyuki Sawashiro and others is clueless for me |
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| After reading the Anime-now article about it, I want to watch this 3hours long show! After reading more commentaries here, I wonder how "anime-fans" can ignore who Hayashibara is (her roles, the fact she was kind of a prototype for the "seiyûs craze" of today). A little picture the Slayers illustrator posted to celebrate her heroin's voice: pic.twitter.com/4I1quDWWkP |
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