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Biglobe Poll: Who Should Perform at Animelo Summer Concerts
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The Japanese Internet service provider BIGLOBE reported the results on June 9 of a survey on which musician/seiyū respondents want to perform at the Animelo Summer Live 2011 concerts, to be held on August 27-28 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. This is not an official BIGLOBE survey, but a survey conducted by a user named "Anisama2011" under BIGLOBE's Anime Ranking Maker system.
From the 15,926 self-selected respondents, these were the top 50 choices:
| Rank | Artist | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Takanori Nishikawa (the singer better known as T.M. Revolution) | 2,771 |
| 2 | HTT (Aki Toyosaki, Yōko Hikasa, Satomi Satou, Minako Kotobuki, Ayana Taketatsu) | 1,182 |
| 3 | Sphere | 946 |
| 4 | Maaya Sakamoto | 774 |
| 5 | milktub | 704 |
| 6 | Yui Makino | 566 |
| 7 | Daisuke Ono | 498 |
| 7 | Gackt | 498 |
| 9 | Megumi Hayashibara | 408 |
| 10 | Kenji Ohtsuki and Zetsubō Shōjo-tachi | 388 |
| 11 | Hiroshi Kamiya | 351 |
| 12 | KOTOKO | 328 |
| 13 | supercell | 318 |
| 14 | Kana Hanazawa | 316 |
| 15 | Lia | 297 |
| 16 | Eri Kitamura | 290 |
| 17 | Kanae Itō | 285 |
| 18 | Yousei Teikoku | 266 |
| 19 | fripSide | 260 |
| 19 | Shoko Nakagawa | 260 |
| 21 | Chiaki Ishikawa | 238 |
| 22 | Yui Horie | 234 |
| 23 | Hatsune Miku | 231 |
| 24 | Aya Hirano | 219 |
| 25 | CooRie | 195 |
| 26 | Kenichi Suzumura | 187 |
| 27 | Momoiro Clover Z | 185 |
| 28 | ALI PROJECT | 177 |
| 29 | Halko Momoi | 176 |
| 30 | Lisa | 164 |
| 31 | LISP | 158 |
| 32 | Azusa | 152 |
| 33 | Chihiro Yonekura | 147 |
| 34 | Fire Bomber | 140 |
| 35 | THE IDOLM@STER | 138 |
| 36 | Etsuko Yakushimaru | 129 |
| 37 | Psychic Lover | 125 |
| 37 | Aki Misato | 125 |
| 39 | Ritsuko Okazaki | 123 |
| 40 | Ichiro Mizuki | 113 |
| 41 | Mitsuko Horie | 107 |
| 42 | MELL | 102 |
| 43 | Yoko Ishida | 95 |
| 44 | Sho Hayami | 89 |
| 45 | Hekiru Shiina | 88 |
| 45 | suara | 88 |
| 47 | Akira Kushida | 86 |
| 48 | Angela | 75 |
| 48 | OLDCODEX | 75 |
| 50 | AKB48 | 59 |
BIGLOBE conducted the survey among its Anime One portal site's users from June 2 until June 9.
The official website for the event has been updating its actual lineup in the weeks leading up to the concerts:
August 27:
- Idolm@ster (Eriko Nakamura, Asami Imai, Akiko Hasegawa, and Yumi Hara)
- Natsuko Aso
- Elisa
- Sayaka Sasaki
- JAM Project
- Yukari Tamura
- Minori Chihara
- Amusement Club (Minami Tsuda, Rumi Ookubo, Shiori Mikami and Yuka Ōtsubo)
- Hyadain
- Faylan
- fripSide
- Breakerz
- May'n
- Momoiro Clover Z
August 28:
- Chiaki Ishikawa
- Kanako Itou + Chiyomaru Shikura
- Erio o Kamatte-chan (Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko)
- Minami Kuribayashi
- Maon Kurosaki
- Grandrodeo
- Jam Project
- Phantasm (FES cv. Yui Sakakibara)
- Yui Horie
- Nana Mizuki
- Mamoru Miyano
- Milky Holmes (Suzuko Mimori, Sora Tokui, Mikoi Sasaki, and Izumi Kitta)
- Ro-Kyu-Bu! (Kana Hanazawa, Yuka Iguchi, Yōko Hikasa, Rina Hidaka, and Yui Ogura)
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