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Kana Hanazawa, Hiroshi Kamiya Lead in Favorite Voice Actor Poll

posted on by Eric Stimson
Winners chosen by 10,000 online users

The Japanese anime and video game website Charapedia conducted a poll of the most popular voice actors and actresses. The poll surveyed some 10,000 users between March 26 and April 1. The results were announced on April 2 for the actresses and April 4 for the actors.

The top chosen actress is Kana Hanazawa (Psycho-Pass, Nisekoi, The irregular at magic high school), who was also voted as the most attractive and second highest in-demand voice actress in the business. Hanazawa is breaking into new territory this year, too. She's starring in her first live-action feature film and performed her first solo live concert at the famed Nippon Budōkan arena this year.

Miyuki Sawashiro (Ghost in the Shell Arise, Psycho-Pass, Yozakura Quartet) took the second place spot in the poll although she was ranked #1 in the in-demand voice actress poll.

The top chosen actor is Hiroshi Kamiya whose character roles include Attack on Titan's Levi, the Monogatari Series' Koyomi, and Macross Frontier's Mikhail.

The results for the actresses are:

  1. KANA HANAZAWA (914 votes)
  2. MIYUKI SAWASHIRO (709 votes)
  3. SAORI HAYAMI (549 votes)
  4. Haruka Tomatsu (510 votes)
  5. Rie Kugimiya (480 votes)
  6. Ai Kayano (404 votes)
  7. Sora Amamiya (345 votes)
  8. Ayane Sakura (304 votes)
  9. Yui Ogura (265 votes)
  10. Yukari Tamura (262 votes)
  11. Yoshino Nanjō (246 votes)
  12. Nao Tōyama (210 votes)
  13. Nana Mizuki (209 votes)
  14. Risa Taneda (192 votes)
  15. Maaya Uchida (182 votes)

The results for the actors are:

  1. HIROSHI KAMIYA (1,106 votes)
  2. YUUKI KAJI (903 votes)
  3. DAISUKE ONO (900 votes)
  4. Mamoru Miyano (812 votes)
  5. Tatsuhisa Suzuki (717 votes)
  6. Tomokazu Sugita (656 votes)
  7. Jun Fukuyama (487 votes)
  8. Hiro Shimono (484 votes)
  9. Yūichi Nakamura (455 votes)
  10. Takahiro Sakurai (404 votes)
  11. Akira Ishida (353 votes)
  12. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (301 votes)
  13. Nobuhiko Okamoto (298 votes)
  14. Natsuki Hanae (280 votes)
  15. Yoshimasa Hosoya (275 votes)

For #15 - 30 in either category, see the lists at Charapedia (Japanese only).

[Via Otasuke; Images from Naver Matome and Urepia Sōken]


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