Media Notes / Abema Best Voice Actors

These were a small one-time award from Abema TV (a Japanese station). On March 25th 2017, Abema conducted an audience poll for ranking the Best Voice Actors of All Time by character genre, with only the Top 7 announced.

Best Voice Actor for Child Characters

The Best Voice Actors for Child Characters category specified roles of either age 12 and under, or characters who haven't started puberty if no age is given. For this category the "winners" didn't have specific roles listed.

1. Yūki Kaji
2. Tsubasa Yonaga
3. Misaki Kuno
4. Ayumu Murase
5. Aoi Yūki
6. Rie Kugimiya
7. Hiro Shimono

Best Voice Actor for Cool Characters

The Best Voice Actors for Cool Characters seems to have experienced some translation issues. These are not your popular guys, these are stone cold villains.

1. Hiroshi Kamiya — For Levi (Attack on Titan), and Takashi Natsume (Natsume's Book of Friends)
2. Takahiro Sakurai — For Suzaku Kururugi (Code Geass), and Kyōya Sata (Wolf Girl and Black Prince)
3. Akira Ishida — For Kaworu Nagisa (Neon Genesis Evangelion), and Kotarou Katsura (Gintama)
4. Mamoru Miyano — For Light Yagami (Death Note), and Chrollo Lucilfer (Hunter × Hunter 2011)
5. Yūichi Nakamura — For Mykage Towano (Aquarion EVOL), and Graham Aker (Mobile Suit Gundam 00)
6. Daisuke Ono — For Sebastian Michaelis (Black Butler), and Itsuki Koizumi (Haruhi Suzumiya)
7. Nobunaga Shimazaki — For Haruka Nanase (Free!), and Makoto Sunakawa in (My Love Story!!)

Best Voice Actor for Dandy Characters

Again with potential translation issues, this may or may not be related to The Dandy. There were also no roles listed, so it's not like we can check.

1. Akio Ōtsuka
2. Keiji Fujiwara
3. Hiroki Yasumoto
4. Kenjiro Tsuda
5. Jun'ichi Suwabe
6. Joji Nakata
7. Show Hayami

Best Voice Actor for Evil Beyond Redemption Characters

1. Takehito Koyasu — For Dio Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure), and Shinsuke Takasugi (Gintama)
2. Ryūsei Nakao — For Freeza (Dragon Ball Z), and Baikinman aka. Bacteriaman (Soreike! Anpanman)
3. Ryō Horikawa — For Vegeta (Dragon Ball), and Tsutomu Harako (Magical Taluluto)
4. Hiroshi Kamiya — For Izaya Orihara (Durarara!!), and Shinji Matou (Fate/stay night)
5. Mamoru Miyano — For Light Yagami (Death Note), and Chrollo Lucilfer (Hunter × Hunter 2011)
6. Tomokazu Sugita — For Leon Mishima (Macross Frontier), and Reishi Munakata (K)
7. Yūichi Nakamura — For Mykage Towano (Aquarion EVOL), and Graham Aker (Mobile Suit Gundam 00)

Best Voice Actor for Hotblooded Characters

We're not sure when Hotblooded became a character type, but here we are.

1. Nobuyuki Hiyama — For Guy Shishioh (King of Braves Gao Gai Gar), and Ikkaku Madarame (Bleach)
2. Hiro Shimono — For Syo Kurusu (Uta No Prince Sama), and Keima Katsuragi (The World God Only Knows)
3. Tomokazu Seki — For Domon Kasshu (Mobile Fighter G Gundam), and Suneo (Doraemon 2005)
4. Yūki Kaji — For Eren Jäger/Yeager (Attack on Titan), and Meliodas (The Seven Deadly Sins)
5. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka — For Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya (Sword Art Online), and Soma Yukihira (Shokugeki no Soma)
6. Satoshi Hino — For Yuji Sakai (Shakugan no Shana), and Koukin Shuuyu (Ikki Tousen)
7. Yuki Ono — For Taiga Kagami (Kuroko no Basuke), and Josuke Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Best Voice Actor for Moe and Little Sister Characters

See the Moe, a character type that gets applied to Western characters with different criteria than in Japan. Also note that "Little Sister" isn't just for a character who is a literal younger sister of another; it's a very outlined character type that can be best identified by its unique pronouns.

1. Kana Hanazawa — For Ruri "Kuroneko" Gokou (Oreimo), and Kosaki Onodera (Nisekoi)
2. Aoi Yūki — For Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica), and Victorique de Blois (Gosick)
3. Rie Kugimiya — For Taiga Aisaka (Toradora!), and Aria H. Kanzaki (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)
4. Inori Minase — For Chino Kafū (Is the Order a Rabbit?), and Rem (Re:Zero)
5. Yui Ogura — For Tsukiko Tsutsukakushi (Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko), and Hiyori Kotobuki (Saikin Imouto No Yousu Ga Chotto Okashiinda Ga)
6. Ayana Taketatsu — For Azusa Nakano (K-On!), and Kirino Kosaka (Oreimo)
7. Saori Hayami — For Kotori Iida (Sweetness & Lightning), and Miyuki Shiba (The Irregular at Magic High School)

Best Voice Actor for Nonhuman Characters

If this were America, the list would just be Dee Bradley Baker, but it's Japan so instead you get:

1. Tomoko Kaneda — For Oshiri Kajiri Mushi XVIII (Oshiri Kajiri Mushi), and Calumon (Digimon Tamers)
2. Kōichi Yamadera — For Cheese the Dog (Soreike! Anpanman), and Japanese dub of Donald Duck (Disney Series)
3. Ikue Otani — For Pikachu (Pokemon), and Tony Tony Chopper (One Piece)
4. Mamoru Miyano — For Wooser (Wooser No Sono Higurashi), and Chrollo Lucilfer (Hunter × Hunter 2011)
5. Jun Fukuyama — For Korosensei (Assassination Classroom), and Panda (Shirokuma Cafe)
6. Rie Kugimiya — For Happy (Fairy Tail) and Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
7. Hiroshi Kamiya — For Buriburizaemon (2nd Gen.) (Crayon Shin-chan ), and Penguin (Shirokuma Cafe)

Best Voice Actor for Sexy Characters

We assume there's a lot of smoldering voices, here.

1. Jun'ichi Suwabe — For Daiki Aomine (Kuroko no Basuke), and Keigo Atobe (The Prince of Tennis)
2. Miyuki Sawashiro — For Kurapika Kuruta (Hunter × Hunter 2011), and Fujiko Mine (Lupin III)
3. Daisuke Ono — For Sebastian Michaelis (Black Butler), and Itsuki Koizumi (Haruhi Suzumiya)
4. Koji Yusa — For Sanosuke Harada (Hakuouki), and Hakutaku (Hoozuki No Reitetsu)
5. Chiaki Takahashi — For Azusa Miura (The Idol Master), and Jackal Toujou (Sekai de Ichiban Tsuyoku Naritai!)
6. Ryōhei Kimura — For Touji Ato (Tokyo Ravens), and Ryouta Kise (Kuroko no Basuke)
7. Mamoru Miyano — For Osamu Dazai (Bungou Stray Dogs), and Taichi Mashima (Chihayafuru)

Best Voice Actor for Tsundere Characters

See Tsundere, again applied perhaps badly to Western characters. Also had no roles listed.

1. Rie Kugimiya
2. Hiroshi Kamiya
3. Eri Kitamura
4. Hiro Shimono
5. Kana Hanazawa
6. Eriko Matsui
7. Ayana Taketatsu

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