A recent survey conducted by the popular Line app revealed some of the most popular voice actors and actresses among high school students.
The survey consisted of 841 high school students; 428 boys and 413 girls who all watch anime regularly.
According to the survey, 60% of those asked had at least one favorite voice actor. 15% claimed to have 10 or more favorite voice actors, with 10% saying they had between 4-5 favorites. Most students asked had between 2-3 favorites currently active in the industry.
The top 10 most popular voice actors among students stand as;
1. Yuki Kaji (3.9 %)
2. Inori Minase (3.0 %)
3. Kana Hanazawa (2.5 %)
4. Hiroshi Kamiya (2.4 %)
5. Natsuki Hanae (2.0 %)
7. [tie] Tomokazu Sugita (1.9 %)
7. [tie] Hiro Shimono (1.9 %)
8. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (1.8 %)
9. Kenjiro Tsuda (1.5 %)
10. Aoi Yuki (1.4 %)
41.5% did not claim to have a favorite voice actor.
Yuki Kaji, Inori Minase, and Kana Hanazawa round out the top 3. Kaiji is best known as the voice behind Attack on Titan’s Eren Yeager, My Hero Academia’s Shouto Todoroki, and The Seven Deadly Sins’ Meliodas. Inori Minase, and Kana Hanazawa rounded out the top 3. Minase is best known for voicing Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-‘s Rem and Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?’s Hestia, while Hanazawa is the voice behind Steins;Gate’s Mayuri Shiina, and the Monogatari Series’ Nadeko Sengoku.
The survey also broke down the results based on the students’ demographics. 41.6% of boys did not have a favorite voice actor, with the top 5 made up of;
1. Inori Minase (14.9%)
2. Kana Hanazawa (4.2%)
3. Tomokazu Sugita (3.3%)
4. Yuki Kaji (3%)
5. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (2.6%)
Minase, Hanazawa, and Tomokazu Sugita round out the top 3. Sugita is best known for voicing Gintama’s Gintoki Sakata, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya’s Kyon, and The Seven Deadly Sins’ Escanor. Matsuoka voices Sword Art Online’s Kirito, Food Wars’ Souma, and Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?’s Bell.
41.4% of girls did not have a favorite voice actor, with the top 5 made up of;
1. Yuki Kaji (4.8 %)
2. Hiro Shimono (3.4 %)
3. Hiroshi Kamiya (2.9 %)
5. [tie] Kenjiro Tsuda (1.9 %)
5. [tie] Takuya Eguchi (1.9 %)
Shimono is best known for voicing Demon Slayer’s Zenitsu, and My Hero Academia’s Dabi. Kamiya is the voice behind Attack on Titan’s Levi Ackerman, as well as the Monogatari Series’ Koyomi Araragi, and will voice Ataru in the new Urusei Yatsura anime. Tsuda voices The Way of the Househusband’s Tatsu, while Eguchi is best known for voicing My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU’s Hachiman Hikigaya.
Source: Sora News 24