A recent survey conducted by the popular Line app revealedsome of the most popularvoice 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.
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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 favoritescurrently active in the industry.
The top 10 most popular voice actors among students stand as;
[tie] Tomokazu Sugita (1.9 %)
[tie] Hiro Shimono (1.9 %)
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 behindAttack on Titan’sEren Yeager,My Hero Academia’sShouto Todoroki, andThe Seven Deadly Sins’Meliodas. Inori Minase, and Kana Hanazawa rounded out the top 3. Minase is best known for voicingRe:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-‘sRem andIs It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?’sHestia, while Hanazawa is the voice behindSteins;Gate’sMayuri Shiina, and theMonogatari 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;
4. Yuki Kaji (3%)
5. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (2.6%)
Minase, Hanazawa, and Tomokazu Sugitaround out the top 3. Sugita is best known for voicingGintama’sGintoki Sakata,The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya’sKyon, andThe Seven Deadly Sins’Escanor. Matsuoka voicesSword Art Online’sKirito,Food Wars’Souma, andIs It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?’sBell.
41.4% of girls did not have a favorite voice actor, with the top 5 made up of;
[tie] Kenjiro Tsuda (1.9 %)
[tie] Takuya Eguchi (1.9 %)
Shimono is best known for voicingDemon Slayer’sZenitsu, andMy Hero Academia’sDabi. Kamiya is the voice behindAttack on Titan’sLevi Ackerman, as well as theMonogatari Series’Koyomi Araragi, and willvoice Ataru in the newUrusei Yatsuraanime. Tsuda voicesThe Way of the Househusband’sTatsu, while Eguchi is best known for voicingMy Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU’sHachiman Hikigaya.
