Wait...huh?!

[gb23]

Nicked from aramatheydidnt by way of Oricon: Top 10 Seiyuu of Legend.


1. Nobuyo Ōyama / 大山 のぶ代 (Doraemon/Doraemon)
2. Akira Kamiya / 神谷 明 (Kinnikuman/Kinnikuman, Hokuto no Ken/Kenshiro)
3. Masako Nozawa / 野沢 雅子 (Dragon Ball/Son Goku, Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro/Kitaro)
4. Yasuo Yamada / 山田 康雄 (Lupin III/Arsène Lupin III)
5. Minami Takayama / 高山みなみ (Detective Conan/Conan, Kiki’s Delivery Service/Kiki)
6. Kōichi Yamadera / 山寺 宏一 (GitS/Togusa, Cowboy Bebop/Spike Spiegal)
7. Noriko Hidaka / 日高 のり子 (Ranma ½/Akane Tendō, Inuyasha/Kikyo)
8. Mayumi Tanaka / 田中 真弓 (One Piece/Luffy, Urusei Yatsura/Ryuunosuke Fujinami)
9. Megumi Hayashibara / 林原 めぐみ (Evangelion/Rei Ayanami, Slayers/Lina Inverse)
10. [TIE] Keiko Toda / 戸田 恵子 (Anpanman/Anpanman, Thomas the Tank Engine/Thomas)
10. [TIE] Aya Hirano / 平野 綾 (Haruhi/Haruhi, Lucky Star/Konata Izumi)

The last one is a little HUH?! for me. The other ones all make sense, they've voiced characters that have been around for a long time or have legend status in Japan but while Haruhi is popular, I wouldn't say it was legendary. I love that Kōichi Yamadera is there, he's more loved for playing Spike I guess but my favourite role of his will probably always be Ryoga, he made ordinary lines extremely funny in that role. I am miffed that Kotono Mitsuishi isn't on there! I am surprised that Shuuichi Ikeda isn't there, given that he voiced Char Aznable, Hiko Seijuro and Shanks. Okay, there's loads I'm surprised about, I won't list them all now. :P

How about you guys?

Comments

[oronoda.livejournal.com]

I was surprised that Midorikawa Hikaru and Seki Tomokazu weren't on there. I love them!

True story. I have Midorikawa's autograph. He was at Otakon back in 2001 or 2002. I don't remember. It was a crazy story. He was only going to give autographs to 500 people or something like that... I was third to last in line. Then I was pulled because my friend at the time had to go to the ER. When we came back the next day for the convention, we were stopped by the guy who was running the con that year. He said, "Mr. Midorikawa heard about your predicament and gave you both these." And we each got an autograph picture of Zelgadis! It was really awesome and nice because he didn't have to.

[gabenut.livejournal.com]

Wow! That was really cool of him! :D

Man, I'll watch anything with Seki Tomokazu in it, I love him to bits!