Zombie Idol or Real Idol? The results of the "2021 Spring Anime Lead Female Voice Actor Popularity Poll," in which the voice actors appearing in this spring's popular works clashed, are announced!

Akiba Research Institute's official poll, "Who is the most popular voice actress of this season? The popularity vote of female voice actors starring in spring 2021 anime! The results are in and I'd like to share them with you. Here are the results.

The spring 2021 anime season started from the end of March to April, the beginning of a new school year and a new life, and this time there were a variety of works, with a large volume of 91 leading female voice actors entered in the poll.

Here are the top 10 cast members as a result of the vote.

No. 1: Risa Taneda...464 votes
Zombieland Saga Revenge (Ai Mizuno)

No.2: Reina Hasegawa...335 votes
It's weird to call it love (Rio Amakusa)

No.3: Rena Ueda...194 votes
Fruits Basket The Final (Kusama Kisa)

No.4 : Yurie Kosakai...188 votes
It's too weird to call it love (Kazuka Arima)

No.5 : Mimi Tanaka...130 votes
I've been defeating slime for 300 years, and before I knew it, I was at the max level (Sharsha)
Zombieland Saga Revenge (Lily Hoshikawa)
Yakunara mug too (Hineno Toyokawa)
Yuuki Yuna wa Yusha wa Yusha de Aru Churutto! (Meabuki Kusunoki)
Others

No.6: Akari Kito... 81 votes
Shadow House (Kate)
Shinkansen Transforming Robot Shinkarion Z (Abuto Usui)

No.7: Kaede Hondo... 65 votes
300 years after defeating slime, I reached max level before I knew it (Laika)
Zombieland Saga Revenge (Minamoto Sakura)

No.8: Yoko Hikasa...56 votes
SHAMAN KING (Asakura Ip)

No. 9: Shimoji Shino... 55 votes
Shadow House (Shirley/Ram)

No.10: Yui Ishikawa...45 votes
Battle Athletes: Daiundokai ReSTART!
A saint's magic is all-powerful (Sei/Kotoriyu Sei) 45 votes

Risa Taneda took first place by more than 100 votes over the second place.

In "Zombieland Saga: Revenge," she plays Ai Mizuno, a.k.a. Franchouche III, the center of the popular 2000s idol group "Iron Frill," who is burned to death by a lightning strike during a live performance, which is a character that has too great an impact.
Just within the period of the tally, an episode featuring her as the main character unfolded. It was already being called the best episode of the second season, and the emotional drama that was depicted in the episode was probably reflected in the voting results.
In fact, the episode rose rapidly in the rankings from the start of the voting and jumped to No. 1 in the last half of the voting period.

In addition to Ms. Taneda, Mimi Tanaka, who plays the role of Lily Hoshikawa, ranked 5th, and Kaede Hondo, who plays the role of Sakura Minamoto, ranked 7th in this year's poll. Both are popular voice actors who also star in other works, but even so, the fact that there are three voice actors in the top 10 who play zombie idols in "Zombieland Saga: Revenge" cannot be overlooked.
It seems that the zombie idol fever and saga fever have not yet cooled off.

And the voice actress who was ranked number one from the beginning to the middle of the voting was Rena Hasegawa, who plays the role of Rio Amakusa in "It's too weird to call it love".

Her profile as a member of the AKB group "NGT48" turned voice actress, she got off to a rocket start with her fans, who had been enthusiastic about her since her idol days, calling out to her. Toward the end of the show, he and Ms. Taneda were engaged in a heated dead heat. Incidentally, considering that Iron Frill of "Zombieland Saga Revenge" is an idol group in the play modeled after the AKB group, is it reading too much into ...... that there was a hot drama developing there?
Rio Amakusa, by the way, is the younger sister of Ryo Amakusa, the best friend of the main character Ichika Arima, who repeatedly makes passionate approaches to Ichika. She plays a cool, cynical, and aloof character.
Yurie Kosakai, who plays Ichika, also came in at No. 4, and their lightheartedness is one of the fun aspects of "It's weird to call it love.

Third place went to Rena Ueda, who plays the role of Kusama Kisa in "Fruits Basket The Final. She plays a wide range of characters, from soft-hearted to mysterious, using her unique and delicate voice, but Kirisa's performance is especially impressive as a thin, protective character.
She is cute and sisterly, or rather protective ....... The match with the character seems to have been well received by viewers, and the combination of the popularity of the voice actor and the character has resulted in the third place ranking.

Let me introduce the other cast members.
In sixth place were "Demon Slayer" and "Love Live! Nijigasaki School Idol Club". Riding on her momentum, she has starred in two more works this season.
Of particular note is her role as Abuto Usui in "Shinkansen Transforming Robot Shinkarion Z." Although her recent performances have given a strong impression of heroine-type performances, she passionately plays a boy character in this film. He plays the role of a mechanic and partner to the main character, Shinta Shin, who is the driver of the Shinkarion. It makes me think of the wide range of acting by voice actors.

In terms of the range of voice actors' performances, Yoko Hikasa (No. 8) and Shibano Shimoji (No. 9) are also noteworthy. Ms. Hikasa has recently been giving a strong impression as an older lady-type character, but she shows off her boyish voice in the role of Yoha Asakura in "SHAMAN KING," while Ms. Shimoji's voice is more like Akari Ozora's in the "Aikatsu! and Ms. Shimoji has a cheerful impression as Akari Ozora in "Aikatsu!", but she also took on the challenge of playing a character with few words in "Shadow House" as Shirley and Ram. I would like people to know that a child voice actress can also do this kind of performance through her work! I would like you to know through her works that she can also do this.

In 10th place is Yui Ishikawa, who, in my opinion, is the type of actor who brings an indescribable flavor and power to the character's emotions that ooze out from the cracks in her emotionally restrained performance. In this sense, Eva Gallenstein in "Battle Athletes: ReSTART!" is the quintessence of Ms. Ishikawa. She is a character who is treated rather badly in the play, and I wonder how she plays such a character.
If you haven't seen the anime yet, please pay attention to this aspect of her performance.

For the results of the works ranked 11th and below, please see below.