The face of the year 2021 is this person! Akiba Research Institute Best Actor Award 2021" results announced! Akiba Research Institute Official Voting

Akiba Research Institute conducted an official voting project, "Akiba Research Institute Leading Male Award," from December 29, 2021 to January 12, 2022. Here are the results.

This project is the male voice actor version of the year's summary project, in which the casts that played the main characters in anime broadcasted in 2021 will be chosen as the most shining casts of the year.

A total of 17 male voice actors who ranked in the top 10 in the popularity polls for spring, summer, and fall anime in 2021 have entered the contest.
Winter anime was excluded from the entry due to confirmed fraudulent voting.

Let's take a look at the voice actors ranked in the top 10.

No.1: Jun Fukuyama...1084 votes
2021 Spring Anime #1, 2021 Summer Anime #1, 2021 Fall Anime #2
Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-(Matsumoto)
Tenkan Gifts Fuku (Saburo)
Vampire Soon to Die (Dralc), etc.

No.2: Shin Furukawa... 943 votes
2nd place in 2021 spring anime, 2nd place in 2021 summer anime, 1st place in 2021 fall anime
Moriarty in sorrow (2nd season)(Sherlock Holmes)
TENKAN GIFT FUKU (Nanpu)
TSUKIPRO THE ANIMATION2(Soji Kagurazaka)
Visual Prison (Guiltier Brion)
Vampire Soon to Die (Ronald), etc.

No.3: Yusuke Shirai... 536 votes
6th in 2021 Spring Anime, 4th in 2021 Summer Anime
Idolish Seven Third BEAT! 1st Cool (Nikaido Yamato)

No.4: Ryohei Kimura...505 votes
2021 Spring Anime #5
The World Ends With You The Animation (Joshua/Kiryu Yoshiya) etc.

No.5: Hiroshi Kamiya...384 votes
2021 Spring Anime 3rd place, 2021 Summer Anime 3rd place, 2021 Autumn Anime 6th place
Uramichi Ourosan (Omotesada Uramichi)
Tian Guan Gong Blessing (Xie Lian)

No.6: Koki Uchiyama... 290 votes
2021 Autumn Anime 3rd place
Moon, Laika and Vampire Princess (Lev Reps)

No.7 : Ishida Akira... 267 votes
2021 Autumn Anime No.5
Kimi to Fit Boxing (Hiro)

No.8: Ayumi Murase... 260 votes
2021 Spring Anime 4th place, 2021 Summer Anime 5th place, 2021 Autumn Anime 4th place
King Ranking (Kage) and others

No.9 : Daisuke Ono... 238 votes
2021 spring anime 8th place, 2021 summer anime 8th place
Bakuten! (Shichigahama Masamune) etc.

No.10 : Sadaaki Matsuoka... 149 votes
2021 summer anime 9th place, 2021 fall anime 7th place
The detective is already dead. (Bats) and others

Among the male voice actors who played the main casts of the numerous works broadcast in 2021, the face of 2021 was Jun Fukuyama, who won 1st place in the "2021 Spring Anime Popularity Poll", 1st place in the "2021 Summer Anime Popularity Poll", and 2nd place in the "2021 Autumn Anime Popularity Poll".
Looking at the results for each of the 2021 cools, we are still amazed at his amazing acting ability.
In "Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-", he played the AI "Matsumoto" who came to Vivy from 100 years in the future, and in "Shinkansen Transforming Robot Shinkarion Z", he played the mysterious robot "Smut", a non-human character with an inorganic quality. He also played the mysterious robot "Smut" in "Shinkansen Transformable Robot Shinkarion Z." He showed his innocence and charm as a non-human character.

In the following summer season, he played the role of Kotomizaburo Hanashiro, one half of the Hanayoshi couple in "Tian Guan Gifuku," based on a Chinese fantasy BL novel. The work itself is popular, as evidenced by the fact that it was ranked 7th in the "2021 Summer Anime Popularity Poll," along with Hiroshi Kamiya, who plays Xie Ren, and Shin Furukawa, who plays Nanpu, but it was the Saburo played by Mr. Fukuyama who was the most popular. The innocent cuteness of Saburo, played by Mr. Fukuyama, and the mysterious identity hidden behind the cute character, are thought to have thrilled many people.

And in the fall season, he played the role of a vampire, Dralc, in "Vampires Die Quickly". He turns to dust when startled by a loud noise, to ashes when beaten by Ronald, to pieces when caught in a door, to dust when vavrezed, ...... to dust anyway, and so on. In this film, the pathetic, cute, mischievous, and good-natured Dralc is played as a character who lives and breathes beautifully.

Every character in the film shows the range of Fukuyama's acting ability, and he is the undisputed No. 1 character that cannot be left out when talking about the year 2021.

The character who competed with Mr. Fukuyama for the top spot until the very end was Makoto Furukawa.
He won the second place in the "2021 Spring Anime Popularity Poll," the second place in the "2021 Summer Anime Popularity Poll," and the first place in the "2021 Autumn Anime Popularity Poll," so it was really a close race until the very end this time.
As you can see from the results of each season, Mr. Fukuyama and Ms. Furukawa have been in a close race every time, and of course, they made the top 3 without any complaints.

Ms. Furukawa is playing the roles of Lucas in "Shikkaku Mon no Saikyou Sage" and Ding Ken in "Gensou Sangokushi -Tengen Reishin Ki" in the winter 2022 season, and she also sings the opening theme song "Waga, Bara ni Nishisu" for the first season of the TV anime "Funeral Arrangement of the Rose King. Akiba Research Institute plans to publish an interview about this song in the future, so please look forward to it.

The third place went to Yusuke Shirai, whose vote increased dramatically in the latter half of the voting period!
He is playing Hidenari Sasaki, one of the main characters in "Sasaki and Miyano" in the 2022 Winter Cool Anime "Sasaki to Miyano" and will play the role of Hidenari Sasaki in the upcoming "Sasaki and Miyano". It will be interesting to see how far he will go in the upcoming popularity vote project for the Winter Cool 2022 season.

Ryohei Kimura came in fourth place, only 31 votes behind Shirai.
Kimura-san's entry was based on his 5th place finish in the "2021 Spring Anime Popularity Poll," and many fans must have been thrilled by the mysterious atmosphere of Joshua, the character he portrayed in "The World Ends With You The Animation.

Undoubtedly a regular, Hiroshi Kamiya came in at No. 5.
He was ranked 3rd in the "2021 Spring Anime Popularity Poll," 3rd in the "2021 Summer Anime Popularity Poll," and 6th in the "2021 Fall Anime Popularity Poll," so you can't go a season without hearing his voice. As mentioned above, she played the role of Xie Ren in "Tian Guan Gifuku," which is very popular, and also played Omotesada Uramichi in "Uramichi Oyoshi-san," which made us believe that she really existed.

In 2022, it has been announced that he will play the role of Ataru Moroboshi in the re-animated "Urusei Yatsura," and we can't wait to see what kind of romantic comedy the new Ataru will show us as he takes on the role with "all his skills as a voice actor that he has cultivated up to now.

⇒ " Urusei Yatsura" will be adapted into a TV anime again in 2022! Hiroshi Kamiya will play the role of Ataru and Sumire Uesaka will play the role of Ram! Teaser visual and PV revealed!

We have talked about the top five so far, but the results are quite satisfactory, with voice actors of equal popularity and ability, including Koki Uchiyama, Akira Ishida, Ayumi Murase, Daisuke Ono, and Teijo Matsuoka, all in the top six and below.

Also, although he narrowly missed out on a prize, 11th-place finisher Hiroki Takahashi was only four votes behind 10th-place finisher, showing a fierce battle for the top spot.

As we enter January, new works for 2022 are starting to be broadcast and distributed one after another, so let's see what voice actors will attract attention this year and who will be the face of the year 2022!