A wide variety of members, from first-timers to regulars! The result of the "2023 Winter Anime Lead Male Voice Actor Popularity Poll" has been announced!

Akiba Research Institute's official voting project, "Which voice actor is your favorite this season? The results of the poll are as follows.

The top 10 casts in the "Who is the best male voice actor of this season?

No. 1: Masaomi Yamahashi...825 votes
MAKE MY DAY (Jim)

No.2: Jun Fukuyama...777 votes
Vampires Die Quickly 2 (Dralc)
True Evolutionary Fruit - A Winning Life Before You Know It (Gempel)
I will save 80,000 gold coins in another world for my old age (Takeshi Yamano)

No. 3: Toshiyuki Toyonaga... 639 votes
Buddy Daddies (Kurusu Ikki)

No.4: Shin Furukawa...500 votes
Vampires Die Quickly 2 (Ronald)
Fictional Mystery Season 2 (Masayuki Muroi)
Technoloid Overmind (Kite)

No. 5: Ryohei Kimura... 413 votes
Junji Ito "Maniac" [Tombstone Town] (Tsuyoshi Yoshikawa)
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt TV Edition (Daryl Lorenz)
Handyman Saito-san Goes to Another World (Saito)
The Magician's Master: The Complete Japanese Dubbing Edition (Wei Mujyu)

No. 6: Hiroshi Kamiya... 135 votes
Bungo Stray Dogs 4th season (Edogawa Rampo)

No.7: Daisuke Ono...118 votes
JoJo`s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean 3rd season (Sorajo Jotaro)

No.8: Sen Yagami... 114 votes
Shoutaimu! 2 - Even singing sisters want to do it (Shoji Fujimoto)

No.9: Toshi Shibuya... 112 votes
Technoloid Overmind (Chrome)

No.10 : Koki Uchiyama... 98 votes
Buddy Daddies (Zero Suwa)

In this project, 118 artists and comedians, as well as young, mid-career and veteran artists, entered the contest, and the winner was Masaomi Yamahashi, who plays Jim, the main character in "MAKE MY DAY.

MAKE MY DAY" is a completely new animation series that is being distributed exclusively on Netflix. The original story is by Yasuo Otagaki of "Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt," while Shoji Kawamori, director and mechanical designer of the "Macross" series, and Kiyotaka Oshiyama, devil designer of "Devilman Crybaby" and "Chainsawman," are the mechanical designers. This is a work of art.
The film depicts a science fiction action survival in which those on a tough mission on a planet covered with ice and snow encounter a ferocious creature that attacks humans and gets involved in a chaotic battle.
The film is also a story of Jim's growth, as it depicts how the main character, Jim, climbs out of a harsh situation all by himself, gains friends, and forms a bond with them. MAKE MY DAY" was an impressive first place winner, as it is also a story of the growth of Mr. Yamahashi, who is making this his first starring role.

Also ranking No. 9 was Toshi Shibuya, who plays Chrom, a member of "KNoCC," a unit that appears in the TV anime "Technoloids. Technoloids" is a media mix project produced by CyberAgent in collaboration with Avex Pictures and Elements Garden, which combines animation, games, and music. Chrom, the character in charge of the brain of "KNoCC," is a cool character who always speaks in honorifics, and we look forward to seeing what kind of character Ms. Shibuya will play in the future after this project.

In second place, Jun Fukuyama, one of the regulars in this project, came in with a lucky seventh number of 777 votes.
It was expected even before the start of the season that "Vampires Must Die 2," in which Mr. Fukuyama plays Dralc, would reach a high ranking this season, but it did not disappoint, finishing in second place.

Shin Furukawa, who plays Ronald, also ranked 4th, and the "Vampire Dies Soon" duo ranked high again this year. It seems certain that these two will again be the focus of this project this year.

Speaking of the duo, another title of note is "Buddy Daddies," which took first place in the "Which Winter 2023 Anime Poll? Toshiyuki Toyonaga, who plays the role of Ikki Kurusu, and Koki Uchiyama, who plays the role of Zero Suwa, ranked at the same time at No. 3 and No. 10, respectively.
This is an original work by P.A. WORKS, an original male buddy animation that tells the story of a duo of assassins and a girl who is their strongest target. Kurusu Ikki, played by Toyonaga, is a man who has run away from love, and Suwa Zero, played by Uchiyama, is a man who does not know love. The story depicts how these two assassins gradually change when they meet a naive girl, Miri UMISAKA (CV: Hina Kino). As the story has only just reached the midpoint of the series, the results show that the expectations for the series before it began airing are accelerating toward the end of the series.

In fifth, sixth, and seventh place were Ryohei Kimura, Hiroshi Kamiya, and Daisuke Ono, all of whom boast stable popularity.
Mr. Kimura entered four characters this season: Tsuyoshi Yoshikawa in "Junji Ito 'Maniac' [Tombstone Town]," Daryl Lorenz in "Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt TV Edition," Saito in "Saito-san, the Handyman, Goes to Another World," and Wei Muji in "The Magician, Complete Japanese Dubbing" and he also entered four characters in this season. He has shown the breadth of his role.
Kamiya's 7th-ranked character is Edogawa Rampo in the 4th season of the popular "Bungo Stray Dogs" series, and Ono's 8th-ranked character is in the 3rd season of "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean," both popular characters from popular series, so it was a natural result. And the most unusual character in this year's project was Mr. Ono, who was ranked 8th.

2 - Even singing sisters want to be singing sisters. In the "Which male voice actor is your favorite this season? Masahito-san, who plays Kensuke Yamamichi, came in at 9th place, and the exciting short anime "AnimeFesta Original" will be a frame that we cannot take our eyes off of.

The winter cool anime with a variety of casts are currently in full swing toward the end of their respective seasons, so why don't you check out the anime again with this ranking?

Also, Akiba Research Institute is currently holding the Winter 2023 Anime Theme Song Popularity Poll, so be sure to participate in it as well.
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