Your vote will greatly influence the results! The interim results of the "2023 Summer Anime Lead Male Voice Actor Popularity Poll" have been announced! Akiba Research Institute official

Akiba Research Institute's official voting project, "Which voice actor is your favorite this season? The hot battle is currently being waged, and here are the interim results.

The rankings as of August 1 are as follows

No. 1...Noriaki Taniyama 774 votes
The winner of the "BASTARD!!!! -The Dark God of Destruction: Hell's Requiem" (Dirk Schneider)

2nd place ... Kuroi Tobioka 698 votes
Kousuke Mihara for "Married Couple's Joy: The Night of No Return" (Kousuke Mihara)

3rd place...Mamoru Miyano 457 votes
O-oku" (Arigato Marikoji)
Stray Dogs [5th season]" (Osamu Dazai)

No.4...Hiroshi Kamiya 209 votes
Bungo Stray Dogs [5th season] (Edogawa Rampo)

No. 5...Jun Fukuyama 172 votes
I've been reborn as a vending machine and I'm wandering in a labyrinth" (Hakkon)

6th place...Ayumi Murase 148 votes
Funny Reincarnation" (Pastry-Mil-Morteln)
I'm actually the strongest? (Harte Semphis)
The Seven Deadly Sins: The Resentment of Edinburgh, Part 2" (Tristan)

No. 7 ... Shota Aoi 112 votes
Card Fight! Vanguard will+Dress Season 3" (Chikando Yuyu)

No.8...Takahiro Sakurai 90 votes
Jujutsu Kaisen [2nd season]" (Jie Xiaoyu)

9th place ... Koki Uchiyama 77 votes
Horimiya -piece-"(Isumi Miyamura)

No.10...Nobunaga Shimazaki 67 votes
Dark Gathering" (Gento Kawa Hotarou)
Hanma Baki: Part 1 and Part 2" (Hanma Baki)

So, currently in first and second place are the two actors who play the main characters of this season's two sexy anime!

In first place is Noriaki Taniyama, who plays the main character in "BASTARD! -Mr. Noriaki Taniyama, in first place, plays the role of Dirk Schneider in "BASTARD!
The two have been rapidly increasing their votes since the start of the voting. How far will they go by the 10th, the last day of voting? How will the hot and sweaty battle end?

Mamoru Miyano came in third place, followed by Hiroshi Kamiya in fourth place, both cast members of "Bungo Stray Dogs [5th Season]". As one would expect from such a popular series that has been running for five seasons, the casts are all very talented, so the ranking is quite understandable.

In fifth place is another regular participant, Jun Fukuyama, who has appeared in the series for many years. This season, he plays the role of HAKKON, a vending machine, in "I'm a Vending Machine Reincarnated and Wandering in a Labyrinth. If you haven't seen the anime, you may be wondering, "What is he doing playing a vending machine?" If you haven't watched the anime yet, we hope you will see Mr. Fukuyama's heroic appearance before the end of the broadcast. After seeing it, I am sure you will want to vote for Mr. Fukuyama!

In sixth place, we have "Odd Reincarnation" as Pastry-Mil-Morteln and "Actually, I'm the Strongest? In sixth place was Ayumi Murase, who is very active in anime based on novels, playing the role of Harte Zemphis in "Odd Reincarnation" and "Actually, I Was the Strongest? Murase, who also plays Tristan in "The Seven Deadly Sins: The Resentment of Edinburgh Part 2," is also active in the series, and it remains to be seen how far he will be able to go.

Also in seventh place was "Cardfight! Vanguard will+Dress Season 3"; Takahiro Sakurai, who plays Suguru Natsuyasu in "Jujutsu Kaisen [2nd season]"; Koki Uchiyama, who plays Isumi Miyamura in "Horimiya -piece-"; and Hanma Baki, who plays Hanma Baki in "Hanma Baki Part 1 and Part 2", came in at No. 10. Nobunaga Shimazaki, who plays Hanma Baki in "Hanma Baki: Hanma Baki Part 1 and Part 2," was at No.10. The difference between the two was very small.

Yuichiro Umehara (11th) received 48 votes, Tomokazu Sugita (12th) 39 votes, Kaito Ishikawa (13th) 36 votes, Atsushi Tamaru (14th) 35 votes, Kosuke Toriumi (15th) 23 votes, and there are still many cast members in the top 10 below 11th place, so your vote could change the ranking. There is a great possibility that your vote will change the ranking.

It is up to you how you want to use your 7 votes per person, whether you want to vote for a cast member who is close to the top or to give a boost to a cast member who is sure to be in the top 10!

The deadline for voting is August 10, 2023, so don't forget to cast your vote!

(*You must be logged in as a member of Akiba Research Institute to vote.)

Don't forget to vote for the female voice actors as well, as the popularity vote for female voice actors is also being held until August 18, 2012!