Everyone's vote changes the ranking! A hotly contested battle is underway! The interim results of the "2023 Summer Anime Leading Female Voice Actor Popularity Poll" have been announced! Akiba Research Institute official

Akiba Research Institute's official voting project, "Which female voice actress is your favorite voice actress of this season? The following are the interim results of this project, which is currently a very close race.

The ranking as of August 4 is as follows.

No. 1...Asano Ruri 596 votes
Reverse Isekai Tensei Agent Eko-san (Eko)

2nd place...Aina Suzuki 273 votes
Yohane of the Phantom Sun -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR- (Mari)

No.3 ... Yatsuhashi Shinamon 270 votes
Married Couple's Joy -The Night of No Return- (Asuka Mihara)

4th place...Yuzuka Nukui 258 votes
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale [2nd season] (Anne Halford)
The Seven Magic Swords Rule (Nanao-Hibiya)

No.5...Amu Mochinashi 257 votes
Married Couple's Joy: The Night of No Return (Kanade Suzukawa)

6th place...Akane Misaka 252 votes
Reverse Isekai Tensei Agent Eko-san (Ekura)

No.7...Hime Sawada 249 votes
The White Saint and the Black Priestess (Cecilia)

8th place...Miyuki Sawashiro 247 votes
Valkyrie of the End II Part 2 [Battle of Shaka] (Brunnhilde)

9th place...Wakana Kuramochi 246 votes
Liar Liar (Sasa Saionji)

10th place...Madoka Tomishiro 245 votes
Reverse Otherworldly Reincarnation Agent Eko-san (Eidolia)


As you can see, the second to tenth place finishers are in the 200-vote range, and it appears to be a close race, with the rankings being overturned by a few tables.

The one who is currently in first place by a clear margin is Ruri Asano, a V-tuber voice actress! She is the first kunoichi voice actress in the voice acting industry, and has been training in ninjutsu since childhood!
Asano has always been popular as a V-tuber, but will she be able to keep up her popularity until the voting deadline? It will be interesting to see.

In second place was Aina Suzuki. She is also a member of the voice actress unit " Aqour," and is also a member of the anime that gave birth to the unit, "Love Live! Sunshine! She entered this season as Mari in "Genshitsu no Yohane -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR-," a spin-off of the anime that gave birth to the unit.
Incidentally, Asano-san, who came in first, got her debut as a voice actress through an audition for the role of Ecute in "Jyakami-chan Dropkick," in which Suzuki-san plays the main character, Jyakami-chan. In a sense, the two are closely related. It will be interesting to see how the battle will turn out.

As mentioned above, the third place and below are also in a tight race, with only a few votes separating them. There is still some time left before the voting deadline, so we will have to keep an eye on the future developments.

Incidentally, the pattern in the past has been for people to vote for their favorite voice actors all at once a few hours before the deadline on the last day of voting, and then vote for them all at once. As a result, a major upset is expected to occur.
Especially this time, the ranking could easily be overturned by a few votes. We can expect a dead heat until the very end!

If you have not yet voted, we hope you will participate and make the voting project even more exciting! Don't forget that the deadline for voting is August 18, 2023!

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

The popularity vote for male voice actors is also open until August 10, so don't forget to cast your vote here as well!