Which male voice actor will shine brightest in 2022? Akiba Research Institute's "Best Male Voice Actor Award 2022" has started! Akiba Research Institute official poll

The Akiba Research Institute's "Best Male Voice Actor in a Leading Role Award," which sums up the year, began on December 29, 2022.

This is an annual project in which we take the liberty of deciding which male voice actor who played a major character in an anime broadcast in 2022 shined the brightest this year.

A total of 31 actors who ranked in the top 10 in each of the winter, spring, summer, and fall 2022 anime popularity polls have entered the contest.

Shin Furukawa "Shirogin Goko (Kaguya-sama ga Kessareta - Ultra Romantic)" etc.
Jun Fukuyama "Isekai Ojisan (Uncle Takafumi)" etc.
Daisuke Ono "In the Land of Liardale (Scargo)" etc.
Akira Ishida 'Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN- (Inoha)', etc.
Sadayuki Matsuoka 'Demon Slayer -Yukaku- (Inosuke Kusudaira)' etc.
Hiro Shimono "Demon Slayer: Youkaku-hen (Wagatsuma Zenitsu)" etc.
Yusuke Kobayashi, "Realism Yuusha no Kokujo Fukkoku Fukkouki Part 2 (Soma Kazuya)", etc.
Tomokazu Sugita "In the Land of Liadale (Katatsu)" etc.
Shoya Ishige "That dress-up doll will fall in love (Gojo Shinna)
Yuki Kaji "Shinkage no Kyojin The Final Season Part 2 (Eren Jaeger)" etc.
Ryohei Kimura "ULTRAMAN Season 2 (Shinjiro Hayata)" etc.
Koki Uchiyama "Kazato Tantei (Phillip)", etc.
KENN " Cap Revolution Bottleman DX (Ryo Hogari) ", etc.
Hajime Sato "Boundary War Machine (Part 2) (Amou Shiiba)" etc.
Setsuji Sato "Duel Masters King MAX (Decky)
Yusho Kamimura, "Boundary War Machine (Part 2) (Gashin Tetsuzuka)", etc.
Yuma Uchida "A science student fell in love and tried to prove it. r=1-sinθ (Shinya Yukimura)" etc.
Mamoru Miyano "Uta no Prince Sama! Maji LOVE Stalish Tours: The Beginning of the Journey (Ichinose Tokiya)" etc.
Noriaki Taniyama "BASTARD! Dark Schneider" and others
Junichi Suwabe "Uta no Prince Sama! Maji LOVE Stalish Tours -Beginning of Journey- (Jinguji Ren)" etc.
Shota Aoi "Cardfight! Vanguard will+Dress (Chikando Yuyu)
Takehito Koyasu "Uncle Kosai (Ojisan)
Hiroaki Hirata "TIGER & BUNNY 2 <Part 2> (Kaburaki T. Toratetsu/Wild Tiger)
Yusuke Shirai "VAZZROCK THE ANIMATION (Tsuki Futaba)" etc.
Takuya Sato "VAZZROCK THE ANIMATION (Reiji Amou)" etc.
Ayumi Murase "I'm in the devil! Iruma-kun <Series 3> (Suzuki Iruma)
Hiroshi Kamiya "Urusei Yatsura (Moroboshi Ataru)
Yuichiro Umehara "JoJo`s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean <Series 2> (Weather Report)" etc.
Hiroaki Iwanaga "Berserk Golden Age Arc MEMORIAL EDITION (Guts)
Keisuke Kawamoto "VAZZROCK THE ANIMATION (Luka Nazumi)
Masahito "Harem Kyanpu! (Kensuke Yamamichi)"

(* Titles omitted, in no particular order)


It is inevitable that a heated dead heat will unfold again this year to see who will be the male voice actor who plays the popular character representing the year 2022 among the above 31!


The deadline for voting is January 12, 2023, and each person can cast up to seven votes, so you can either give all your votes to your favorite voice actor or cast one vote for each voice actor who gave a sparkling performance in an interesting work.
We hope you will put your passion into your vote!

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

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