The results of the "Toru Furuya's Birthday Character Popularity Poll" are in! Which Amuro won the battle of the two Amuro characters?
Today, July 31, is the birthday of veteran voice actor Toru Furuya. So, the voting for the "Toru Furuya's Birthday Character Popularity Poll," which was held from July 24, 2019 to July 30, 2019, has closed. Here are the results.
No need to explain about Toru Furuya any more. He is probably best known for his portrayal of Amuro Ray in "Mobile Suit Gundam," but he has also given many famous performances as a hot-blooded character, such as Hoshi Hyuma in "The Star of the Giant" in the past. More recently, his role as Toru Amuro in "Detective Conan" is also well-known, and his representative character is often called "W Amuro" (Amuro and Amuro). In this year's poll, we would like to focus on the Amuro showdown to see which Amuro is more popular.
Here are the top 10.
No. 1: Toru Amuro (Detective Conan): 2,660 votes
No. 2: Amuro Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam) 593 votes
No. 3: Mamoru Jiba, Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon) 512 votes
No.4: Sabo (ONE PIECE) 415 votes
No.5: Pegasus Seiya (Saint Seiya) 244 votes
No.6: Yamcha (Dragon Ball) 185 votes
No.7: Kyosuke Kasuga (Kimagure Orange Road) 98 votes
No.8 : Kosaku Sakamoto (Stop! Hibari-kun!) 63 votes
No.9 : Suppaman (Dr. Slump Arale-chan) 58 votes
No. 10 : Elizabeth (Gintama) 53 votes
Thus, the winner of the W-Amuro showdown was Toru Amuro of "Detective Conan" fame. He was the only one to win the dunce's heels with more than 1,000 votes. Although Toru Furuya's image of the character may differ depending on the generation of his fans due to his long career in the art world, Amuro is probably the most recent representative work of Furuya. In this sense, there may have been a relatively large number of votes from the younger generation.
In second place was Amuro Rei, who came in at the very last minute. It is indeed a great achievement for W. Amuro, who was considered to be unrivaled by any other character, to have gathered all the votes and come in second place. However, it is possible that the image of Amuro is not so common among younger generation of anime fans these days when it comes to the Gundam series.
In third place was Mamoru Jiba (Tuxedo Mask) from "Sailor Moon. This is also a nationally popular anime that has been on air for 25 years, and the performance of Tuxedo Mask, who radiated a sense of presence as the blackest, if not the brightest, character in the series, would not have been possible without Furuya's voice.
Among the characters ranked after No. 4, "One Piece" Sabo (No. 4) and "Gintama" Elizabeth (Eren) (No. 10) are characters from relatively new works, but the rest are nostalgic characters from the past. Among them, Pegasus Seiya (Saint Seiya) at No. 5, Yamcha (Dragon Ball) at No. 6, and Supaman (Dr. Slump Arale-chan) at No. 9 were all hot-blooded characters typical of Furuya's work. Hoshi Hyuma (The Star of the Giant), by the way, just missed the top 10, coming in at No. 11.
However, just by looking at the results of the popular character poll, we can see that Toru Furuya has played a variety of roles in his career. If you are an anime fan of yesteryear, checking out the characters ranked 11th and beyond will surely bring back a lot of nostalgia.
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Last but not least, Happy Birthday to Toru Furuya!
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