Koyomi, Natsume or Levi...Which character was drummed up by "CV: Kamiya Hiroshi"? New Year's Special Project! The result of "Kamiya Hiroshi's Hammer Role Popularity Poll" is announced!

Today, January 28th, is the birthday of the very popular voice actor Hiroshi Kamiya.

Kamiya is a popular voice actor who has been inducted into the Seiyu Award Hall of Fame for winning the Seiyu Award for the most votes for five consecutive years.

His activities are no longer limited to dubbing and narration for anime, video games, and foreign films, as evidenced by his five-month-long interview for NHK's documentary program "Professional Work Style" in January 2019, and his induction into the Japanese national idol group "Arashi" (Satoshi Ohno and Tomo Ono) in September of the same year. It is already a well-known fact that he appeared as a member of "Team Good Voice" in the variety show "VS Arashi" of "Arashi" (Satoshi Ohno, Sho Sakurai, Masaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, and Jun Matsumoto) in September of the same year.

As Mr. Kamiya celebrates his birthday today, January 28, Akiba Research Institute will be holding a "New Year Special Project! A poll on the popularity of Hiroshi Kamiya's favorite roles" was held from January 1 to 25. The poll was held for an unusually long period of about a month, asking for votes for the character that the popular Mr. Kamiya was into the most among the characters he has played.

Here are the results of the heated competition, in which 33,730 votes were cast over the 25-day period.

No. 1: Klaus Keiman (" Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love ") ... 7,027 votes
2nd : Levi (" Shinketsu no Kyojin ") ... 5394 votes
No. 3: Takashi Natsume (" Natsume's Book of Friends ") ... 3771 votes
No.4: Rinya Orihara (" Durarara! ") ...3272 votes
No. 5: Araragi Koyomi (" Bakemonogatari " and other "Monogatari" series) ...2310 votes
No. 6: Yato (" Noragami ") ... 2,046 votes
No. 7: Hiroomi Soma (" WORKING! ") ...1175 votes
No.8: Seijuro Akashi (" Kuroko no Basketball ") ...1124 votes
No.9: Kusuo Saiki (" Ψ Difficulty of Kusuo Saiki")... 968 votes
No.10: Nozomu Itoshiki (" Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ") ... 671 votes

Among the many popular characters that Mr. Kamiya has played, the one who came in first place was Klaus Keiman of "Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love" fame. This result was not expected by anyone in the editorial department from the first day of voting until after the 20th day. In the beginning, the top vote-getters were characters such as Natsume and Levi, who boasted stable popularity, and even the editorial staff expected them to win the top position. However, after the 22nd, Klaus suddenly began to catch up, and on the 23rd, just two days before the voting deadline, he finally received more than 5,000 votes and quickly jumped to first place. However, as Levi's vote increased, Klaus increased his lead even more, and a fierce voting war ensued, with Levi gaining more votes and Klaus increasing his lead even more. The final result was that Klaus won the first place with 7,000 votes.
Despite his pun-like name, Klaus Keiman, the key man of the story, has become the other main character of the film, captivating viewers with his humanistic conflict as he wavers between the mission he must fulfill and the fate of Yamato. Klaus, as his name implies, is the key to the story and won the hearts of the fans.
This is the result of the passion of Mr. Kamiya's fans and the fans of "Space Battleship Yamato. To all the Yamato fans and Kamiya fans, thank you for your enthusiastic votes. And congratulations on winning first place.

Coming in a close second was Levi, a.k.a. "The Captain" from "The Marching Giants," who fought a heated battle with Klaus Kiermann, who came in first place. Levi has a sharp gaze, a foul mouth, and an intimidating atmosphere, and is praised as "the strongest soldier known to mankind" for his overwhelming strength. He is very popular. Although he narrowly missed out on first place, he was an impressive second-place finisher with over 5,000 votes.

The third-place finisher was Takashi Natsume, the main character of "Natsume's Book of Friends. Unlike the two characters above, who have a strong toothless personality, Takashi Natsume is a sensitive and kind-hearted character who acts as an equal to non-human demons and cannot leave them alone when he sees them in trouble. His sensitive, soft, and somewhat fragile voice is the opposite of the cool characters such as Keiman and Levi, and is very impressive. The anime series has been broadcast for a long time, though irregularly, from 2008 to the 6th season in 2017, and a movie version was produced in 2018.

In fourth place was Rinya Orihara from "Durarara! Rinya Orihara of "Durarara! He is a black-haired, handsome man with a sharp mind and excellent athleticism, who is a thin and looks like he is weak, but is good with knives and has mastered parkour. He is also the mastermind behind the various incidents that occur in the story, and his interactions with Shizuo Heiwajima, a dog who suddenly throws a vending machine at him, are just a few of the many highlights of the story. The character is smart and athletic, with a foul mouth, a black stomach, and a twisted personality, and even without his good looks, he is "The Kamiya Hiroshi.

In fifth place was Araragi Koyomi, the main character in the "Monogatari" series, who was chosen by director Akiyuki Shimbo as "only Kamiya-san could play this role. Director Shimbo, who had been worried about the role because "Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei" was scheduled to be broadcast in the same season, entrusted Kamiya with the role at the end of the season. Everyone was convinced by his selection with such drama in the background, and he played the character beautifully for about 10 years until "Sequel to the Last Story" was released. With his sharp tsukkomi, unique tempo of dialogue, and large amount of lines, this character is truly a coveted one for fans who want to hear Kamiya's voice all the time.
Nozomu Itoshiki from "Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei," also directed by Akiyuki Shimbo, ranked 10th on the list. Kamiya himself, as a reader of the original story, thought, "If this were to be made into an anime or drama CD, it would be very difficult to play this character. However, the hard work paid off, and the character's well-spoken but admittedly chicken-like personality and the many lines he delivers because of his chickeniness must have won the hearts of the fans and director Shinbo as well.

Yato, the protagonist of "Noragami" (No. 6), is perhaps the most unique character in this year's poll. The official website introduces him as "an unemployed man of no fixed address, a minor and poor god in a jersey. From the introduction on the official website, Yato does not seem to have much in common with the previous five characters. However, he has his own shrine, dreams of being worshipped by many followers, and solves people's problems with a five-yen money-offering. This character, who solves people's problems for a mere five yen in donations, is a character with a charm that is only possible because of Kamiya's performance, and this charm may be the reason why he came in at No. 6.

In addition, "WORKING! Hiroomi Soma is a domineering character with a soft smile who is good at cutting people down or "persuading" them without ever breaking his smile. The character of Hiroomi Souma, with his smile, his suspiciousness, his talkativeness, and his black-heartedness, is a character that allows us to enjoy a wide variety of Kamiya's voices at once.

Seijuro Akashi of "Kuroko's Basketball" (No. 8) is a character similar to Levi in that he expresses his victory-oriented side in a hard tone. The difference between the two characters can be seen in the way that Levi, who has a foul mouth, is gentle in his tone, and Akaji, who has strong feelings for the members of the group, though he does not express them in words, and does not show any mercy to those who defy him. Like Levi, who calls out "Captain! Just like Levi, many people may unintentionally call him "Akaji-sama," "sir," or "sir," because he is intelligent, good-looking, and charismatic. Many people must have bowed down to his absolute champion-like words, such as "My head is so high," and "I am the one who wins everything, so everything is right.

In ninth place is Kusuo Saiki, the main character from the shocking and controversial manga "Saiki Kusuo no Ψ 難" (Ψ難). The character is a high school student with pink hair, a mysterious device on his head, and glasses with green lenses. The character's introduction alone is enough to make one's head explode, and then there's the fact that he is voiced by Kamiya Hiroshi, a high school student with a mysterious device on his head and glasses with green lenses. When the cast announcement was made, I was not the only one who had a big smack in the gut when I heard that Mr. Kamiya's voice would be reading out the gag story told in Kusuo's emotionless, homogeneous monologue and performed by his silly, funny, and devastatingly funny classmates. I'm sure I wasn't the only one. The fact that it made it into the top 10 is the result of that. Thank you, comrades.

I would also like to mention the characters ranked 11th and below. Captain Gundam from "SD Gundam Force" and Hiden from "Gundam Evolve. /Kamiya, who has appeared in a variety of Gundam works, including Captain Gundam in "SD Gundam Force" and Hyden in "Gundam Evolve. Trafalgar Law of "One Piece", the captain of the Pirates of the Heart and a ship's doctor who lives up to his nickname of "Surgeon of Death", came in at 12th place, and Matsuno Choromatsu of "Osomatsu-san", who has become a social phenomenon, came in at 13th place. There are still many attractive characters in this "New Year's Special Report! Please check out the "Kamiya Hiroshi's Hammer Role Popularity Poll," which is still full of attractive characters, and check out the 10th place and below.

Lastly, we would like to wish you a very happy birthday, Kamiya-san!