Japanese Music Legend Eiichi Otaki's First Anime Song Suddenly Takes Second Place! The "2020 Spring Anime ED Theme Popularity Poll," an official voting project with unreadable results, is now underway!

The official voting project "2020 Spring Anime ED Theme Popularity Poll" is currently underway at Akiba Research Institute.

Following the "2020 Spring Anime OP Theme Popularity Poll", the "2020 Spring Anime ED Theme Popularity Poll", an official voting project to decide the favorite ED theme song, which has become a regular event every season, started on May 15. This time, 65 songs were selected from Spring 2020 anime.
As with the OP theme song, the ED theme songs are very diverse. All of them are songs that will enliven the anime, even against the new coronavirus! Which song will be the most popular?
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The results as of 14:00 on May 19 are as follows.

No. 1 Mai Fuchigami "Crossing Road" (Shokugeki no soma Go no sora): 152 votes
No.2 Eiichi Otaki "Kimi wa natu shiroi" (Kakushigoto) 46 votes
No.3 ELISA "Hikari no Hoshi" (The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These (NHK version)) 26 votes
No.4 Spira Spica "Twinkle" (Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE 2nd Season) 22 votes
No.5 Honiros the Bard "Otoko no Aretei" (Bessatsu Olympia Cyclos) 21 votes
No.6 Umino High School Teibo Club "To the world of fishing" (Houkago Teibo Nisshi) 16 votes
No.7 Shin Koshigaya High School Girls Baseball Club "Plus Minus Zero Law" (Kyuu Ei) 14 votes
No.8 SHE'S "One" (Major Second (2nd series)) 9 votes
No.9 Grandpa Grandpa (CV : Satoshi Hino) "Grandpa's love love handsome scat" (Troubled Grandpa) 7 votes
No. 9 Honiros the Bard "You are Hellenes" (Bessatsu Olympia Cyclos) 7 votes

In first place, "Crossing Road" (Shokugeki no soma Go no sara) sung by voice actress Mai Fuchigami received the most votes by far. Will it continue this momentum and reach the finish line?
However, the second-place finishers are also vying for the top spot.
In second place, the representative song of Japanese music legend Eiichi Otaki, "Kimi wa natu shiroi" (Kakushigoto), is likely to attract support from non-anime fans, while ELISA "Hikari no hoshi" (Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These (NHK version)) is also a song to listen to carefully, accompanying a magnificent work of art.

Of interest is the fact that several songs that seem to be story songs are ranked in the list.
Songs from "Bessatsu Olympia Cyclos," sung and composed by Akihito Hayashi, appeared in fifth and ninth place, and "Grandpa's Love Love♡Scat" (Troubled Grandpa), sung by Satoshi Hino, tied for ninth place. It will be interesting to see how far these tasteful songs will increase the number of votes.

Voting is still open until the end of May, so the results are still very unpredictable, and there is a very high possibility of a sudden surge in the number of votes for songs ranked 11th and below!

So, the EDs of the Spring 2020 anime are truly a battle of the strongest of the strongest! It will be interesting to see which anime song will take the top spot, but the outcome will depend entirely on your votes. You can vote up to 7 votes per person, so you can vote for all your favorite songs or divide your votes among the songs you are interested in. Vote as you wish.
(*You need to be logged in as a member of Akiba Research Institute to vote. Please note that you must be logged in as a member of Akiba Research Institute to vote.)

Voting will be open until May 28 (Fri.).