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Seiyuu Challenge: Bonus Rounds

This is inspired by the seiyuu challenge I saw @rukiinightray doing on their Tumblr. Check out the #Seiyuu Challenge tag on their Tumblr to see the questions. 

I just picked my favourites from Rukii’s to add to the compilation. After this, I will be posting the masterpost for my fully answered 30 Day challenge (it’s a separate one) including this bonus round!

Bonus Rounds Include:

Favourite Seiyuu above 40 Years Old

Favourite Singing Unit/Group

Seiyuu with Cute Voices

Seiyuu with Attractive Voices

Seiyuu with the Best Smiles :D

Bonus Round #1: Favourite Seiyuu Above 40 Years Old

Hiroshi Kamiya (pretty much 44)

Akira Ishida (51)

Romi Park (46)

Good luck finding current female seiyuu that still get hired above age 40 without having “legendary” status. Hahaha... why is the industry like this.

Tomokazu Sugita, Nana Mizuki, and Yuuichi Nakamura are all 39. I just wanted to mention that.

The gifs are just the most iconic character for them (although I had a tough time choosing)

Bonus Round #2: Best Singing Unit/Group

I’ll be honest, I don’t listen to units often, but I do come across the occasional song, so I’ll be sharing a few of those! I’d say that the three following groups are the only ones that I’ve actually listened to on their own. 

The original question was the best 2.5D and 3D group, but I didn’t know exactly what those meant. I’m guessing 2.5D means there are anime characters played by seiyuu who also perform live like Utapri whereas 3D have real people performing and not as characters.

I’ve been listening to Yoshimasa Hosoya and Toshiki Masuda's Maxboys, but they’ve disbanded. I personally think this was due to bad timing, lack of variety and risk, and Masuda being a little less experienced on vocals. (if you can see the thumbnail of the video) *passes towel* 

I did listen to a few TrySail things, but often, female units to me sound a bit too high-pitched and cutesy. I had the same problem when listening to a few K-Pop songs, but hey, I now know a song or two from Girls’ Generation and Twice (who the heck wouldn’t know those groups?) The members of TrySail include Momo Asakura (pink), Sora Amamiya (blue), and Shiina Natsukawa (yellow).

Alternative: Adrenaline - Eromanga-Sensei ED

But my top pick would probably be Sphere. Sphere was one of the first groups that caught my eye which was only got noticed because they sang a Honeyworks song. With members like Haruka Tomatsu, Ayahi Takagaki, Minako Kotobuki, and Aki Toyosaki, they are a bit older than their TrySail counterpart (TrySail members are 22-24ish while Sphere members are late-20s to early-30s). All of this group’s members are listed as actresses and voice actresses as well as singers. Yeah, so they voice act in various anime (each having their own list of shows), occasionally live-action act and make appearances, and sing and practice dancing. In fact, Ayahi Takagaki is one of the few women to appear on Kenichi Suzumura’s AD-LIVE event, and she went twice. I knew each of these members individually for their voice acting first, but they can also go solo (and they do) for their music, but as far as I’m concerned, Sphere is still on hiatus.

Alternative: Here are their top tracks. I couldn’t choose. (I could’ve added a lot more than 15 tracks)

I’d also like to mention that there is a top 20 list for male units (not mine) [source]

1 – ELEKITER ROUND 0 2 – E.M.U 3 – ST☆RISH 4 – QUARTET★NIGHT 5 – HE★VENS 6 – D.A.T 7 – 神谷浩史+小野大輔 8 – フェロ☆メン 9 – Marginal#4 10 – CELL DIVISION 11 - G.Addict 12 - Maxboys 13 - KAmiYU 14 - Trignal 15 - CONNECT 16 - X.I.P 17 - STYLE FIVE 18 - Stella Quintet 19 - R-16 20 - アニ○ズ

This is purely opinion-based obviously, and since I don’t listen to most of these groups (I’ve heard of them), I trust these people’s word. I just don’t like Hiroshi Kamiya’s singing, and I know I will be kicked in the shins again for saying that. Some of these groups are old too so you can see them with funny hairdos. Seriously, Sakurai had a mad mop on his head. I wonder if it was real.

I’d also like to give a quick shoutout to the Honeyworks seiyuu because even if that’s not a “unit”, they still sing a lot of songs from them.

Natsuki Enomoto (CV: Haruka Tomatsu) - song

Yuu Setoguchi (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya) - song

Akari Hayasaka (CV: Kana Asumi) - song

Souta Mochizuki (CV: Yuuki Kaji) - song

Miou Aida (CV: Aki Toyosaki) - song

Haruki Serizawa (CV: Kenichi Suzumura) - song

Saku Akechi (CV: Hikaru Midorikawa) - song

Koyuki Ayase (CV: Tsubasa Yonaga) - song

Hina Setoguchi (CV: Momo Asakura) - song

Kotarou Enomoto (CV: Natsuki Hanae) - song

Sena Narumi (CV: Sora Amamiya) - song

Midori Hamanaka (CV: Gero) - song

Arisa Takamizawa (CV: Nao Touyama) - song

Ken Shibazaki (CV: Yoshimasa Hosoya) - HOW IS HE THE ONLY ONE THERE ISN’T A SONG FOR (or one that I can’t seem to access???)

There’s also Nobunaga Shimazaki and Kouki Uchiyama in LIP x LIP. [Song Recommendations] [Newest Song]

Honestly, I can make more than one post about them. Stay tuned for that! I’m going to make all my song recommendations and explain this whole universe. 

Bonus Round #3: Seiyuu with Cute Voices

Kana Hanazawa

Sora Amamiya

Maaya Sakamoto

Saori Hayami

Ai Kayano

Sumire Morohoshi

Maaya Uchida

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Yuuki Kaji

These don’t even need explanation. If you’ve heard them, you know exactly what I mean.

Bonus Round #4: Seiyuu with Attractive Voices

Mitsuki Saiga

Megumi Ogata

Hikaru Midorikawa

Kazuhiko Inoue

Akira Ishida

Takahiro Sakurai

Junichi Suwabe

Yuuichi Nakamura

Yuuichirou Umehara

Kouki Uchiyama

Ryouhei Kimura 

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Mamoru Miyano

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Shizuka Itou

Eri Kitamura

Kikuko Inoue

Miyuki Sawashiro

Kana Hanazawa

Saori Hayami

Aki Toyosaki

Haruka Tomatsu

Asami Seto

I probably missed a ton, but this is such an open-ended category. 

Bonus Round #5: Seiyuu with the Best Smiles :D 

Kouki Uchiyama He doesn’t smile too often, but apparently, he smiles when misfortune happens to others. I sympathize. Why do you think fail videos can be funny sometimes?

Miyuki Sawashiro

Mamoru Miyano

Tomokazu Sugita

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Saori Hayami

I feel like I had to put that tadbit for Kouki because he’s such an odd choice. The other ones are quite obvious. There are certain smiles that just make you smile, and that’s my list.

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