2channel's Favorite Seiyuus Revisited

I did a post a couple of weeks ago tabulating the rate at which posts are being made about specific seiyuus on 2channel. There were some surprises in who was missing from the top 50, as well as who was there. That Toyosaki Aki wasn't there was a big surprise (she was #79).

I thought I'd take another snapshot today and see how much had changed. Not much, really: the top names are still near the top of the list, although their comparative positions may have shifted a bit. I've included a few more places, this time, down to 58, bringing in Ueda Kana, Kugimiya Rie, and Inoue Marina.

Toyosaki Aki is closer to where I expected her, however, at #15. All the K-On girls appear: she, Hikasa Youko (Mio), Taketatsu Ayaka (Azu-nyan), Kotobuki Minako (Mugi), Satou Satomi (Ritsu).

Chihara Minori has risen to the top, showing that singing and beauty both count for a lot with 2channelers. Mizuki Nana is still right there with her. Katou Emiri has jumped twenty places (#24 to #4), possibly reflecting her popularity as Hideyoshi in Baka to Test.

EDIT: Emirin's recent numbers are actually due to the fact that she has just announced on her blog that she has started orthodontic work to straighten her very crooked teeth. She announced  publicly on Friday that had started last month -- and received a flood of positive posts, both to her blog and on 2channel.

For the seiyuu otaku among you, here is the table, followed by a few notes of other things appearing on 2channel recently. The first column is Sunday's ranking. The second the ranking a couple of weeks ago. On the right, the first column is number of posts per day in the current thread, the second the total number of threads (i.e., thousands of posts) that have accumulated over time.

18Apr	06Apr		per day	000s
1	3	Chihara Minori	400	188
2	1	Mizuki Nana	240	574
3	3	Chihara Minori	216	187
4	24	Katou Emiri	168	38
5	4	Tamura Yukari	168	569
6	18	Hase Yurina (Ochiai Yurika)	168	272
7	29	anti-Mizuki Nana	120	25
8	5	Hirano Aya	100	190
9	15	Hikasa Youko	100	31
10	8	Horie Yui	100	372
11	10	Nakamura Eriko	72	74
12	6	Asumi Kana	72	82
13	6	Hase Yurina (Ochiai Yurika)	59	271
14	9	Sakamoto Maaya	52	145
15	79	Toyosaki Aki	47	41
16	13	anti-Hirano Aya	46	71
17	49	Kamiya Hiroshi	45	41
18	23	Mizuhara Kaoru	42	32
19	25	anti-Nakajima Megumi	38	51
20	16	Hanazawa Kana	35	31
21	?	Shiina Hekiru	35	202
22	7	Iguchi Yuka	34	17
23	28	Itou Kanae	32	15
24	31	Taketatsu Ayana	31	12
25	11	Tomatsu Haruka	31	32
26	12	Matsuoka Daisuke	31	2
27	17	Sakurai Hiromi	31	11
28	21	Satou Satomi	30	16
29	33	Kotobuki Minako	26	9
30	22	Harada Hitomi	26	8
31	36	Asano Masumi	24	147
32	26	Kitamura Eri	23	39
33	14	Nakajima Megumi	22	40
34	35	Takahashi Chiaki	22	66
35	27	Mizuhashi Kaori	22	63
36	?	anti-Horie Yui	21	11
37	32	Gotou Yuuko	21	82
38	30	Nemakura Manami	20	9
39	20	Imai Asami	19	93
40	34	Satou Rina	18	30
41	41	Onosaka Masaya	18	34
42	46	Koshimizu Ami	18	60
43	45	Yuuki Aoi	18	4
44	19	Shimoda Asami	18	42
45	44	Itou Shizuka	17	57
46	40	Hayashibara Megumi	16	82
47	47	Yuzuki Ryouka	15	77
48	?	Oohashi Ayuru (Nakai Erika)	15	10
49	43	Sanpei Yuuko	15	25
50	?	Kuribayashi Minami	15	57
51	38	anti-Imai Asami	15	5
52	48	Noto Mamiko	14	16
53	?	Nigo Mayako	14	39
54	?	Inoue Marina	14	51
55	42	Tange Sakura	14	36
56	?	Sugita Tomokazu	14	48
57	?	Ueda Kana	14	93
58	?	Kugimiya Rie	14	83
59	?	Kano Yui	14	38

In other tidbits from 2channel, a new thread has shown up asking which female seiyuu would be strongest in a fight. So far, Gotou Yuuko (Gotuuza-sama) has a lot of votes. She is known for her motorcycle and her drinking. The tall Toyosaki Aki also gets some votes.

Other names: Hirano Aya, Shintani Ryouko, Sanpei Yuuko, and Nazuka Kaori (like Gotou and Toyosaki, another big person with a small voice).

This is at least a bit less questionable a thread than the "Which seiyuu would you like to have sex with?" thread that has been running for a while. The comparatively little-known (outside Japan) Kataoka Azusa is currently winning hands-down. Sanpei Yuuko came first in a previous thread. One recent post says: "Sakurai Takahiro-sama."

I follow Yuuki Aoi's thread, and there has been a burst of activity recently since her character in Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou, the quiet-voiced android Korone, started making off-color comments, smirked at guys' equipment in a men's washroom, and directly asked the hero: "Please show me your penis." That line has figured in some comments.

In another region of the underbelly of the Japanese psyche, the Ichiban Ushiro thread has been dominated by negative comments on the appearance in episode three of Korean writing on signs at the college of magic. No complaints about English or Chinese.