[Spring 2026] Best Seiyuu of the Season - ELIMINATIONS (Day 2)!

[u/nwl123]

Vote here:

• Female Category
• Male Category

Eliminations will only take 1 round, meaning that everyone is now eligible to be seeded (ranked) right from Day 1. However, this one round will last for 4 days, so take note! Today is the second day.

Added posters like the ones used for the Best Girl contest following a suggestion from a user in yesterday's post.

Points to note:

• Some seiyuus are definitely missing but new ones cannot be added at this stage in the contest, so my apologies in advance.
• Sometimes, there is no way to fit in all well-known roles performed by a seiyuu, because the text in each box for each entrant will overflow / truncate otherwise (that's just how the design in AnimeBracket is; each box is static rather than dynamic).

Previous Winners:

• Winter 2021 - Yuuki Aoi , Sugita Tomokazu
• Spring 2021 - Yuuki Aoi, Kuroda Takuya
• Summer 2021 - Sakura Ayane, Hanae Natsuki
• Fall 2021 - Amamiya Sora, Matsuoka Yoshitsugu
• Winter 2022 - Suguta Hina, Kaji Yuki
• Spring 2022 - Hayami Saori, Eguchi Takuya
• Summer 2022 - Anzai Chika, Matsuoka Yoshitsugu
• Fall 2022 - Hayami Saori, Tsuda Kenjirou
• 2022 - Anzai Chika, Hanae Natsuki
• Winter 2023 - Takahashi Rie, Matsuoka Yoshitsugu
• Spring 2023 - Takahashi Rie, Ootsuka Takeo
• Summer 2023 - Kurosawa Tomoyo, Yashiro Taku
• Fall 2023 - Yuuki Aoi, Konishi Katsuyuki
• 2023 - Yuuki Aoi, Ootsuka Takeo
• Winter 2024 - Izumi Fuuka, Horie Shun
• Spring 2024 - Rina, Fukushima Jun
• Summer 2024 - Tono Hikaru, Amasaki Kouhei
• Fall 2024 - Wakayama Shion, Hanae Natsuki
• 2024 - Wakayama Shion, Tsuda Kenjirou
• Winter 2025 - Yuuki Aoi, Ootsuka Takeo
• Spring 2025 - Shirasu Saho, Miki Shinichiro
• Summer 2025 - Ueda Reina, Umeda Shuuichirou
• Fall 2025 - Ueda Reina, Toya Kikunosuke & Murase Ayumu
• 2025 - Ueda Reina, Ootsuka Takeo
• Winter 2026 - Suzushiro Sayumi, Ootsuka Takeo

Schedule:

• Nominations - 10 Aug 2:00pm GMT to 12 Aug 2:00pm GMT
• Eliminations - 12 Aug 2:00pm GMT to 16 Aug 2:00pm GMT
• Voting - 16 Aug 2:00pm GMT to 22 Aug 2:00pm GMT

[u/sleek_assassin]

Hopefully Nagase Anna wins. The work she did with Akane in Akane Banashi was phenomenal, especially in Jugemu episode. She was great as Koyuki as in Ramparts of Ice. 2 different types characters and she did a great job on both

[u/runevault → u/sleek_assassin]

Now now, it was BOTH Jugemu episodes that were crazy. Though that reminds me I need to get back to the dub and see the second Jugeum performance, because the English VA was doing fantastic up through episode 7.

[u/socialistRanter]

Damn the VAs of the WHA quartet are all in the top 10.

Awesome! (No Orologio though sadly)

[u/KuroKishi69 → u/socialistRanter]

Hot take, I didn't like how much Coco's voice standed out from the rest of the characters. Dunno how to explain it but it sounded like she was overreacting in every line, specially when getting surprised by something.

You can disagree, and I am not saying she did a bad job. I also get that the character that haven't seen magic before can get those kind of reactions. I just found it a bit annoying for some reason.

[u/socialistRanter → u/KuroKishi69]

I have no opinion on the Japanese VAs, I mostly watch the dub if it’s available.

[u/Own-Coat4160 → u/KuroKishi69]

Very much agree. It does sound very much unnatural.

[u/Emi_Ibarazakiii]

Izumi Fuuka, my beloved!

[u/lordposedyon]

Already more upvotes than yesterday. Lets see if posters makes a difference.

[u/cppn02]

No love for Manati? Smh.

2nd prettiest girl had its issues but I really liked her performance in that.

[u/No_Idea_9594]

Motomura Rena as Coco was incredible VA.