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Friday, May 3, 2019

Shigeru Chiba:

My 50th honorable male voice actor is Shigeru Chiba (real name Masaharu Maeda).  This is the humorous but iconically villainous voice behind Buggy the Clown, Emperor Pilaf and the juvenile delinquent Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho.

He's an older talent who was leaned on more heavily in the past, but it's rather absurd how many roles he's played in how many different series and games.

One of the things I love about Shigeru isn't just his high voice, but his ability to radically go up or down octaves within the same sentence or even word.  It almost feels like he's singing in a musical.  It adds a lot more characterization to his villains who generally would just be two-bit losers without his creative delivery.

Buggy is a memorable villain in One Piece solely and only because of Shigeru Chiba.  Pilaf was a perfect foil for young Goku in one of Dragon Ball's best arcs.  He makes a great 50th best man.

Now I just need more female voice actresses and I could get their number up to a nice round 150, for a nice round 200 seiyuu total in all.

Actually I think I'll go ahead and do that now, by adding in the seiyuu who make up the voices of my favorite waifus.  It's best to strike while the iron is hot after all:

Atsuko Enomoto - Cure Egret from Pretty Cure Splash Star
Naomi Wakabayashi - Kudryavka from Little Busters!
Ryoka Yuzuki - Eruru from Utawarerumono
Risa Taneda - Kuon from Utawarerumono
Mariko Koda - Nayuki from Kanon
Sumire Uesaka - Sora from PapaKiki
Suzuko Mimori - Myucel from Outbreak Company
Chiyo Ousaki - Sara from Da Capo III
Sakura Nogawa - Nemu from Da Capo
Hijiri Kinomi - Yume from Da Capo II
Mikoi Sasaki - Himeno from Da Capo III
Nanjou Yoshino - Koko from Da Capo II, Yukino from Osananajimi wa Daitouryou
Sora Tokui - Nico from Love Live!
Yu Shimamura - Cure Flora from Princess Precure.
Reina Ueda - Mira from Dimension W.
Mikako Komatsu - Rose from Tales of Zestiria.
Yuki Horinaka - Elize from Tales of Xillia.
Shiho Kawaragi - Cheria from Tales of Graces.
Yuuko Kaida - Rosa from FF 4.
Ayumi Ito - Tifa from FF 7.
Mayuko Aoki - Yuna from FF 10.
Haruhi Nanao - Rin from Naruto.
Azusa Tadokoro - Chtolly from SukaSuka.
Akane Fujita - Sagiri from Eromanga Sensei.
Minami Takahashi - Elf from Eromanga Sensei.
Yumi Touma - Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War.
Yuka Inokuchi - Sayaka from Majikoi A.
Hatsumi Takada - Yoru from Konozora.
Ai Fukada - Asa from Konozora.
Hiromi Konno - Sae from Amagami SS.
Haruka Terui - Kobeni from Mikakunin de Shinkoukei.
Chinatsu Akasaki - Chiwa from Oreshura.
Sayaka Senbongi - Mumei from Koutestujou no Kabaneri.
Tomo Sakurai - Mylene from Macross 7.
Manami Numakura - Mitsuki from Unlimited Fafnir.

For a grand total of 35 more female seiyuu inducted into the anime voices hall of fame.  That only gets me to 172 voices total though.  28 more female seiyuu are going to have to step up to make things look nice and pretty and symmetrical over the coming years.  It would be nice to see another project to completion, but I guess not today.

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