Kensho Ono takes the Best Lead Actor Award, INTENTION’s talents sweep the awards ceremony, Soma Saito wins the Singing Award and more mark this awards ceremony.
Annually, the Seiyuu Awards recognize the achievements of voice actors within the Japanese seiyuu industry.
Fans were only able to vote to determine who is the MVS or Most Valuable Seiyu.
The voting was open from August 1 to September 30, 2021, on Seiyuu Awards’ official website and Kadokawa’s official website. Fans could also vote through Twitter by using the relevant hashtags, doing so once a day.
A special committee decided the winners for all other categories in this year’s edition.
The awards ceremony took place on 05/03/2022 both on location as well as a broadcast on A&G+’s radio show.
Without further ado, the winners of the 16th Seiyuu Awards are the following:
Best Lead Actor Award
Kensho Ono (Animo Produce)
Best Lead Actress Award
Megumi Ogata (BreatheArts)
Best Supporting Actor Award
Tachiki Fumihiko (Office Osawa)
Yuichi Nakamura (INTENTION)
Best Supporting Actress Award
Mikako Komatsu (Hirata Office)
Rie Takahashi (81 Produce)
Best New Actor Award
Aoi Ichikawa (Office Osawa)
Reiji Kawashima (AIR AGENCY)
Gen Sato (I’m Enterprise)
Best New Actress Award
Kanata Aikawa (Music Ray’n)
Hikaru Akao (I’m Enterprise)
Nene Hieda (81 Produce)
Hinaki Yano (Sony Music Artists)
Most Valuable Seiyuu (MVS)
Hiro Shimono (I’m Enterprise)
Singing Award
Soma Saito (81 Produce) – singer-songwriter for “in bloom” + “We are in bloom” live tour
Best Personality Award
Takahiro Sakurai (INTENTION)
Kei Tomiyama Award
Kenichi Suzumura (INTENTION)
Kazue Takahashi Award
Junko Iwao (Iwao Junko office)
Synergy Award
Evangelion series
Influencer Award
Tomokazu Seki (Atomic Monkey)
Game Award
Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Foreign Film / Drama Award
Taiten Kusunoki (amuleto)
Kanako Toujou (Axl One)
Kids/Family Award
Kyousei Tsukui (81 Produce)
Merit Award
Yoko Asagami (Aksent)
Michihiro Ikemizu (AONI Production)
Special honor award
Belle
🏆 Congratulations are in order to all winners!
SOURCE: Seiyuu Awards official website / Seiyuu Awards official Twitter account
