Seiyuu Awards have officially opened the voting for next year’s edition. The 12th edition of the prestigious award cerminony will take place in Japan in March. Voting is open to overseas fans. For a detailed guide on how to vote, please read this article.
It’s that time of the year. For almost 2 months, fans can vote for their favorite seiyuu in the most varied categories. Be advised that a lot of votes for a certain seiyuu won’t determine that that seiyuu will, in fact, win the award he’s been voted for by his fans. Fans’ votes count for reference for the preliminary round, then specialists in the seiyuu business will determine who will win based on specific criteria in two other rounds. Remember: fans help the voting but won’t determine winners.
Now onto the specifics (a.k.a the Japanese stuff writen on the official website):
- The voting is open from October 1st to November 30th on Seiyuu Awards official website (link below).
- You can vote only once.
- This is not written there but it’s advised that you write the name of the seiyuu you’re voting for in Kanji, the same can be said about the character you’ll be nominating your seiyuu for.
- You can only vote for characters and anime released during the following period of time: 01/12/2016 to 30/11/2017. If you vote for something that doesn’t fit within this time frame it won’t count.
- The works you may vote on include: anime, newly released anime (from this season i.e TSUKIPRO or Idolm@ster SideM), games, dvds (anime released in dvd or blu-ray during that span of time mentioned above), movies and ova.
Now onto the specifics to fill in the empty spaces and vote correctly:
This is the first category you can vote in: “BEST MALE SEIYUU IN A MAIN ROLE“. The numbers mean the following:
1 - Seiyuu name (in kanji) 2 - Name of the anime/game/ova that in which that seiyuu impressed you 3 - Name of the character 4 -Â Comments (you don't need to fill this)
This is the second category you can vote in: “BEST FEMALE SEIYUU IN A MAIN ROLE“. The numbers mean the following:
1 - Seiyuu name (in kanji) 2 - Name of the anime/game/ova that in which that seiyuu impressed you 3 - Name of the character 4 -Â Comments (you don't need to fill this)
This is the third category you can vote in: “BEST MALE SEIYUU IN A SUPPORTING ROLE“. The numbers mean the following:
1 - Seiyuu name (in kanji) 2 - Name of the anime/game/ova that in which that seiyuu impressed you 3 - Name of the supporting character 4 -Â Comments (you don't need to fill this)
This is the fourth category you can vote in: “BEST FEMALE SEIYUU IN A SUPPORTING ROLE“. The numbers mean the following:
1 - Seiyuu name (in kanji) 2 - Name of the anime/game/ova that in which that seiyuu impressed you 3 - Name of the supporting character 4 -Â Comments (you don't need to fill this)
This is the fifth category you can vote in: “BEST MALE ROOKIE“. Attention! The male seiyuu must have debuted in the last 5 years or it won’t count. The numbers mean the following:
1 - Seiyuu name (in kanji) 2 - Name of the anime/game/ova that in which that seiyuu impressed you 3 - Name of the character 4 -Â Comments (you don't need to fill this)
This is the sixth category you can vote in: “BEST FEMALE ROOKIE“. Attention! The female seiyuu must have debuted in the last 5 years or it won’t count. The numbers mean the following:
1 - Seiyuu name (in kanji) 2 - Name of the anime/game/ova that in which that seiyuu impressed you 3 - Name of the character 4 -Â Comments (you don't need to fill this)
This is the sixth category you can vote in: “Singing award“. This category includes male and female seiyuu. 2.5D units (i.e Growth, TRIGGER, QUARTET NIGHT, OSIRIS), bands (i.e OLDCODEX, GRANRODEO, Screen Mode), solo artists (i.e Mamoru Miyano, Shouta Aoi, Soma Saito) can be voted. The numbers mean the following:
1 - Seiyuu name (in kanji) 2 - Song that impressed you 3 - Comment (you don't need to fill this)
This is the sixth category you can vote in: “PERSONALITY AWARD“. This category includes male and female seiyuu. Tv shows hosted by seiyuu (i.e Takahiro Sakurai Kako warai, Saito Soma no Wagokoro wo Kimi ni) or radio show (i.e Dear Girl Stories, Miyano Mamoru radio smile, Wataru Hatano & Takuya Sato Scat Babys Show!!).The numbers mean the following:
1 - Seiyuu name (in kanji) 2 - Title of the radio/tv show 3 - Comment (you don't need to fill this)
Lastly:
1 - Fill with your email 2 - Click here to submit your votes after ticking 3 3 - Tick this
The voting is done through the Seiyuu Awards official website HERE.
Guide made by: THTFHQ
SOURCE: Seiyuu Awards official website
