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6th Annual Seiyū Award Winners Announced

The organizers of the 6th Annual Seiyū Awards announced the award winners on Friday.

Best Lead Actor Award

Award for best leading performances from an actor during the year
Hiroaki Hirata
Agency: Theater Company Subaru
Roles: One Piece

Best Lead Actress Award

Award for best leading performances from an actress during the year
Aoi Yūki
Agency: Pro Fit
Roles: Ben-To

Best ing Actor Award

Award for best ing performances from an actor during the year
Ryōhei Kimura
Agency: Gekidan Himari
Roles: Mamoru Miyano
Agency: Gekidan Himari
Roles: Antique Bakery

Best ing Actress Award

Award for best ing performances from actresses during the year
Emiri Katō
Agency: 81 Produce
Roles: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Darker than Black

Best New Actor Award

Award for noteworthy performances from an actor who debuted within the last five years
Takuya Eguchi
Agency: 81 Produce
Roles: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Agency: I'm Enterprise
Roles: Battle Spirits: Brave

Best New Actress Award

Award for noteworthy performances from actresses who debuted within the last five years
Ai Kayano
Agency: Pro Fit
Roles: Shiori Mikami
Agency: Aoni Production
Roles: Yuruyuri, Kämpfer

Best Singing Award

Award for singing by a Takuma Terashima
Agency: AXL-ONE
Roles: Kenichi Suzumura
Agency: Arts Vision
Roles: Boys Be...
Kishô Taniyama
Agency: Ken Production
Roles: DearS
Mamoru Miyano
Agency: Junichi Suwabe
Agency: Haikyō
Roles: Black Butler, Hiro Shimono
Agency: I'm Enterprise
Roles: Big Windup!

Best Personality Award

Award for best radio, web radio, or television personality under own name or in a role
Yuka Iguchi
Agency: Office Osawa
Role: Fractale

Special Merit Award

Award for late performers who contributed to many genres, especially foreign works, over the years
Osamu Kobayashi (1934-2011)
Agency: Dōjinsha Production
Roles: Yul Brynner, Michael Caine, Jon Voight, Harry Potter's Alastor Moody, Mission: Impossible's Willy Armitage

1931-2011)
Agency: Freelance
Roles: Clifton James, 1931-2011)
Agency: 81 Produce
Roles: Stargate SG-1's Master Bra'tac (Fist of the North Star's as Kiba Daio

Merit Awards

Award for the seiyū who have contributed to many genres, especially foreign works, over the years
Miyoko Asō
Agency: Haikyō
Roles: Kaneta Kimotsuki
Agency: 21th Century Fox
Roles: Galaxy Express 999's 999 Conductor

Synergy Award

Award for maximizing the appeal of voice-acting in a work as a whole
Yuka Terasaki (Ogipro The Next)

Kenyuu Horiuchi
Agency: Kenyu Office
Roles: A Team the Movie's Lieutenant Templeton "Face" Peck, Star Wars' Han Solo (Jesse

Keiko Toda
Agency: Look Up
Roles: Mobile Suit Gundam's Matilda Ajan

Kids/Family Award

Award selected by children
Ikue Ohtani
Agency: Mausu Promotion
Roles: Tony Tony Chopper

Overseas Fans Choice Award

Award selected by overseas fans
Takahiro Sakurai
Agency: 81 Produce
Roles: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children's Cloud Strife

Most Votes Award

(New Award)
Hiroshi Kamiya
Agency: Aoni Production
Role: Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei

Seiyū Awards' Special Award

Picture Book Read-Aloud Caravan Team

1970-2011)
Agency: Production baobab
Roles: Air

[Via Ota-Suke]

Update: Kishô Taniyama's agency corrected. Thanks, GokuMew2.