Saturday's installment of TV Asahi entertainment show "Onegai! Ranking Gold" feature a segment on voice acting, where 100 Japanese voice actors were asked to vote for their favorites in the industry. The overall favorite was Koichi Yamadera (who has a token appearance in every Pocket Monsters movie), while Megumi Hayashibara (Musashi) ranked 8th and Ikue Ohtani (Pikachu) ranked 20th on the list.


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The full list, with most notable role listed in parenthesis, is as follows:

1) Koichi Yamadera (Ryoji Kaji, Neon Genesis Evangelion)
2) Masako Nozawa (Son Goku, Dragon Ball)
3) Mayumi Tanaka (Luffy, One Piece)
4) Shigeru Chiba (Rei Ichido, Highschool! Kimengumi)
5) Joji Yanami (Boyacky, Yatterman)
5) Ichiro Nagai (Jigoro Inokuma, Yawara)
7) Norio Wakamoto (Cell, Dragon Ball)
8) Megumi Hayashibara (Rei Ayanami, Neon Genesis Evangelion)
9) Minami Takayama (Conan Edogawa, Detective Conan)
10) Akiko Yajima (Shinnosuke Nohara, Crayon Shin-chan)
11) Kazuya Nakai (Zoro, One Piece)
12) Hideyuki Tanaka (Taro Yamada, Dokaben)
13) Hiroaki Hirata (Sanji, One Piece)
14) Akio Ohtsuka (Moominpappa, Moomin Valley)
14) Takeshi Kusao (Hanamichi Sakuragi, Slam Dunk)
16) Kenji Utsumi (Senbei Norimaki, Dr. Slump Arale-chan)
17) Kenichi Ogata (Shishimaru, Ninja Hattori-kun)
17) Ryusei Nakao (Freeza, Dragon Ball)
19) Akira Kamiya (Suguru Kinniku, Kinnikuman)
20) Ikue Ohtani (Pikachu, Pocket Monsters)
21) Chika Sakamoto (Hajime-chan, Heisei Tensai Bakabon)
22) Yuji Mitsuya (Tatsuya Uesugi, Touch)
23) Noriko Hidaka (Minami Asakura, Touch)
23) Kappei Yamaguchi (Usopp, One Piece)
25) Kazuko Sugiyama (Heidi, Heidi, Girl of the Alps)

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