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2nd Annual Seiyū Awards Announced

The second annual Seiyū Awards were presented on Saturday in Tokyo's otaku shopping district of Akihabara.

Best Lead Actor Award

Mamoru Miyano
Affiliation: Gekidan Himawari
Koutetsu Sangokushi's Hakugen Rikuson, Mobile Suit Gundam 00's Setsuna F. Seiei

Best Lead Actress Award

Aya Hirano (Last year's Best New Actress award-winner)
Affiliation: Spacecraft Entertainment
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's Haruhi Suzumiya, NANA's Reira Serizawa, Death Note's MISA Amane, Lucky Star's Konata Izumi

Best Supporting Actor Awards

Daisuke Ono
Affiliation: Mausu Promotion
Minami-ke's Hosaka, Rental Magica's Kagezaki

Hiroshi Kamiya
Affiliation: Aoni Production
Mobile Suit Gundam 00's Tieria Erde, Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei's Nozomu Itoshiki

Best Supporting Actress Awards

Rie Kugimiya
Affiliation: I'm Enterprise
Hayate the Combat Butler's Nagi Sanzenin, Shakugan no Shana's Shana

Mitsuki Saiga
Affiliation: Ken Production
Tales of Agriculture's Kei Yūki, Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann's Rossiu, Toward the Terra's Jomy Mark Shin

Best New Actor Awards

Wataru Hatano
Affiliation: 81 Produce
Toward the Terra's Sam Houston, Saint Beast: Kouin Jojishi Tenshi Tan's Tenshi Yuri

Tsubasa Yonaga
Affiliation: Ken Production
Ookiku Furikabutte's Ren Mihashi, Kishin Taisen Gigantic Formula's Shingo Suwa

Best New Actress Awards

Emiri Katō
Affiliation: 81 Produce
Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z's Momoko Akatsutsumi/Hyper Blossom, Lucky Star's Kagami Hiiragi

Yū Kobayashi
Affiliation: Holy Peak
Gintama's Sarutobi Ayame, Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei's Kaere Kimura

Best Singing Award

Aya Hirano, Emiri Katō, Kaori Fukuhara (Avex Planning & Development), Aya Endō (Office PAC)
"Motteke! Sailor Fuku" (Lucky Star opening theme)

Best Personality Award

Kenichi Suzumura
Affiliation: Arts Vision
Gintama's Sōgo Okita, Zombie-Loan's Chika Akatsuki, Jyūshin Enbu - Hero Tales' Taitō

Special Merit Award

Tetsuya Jō
Affiliation: Haikyō
Ninpu Kamui Gaiden (narration), Ayashi Ningen Bemu (narration), Japanese dubbing for Gregory Peck, Robert Wagner

Merit Awards

Nachi Nozawa
Affiliation: Ken Production
Gokū no Daibōken's Sanzo, Ace wo Nerae!'s Coach Jin Munakata, Die Hard's John McClane (Japanese dubbing)

Michio Hazama
Affiliation: Mouvement
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross' Bruno J. Global, Legend of the Galactic Heroes' Walter von Schönkopf, Spirit of Wonder's Dr. Breckenridge, Japanese dubbing for Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro

Ryōko Kinomiya
Affiliation: Haikyō
Galaxy Express 999 movie's Promethium, Mach Go Go Go/Speed Racer's Aya Mifune, Japanese dubbing for Faye Dunaway  

Synergy Award

Kamen Rider Den-O
Toshihiko Seki (81 Produce), Kōji Yusa (freelancer), Masaki Terasoma (Mausu Production), Kenichi Suzumura (Arts Vision)

Kei Tomiyama Award

Tohru Furuya
Affiliation: Aoni Production
Mobile Suit Gundam's Amuro Ray, Kyojin no Hoshi's Hoshi Hyuuma, Saint Seiya's Pegasus Seiya, Sailor Moon's Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Kamen, Kimagure Orange Road's Kyosuke Kasuga

Source: animeanime.jp