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September 12 is Kenichiro Suzumaru’s birthday.

Kenichiro Suzumura first debuted back in the 1990s. Achieving the personality award and synergy award at the 2nd voice actor awards, a singing award at the 6th and supporting actor award and personality award at the 10th.
Being active in the year 1990 with 『Uta no Prince-sama Movie: Maji LOVE Kingdom』and 『Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran』.

To get into the birthday celebration mood for Kenichiro Suzumura, Anime!Anime! made a survey asking 「Favorite character performed by Kenishiro Suzumura is?」. Within the survey period August 27 till September 3, 400 responses were gathered. The male-female ratio is about 14% for men and 86% for women. The age group was about 45% for those under 19 years old and about 30% for those in their 20s, mainly young people.

■Okita Sougo from『Gintama』gets the top！ Plenty of sadistic vibe
1st place goes to Okita Sougo. The approval rate was about 32. Comments relenting Okita’s charm like「The first character where i found out about Suzumura-san。I think its the first character that Suzumura-san shows a variety of sadistic acts as a sadistic develish guy.」

Comments describing his unexpected good side like「Sadistic but tend to hold back、Sougo is one that would obey his big sis。To act out Sougo’s countless sides and dexterity is really impressive.」and「I love how he reminisce about the nostalgic times he spent with his big sis.」. A new 『Gintama』movie was decided for screening. Receiving high expectations for the third anime movie.

2nd place goes to Masato Hijirikawa from the『Uta no Prince-sama』series.The approval rate was about 17%.
Popular opinions complimenting his sincere and muscular personality like 「I just love a mix of serious-type of character with a calm and cool voice ！」, 「It amazingly fits Suzu-san’s voice with Masato’s bushido ways、it feels natural and adorable.」. Fans praising his singing voice like「A character where you can tell Suzumura-san is an artist.」

3rd place goes to Ryutaros from 『Masked Rider Den-O』.With an approval rate of 7%.
Comments received like「Gives off an impression that its a difficult role to play as he’s innocent and child-like, but with a slightly dark side.」, 「I can’t forget a scene where he battles with a cute character voice.」and「Every Sunday he becomes really delighted.」
It seems like the fact that Suzumura-san have acted in the 「Masked Rider」series is something impressionable to fans. It was ranked in along with the anime characters lined up.

■ Introducing other comments!!
Shin Asuka from 『Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY』, 「The work that made Suzumura impressionable. The scenes where he’s acting clumsy yet dumb and straight-forward were unforgettable」 and「The way he held on to his beliefs till the end is just way too cool.」
Iyami from 『Osomatsu-san』, 「Suzu-san changed his voice to the point where I can’t even tell it’s him at first.」and「The word “Ge” left a great impact on me」.

Yang Wen-li from『Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These』, 「Hates the army despite being a strong, kind soldier… He who have many complicated personalities was acted out perfectly by Suzu-san. It won’t be an exaggeration to say its the character that shines the most acted by Suzu-san.」
Rakushun from 『The Twelve Kingdoms』, a non-human character also took a bite off one of the top 10 seats with comments like「The line“It’ll be nice if there’s anyone who understands this” when he was playing the helpful young man(Nezumi) supporting the main protagonist role, was memorable」and「The way he speaks like a beast that was just cuddled is too cute！ His kind voice after turning into a humanoid form was also great」.

In the overall ranking, a wide range of characters from titles broadcast in the 1990s to titles of the latest work appeared in rankings as well. The result proves that he has played an unforgettable character for a long period of time.

■Top 10 Ranking
[Favorite character performed by Kenichi Suzumura is？]
1st Okita Sougo 『Gintama』
2nd Masato Hijirikawa 『Uta no Prince-sama』
3rd Ryutaros 『Masked Rider Den-O』 『Imagine Anime』
4th Lavi 『D.Gray-man』
5th Atsushi Murasakibara 『Kuroko’s Basketball』
5th Yang Wen-li『Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These』
5th Rakushun 『The Twelve Kingdoms』
8th Shin Asuka 『Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY』
9th Iyami 『Osomatsu-san』
10th Momotarou Mikoshita 『Free！』
10th Romani Archaman 『Fate/Grand Order』

（Survey Period：August 27 till September 3）

■Top 20 Ranking
[Favorite character performed by Kenichi Suzumura is？]
1st Okita Sougo 『Gintama』
2nd Masato Hijirikawa 『Uta no Prince-sama』
3rd Ryutaros 『Masked Rider Den-O』 『Imagine Anime』
4th Lavi 『D.Gray-man』
5th Atsushi Murasakibara 『Kuroko’s Basketball』
5th Yang Wen-li『Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These』
5th Rakushun 『The Twelve Kingdoms』
8th Shin Asuka 『Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY』
9th Iyami 『Osomatsu-san』
10th Momotarou Mikoshita 『Free！』
10th Romani Archaman 『Fate/Grand Order』
12th Hitachiin Hikaru 『Ouran High School Host Club』
13th Avis 『100 Sleeping Princes & the Kingdom of Dreams』
13th Serizawa Haruki『Our Love Has Always Been 10 Centimeters Apart』
13th Hirari 『Laughing Under the Clouds』
16th Asahina Tsubaki 『BROTHERS CONFLICT』
16th Kokutou Mikiya 『The Garden of Sinners』
16th Kiryuu Atsurou 『Sensual Phrase』
16th Zack Fair 『Final Fantasy VII』
20th Isumi Shinichirou 『Hikaru no Go』
20th Sandalphon 『Granblue Fantasy』
20th Nishikage Seiya 『Inazuma Eleven: Balance Of Ares』
20th Yoshitake 『Daily Lives of Highschool Boys』

（Survey Period：August 27 till September 3）