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Yahoo! Japan has announced the “representative” of 2022 that had the most surge in searches, “Yahoo! Japan Search Awards 2022” on December 5, 2022. For the anime category, it goes to “Spy x Family”, voice actor/ actress category is Tanezaki Atsumi, and music category is the opening theme song of “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc”, “Zankyou Sanka”.

“Yahoo! Japan Search Awards 2022” is an award that announced the ranking of individuals, works, products, etc. that had a surge in searches when compared to previous years. It was held for the 9th time this year, and the data collection period is from January 1 to November 1, 2022. Other than the “Grand Winner” that has the most surge in searches, it has also announced the lineup in various categories.

For the anime category under the works category, the top is “Spy x Family”. This anime is based on the manga serializing on the manga application “Shonen Jump+”, and the first cour started broadcast from April to June. The searches related to this anime had a huge surge mainly on the broadcast date.
For the voice actor/ actress category under the individual category, it goes to Tanezaki Atsumi, who is the voice of Anya from “Spy x Family”. Other than voicing characters from various anime, her participation in the radio program “Hoshino Gen’s All Night Nippon” has caused her to be put under the spotlight.

For the song category under the works category, it goes to Aimer’s “Zankyou Sanka”. This song served as the opening theme of “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc”, and this song was performed in various music program and music festival.

For the game category under the works category, the first place is the Nintendo Switch’s game, “Splatoon 3” that was released in September. For the drama category of the works category, the top is the NHK historical drama “The 13 Lords of the Shogun” that had featured many voice actors, such as Yamadera Koichi, Seki Tomokazu, Kimura Subaru, Hirata Hiroaki, and Ogata Kenichi.

For the grand prize winner, who has the most surge in searches in 2022, it goes to the figure skater Hanyu Yuzuru, and he is also the top in the athlete category under the individual category as well.