Seiyu Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

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Seiyu Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Country Japan
First awarded2007
Currently held by Kensho Ono (2022)

The Seiyu Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards at the Seiyu Awards.

Winners

WinnersAgencyCharactersAnimeRef
2007
Jun Fukuyama Production Baobab Lelouch Lamperouge Code Geass – Lelouch of the Rebellion [1]
2008
Mamoru Miyano Himawari Theatre Group Setsuna F. Seiei Mobile Suit Gundam 00 [2]
2009
Hiroshi Kamiya Aoni Production Takashi Natsume Natsume Yujincho [3]
2010
Daisuke Ono Mausu Promotion Sebastian Michaelis Black Butler [4]
2011
No award givenN/AN/AN/A [5]
2012
Hiroaki Hirata Theater Company SubaruKotetsu T. Kaburagi Tiger & Bunny [6]
2013
Yūki Kaji Arts Vision Issei Hyōdō High School DxD [7]
2014
Yūki Kaji VIMS Eren Yeager Attack on Titan [8]
2015
Daisuke Ono Mausu PromotionShizuo Heiwajima Durarara!!x2 Shō [9]
2016
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka I'm Enterprise Sōma Yukihira Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Second Plate [10]
2017
Ryunosuke Kamiki Amuse Taki Tachibana Your Name
2018
Toshiyuki Toyonaga Super Eccentric TheaterYuri Katsuki Yuri!!! on Ice [11]
2019
Yuma Uchida I'm EnterpriseAsh Lynx Banana Fish [12]
2020
Natsuki Hanae Across EntertainmentTanjirō Kamado Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba [13]
2021
Kenjiro Tsuda AmuletoAkihito Narihisago Id: Invaded [14]
2022
Kensho Ono Amino ProduceHathaway Noa Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway [15]

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