

A lot of you probably know about Kevin Bacon and how he's supposedly the most
connected among Hollywood artists.

> Who is the most-connected anime voice actor ( _seiyuu_ )?

I've seen in some places that either of Yuji Ueda or Megumi Hayashibara could
be the Kevin Bacon of _seiyuu_ , but has anybody ever done the graph of the
interconnections between voice actors to support this claim?

(I'm only counting voices in the original Japanese, and not dubs.)


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Who is the most-connected (in the "six degrees" sense) seiyuu?


I don't know the specific answer for "most connected" seiyuu, but many
companies did some ranking for seiyuu.

[Oricon (Japanese)](http://www.oricon.co.jp/special/1372/) has a user-vote
based ranking. Most known seiyuu is [Nobuyo
Oyama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuyo_%C5%8Cyama) (e.g. _Doraemon_ ) and
[Masako Nozawa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_Nozawa) (e.g. Goku from
_Dragon Ball_ ).

[AppBank (Japanese)](http://www.appbank.net/2017/01/10/iphone-
application/1298094.php) also has a ranking based on votes from other seiyuu.
Top 3 is [Koichi
Yamadera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dichi_Yamadera), Masako Nozawa
and [Keiji Fujiwara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Fujiwara). I think
Yamadera is selected because there are lots of seiyuu worked with him.

I want to put my 2 cents to Koichi Yamadera because he has long career and
variety of anime.


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It’s not that Kevin Bacon is the most connected, he’s just the arbitrary
starting point that the creators of the concept used to demonstrate their
point. Any A list actor that’s been working for more than a few years is only
a couple of degrees away from the entire entertainment industry.

The idea of 6 degrees of separation is that everyone is connected to everyone,
especially when you are in the same industry/subculture. I myself am 4 degrees
away from JRR Tolkien, meaning that everyone reading this is now 5 degrees
away at minimum.


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