Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by kn83 » Thu Jan 04, 2018 8:11 pm

The main thing that surprises me is that future trunks isn't top 10

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by Jackalope89 » Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:02 pm

kn83 wrote:The main thing that surprises me is that future trunks isn't top 10
Had the poll been done in the US, Trunks most likely would have been top 3.

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by Torturephile » Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:11 pm

Some characters have changed positions since I first saw the poll a week ago. Paragus is now under Piccolo, Paikuhan was added to the list, Goku is now top three, and Kale and Kefla are even, as examples.
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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by nickzambuto » Sun Jan 07, 2018 10:27 pm

I had no idea Japan liked Bardock and Broli that much, I thought that was an American thing.

Japan likes Broli so much that fucking Paragus slid into the top 10 riding off his coattails.

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by Akyon » Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:11 pm

Despite all his hard work, Roshi is one of the least popular humans whilst Yamcha is the most popular(although I can get behind this). Krillin losing to Chiaoutzu in popularity. I am so confused. Launch being so high is a surprise too. Seems the fanbase never forgot her unlike Toriyama.
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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by BrolyKale » Tue Jan 09, 2018 4:31 am

nickzambuto wrote:I had no idea Japan liked Bardock and Broli that much, I thought that was an American thing.

Japan likes Broli so much that fucking Paragus slid into the top 10 riding off his coattails.
Paragus is a meme in Japan, that's why he's up there.
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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by nickzambuto » Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:08 pm

BrolyKale wrote:
nickzambuto wrote:I had no idea Japan liked Bardock and Broli that much, I thought that was an American thing.

Japan likes Broli so much that fucking Paragus slid into the top 10 riding off his coattails.
Paragus is a meme in Japan, that's why he's up there.
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Post by BrolyKale » Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:23 pm

nickzambuto wrote:
BrolyKale wrote:
nickzambuto wrote:I had no idea Japan liked Bardock and Broli that much, I thought that was an American thing.

Japan likes Broli so much that fucking Paragus slid into the top 10 riding off his coattails.
Paragus is a meme in Japan, that's why he's up there.
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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by kn83 » Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:44 pm

https://www.animeranking.net/stat.php?id=34

The list just got updated again. Vegeta is now 1st place, Piccolo is now in the top 10, Mira, Janemba and especially Android 21 are now included on the list.

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by Dbzfan94 » Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:46 pm

Happy to see Goten so high up on the list. #17 isnt bad.

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Post by precita » Sun Jan 28, 2018 9:55 pm

Yamcha in #12, above Blue Vegito. Given Fighter Z as well, I expect Yamcha's popularity to skyrocket.

Maybe when Dragonball comes back from hiatus they'll finally give him a role. He went the entire span of Super without a single thing to do. :lol:

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Post by Olympian » Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:50 am

He saved the universe with Baseball.

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Which reminds me how sad I am that they didn`t give him proper anti air missiles with baseball moves.
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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by kn83 » Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:14 am

So based on this, apparently for the Japanese fandom:

1. Yamcha is the most popular human fighter.

2. Tien is NOT hated in Japan, neither is Jiren. Both rank pretty high.

3. Android 18 is the most popular female character.

4. Hit is the most popular non-U7 character, and ranks pretty high.

5. Broly is the most popular villain, rivaled only by Frieza and Goku Black.

6. The Android twins get a lot of love over there.

7. Uub and (suprisingly) Valese are the only mostly GT characters with a big fan base (besides SSJ4 of course). Not a single GT villain or side character (besides her) made the list.

8. Vegito is MUCH more popular than Gogeta.

9. Goku Black is the most popular post-Z character.

10. We're gonna see more of Towa, Chronoa, Android 21 and Tapion in the future.

11. Vegeta being the most popular of all makes since, since he does get alittle more fanart and fan-fiction than Goku (who gets a lot over there himself).

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan

Post by ShadowBardock89 » Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:17 am

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Bullza wrote:Why is Bardock always so popular? He's not that good of a character at all and doesn't even have a unique appearance.

I can understand Broly more so than the forgettable Bardock.
Well he is a pure blooded Saiyan, more importantly the father of Goku, he is very brave, he is a badass, he's serious, he's charismatic, the first movie just shows how cool he is... I'm not a fan of Bardock but I can understand why a lot of people love him so much.
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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by kn83 » Sat Mar 03, 2018 5:26 am

17 is now the 4th most popular character in the franchise (thanks to Super)

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by Nevaeh » Thu Mar 08, 2018 12:35 pm

Goten's girlfriend from GT made the list :lol:

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by kn83 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 8:07 pm

Nevaeh wrote:Goten's girlfriend from GT made the list :lol:
Yet characters like Omega Shenron, Baby and such didn't. That's funny.

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by kn83 » Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:54 pm

If this is anything to go by, then we are definitely gonna see the U6 saiyans in the 2018 movie.

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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by TheZFighter » Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:40 pm

Obviously its down to personal taste but I genuinely don't understand why Bardock and Paragus are in the top 10. I've never got what people saw in Broly either.
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Re: Character popularity poll in Japan (not official)

Post by Dbzfan94 » Fri Mar 16, 2018 2:26 pm

TheZFighter wrote:Obviously its down to personal taste but I genuinely don't understand why Bardock and Paragus are in the top 10. I've never got what people saw in Broly either.
Well Paragus is a meme. So thats part of it.

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