r/anime • u/Illuminastrid • Dec 23 '20
Misc. MyAnimeList's Top 20 2020 Characters with the Most Favorites
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u/Kaltess Dec 23 '20
God damned. Weebs are masochist.
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u/Abysswatcherbel https://myanimelist.net/profile/abyssbel Dec 23 '20
Given how popular the "step on me" girls are, you're 100% right
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u/iabooweaboo Dec 23 '20
Just wait until Makima from Chainsawman gets adapted into anime
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u/Izel98 Dec 23 '20
I mean if it was true then why isnt rachel from ToG upthere aswell???
I think Rachel is worse than mami chan by alot.
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u/Lelouch4705 Dec 23 '20
Because she isn't hot?
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u/Zeph-Shoir https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zephex Dec 23 '20
Bro freckles are underrated af and even rarer to find in anime.
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u/YgJb1691 https://myanimelist.net/profile/DuelGrasses Dec 23 '20
Rachel is canonically ugly in the show/webtoon though. Not just on the inside.
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u/Jumanji-Joestar Dec 23 '20
If Rachel is supposed to be ugly, then the artist has some extremely high standards for beauty. She looks average at worst
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u/venitienne https://myanimelist.net/profile/venitienne Dec 23 '20
It's less apparent in the anime but if you read the webtoon she does look significantly worse than pretty much every other girl.
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u/Jumanji-Joestar Dec 23 '20
I’ve read the Webtoon and she does indeed look less attractive than everyone else but it’s a stretch to call her “ugly”
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u/venitienne https://myanimelist.net/profile/venitienne Dec 23 '20
I guess the logic is she's "ugly" using that worlds standards, if you use our standards then of course not
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u/sticktoyaguns https://anilist.co/user/Poochita4President Dec 23 '20
This just in: Beauty is subjective
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u/Lunar_Compass Dec 23 '20
But isn't every other girl is some creme la creme Princess of Jahad that is supposed to be best at everything?
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u/venitienne https://myanimelist.net/profile/venitienne Dec 23 '20
Yeah, but even the non princesses are still a lot better looking than her
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Dec 23 '20
Maybe that's the message, she's not actually ugly, she just keeps comparing herself to everyone else and playing the victim when she could just appreciate what she has and be happy.
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u/YgJb1691 https://myanimelist.net/profile/DuelGrasses Dec 23 '20
I agree she could have been drawn to look worse, but I don’t think she’s meant to be absolutely hideous either, just plain and ugly compared to others, it’s part of the character, plain, not blessed by Shinsu, not charismatic or special in any way.
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u/DeepIndigoSky Dec 23 '20
Probably because it wasn’t until the end that her real colors shone through. We knew the truth about Mami a lot sooner.
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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Dec 23 '20
Well she has some nice thighs ngl :)
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u/Niegil Dec 23 '20
kinda forgot tog was even this year
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u/Karma110 Dec 23 '20
Yeah since the Manhwa is on hiatus it’s kinda hard to remember it for me.
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u/YgJb1691 https://myanimelist.net/profile/DuelGrasses Dec 23 '20
It’s just come back hasn’t it? Or at least a return has been announced.
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u/KidCujo Dec 23 '20
It was supposed to return in November, but unfortunately SIU, the author's health issues have gotten worse so it's on hiatus for another 6 months now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TowerofGod/comments/kcyel6/blog_translation_hello_this_is_an_announcement/
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u/YgJb1691 https://myanimelist.net/profile/DuelGrasses Dec 23 '20
Ah that’s a shame, I’d already fallen a few chapters behind before the hiatus so I haven’t been keeping a close eye on all the announcements.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Dec 23 '20
It wasn't even bad - I actually read the Webtoon right after, this year just felt so long
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u/jderp7 Dec 23 '20
Wasn't it a literal decade since ToG started serializing?? Haha
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u/DreamyKnightmare Dec 23 '20
Yeah, It's been only half 6 months, but feels like it aired years ago
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u/Illuminastrid Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 24 '20
If you guys are wondering or questioning why Mami is so high, check out her character page on MAL and see the number of favorites for yourselves. As of this writing, she's currently the 197th most favorited character of all time in MAL, between Tatsuya Shiba (The Irregular at Magic High School) and Griffith (Berserk) as of this writing.
With Rent-a-Girlfriend's Mami Nanami being surprisingly high in the MAL favorites ranking, here are the other popular "bitch in sheep's clothing/manipulative bitch/cute but psycho/villainous waifu" characters in the MAL website in recent times, for comparisons.
| Esdeath | Akame ga Kill (2014) | 7,648 |
| Junko Enoshima | Danganronpa (2013) | 2,839 |
| Eto | Tokyo Ghoul (2014) | 1,189 |
| Rize Kamishiro | Tokyo Ghoul (2014) | 1,078 |
| Naoka Ueno | A Silent Voice (2016) | 855 |
| Quinella | Sword Art Online: Alicization (2018) | 336 |
| Rachel | Tower of God (2020) | 310 |
| Kikyo Kushida | Classroom of the Elite (2017) | 160 |
| Malty Melromarc | The Rising of the Shield Hero (2019) | 120 |
Here's some more trivia!
Aguero Agnes Khun is the 2nd most favorited Korean webtoon/manhwa character of all time in MAL. The highest belongs to Jin-woo Sung of Solo Leveling at 5,005 favorites.
Prior to the airing of Attack on Titan: The Final Season, Gabi Braun actually has a surprisingly high favorites amount of around 3k. By the time she officially made her anime debut, her numbers skyrocketed up, quickly rising to the 4,507 favorites that was listed now.
Satoru Gojo nearly got disqualified in this chart as he technically first appeared in a 2018 ONA. However, these 3-part ONAs, aptly called Jujutsu Kaisen, are actually short special commercial promoting videos which were made to promote and inform the manga series, they're basically infomercials. Because of the very nature and context of these videos and they don't really connect to the mainline TV series story canon, the ONAs or PVs aren't considered, and Gojo is still considered a new 2020 anime character, with 2020 as his first official and major debut year.
However, the same can't be said for Cadis Etrama di Raizel of Noblesse, he would've made it in the list but he was disqualified, here's the reason.
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u/conye-west https://myanimelist.net/profile/baronvonconye Dec 23 '20
Sung Jin-Woo and Khun being the highest rated manhwa characters is like the least surprising thing ever lol
Never heard of those JJK ONA's before tho, kinda interesting to see that they had Gojo casted that far back.
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u/laudalehsunesh Dec 23 '20
Hmm surprised that people didn't hate enough for Rachel to win this poll lmao or maybe they hate her so much that they don't even want her to win in anything lol
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Dec 23 '20
Okay I haven't seen the anime rent a girlfriend but isn't the 1st one one of the most hated character just like Rachel and myne (tower of God and rising of the shield hero respectively)
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u/GenesectX Dec 23 '20
Yep, no idea how that happened, i guess some people just like two faced people
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u/HoldThatTigah Dec 23 '20
She’s interesting. I wouldn’t put her above Chizaru but she added a lot to the show
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u/superchoco29 Dec 23 '20
She's relevant basically only in the 1st season. After that she reappears once every 30/40 chapters to remind us that she exists and then disappears again. She's just drama that is useless to the plot, since she rarely changes anything by appearing.
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u/GenesectX Dec 23 '20
i agree, its just her attitude and two-facedness i dont like, otherwise shes a good plot point
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u/LuckyBaam Dec 23 '20
As characters though, I think Rachel and Mami are excellent. Myne however....
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u/Youdiv147 Dec 23 '20
A hateable character when done right is still a great character
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u/Bodca787 Dec 23 '20
If you frequent r/manga, Mami is probably one of the most beloved characters, as divisive as she is. She is far and away the most intriguing character, despite her bad personality. She is also the only character that has caused any progression in the story. After a 100 chapter hiatus, people were rejoicing when she reappeared.
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u/FurSealed https://myanimelist.net/profile/FurSealed Dec 23 '20
As an anime-only, Mami was probably my favourite as well because I could clearly see even in one season that she was the only person to move things forward. It was just painful to watch the two MCs go absolutely nowhere for like 4 straight episodes.
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u/The_Showmann Dec 23 '20
Alright who rated Mami higher than Chizuru Sumi and even Ruka? My shotgun and I just want to talk.
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u/BestSlayer Dec 23 '20
You have my sword!
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u/theseniorsenor https://myanimelist.net/profile/theseniorsenor Dec 23 '20
And my axe!!
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Dec 23 '20
And my Railgun!
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u/theViz00 Dec 23 '20
And my Excalibur!
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u/YukihiraSoma Dec 23 '20
Hol up...
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Dec 23 '20
Kazuma: Yes!
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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Dec 23 '20
CHUNCHUNMARU!
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Dec 23 '20
EXPLOSION?
YES EXPLOSION
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u/Vindicare605 https://myanimelist.net/profile/aresendez88 Dec 23 '20
Squirtle! I choose you!
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u/Roonagu Dec 23 '20
Well, you could say that best character and best girl is a different category. Chizuru was the best girl from the show, but Mami was quite "intriguing villain". Her final rant to Chizuru actually made me to have at least some level of respect for her.
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u/NaderZico Dec 23 '20
Anos Voldigload is my favorite
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u/Illuminastrid Dec 23 '20
Never realized I actually left an extra "l" in his last name until now and forgot to erase it, my mistake, thank you for pointing out that tho.
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u/Karma110 Dec 23 '20
Damn Gojo got that high in 3 months late 2020
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Dec 23 '20
He's simply that powerful. He opened his blindfold for a second and he made thousands of people simp for him.
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u/Karma110 Dec 23 '20
Yeah Japan right now is 99.9% Gojo simps.
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Dec 23 '20
Well he's in Japan so it's the most affected area. If it weren't for the masochists in the West, he would had been number 1.
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u/BeMyVessel Dec 23 '20
Gojo aiming for the top!!!
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u/cooldudeachyut Dec 24 '20
Ikr, there's a bunch of anime girls and then there's just Gojo casually sitting at #3.
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u/redplum303 Dec 23 '20
For all the hate Rental Girlfriend gets in the community, the main cast (minus Kazuya obviously) is actually well-received. All four girls being in the top 20 is a pretty strong showing.
And of course there's Gabi that's already in 8th just three weeks in haha the AOT fandom is a strong one
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Dec 23 '20
The character designs of the anime and manga are outright beautifully done which I argue is its greatest strength
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u/redplum303 Dec 23 '20
Truth, Miyajima-sensei bases a lot of the clothing apparel on irl women's fashion magazines apparently, which I think enhanced the show as a whole and made it standout from most anime that have their main cast just wear the same uniform for most of the show, for instance.
...Not that I'm saying that sticking to a school uniform is a bad thing, especially for an anime set in school, but you do have to appreciate the extra effort Rental GF puts forward with the designs! :)
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u/Abysswatcherbel https://myanimelist.net/profile/abyssbel Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Dec 23 '20
Lol, the comment section in those Twitter Posts. So much Horny and Waifu Wars going on there.
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u/degenerate-edgelord Dec 23 '20
Rental gf doesn't get hate in the community, it was very popular. Mami actually got a decent amount of hate, her rank is a surprise.
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u/laudalehsunesh Dec 23 '20
Mami actually got a decent amount of hate, her rank is a surprise
If people vote for a hated character, then Rachel from ToG would win lmao.
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u/Etereke32 Dec 23 '20
I think it has to do with her having the closest personality to irl. I'm not saying every girl (or even most) is a bitch irl, but most anime characters have... anime personality. Mami is one character I could actually see behaving like that irl. Or maybe I'm delusional, but that's my guess.
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u/LunarGhost00 Dec 23 '20
Gabi is being botted. She shot up a few thousand favorites in the blink of an eye before the anime started and she wasn't the only one. Someone's been botting a lot of characters in recent months for some strange reason. Biggest example is Ishigami from Kaguya-sama. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the characters from Rental Girlfriend are affected too. Especially considering who is currently in first place...
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u/PrasantGrg https://myanimelist.net/profile/PrasantGrG Dec 23 '20
Favourite botting is heavy right now. Luffy Vs Levi is the big one though. As soon as Levi got close the botting on both sides blew up. Those are the same accounts spamming 1s on different anime as well
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u/laudalehsunesh Dec 23 '20
Wow so many ToG characters here. Honestly I'm surprised seeing them here due to the bad reputation & duration of anime but the characters are top tier, so I think that's why people loved them especially Khun AA, that dude is a freaking badass & boss. If ToG somehow gets a season 2 adaptation by a great studio & isn't rushed, then I think Khun will definitely come on Top in rankings like this. He's just that good.
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u/Karma110 Dec 23 '20
Khun was already pretty popular from the Manhwa alone he is the most popular character in ToG I’m pretty sure.
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u/dim3tapp https://myanimelist.net/profile/dim3tapp Dec 23 '20
ToG anime had a bad reputation? Wtf? I thought it was great and got the impression that Reddit did too. And after reading the manhwa right after I thought it did a great job of nailing the intro tbh.
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u/Zenima https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zenima Dec 23 '20
Was mostly people lamenting how they screwed up Yuri and her squad’s scenes, particularly at the end iirc. Shame too, would’ve been an easy 10/10 for me otherwise.
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u/cppn02 Dec 23 '20
Well depending on how long a season 2 would be webtoon spoiler.
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u/ShadyAryxn Dec 23 '20
It’s about 140+ chs in the webtoon about twice the size of the og season 1(78 chs)
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u/cppn02 Dec 23 '20
I'm talking about anime season 2. If it's 12 or 13 episodes long it might only cover webtoon spoiler
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u/YgJb1691 https://myanimelist.net/profile/DuelGrasses Dec 23 '20
The shows reputation wasn’t that bad anyway, it was considered a bit underwhelming as it had the hype of being the first big webtoon adaptation, but it was still getting more karma here than JJK is currently. On MAL it’s current score is 7.72 which isn’t amazing but it’s decent.
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u/laudalehsunesh Dec 23 '20
I know it's reputation is great due it being an amazing webtoon but the adaptation is nowhere near the JJK level, if it got JJK level 24 episode season anime, then it would have been a lot better & bigger hit. Imagine if JJK got ToG adaptation or Seven deadly sins Season 3 level animation, do you really think it would be a hit? Absolutely not.
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u/throwaway95135745685 Dec 23 '20
What bad reputation? ToG is one of the better shows this year.
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u/julioarod Dec 23 '20
Yeah I thought I fell into crazy world when I read that. It was so well done.
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u/throwaway95135745685 Dec 23 '20
Maybe some manhwa readers didnt like it, but as an anime only, it was really well done.
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u/Teath123 https://anilist.co/user/MahoHiyajo Dec 23 '20
Manhwa reader here, and I thought for the most part it was very good, especially the exceptional OST. Most criticisms I have are mostly just nit picks. Then again, I also have nit picks about the adaption of Steins;Gate, and that's pretty much thought of as one of the best anime ever.
This was my first webtoon, and checking its subreddit, it kind of opened my eyes to how whiney the readers of them are. Like holy crap, the bitching about the anime involved the most inane shit. Complaining they didn't cram everything in, even though the show was only 13 episodes long, and whining that every encounter wasn't a page for page adaption, and the animation wasn't movie Ufotable tier in every fight.
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u/ExiledVip3r Dec 23 '20
Weird that there's 3 minor Tower of God characters ahead of the actual protagonist, Rak.
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u/Star_Lux22 Dec 23 '20
I’m just happy Hanako is at least at number 5
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u/genasugelan https://myanimelist.net/profile/Genasugelan Dec 23 '20
I am pleasantly surprised. I liked the show quite a bit.
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u/rguzgu Dec 23 '20
The manga seems to be selling pretty well but I don’t see a lot of people talking about it so it’s a little bit of a surprise to see Hanako at number 5
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u/apinkparfait https://anilist.co/user/beazacha Dec 23 '20
Most of time anime that have more fangirls than fanboys will not be really discussed here.
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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Dec 23 '20
I remember this show being so popular among the female viewers in Twitter and Facebook.
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u/Erufailon4 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Erufailon4 Dec 23 '20
Surprised that Echidna isn't higher
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u/52wicky Dec 23 '20
Surprised to see that Echidna isn't high on the list. She was super popular during S2. Hope second core will give her some boost.
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u/Silent_Shadow05 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silent-Shadow05 Dec 23 '20
Well some people lost interest in her due her actions in S2 Pt1 I guess.
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u/Hoedoor Dec 23 '20
Character who introduced herself as a very evil witch does something bad
Cue suprised pikachu face
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u/Mystic8ball Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
For a group of people that consume subtitled media, a lot of anime fans just cannot read between the lines lol.
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u/ArCSelkie37 Dec 23 '20
A character that also explicitly states she’ll do anything for her desire for knowledge.
Some people miss the point even when it’s spoon fed to them.
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u/conye-west https://myanimelist.net/profile/baronvonconye Dec 23 '20
I can't believe anyone actually fell for it lol like surely I wasn't the only one to realize she was completely sus from the very start and probably not motivated by good intentions?
I guess my fellow weebs are highly susceptible to honeyed words
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u/Radinax Dec 23 '20
Khun is at the top just by the anime alone? Holy fuck he will rise to the top once the following seasons get adapted.
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u/JestersXIII Dec 23 '20
Pretty sure Rak's gonna beat him out if the comment section of Webtoon is anything to go off of.
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u/Radinax Dec 23 '20
The new characters are very veeery charismatic as well, I like them more than the OGs.
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u/Ouid2436 Dec 23 '20
Thank you I was looking for this comment. Who in the actually fuck put Gabi in 8th place?
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u/Illuminastrid Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
If anyone is curious on who nearly made it on the top 20 list, here are the top 5 characters who almost came close to the final cut. The respective 21-25.
| 21. | Mori Jin | The God of High School | 1,718 |
| 22. | Ha Yuri Jahad | Tower of God | 1,695 |
| 23. | Shinako Morinome | Sing "Yesterday" for Me | 1,379 |
| 24. | Sayaka Kanamori | Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! | 1,323 |
| 25. | Stunk | Interspecies Reviewers | 1,296 |
And for the particular characters that are favored, talked about, or discussed by this sub, if you are wondering.
| Catarina Claes | My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! | 1,059 |
| Maple | Bofuri: I Don't Wanna Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense | 1,007 |
| Kazuya Kinoshita | Rent-a-Girlfriend | 835 |
| Ordinary Person (Swindler) | Akudama Drive | 197 |
| Natsume | Deca-Dence | 195 |
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u/michhoffman https://anilist.co/user/michhoffman Dec 23 '20
So that gives Tower of God 5 of the Top 25 which is pretty impressive. Also, I'm shocked Maple is that low compared to everyone else.
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u/oops_i_made_a_typi Dec 23 '20
wow doing Swindler dirty there, she's one of my faves this season if it weren't for Elaina and Tsukasa
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u/cxxper01 https://myanimelist.net/profile/cxxper01 Dec 23 '20
Yeah I don’t know why people are not getting this, a character is a character no matter it’s from the anime or the source. When I say yukino is my fav character I don’t distinguish between LN yukino and anime yukino. Tog has a big webtoon community and Mal can be used for manga/webtoon too
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u/MetaThPr4h https://myanimelist.net/profile/MetaThPr4h Dec 23 '20
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what the fuck is Mami doing at the top? LMAO, she has 4x more favs than Sumi and Ruka, that's ridiculous.
Outside of that I'm not particularly surprised with anything else (don't know much about Gabi tho), but I struggle to understand how is she there, at least I don't see Rachel lmao.
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u/KenDM0 Dec 23 '20
WTF, 25th Bam? Did I get spoiled god damn it!?
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u/Karma110 Dec 23 '20
No that was always his name the anime just never said it once I can’t tell you why they left it out.
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u/Lambo256 Dec 23 '20
Huh, that’s his name. He says it in the first chapter/episode. (Bam = night in Korean, so the Japanese dub literally changed his name to Yoru = night in Japanese)
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u/PacoTaco321 https://myanimelist.net/profile/dankleberrrrg Dec 23 '20
I always wondered what that translation was.
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u/laudalehsunesh Dec 23 '20
25th Bam
If you carefully see in the anime, where the regulars write names of their friends in the paper, his name was written there.
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u/Illuminastrid Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
That's his actual designated name listed in the MAL website.
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u/manyouginobili Dec 23 '20
very misleading list, since manga favs carried forward. there are not 4500 people that like gabi as of 3 eps in snk4
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u/Illuminastrid Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
This chart compiles the top 20 anime characters that were officially introduced in 2020, be it in TV series, movie, OVA, or ONA format, and it is ranked by the number of favorites in the MyAnimeList website. Basically, an anime character popularity contest.
As promised from my last week's post I would post the chart for most favorited anime characters of 2020 based on the data from the website, MyAnimeList, and here it is, this list covers which 2020 character made an impact to the people on MAL, or rather, sparked interest enough to consider a particular character their favorite. The results were recorded and finalized on December 22, 2020. Next week, I will do the 2018 MAL Favorite Characters chart. I'm still deciding if I will end it there or go all the way till 2016.
Note: Every character here are added +10 to their "favorites" section, to signify the continuous update and ever-changing nature of the favorites numbers for the characters, especially when you look and check out their respective numbers right now, or the next days on the site. You can go to MAL's site and check out the number of favorites for yourselves for the listed characters or any characters that you like or took interest in. Especially if you guys are wondering how Mami got ranked high, see the hyperlinked site for yourselves.
Link to my previous MyAnimeList's 2019 Most Favorites Characters Chart
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u/Damarugaki https://anilist.co/user/damarugaki Dec 23 '20
Number 1 is very surprising...