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Aug 29, 2023 6:30 AM
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Don't get me wrong about Lelouch, I love that guy, but...

I just find it hard to believe more people know about him than about Luffy, Goku, or even Pikachu and Ash.
Aug 29, 2023 6:56 AM
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Indeed. I think Pikachu is easily more popular than him.



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Aug 29, 2023 7:00 AM
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It's the survivorship bias. Not all people involved in anime necessarily use MAL, plus you will need to get full statistics on the audience here to understand why they voted for a particular character. Not to mention flash mobs, which are often organized to raise one or another character in the rating.
Aug 29, 2023 7:18 AM
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Wouldn't be surprised if any iconic/main characters from popular shounen battle or iconic shows would be more popular like:
Pikachu, Madara, Naruto, Ichigo, Aizen, Ulquiorra, Itachi, Goku, Vegeta, Ash, Eren etc.
Aug 29, 2023 10:19 AM
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Its kind of whatever to me if other characters are more popular but take Pikachu from the first post:

Code Geass had 50 TV episodes on the main series. I believe theres some movies as well. Pikachu has had how many hundreds of episodes, popular games and movies again?

The popularity per exposure is simply off so comparing them when a good deal of the popularity is just exposure might not seem very fair.
Aug 29, 2023 10:45 AM
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probably goku or ash and pikachu


Aug 30, 2023 6:46 PM
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Like some posts above, I'm going with Pikachu.


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Aug 30, 2023 7:11 PM
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Asides from pikachu and Ash even the team rocket is popular than lulu.

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Aug 30, 2023 7:35 PM
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Uh goku, naruto, luffy lmao. MAL is not an accurate base for popular characters/shows
Aug 30, 2023 7:57 PM
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I wouldn't be surprised if we went with the popular anime or big shounen characters like Eren, Goku, Luffy, Pikachu, so on so forth.

Don't get me wrong, I also like Lelo but there are a lot of characters more popular than him.



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Aug 30, 2023 8:43 PM
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I think a lot of the Lelouch-favs happened in the years before 2010 and if I'm looking through profiles of people active today, I see a lot of:

Guts, Okarin, Thorfinn, Levi and Dazai (male)

Major Kusanagi, Violet Evergarden, Rem, Makima (female)
Aug 30, 2023 8:48 PM

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I think there are probably many characters more popular than Lelouch, especially Goku and Ash. I believe that most people who are fans of those series, however, do not have an account here on MAL. It seems that MAL users at least watch more than stuff like Dragon Ball, Pokemon, Naruto and all of the other shows like that at a minimum, even if that is something like Death Note or Attack on Titan. Also the Pokemon and Dragon Ball fans are likely to only be fans of those specific shows, and not fans of other anime, so they don't go on here.
Aug 30, 2023 10:01 PM

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Goku and Pikachu easily. The most popular anime characters in existence.

Aug 30, 2023 10:27 PM

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Most of DBZ main cast, pikachu, Ash and Vegeta. Lelouch is the one that gets more love, though, wich is pretty deserved.
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Sep 1, 2023 12:19 AM

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If you mean off of MAL then yes, there are many characters that are more popular than Lelouch. I'd throw in Saitama as well.
Sep 1, 2023 6:17 AM
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Even komi and nagatoro are actually more popular than Lelose, LeFraud.. Even LeMickey is more popular
 

Sep 1, 2023 6:55 AM

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nah . Only people that are really into anime knows Lelouch.

Ask 100 people ( all age ) on the street : if they know Luffy, Goku, Pikachu , Ash( Sacha in France ) or Lelouch.

I can say that Pikachu, Ash and Goku will be on top. And Lelouch on the bottom.
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Sep 1, 2023 7:21 AM

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I think Lelouch is still a popular character because Code Geass is still one of the most popular anime of all time, however it is definitely towards the lower echelon of that cut, and also it only holds that prestige on MAL. Code Geass fans are definitely a lot older now on average than say Jujutsu Kaisen or Attack on Titan fans. I think that realistically, he would be below Levi, Eren, and Mikasa from AOT. From JJK, Gojo would definitely be above Lelouch since JJK is very popular among newer anime fans. Other people in this thread have mentioned Pikachu, which is obvious, but also characters from the Big 3 like Luffy, Naruto, Zoro, or Ichigo. I think that all of these characters, plus some other Naruto and One Piece characters, would also be above Lelouch. Also Dragon Ball characters too, Light and L from Death Note, Hunter X Hunter, and numerous other popular shows.
Sep 1, 2023 9:36 AM

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shonen anime telecast worldwide so every shonen mc
Sep 1, 2023 9:50 AM
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Pikachu, Naruto and Goku. These 3 definetly.
Sep 1, 2023 10:28 AM
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Goku, Naruto, Pikachu. If you are not an anime fan, it's sure you don't know Lelouch, or Code Geass, but almost everyone, even non anime fans knows those 3 around the world.
Sep 1, 2023 10:34 AM
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it's ranked as favs not popular dumazzes, popular is what the normies knows.
Sep 1, 2023 10:43 AM
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Goku, Naruto, Pikachu. If you are not an anime fan, it's sure you don't know Lelouch, or Code Geass, but almost everyone, even non anime fans knows those 3 around the world.
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Sep 1, 2023 9:23 PM

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Even Team Rocket is more popular worldwide than Lelouch.
Sep 1, 2023 9:43 PM
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Pikachu, Goku, Naruto, and Ash are probably the most well known anime characters of all time in that order.
Sep 2, 2023 4:37 AM
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You guys must realize Lelouch was astroturfed as a big meme around the time Code Geass was airing. Hell, the whole anime itself was a meme. Of course he's not the most popular anime character ever.

I'd say Goku is the absolute #1 in terms of popularity. No matter where you go, from the deepest Africa to the urban environments of Europe people know him and will instantly recognize him even if they don't know about anime. Hell, my parents know of Goku and they don't give a damn about anime.
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