345EdwardElric said:boringman15 said:don't worry levi won't beat edward elric. btw i don't agree this statement.
"AoT's popularity is skyrocketing day by day resulting in a rapid soaring of the favourites of AoT characters day by day"
seem like SNK's popularity is decreasing.
manga sold doesn't like used to be, and don't win any awards.
and not to mention the hater always increase.
Eh, if you have noticed it, recently Levi's favourites have been soaring at a stunning rate, easily much faster than Edward's, so it's only a matter of time before Levi catches up with Edward, since the difference is now only of about 1,500 favourites.
AoT is gradually gaining more acclamation & popularity day by day, it's pretty clear if you look at the success of AoT Season 3 Part 2 last year. The season caused a enormous amount of hype amidst the fans & the sheer amount of acclaimation it revieved is clearly reflected by the fact it managed to achieve a far higher rating compared to any of it's contemporaries, even was the #1 ranking for a few days during FMA:B's score bug problem, having a rating of about 9.2 before salty FMA:B fanboys started down voting it unfairly & even after all this it still does have a 9.06 rating; plus alongside that it also won both of the AoTY (anime of the years) polls on this site by a total landslide:
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1797188
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1814383
The favourites of the major AoT characters like Levi, Mikasa & Eren & have been evidently soaring at a rapid rate recently for the last few months or so (an obvious reason why those characters have been constantly rising in rankings day by day) which also does sonewhat reflect the increase in popularity of the AoT franchise.
But anyways, honestly I don't really care much about this since ranking of the characters on MAL are irrelevant as the system of ranking isn't that much credible. Rankings of the characters are influenced more by how much popular the anime they're from actually are, rather than how highly acclaimed they are actually, which is proven by the SAO characters having such high rankings here (who are from a popular but not so well-acclaimed series) compared to 3-Gatsu & LoGH characters (who are from a unpopular but very highly acclaimed series). Plus, unlike the system of ranking/rating anime where users can rate an anime high or low accordingly to their preferences (which mean a show can be both upvoted or downvoted there), the system of ranking characters has no way to determine how many people dislike those characters since there is no down voting system. Hence the ranking of the characters aren't really accurate representations of the general consensus of the anime community regarding those characters.