NHK Announces Favorite Character Ranking

> Gintoki
> Tosshi
> Kagura
> Sougo

This list is wayyy more cultured than the west will ever be. Respect.

Also wondering if there is an extended list. Would love to see where other gintama characters especially zura and takasugi ended up.

Also funny how You ended up being higher than most of the OG Love Live characters. That's the power of YOUSORO~

Aug 17, 2020 12:31 PM by cythraul

KOTETSU IS NO.1??? Holy heck, I love him and his character and portrayal, design, VA, background, just everything! Nice to see he's first at least on this ranking, would love to see his reaction hahaha. I probably shouldn't be surprised since T&B is also no.1 anime on NHK's ranking. Japs and I match quite a bit.

Apr 28, 2018 5:33 PM by MiciAngels

tsubasalover said:

To continue commemorating one hundred years of Japanese anime history, NHK has released a ranking for people's favorite anime characters as a part of Anime 100 celebration on Sunday at NHK BS Premium. The ranking was based from votes conducted from October 20 to November 19 last year. The 5-hour program also featured live dubbing (from works that people wish to hear again live and not yet animated), telephone call conversation, new year's greetings from the seiyuus, ranking, commentaries, as well as quizzes and talks about the characters in-between segments.

NHK has released the Best 100 Anime ranking last May as a part of their commemoration.

*1. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi (CV: Hiroaki Hirata) from the Tiger & Bunny series
*2. Orga Itsuka (CV: Yoshimasa Hosoya) from the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans series
*3. Serval (CV: Yuka Ozaki) from Kemono Friends
*4. Araiguma (CV: Saki Ono) from Kemono Friends
*5. Barnaby Brooks Jr. (CV: Masakazu Morita) from the Tiger & Bunny series
*6. Lelouch Lamperouge (CV: Jun Fukuyama) from the Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch series
*7. Yuuri Katsuki (CV: Toshiyuki Toyonaga) from Yuri!! On Ice
*8. Kaban (CV: Aya Uchida) from Kemono Friends
*9. Victor Nikiforov (CV: Junichi Suwabe) from Yuri!! On Ice
10. Gintoki Sakata (CV: Tomokazu Sugita) from the Gintama series

11. Northern White-faced Owl (CV: Shiori Mikami) from Kemono Friends
12. Fennec (CV: Kana Motomiya) from Kemono Friends
13. Koyuki "Snow White" Himekawa (CV: Nao Touyama) from Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
14. Sakura Kinomoto (CV: Sakura Tange) from the Cardcaptor Sakura series
15. Chino Kafuu (CV: Inori Minase) from the Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka? series
16. Levi (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya) from the Shingeki no Kyojin series
17. Eurasian Eagle-owl (CV: Akari Uehara) from Kemono Friends
18. Keigo Atobe (CV: Junichi Suwabe) from the Prince of Tennis series
19. Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya (CV: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) from the Sword Art Online series
20. Kurama (CV: Megumi Ogata) from the Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho series

21. Rem (CV: Inori Misase) from Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
22. Gilgamesh (CV: Tomokazu Seki) from the Fate series
23. Niko Yazawa (CV: Sora Tokui) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series
24. Iris (CV: Aoi Yuuki) from the Pokemon Best Wishes! series
25. Funassyi (CV: Funassyi) from Funassyi no Funafunafuna Biyori
26. Toushirou Hijikata (CV: Kazuya Nakai) from the Gintama series
27. Edward Elric (CV: Romi Park) from the Fullmetal Alchemist series
28. Homura Akemi (CV: Chiwa Saito) from Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
29. Eri Ayase (CV: Yoshino Nanjo) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series
30. Kyouya Hibari (CV: Takashi Kondou) from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

31. Eren Yaeger (CV: Yuki Kaji) from the Shingeki no Kyojin series
32. Honoka Kousaka (CV: Emi Nitta) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series
33. Suzu Urano (CV: Non (Rena Nounen)) from Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni
34. Haruka Nanase (CV: Nobunaga Shimazaki) from the Free! series
35. Chuuya Nakahara (CV: Kishou Taniyama) from the Bungou Stray Dogs series
36. Karamatsu Matsuno (CV: Yuuichi Nakamura) from the Osomatsu-san series
37. Kagura (CV: Rie Kugimiya) from the Gintama series
37. Osamu Dazai (CV: Mamoru Miyano) from the Bungou Stray Dogs series
39. Sebastian Michaelis (CV: Daisuke Ono) from the Kuroshitsuji series
40. Makoto Tachibana (CV: Tatsuhisa Suzuki) from the Free! series

41. Sougo Okita (CV: Kenichi Suzumura) from the Gintama series
42. Archer (CV: Junichi Suwabe) from the Fate series
43. You Watanabe (CV: Shuka Saitou) from the Love Live! Sunshine!! series
44. Kotori Minami (CV: Aya Uchida) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series
45. Izaya Orihara (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya) from the Durarara!! series
46. Kira Yamato (CV: Soichiro Hoshi) from the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed series
47. Madoka Kaname (CV: Aoi Yuuki) from Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
48. Oriental Small-clawed Otter (CV: Reina Kondou) from Kemono Friends
49. Yuuta Hoshitani (CV: Natsuki Hanae) from the Starmyu series
49. Maki Nishikino (CV: Pile) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series

51. Char Aznable (CV: Shuuichi Ikeda) from the Mobile Suit Gundam series
51. Umi Sonoda (CV: Suzuko Mimori) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series

Source: Official site

Dont suppose someone could list the silhouettes in the picture from left to right for me please?

Jan 7, 2018 2:02 PM by Dragon

nice to see my girl kagura
but why are these lists always weirdly biased and irrelevant

Jan 6, 2018 8:16 PM by Bird

Damn Code Geass and Lelouch are always storming top 10's.

Jan 6, 2018 1:05 PM by removed-user

Zefyris said:

TsundeReaper said:

Okay so I got introduced to the series through the anime like a scrub wtf that has got to do with this? Lmao

They ain't no "solutions" just your pure speculations, you ain't Japanese, you don't live in japan, you ain't got no evidence of NHK's poll being biased you're just being really opinionated

And saying the LN is "not" selling when it did get an anime after the LN being as far as the fifth arc lmao do you even know how the industry works?

Stop assuming BS you don't know how their poll works

You're basically just applying your standards in a Japanese poll like "OH they didn't have a taste like the rest of the anime only casuals of the world so their taste must be shit and the poll is bogus and rigged" lmao foh you mentioning Kirito convince me even more of you applying your standards to their taste lmao don't even try to deny it

Its a Japanese poll so its their taste in anime, and like what I already mentioned, Japanese are LN freaks, especially the teens. And having the LN goes as far as the fifth arc before it even gets an anime is an irrefutable fact. Or are you just gonna start assuming again that Japanese are a bunch of anime only scrubs? When in fact, they have the easy access to the source and that's just how the industry works, LN sales decides everything, and it getting an anime is also a fact of it's success not your opinionated assumptions, pure speculation BS

Aren't you misunderstanding something here? The sales numbers are displayed every week by Oricon both for light novel volumes and BD. When I say it's not popular, I'm basing myself on FACTS, IE sales numbers or lack of thereof (meaning it's not even selling enough to rank the week it was released), not on random assumption about "japanese tastes" lol.
The BD didn't sell great, and the novel volumes are worse. None of the new volumes make the weekly tops, and on top of this, none of the previously published volumes made it back during the anime; meaning that the anime boost was very minor, confirmed by weekly "series ranking" from Oricon as well.

Also, you're completely delusional about Japan. Japanese peoples being LN freeks when most volumes released don't even sell 5k and very few series have volumes above 100k in a country with 125+ millions?
Popular novels in Japan are million sellers with the Japanese market only. One of my favourite author, Matsuoka Keisuke, sold many volumes between a few hundred of thousands to more than one million of copies.
How many japanese LN sold above 1 million? How many are above 400k even? Extremely good sellers are between 100k and 200k, and above that it's pretty much one every few thousand volumes of LN that can reach above 200k.

As far as popularity goes, dark magical girl LN are a niche product amongst niche products. They sell just barely enough to keep being published, and the anime barely made a difference. How do you want a character of such a show to actually rank 13th without what I listed above as a cause?

Just because you're a fan of a series does not mean that you should turn a blind eye about the popularity of what you like. Getting an anime doesn't mean that a series is popular, but simply that the LN industry thought that there was a possibility of increasing -enough for it to be worth it-the sales with an anime, regardless of the current popularity.
And peoples telling you the truth about what you like aren't bullshitting just because you don't like what they tell you.

Want to see proof? QUEENS was released the 10th of December, so near the end of the anime. It therefore beneficed from the anime boost pretty much fully.
https://myanimelist.net/news/48956032
https://myanimelist.net/news/49050169
It sold so little that it doesn't appear in the week it was released nor in the following week either. Nothing to see here.
You can look at the comment for k_s 's stats as well and see that ti's 169th on the second week, and that despite having a new volume out last week AND an anime, Mahoiku that week sold as a whole barely above 6k. meaning the 9 previous volumes under anime boost + a new volume were 6-7k as a whole...

Furthermore, there is no digital release for queens so no chance to have a part of its sales being non reported due to digital sales.

You see, I'm basing what I say on FACTS, whereas you're just being emotional. I'm saying it's not popular because it's really not. So there's no chance in hell it would rank 13th in popularity in an all time poll if the poll was really made properly.

Blah blah, speculations, speculations, assumptions, assumptions, you're too delusional and thick headed and even calling your BS "facts" when in fact you know nothing about japan and how the industry works lmao you're one of those delusional madomagi fans acting like a Mr. Knowitall

And stop with that fake numbers, you got that in your room researching in your computer that's why it took you days to reply only to come up with irrelevant numbers.

The fact that you mentioned Kirito, you already lost this argument and credibility. Stop humiliating yourself using your standards taste and applying it on Japanese taste idiot

Jan 6, 2018 3:10 AM by Lairucrem

Nice to see the Golden King and the Geass King make it to the list :)

Jan 6, 2018 2:23 AM by Smugdear

TsundeReaper said:

Zefyris said:

I was reading all those volumes you're talking about when you didn't even know that they existed yet.
And I knew how much the novel sales were low, you didn't even know that they were being released and what they were about, per se.
The amateur translator of this series created an account on MAL to talk with me about that series, because he couldn't find someone else who read it after starting reading them himself, and he saw I posted about several volumes on the mal subforum of that title. We had quite a nice long chat in pm about that series, since he was a huge and really enthusiast fan of it already.

It's not selling enough to appear even in a rank 100 in a popularity poll, let alone being 13th. No way it can reach a better place than characters like Kirito if everyone is voting fairly in that poll with a proper sample of voters.
Hence what I said are the only solutions.

Okay so I got introduced to the series through the anime like a scrub wtf that has got to do with this? Lmao

They ain't no "solutions" just your pure speculations, you ain't Japanese, you don't live in japan, you ain't got no evidence of NHK's poll being biased you're just being really opinionated

And saying the LN is "not" selling when it did get an anime after the LN being as far as the fifth arc lmao do you even know how the industry works?

Stop assuming BS you don't know how their poll works

You're basically just applying your standards in a Japanese poll like "OH they didn't have a taste like the rest of the anime only casuals of the world so their taste must be shit and the poll is bogus and rigged" lmao foh you mentioning Kirito convince me even more of you applying your standards to their taste lmao don't even try to deny it

Its a Japanese poll so its their taste in anime, and like what I already mentioned, Japanese are LN freaks, especially the teens. And having the LN goes as far as the fifth arc before it even gets an anime is an irrefutable fact. Or are you just gonna start assuming again that Japanese are a bunch of anime only scrubs? When in fact, they have the easy access to the source and that's just how the industry works, LN sales decides everything, and it getting an anime is also a fact of it's success not your opinionated assumptions, pure speculation BS

Aren't you misunderstanding something here? The sales numbers are displayed every week by Oricon both for light novel volumes and BD. When I say it's not popular, I'm basing myself on FACTS, IE sales numbers or lack of thereof (meaning it's not even selling enough to rank the week it was released), not on random assumption about "japanese tastes" lol.
The BD didn't sell great, and the novel volumes are worse. None of the new volumes make the weekly tops, and on top of this, none of the previously published volumes made it back during the anime; meaning that the anime boost was very minor, confirmed by weekly "series ranking" from Oricon as well.

Also, you're completely delusional about Japan. Japanese peoples being LN freeks when most volumes released don't even sell 5k and very few series have volumes above 100k in a country with 125+ millions?
Popular novels in Japan are million sellers with the Japanese market only. One of my favourite author, Matsuoka Keisuke, sold many volumes between a few hundred of thousands to more than one million of copies.
How many japanese LN sold above 1 million? How many are above 400k even? Extremely good sellers are between 100k and 200k, and above that it's pretty much one every few thousand volumes of LN that can reach above 200k.

As far as popularity goes, dark magical girl LN are a niche product amongst niche products. They sell just barely enough to keep being published, and the anime barely made a difference. How do you want a character of such a show to actually rank 13th without what I listed above as a cause?

Just because you're a fan of a series does not mean that you should turn a blind eye about the popularity of what you like. Getting an anime doesn't mean that a series is popular, but simply that the LN industry thought that there was a possibility of increasing -enough for it to be worth it-the sales with an anime, regardless of the current popularity.
And peoples telling you the truth about what you like aren't bullshitting just because you don't like what they tell you.

Want to see proof? QUEENS was released the 10th of December, so near the end of the anime. It therefore beneficed from the anime boost pretty much fully.
https://myanimelist.net/news/48956032
https://myanimelist.net/news/49050169
It sold so little that it doesn't appear in the week it was released nor in the following week either. Nothing to see here.
You can look at the comment for k_s 's stats as well and see that ti's 169th on the second week, and that despite having a new volume out last week AND an anime, Mahoiku that week sold as a whole barely above 6k. meaning the 9 previous volumes under anime boost + a new volume were 6-7k as a whole...

Furthermore, there is no digital release for queens so no chance to have a part of its sales being non reported due to digital sales.

You see, I'm basing what I say on FACTS, whereas you're just being emotional. I'm saying it's not popular because it's really not. So there's no chance in hell it would rank 13th in popularity in an all time poll if the poll was really made properly.

Jan 6, 2018 2:20 AM by Zefyris

Apollo_Goddess said:

Rayzer said:

Yeah m8, because of that two YAOI on Ice on that list, it just shows Japan got shit taste.

Woah, everybody mister I have god like taste is over here. lol seriously don't get mad at the list. Just keep on lovin your favorite character as always.

Smfh at these try hard elitists "OH they have a different taste compared to the rest of the world so their taste must be shit" *face palm*

Jan 5, 2018 8:52 PM by Lairucrem

*1. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi (gay)
*2. Orga Itsuka (gay)
*3.
*4.
*5. Barnaby Brooks Jr. (gay)
*6. Lelouch Lamperouge (gay)
*7. Yuuri Katsuki (gay)
*8.
*9. Victor Nikiforov (pretty gay)
10. Gintoki Sakata (bi)

Jan 5, 2018 6:04 PM by Sasha_AT

Rayzer said:

Comic_Sans said:
>Two YOI characters in the top 10
>No Cuntneki to be seen

This is a good list

Yeah m8, because of that two YAOI on Ice on that list, it just shows Japan got shit taste.

Woah, everybody mister I have god like taste is over here. lol seriously don't get mad at the list. Just keep on lovin your favorite character as always.

Jan 5, 2018 12:37 PM by Botan-Chan45

Comic_Sans said:
>Two YOI characters in the top 10
>No Cuntneki to be seen

This is a good list

Yeah m8, because of that two YAOI on Ice on that list, it just shows Japan got shit taste.

Jan 5, 2018 9:18 AM by Rayzer

Lelouch and Code Geass as a whole is overrated.

Jan 5, 2018 6:50 AM by Katholic

>Two YOI characters in the top 10
>No Cuntneki to be seen

This is a good list

Jan 5, 2018 4:49 AM by Comic_Sans

Some people need to chill and see that their favorite characters are their own opinion. And if you get pissed at this list keep in mind that the characters you love will always be in your hearts no matter the public opinion is. Though I have to say I didn't expect some characters to be on this list like Kurama.

Jan 5, 2018 12:49 AM by Botan-Chan45

Im really surprised Atobe is on this?

Jan 4, 2018 10:13 PM by lilredridinghood

derpinat0rz said:
So Tiger & Bunny sold fuck ton and sunrise made shitton of money. everything about it is loved. always japan's top choice. the ending ended with cliffhanger. now where the fuck is my season 2?!?

Then like a phoenix coming from the ashes it came
https://twitter.com/TIGERandBUNNY/status/949113400432275457

it only took what, over half a decade of constantly topping popularity polls for this to happen

Jan 4, 2018 7:38 PM by JizzyHitler

I'm at least glad that Iris isn't #1. S̗̳̗͎̫͔̯͔̼͉̱̥͈̓͊ͪͪ̈͒͗̏̎͌ͪͣ̔ͮ̓̚͜͡͞h̨̛͓͍͈̻̘̻̫͉̠̩ͯ̆̍͆͂͒̂ͪȩ̶͖̱͓̠͖͉͕̰̪͚͔͎̣͓̭̭͎ͬ̓͛̓̀̓͛ͨ͋̆̓͒̆͋̀ͪ̚̚̚͝͡ͅ ͒͐̾̓ͨ͑́͏͖̳͍͚͖͇̹d̸̛͕͕̻̞̬̖̤̟͖̘̬̆̀̊ͦͭ̍͋ͫͧ͟͠õ̐̀ͧ͌̿̍͛͝͏̜̮̘e̢̳̦͚̯̠̳͉̾́ͬ͢ͅs̛͈͔͓̯͍̪̪͍͈̼͍͙͌͗ͫͤ͋̈́ͪͯ͋n̸̵̡̛̮̰̖̤͖̗͇̙̜̖̦̼ͭͫ̆ͬ̽̿ͩ̊͆̍̽ͨ̌ͯ̿ͫ͢'̶̴͇̭͚̳̬͓͖͍̹̤͈̪̿͆̉̆̍͐̓̈́͆ͫ̓̎̎͒͑̾ͪ̐ͥ͝t̨̛̜̦̜̥̱͈̯͉̩͖͍͇̰̰̮̣͖̑̄͋͒̔͘͜ͅͅ ̵̣͎͓̱͔̮̙͙̏̾ͮ̽̽ͥ͛ͅd̸̴̫̺͇͉̱̹̯ͬ̿ͭ̈̉ͩ̀̍̒͌e̴̡̧̡͓̙̯͚̹̜͚̦͉̗ͧ̂ͩ̄̂̉̐̀͂ͣͫs̸̹̦͓̤̖̤͚̓͗ͩ̆̾ͧ̍ͧ̋͘͝e̿͌̊̃ͣ͒́̔ͦ̌͝҉҉̙͇̖̣͓̳̺̪͉̣͇̞͔̺͚͔̯̫ŗ̲͖̰̯͕̣͈̖̣͙̤̣͉̋́ͦ̅͆͗͛ͯ̄̃̔́̃ͬ̕͡v̶̛̮̱̰̳͖̹̹͕̦̗̲͈̩͇̻̭̱̑͂̏̿̋͋́̃ͬ̒̅ͨ̆ͫͮ͝e̷͓͓̭̝̙̝ͮ̓ͯ̊͑ͫͬ̌͂ͪ̀͠ ̴̓ͥ̐͊ͬͧͩ͟҉̸̱̞͔͉̩̬ī̴̡̢̧̱̜͈̻̙̠͓̞̣̻̎̋̀̅͗̇̈ͣͥ̅͋̇͋ͬ̔̚t͕͍̪̬ͨ̓ͦ́͟,̵̨̡͙̟̤͍̹̰̬͎̬̟͉̆̌̈ͪ͞

Jan 4, 2018 3:29 PM by ChaosHuddy

Rem and all that Kemono Friends garbage being in here makes this list invalid.

Jan 4, 2018 2:14 PM by BlackFIFA19

Happy to see Gintoki at number 10 and four Gintama characters. Lelouch is also great to see.

Jan 4, 2018 2:13 PM by Ginsukesan

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