Before starting, we want you to know that you’ve been heard! As such Fore has been honored with the Best Boy award to make up for the fact he wasn’t present in the poll in spite of unprecedented support for everyone’s favorite cat.
On March 21, 2017, we posted the results of an impromptu popularity poll that ran for a week. In that poll there were 1318 total entries among which we counted 3975 null votes and 11832 unassigned points.
A bit short and messy.
In December of 2019 we ran another popularity poll and this time it was allowed to run for almost a month. We received a total of 17941 entries across three different language polls. This time, between them there were merely 567 null votes and 998 unassigned points.
As it turns out, properly explaining the rules in the poll itself goes a long way!
But what are these “rules”? Simple! You pick your top five characters going down in order from first to fifth favorite. Each one gets between 5 and 1 points depending on how high their position is and their final position in the poll itself depends on the sum total of these points. Duplicate votes in each entry are removed and the options are pushed up in position, with the new empty space being counted as “null” in the final tally. In this way people can vote for more than just a single favorite and the results are still reflective of how prominent in votes that character’s popularity was overall.
Now, we could jump straight into the top 10 but there’s more to tell! We were able to separate data through more means, not only through gender but also through region owing to having three separate polls: One in Chinese, one in Japanese, and one in English. It should be noted that the English poll was the only available option to participate in for a couple of hours and so a lot of people from other regions voted in it in their excitement; of note too is that the Japanese poll was actually shared by some Japanese video game media outlets, and the Chinese poll received an outpouring of support even though some of the entrants may have had to use a VPN to participate.
You’re all awesome is what we’re trying to say.
So, let’s address some of the results common to all of the polls.
The Big Three
These are Jill, Dorothy, and Dana, in that order from first to third. They’re the most recurrent first, second, and third places across all three polls and their subsets—with the specific exception of Non-Binary and Female in the English poll, where it switches to “Jill, Dana, Dorothy” instead.
They’re even the top three most recurrent top three placements! Across all three polls the most prevalent characters for first and second favorites are Jill, Dorothy or Dana. Everyone’s third favorite position is mixed up a bit however, with in order of most common to least, “Dana, Dorothy, Jill” in both EN and CN, and “Dorothy, Jill, Dana” in JP.
The Warring Triad
The next three spots are just as recurrent but not nearly as set. These three are Stella, Sei, and Alma. These three are recurrent in these three spots most cases with a few exceptions. In the JP Non-binary and CN Non-diclosed subsets Alma got displaced by Anna, while in the CN Non-binary subset Stella got displaced by Anna and tied with Kira☆Miki.
The order of these three in the grand total switches per region. In EN it’s “Alma, Sei, Stella”, with JP being “Stella, Alma, Sei”, and CN ordered as “Sei, Alma, Stella”.
In EN the “Alma, Sei, Stella” order is the same in all the subsets save for Non-Binary and Others where it’s “Sei, Alma, Stella” instead.
In JP their “Stella, Alma, Sei” order is consistent across all subsets except Non-Binary where instead its “Stella, Anna, Sei”, with Others having no patterns save for Jill being in first place.
In CN the “Sei, Alma, Stella” pattern is only kept for the Male and Others subset, whereas in all other subsets Anna displaces someone else, so we end up with “Sei, Alma, Anna” for Female, “Sei, Anna, Alma” for Non-Binary, and “Stella, Anna, Sei” for Secret.
The Battle Royale
After these 6 spots the results start varying wildly, growing ever more wild as they go down the list. However, where a Top 10 is concerned, some names recur: Anna, Kira☆Miki, Gillian, Streaming-chan, and Rad Shiba. With the first three of those being commonplace and the rest switching and shifting and barely not making it into the top 10.
Those that just barely missed their shot at the Top 10 include Gil, Kira☆Miki, Anna, Rad Shiba, and Streaming-chan. Streaming-chan makes a comeback in JP, however, where she actually beats Kira☆Miki and leaves the dog out of the top 10. In CN, neither Streaming-chan nor Rad Shiba make it to the top 10 and it’s Betty instead who wraps up the recurrent names of Gillian, Kira☆Miki and Anna. Funnily enough, in the CN Female demographic the counter for null votes is so large it manages to displace Deal. Poor guy.
The Top 10
Finally! The moment you’ve been waiting for: Let’s talk about the top 10 characters and what they have to say!
#10 - Rad Shiba (5828 points)
#9 - Anna (9119 points)
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#8 - Kira☆Miki (9559 points)
“If I could I would clone myself and give each and every single one of you a hug! But they told me it’s not in the budget, and something about being confused for a military operation.”
#7 - Gillian (11962 points)
“Wait, I went up one spot? Why? How? When? What did I do?”
#6 - Stella (19637 points)
“You’re all COWARDS for not voting Sei higher… The number one spot isn’t good enough for her! She deserves the number Zero spot! The… the… the minus infinity plus one spot!”
#5 - Sei (21244 points)
“Heheheh… just knowing there’s people out there that like me that much is enough for me.”
“They’re COWARDS, Sei!”
#4 - Alma (22448 points)
“To everyone that told me that I wouldn’t amount to anything: You were right at the time. I was a complete shithead, but I’m still gonna rub this accomplishment in your faces.”
#3 - Dana (35109 points)
“I’m justifiably in a position I’d rather not be in, but the cream will rise to the top… and you can be damn sure I’ll rise because THESE GIRLS ARE ENOUGH TO BRING ME TO THE BOILING POINT”
#2 - Dorothy (44276 points)
“Thank you everyone~! Dorothy will keep doing her best to be like a cool pillow and a warm blanket when you need those the most!”
#1 - Jill (64994 points)
If you’d like to check all the results for yourself, here’s a link to a breakdown of all the stats!
