Y'know, Negima WAS awesome...
For the first 18 volumes.
Prediction-
-Flashback of training
-Ichigo will lose
-OR He'll win only to see another Aizen hax he has to fight somewhere else.
-125 chapters later
-Ichigo trains agian
-More Aizen trolling
That's a question I don't have an answer for. The last time I checked in on any popularity polls, Isshin was sitting there are #49, and the vote count was laughable. This was before his reappearance with Aizen going over Ichigo's life story however, so it might have changed. Someone with the data will have to clear it up.
Japenese people have horrible taste when it comes to character populary polls.
Well Ichigo was not number 1 recentish so that counts for something .
Yeah I know who was , stil amusing if you realise he beat the main fucking character :P
The problem with this is that everyone always seems to overestimate the reading material and the readers of that material when it comes to Shonen Jump and other related magazines. For the most part, they're still catered to kids who can't be more than twelve or fourteen. You can't expect them to make well-thought decisions when it comes to a poll found in a weekly or monthly comic book at that age, even more so if we take it as a majority. Especially important is remembering how much emphasis there is on 'action', and I don't necessarily mean 'fighting' like in battle manga. A great part of appeal found in graphic works is that we can see what people are doing and thinking, taking less focus on inquisitive thought during a read. Obviously, a book would need to maintain a sense that something is happening, but a good deal of allure in illustration is the sense of immediacy conveyed by having the elements right in front of you and in your hands.
It doesn't help that getting a job in the industry, especially if you're making a serial, requires a lot of fantastic or out of the ordinary elements. That in mind makes it a given that most people have a predetermined desire to get involved in aforementioned fantasy. Sure, there's Slice of Life, Romantic Comedy and such. More often than not there's still going to be some surrealistic and quirky thought put in. It's all part of High Concept: in the case of Shonen, emphasizing the excitement and thrill aspects by taking, say, Table Tennis and doing something weird like putting it in space. This is how people get hooked, so it shouldn't come as any surprise if popularity polls seem strange or off in the case of certain characters. It's just young boys and girls wanting a fantastic escapist magazine to fill up a part of their daily life; the rest are looked upon with as much scorn as the great neckbeards of Marvel and DC.
It's no Golden Age for Japan or America.
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I heard this was a good series, so I read up to when those two Soul Reaper guys came to take that Rukia girl.
This is such a great series, hopefully it'll get even better.
You can see that most of the people who vote in those poll are girls.
Oda said it himself.
That would be kinda ironic given the designated target demographic . I mean it's even in the name of the damn mag for crying out loud![]()
Male oriented/dominant cast = slashers' wet dream
In the One Piece polls Ace is the most famous non-SH for a reason.
I always thought Ace looked pretty sleazy when he first appeared.
HibarixTsunaxMukuro is the most famous pairing of the fandom......
And I put Tsuna in the middle for a reason.
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