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Biglobe Poll: Favorite Anime Characters of 2012 (First Half)

The Japanese Internet service provider BIGLOBE posted the results on Thursday of a survey on its users' favorite characters from anime released in the first half of 2012. This is not an official BIGLOBE survey, but a survey conducted by a user named "tatsuya1996" under BIGLOBE's Anime Ranking Maker system.

Among the 12,063 self-selected responses from users of BIGLOBE's Anime One portal site, these were the top 46 choices:

Rank	Character	Anime Title	Votes
1	Izumi Akazawa	Another	509
2	Tadakuni	Daily Lives of High School Boys	451
3	Ririchiyo Shirakiin	Inu x Boku S.S.	450
4	Nyarko	Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos	447
5	Ichika Takatsuki	Waiting in the Summer	444
6	Rias Gremory	High School DxD	432
7	Rea Sanka	Sankarea	431
8	Mei Misaki	Another	429
9	Kuroyukihime	Accel World	427
10	Karuta Roromiya	Inu x Boku S.S.	424
11	Bungaku Shōjo	Daily Lives of High School Boys	420
12	Tsukihi Araragi	Nisemonogatari	410
13	RINGO Chan	Daily Lives of High School Boys	405
14	Karen Araragi	Nisemonogatari	404
14	Mayaka Ibara	Hyou-ka	404
14	Asia Argento	High School DxD	404
17	Marika Kato	Bodacious Space Pirates	394
18	Mio Kitahara	Waiting in the Summer	391
19	Kanna Tanigawa	Waiting in the Summer	390
19	Akeno Himejima	High School DxD	390
21	Eru Chitanda	Hyou-ka	389
22	Zessica Wong	Aquarion Evol	388
23	Chiaki Kurihara	Bodacious Space Pirates	321
24	Ako Atarashi	Saki Episode of Side A	154
25	Sora Takanashi	Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!	146
26	Hina Takanashi	Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!	140
26	Tsumiki Miniwa	Acchi Kocchi	140
28	Houtarou Oreki	Hyou-ka	139
29	Yumi Ogura	Another	138
29	Madoka Kyouno	Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne	138
29	Miu Takanashi	Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!	138
32	Ku-ko	Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos	137
33	Sonya	Baby, Please Kill Me!	128
34	Remon Yamano	Waiting in Summer	122
35	Yūko Kanoe	Dusk maiden of Amnesia	119
36	Saki Mizukoshi	Natsu-iro Kiseki	104
37	Io Otonashi	Acchi Kocchi	101
38	Megumi Tatara	Another	99
39	Hasuta	Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos	98
40	Mikono Suzushiro	Aquarion Evol	96
41	Haruyuki Arita	Accel World	90
42	Shizuno Takakamo	Saki Episode of Side A	86
43	Natsumi Aizawa	Natsu-iro Kiseki	83
44	Raika Oda	Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!	59
45	Pink Ōmiya	Jewelpet Kira☆Deco—!	34
46	Beta	Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone	20

The poll was conducted from May 28 to June 4.

[Via Ota-Suke]