NewType Magazine April Rankings

Hello again!
Anyways, since I recently came back from Asia, I picked up several anime magazines such as Megami, NyanType, and NewType. As I was flipping through NewType last night, I found a page dedicated to character rankings and show rankings based on their popularities.

So here’s the male character popularity ranking:

Male Rankings for April 2011

So in case you can’t read Japanese, I’ll try my best to translate…because I don’t watch some of the shows…so I’ll just name the show if I don’t know who the character is…

1. Tsunashi Takuto from Star Driver (Last month ranked #1)
2. Alto from Macross F Movie ver (Last month ranked #10)
3. Kamijou Touma from To Aru Majutsu no Index II (Last month ranked #2)
4. Kyon from Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu (Last month ranked #3)
5. Kira Yamato from Gundam Seed (Last month ranked #5)
6. Sataka Gintoki from Gintama (Last month ranked #6)
7. Kazuya Kujo from Gosick (Last month outside of top 10)
8. Lelouch vi Britannia from Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch (Last month ranked #4)
9. Orimura Ichicka from Infinite Stratos (Last month outside of top 10)
10. Sakurai Tomoki from Sora no Otoshimono Forte (Last month ranked #9)

And now the girls:…

Female Rankings for April 2011

1. Sheryl from Macross F Movie ver (Last month ranked #4)
2. Ranka from Macross F Movie ver (Last month ranked #8)
3. Victorica de Blois from Gosick (Last month outside of top 10)
4. Saber from Fate/Zero (Last month ranked #1)
5. Yui Hirasawa from K-On! (Last month ranked #2)
6. Misaka Mikoto from To Aru Majutsu no Index II (Last month ranked #6)
7. Akiyama Mio from K-ON! (Last month ranked #3)
8. Merry from Yumekui Merry (Last month outside of top 10)….totally insignificant and irrelevant to mai interests.
9. Index from To Aru Majutsu no Index II (Last month outside of top 10)
10. Madoka Kaname from Madoka (Last month outside of top 10)

Oh and the anime popularity rankings…somewhat different from what North Americans vote though…:

Top 20 Anime Popularity Rankings for April 2011

Hmm…first off, let me apologize for the rotated picture (I’m new to wordpress so I don’t know how to rotate the picture…there goes my reputation (TT_TT)… ). Anyways lets cut to the chase

1. Movie Version Macross F (Last month ranked #7)
2. Star Driver (Last month ranked #1)
3. Infinite Stratos (Last month ranked #14)
4. To Aru Majutsu no Index (Last month ranked #4)
5. Madoka (Last month outside of top 20)
6. Gosick (Last month ranked #16)
7. K-On! (Last month ranked #2)
8. Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka? (Last month ranked #11)
9. Kidou Senshi Gundam UC (Last month ranked #19)
10. One Piece (Last month ranked #12)
11. Freezing (Last month outside of top 20)
12. Bakuman (Last month ranked #10)
13. Yumekui Merry (Last month outside of top 20)
14. Onii-chan (Last month outside of top 20)
15. Neon Genesis Evangelion Movie Version…(Last month ranked #18)
16. Movie Version Sora no Otoshimono (Last month outside of top 20)
17. Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch (Last month ranked #13)
18. Dragon Crisis! (Last month ranked outside of top 20)
19. Bakemonogatari (Last month ranked #9)
20. Ore no Imouto ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (Last month ranked #8)

*EDIT* Thanks to Suzushina Yuriko for helping my figure out some of the names of the characters/shows!

P.S. Stay tuned for Blu-ray disc rankings!