I still think these hot character results may show some cool insight, even if a part of the results are due to trolling or the like.
Monet is much more popular than I expected. The spread is wide enough around the world and happened enough to indicate some popularity with the character, even if it’s just a dark horse style fan base. I wonder if Oda will leverage this knowledge to bring her story back somehow as her ending was very ambiguous in terms of what happened to her. I’ve read theories of her dying and her fruit coming back like Absalom but with Monet herself being so popular I dunno if he’d go that route.
I was gonna say Pedro and Vista being dark horses is surprising but literally or their spots came from Europe, and it’s been established Europe has some oddball votes going on there, so it’s likely a small but active fan base biasing the trends over there. I’ll be super curious if their popularity results impacts the story in the future too. I also wonder why these two. It’s consistent enough to either be a hardcore group of individuals and not just be trolls like the people voting for Morgan IMO. I don’t get Vista at all other than cool design. I’d be happier for Pedro but I dunno what about his character is causing the dark horse votes. I wonder if it’s due to the sacrifice he made, or if it’s his backstory, or just his character in general. At least I feel like Pedro was given enough chapters and fleshing out to deserve the popularity, but I haven’t seen a lot of talk about him, and he’s not a girl so it’s baffling me. Kudos though.
Oden’s gotten enough of a spread for me to think that he is generally well received by the One Piece community. Makes me wonder if APForums’ issues with him are a minority opinion then, because I’ve seen content that love his backstory and the like.
I’m happy Vivi is still ranked as high as she is despite barely returning to the story. I know it’s in part due to female bias but she’s one of my favorite characters so I’m glad the community recognizes that and can’t wait to see her part in the finale.
On the other hand, I’ll just be the hater and say Yamato’s popularity, while it doesn’t surprise me, does disappoint me.
Another thing that doesn’t surprise me though is the lack of male Wano character love. The females have their boost for being female, but outside of Oden, there isn’t any stand out characters in Wano that are super popular, even Kaidou. Though again, this isn’t the best way to reflect data. I feel like Big Mom is pretty popular but she hasn’t appeared in the polls that much either, though more than Kaidou and any of the male non Oden characters.
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That is some impressive memeing getting Johnny AND Yosaku in there.
yeah I feel like Europe figured out the formula for awhile now and can manipulate the HOT characters to their whims. Leads to some fun results though so I’m okay with it, as long as they’re having fun with it.