Bakugo Leads My Hero Academia’s 9th Character Popularity Polls
The popularity polls were first announced during the release of Chapter 403, with the voting period starting on Oct 16 and ending on Dec 18, 2023.
The results for My Hero Academia’s 9th character popularity poll from Japan are in and it looks like Bakugo remains the undisputed number 1 in all of the polls, except for the 1st one.
The popularity polls were first announced during the release of Chapter 403, with the voting period starting on Oct 16 and ending on Dec 18, 2023. And the results came during the release of Chapter 419 on April 7.
Totally, there are 30 characters in the poll and their ranks, along with their vote count, are as follows:
| Rank | Characters | Vote Count |
| 1 | Katsuki Bakugo | 23,441 |
| 2 | Izuku Midoriya (Deku) | 18,488 |
| 3 | Shoto Todoroki | 13,478 |
| 4 | Dabi | 6,848 |
| 5 | Hawks | 5,755 |
| 6 | Endeavor | 4,973 |
| 7 | Eijiro Kirishima | 4,827 |
| 8 | Tenya Lida | 3,420 |
| 9 | Ochako Uraraka | 3,315 |
| 10 | Mezou Shouji | 3,279 |
| 11 | Neito Monoma | 3,204 |
| 12 | Denki Kaminari | 2,767 |
| 13 | Shōta Aizawa | 2,745 |
| 14 | Hitoshi Shinso | 2,720 |
| 15 | All Might | 2,499 |
| 16 | Himiko Toga | 2,263 |
| 17 | Tomura Shigaraki | 2,235 |
| 18 | Kyoka Jiro | 1,879 |
| 19 | Hanta Sero | 1,613 |
| 20 | Rody Soul | 1,268 |
| 21 | Present Mic | 1,121 |
| 22 | Fumikage Tokoyami | 912 |
| 23 | Momo Yaoyorozu | 801 |
| 24 | Mirko | 723 |
| 25 | Yo Shindo | 721 |
| 26 | Tsuyu Asui | 587 |
| 27 | Chronostasis | 566 |
| 28 | Toru Hagakure | 561 |
| 29 | Tamaki Amajiki | 517 |
| 30 | Mirio Togata | 466 |
Compared to the previous polls, the top 3 characters are the same with little variations for the rest.
About My Hero Academia
My Hero Academia is a manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into 39 tankōbon volumes as of November 2023.
It inspired many spin-off manga, including My Hero Academia: Smash!!, Vigilantes, and Team-Up Missions. Besides light novels, stage plays, and souvenirs, the franchise has produced many video games.
Studio Bones produced the first season from April to June 2016, a second from April to September 2017, a third from April to September 2018, a fourth from October 2019 to April 2020, a fifth from March to September 2021, a sixth from October 2022 to March 2023, and a seventh that is currently in production.
It has three animated films, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, Heroes Rising, and World Heroes’ Mission, plus nine original video animations. The Fourth animated film and a live-action Legendary Entertainment film are currently being planned.
Crunchyroll describes Season 1 of My Hero Academia as follows:
Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered “quirk,” Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not enough to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies.
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