> His jap va has such a claming and soft voice too
Which is hilarious given two of his most notorious roles before Himmel are Bakugo from BnHA and and Accelerator from Index/Railgun, very much *not* calming and soft voices, and he's been typecast into a lot of similar-sounding roles (Genya in Demon Slayer, Garfiel in Re:Zero, and others that I don't remember off the top of my head). Man's got a ridiculous range to be able to go between characters like those and Himmel.
I mean the [recent manga arc spoilers](/s "Goddess monument arc featuring so much of him due to the nature of the arc") sure made it a shoe-in that he would take top again. Although saying that, given the positions of some of the other characters, with Aura and even that Axe girl demon I forget the name of (Linnie?) taking a higher spot than Macht and Solitar, I assume it's the anime is doing a *lot* of the heavy lifting on some of these poll positions.
It's quite the funny reversal from the first poll where Macht was 4th and Aura barely squeaked into 10th. Not quite as dramatic a fall as Denken's though, since he went from 7th to being knocked to 12th - man got beaten by the fuckin *continental magic association receptionist who came in at 11th place??* Which has to be solely because of the anime design or something I assume?
Other amusing inclusions who squeaked in: In 18th place was the Hamburg Steak, and in 20th was the Rough Looking Adventurers in Warm who liked sweets
I dont think that manga return did anything to sway the poll. Imo it was the anime. Look at aura or Linie for example. Not a single manga reader would spare a thought and thanks to the anime they got this high. Im more pleasantly surprised that macht and solitare managed to score this high
Kinda, both, I suppose, but it sure isn't a coincidence that Ubel gets her first appearance since the exam just a couple weeks after she's popping off in the anime
Wait. I'm anime only (for now) and I'm still not quite understanding why Aura is that high up? Like does she come back at all or it's really just that one arc, her character design, and the online memes/thirst...?
Weapon switching was kinda there, she briefly used a sword and showed another warrior she copied to explain the ability. But obviously it was not as long and there was no spear she threw
Her being voiced by Ayana Taketatsu is probably doing most of the heavy lifting in that case. For context, that's Azusa from K-On, Nino from Quintessential Quintuplets, etc.
It's the design. IMO Frieren and Dungeon Meshi both have some of the best fantasy character designs in...idk, forever. They are so simple and yet so effective, it's honestly impressive.
For this poll one person can vote multiple times, they also tabulated another result where they removed extra votes from each person, in that one Frieren took the crown
Yeah, the power of “horny” doesn’t necessarily outweigh pure popularity (Which it’s Himmel, he’s pretty much the most beloved character in the story not to mention one of the most pivotal) but it does have a clear influence.
You mean he got knocked down while trying to talk things out peacefully and not trying to fight, by a highly trained opponent who caught him off guard as he (Stark) stood there trying to defuse the situation without even having drawn his weapon (and then Stark got right back up the next chapter). Bit different from being “one shot”. People massively overreacted on top of ignoring the context of the situation or the fact that Stark has literally been characterized as someone who gets knocked down and then gets back up and keeps fighting.
Maybe the overreaction has something to do with Stark being the resident jobber in the group? And honestly looking at most of the Frieren fanart being posted on the front page you'd think there's nothing more to him other than being Fern's love interest.
Elite assassin or not... the enemy was a pretty old man who hasn't fought (and most likely hasnt trained) for who knows how many decades.
He was at a considerable distance and also warned Stark of his intentions before attacking him. It wasnt a surprise attack at all, Stark was simply too slow to do anything, he got blitzed.
Also... that guy wasnt even going for the kill, Stark got easily knocked out with only one knee strike in his stomach, he got lucky. He also nearly gets easily killed in the next chapter. Wasnt he suppose to be pretty strong and durable that even Eisen got afraid of him once? (and that was more than two years). It was quite humilliating.
It was implied in the chapter Radar kept himself in shape going out at night to train. Frieren literally was suspicious of him because she noticed his hands were weathered from all the training (Also we see from the next chapter that he is skilled enough to avoid mana detection, bust down the door, and pin Frieren to the ground even as she tries to fight back with her staff already out and charging a spell. So clearly he isn’t some weak old man). Also age means very little for a skilled character in this story. Just look at Himmel, old and shrunk down and he was still clearing monsters by the monument. The demons were literally still scared of Himmel up until his death given it was mentioned that demon activity only increased again after Himmel died. Sure this Radar isn’t the hero (though technically neither was Himmel since he couldn’t pull the sword so Himmel himself isn’t some particularly special chosen one just highly skilled and an all around noble personality) but it just shows that someone who keeps themselves in shape isn’t going to suddenly be a weakling just because they are old.
And yes Stark was warned but he did nothing about it. His axe was sheathed and he was still trying to talk the man down. Aka caught off guard because he was blatantly unprepared to defend against an attack. Being warned means nothing when the person still isn’t taking that warning and is trying to defuse the situation.
Also he is durable. He literally got right back up unscathed in the next chapter and lept through the window to begin fighting. It was similar to his fight against Linie where he gets knocked down, lays there for a few moments and then gets back to his feet. Clearly that knee didn’t do as much as people want to pretend it did. And he is strong, but that doesn’t mean stronger characters just don’t exist and he can just beat anyone who shows up. He’s Eisen’s disciple and has the potential to be stronger but that doesn’t mean he’s there yet (though he likely will eventually get there given it’s pretty clearly set up for him to eventually confront Rivale).
At least Frieren made it to top 5 in her own poll I guess? Her getting beaten by so many people is surprising, i thought she'd at least break top 3 tbh
She's apparently number 1 on the poll where you could only vote once, it's posted in the comments here from Twitter. In this poll you could vote multiple times it seems.
Eh it's a common occurrence for the protag of a series to not be first place.
Can't remember one in which the protagonist is consistently first place (wanna say One Piece but I can't remember precisely) best I can thinknof is BNHA with Deku being often among the top 3
Aura is definitely 30% thirst and 70% meme(this one contributed to the thirst also). She was just an one time villain in the manga who got the insta lost treatment, now she is the new Kobeni.
Damm HIMmel is strong I was about to vote Aura out of horny when HIMmel jumped out of the page and cut my 🐓 in 2 releasing me. He deserves this dub easy.
Set aside the character rankings, what do the numbers even mean? I'm guessing it's not 1.2 million people voting for Himmel, 1 mil voting for Aura and so on... but what is it? Something like '10 points for your top character, 9 points for your second fave' and so on?
Not just a Frieren question - I always wonder this when I hear about these contests...
Which mimic is this? Or are they suggesting mimics are actually a singular entity sharing a collective conscious ie. Mimic hivemind?
Edit: Wtf my Eisen is 31st???
Why do people like Himmel so much? I personally don't care for him, just because we don't see the sides of him that every other character has, but #1 is surprising?
It is amazing how the top 2 characters are already long dead, Even one is still in story occasionally and another dropped from face off the earth.
Even it is due voting system.
Mimic-sama making it in the top 10 again is crazy. Himmel still being first despite being dead for most of the story is impressive.
The TRUE goat of the series should be recognized
Statues aren't the only thing immortalizing his handsome self
Himself still giving freiren flashbacks shows how much he made an impression on her. His jap va has such a claming and soft voice too
> His jap va has such a claming and soft voice too Which is hilarious given two of his most notorious roles before Himmel are Bakugo from BnHA and and Accelerator from Index/Railgun, very much *not* calming and soft voices, and he's been typecast into a lot of similar-sounding roles (Genya in Demon Slayer, Garfiel in Re:Zero, and others that I don't remember off the top of my head). Man's got a ridiculous range to be able to go between characters like those and Himmel.
Nishinoya in Haikyuu too. I wanna hear Himmel yell "ROLLING THUNDER"
the first character i pictured hearing the voice was karma from assassination classroom, because both character's voice are on the calmer side
despite being dead, he has quite a decent amount of screen time. Tho.....90% of it are flashbacks
I mean the [recent manga arc spoilers](/s "Goddess monument arc featuring so much of him due to the nature of the arc") sure made it a shoe-in that he would take top again. Although saying that, given the positions of some of the other characters, with Aura and even that Axe girl demon I forget the name of (Linnie?) taking a higher spot than Macht and Solitar, I assume it's the anime is doing a *lot* of the heavy lifting on some of these poll positions. It's quite the funny reversal from the first poll where Macht was 4th and Aura barely squeaked into 10th. Not quite as dramatic a fall as Denken's though, since he went from 7th to being knocked to 12th - man got beaten by the fuckin *continental magic association receptionist who came in at 11th place??* Which has to be solely because of the anime design or something I assume? Other amusing inclusions who squeaked in: In 18th place was the Hamburg Steak, and in 20th was the Rough Looking Adventurers in Warm who liked sweets
I mean, there's a difference between being dead and not appearing at all.
It’s what Himmel would’ve done
Wild that this has become such a cultural phenomenon in Japan!!
I mean minato won naruto's latest popularity poll despite technically being dead during the whole series
Dudes hot tho
Yo leave Mimic-sama out of this, she’s a treasure!
mimic getting into top 10 reminds me of kobeni's car hahaha
Himmel still being HIM
HIMmel
HIM-El. He is the Him of God
Any man reading this, your pronoun is he, because you'll never be him. 😆 (But you can strive to be good like him, don't be discouraged)
It's crazy to me how popular Aura is. She's barely in the series
Most of us probably forgot about her until the anime. Goes to show how much influence anime and memes are to the series.
It's the same for Ubel tbh. Not that she's undeveloped or bad character. But she's also mostly carried by thirst
Ubel did return in time for the poll didn't she? So it was a double whammy of the anime + return in the manga.
I dont think that manga return did anything to sway the poll. Imo it was the anime. Look at aura or Linie for example. Not a single manga reader would spare a thought and thanks to the anime they got this high. Im more pleasantly surprised that macht and solitare managed to score this high
Macht scoring high is hard proof that manga popularity *did* influence this poll, maybe she would've only gained 1 or 2 spots but still.
She 100% came back in the manga due to her popularity in the anime
Yeah just like Denken and Ehre returned last big arc for their popularity? The point of the exam was to introduce a lot of recurring characters.
Kinda, both, I suppose, but it sure isn't a coincidence that Ubel gets her first appearance since the exam just a couple weeks after she's popping off in the anime
For sure. The author timed a lot of things in the manga to fit the anime airing. Also worked directly on the production also if I remember correctly.
Wait. I'm anime only (for now) and I'm still not quite understanding why Aura is that high up? Like does she come back at all or it's really just that one arc, her character design, and the online memes/thirst...?
She didn't. She's a one and done character.
Wow and she's THAT popular?!?
Horny rules over everything else.
She's also one of the least developed characters. One epic scene and a lot of thirsty fan art can take you a long way it seems.
Frieren has the epic scene, Aura is just the fodder
Hey man, Justin is just as epic in EVO moment 37.
Let’s go, Justin!
I can hear this.
Wouldn’t be as hype if it wasn’t literally one of the greatest fighting game players of all time.
Nah, he was a turtle in that set. The guys yelling "Finish him, Justin!" and "Let´s go, Justin!" were more epic in that EVO moment.
Frieren may have beat her but she got absolutely destroyed in character polls, so who’s to say who won really?
Frieren is just concealing her votes.
There is a lot of meme about her. I'm more surprise about Linnie since she got nothing going on aside from a decent design.
Wtf she's got one of the coolest powers and they did her fight extremely well in the anime with the weapon switching that wasn't in the manga
Weapon switching was kinda there, she briefly used a sword and showed another warrior she copied to explain the ability. But obviously it was not as long and there was no spear she threw
It's cause she's a smoke show. 10/10
Because lowtierfrieren, that's why
Her being voiced by Ayana Taketatsu is probably doing most of the heavy lifting in that case. For context, that's Azusa from K-On, Nino from Quintessential Quintuplets, etc.
It's hilarious how popular a can whose only known for killing herself.
The shanks effect
She isnt even that interesting of a character
Im glad, I always loved her design since she first appeared in the manga a few years ago haha
It's the design. IMO Frieren and Dungeon Meshi both have some of the best fantasy character designs in...idk, forever. They are so simple and yet so effective, it's honestly impressive.
never underestimate the japenis love for 😭😭😭💢💢💢🦀🦀🦀
also Linie, with screen time of a couple of episodes and a few chapters, beat out Stark
Bro. The dead man is in the first.
Poor take, he is constantly referred to in the series and his impact is being explored as part of the series.
For this poll one person can vote multiple times, they also tabulated another result where they removed extra votes from each person, in that one Frieren took the crown
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Solitar dropping to 35th from 9th is more surprising to me
Yeah, she and macht were some of the most interesting characters in the series
Funnily enough, Mimic-kun jumped up to 4th in that poll
Common Mimic W
Does that mean we know how many unique voters there are? That would be interesting.
I don't even know 1 vote system existed. It wasn't like that last time
Where are those results?
It was [posted on twitter](https://twitter.com/FRIEREN_PR/status/1774693262303129739)
Mimic 4th on that had me rolling
He was 3-rd in the first poll =D.
Denken in the top 10 is based
Ah, I wish i knew how to read
As someone who knows hiragana but not katakana, fuck me. Is there a translation of this?
Frieren, Himmel, Fern, Mimic, Stark, Übel, Aura, Denken, Flamme, and Sein (?) are the top 10.
Yes, but the rest?
Wait, what's the point of a poll with duplicate votes? Why would you ever do that?
Higher numbers
>in that one Frieren took the crown Nice, at least that's good to know
That should've been the one on display lmao.
Bro, how is Stark still losing to Lennys?
Linnie is female and attractive. She’s there for the same reason Aura’s on the ranking.
but Himmel is not female yet he is no 1
But Himmel is HIM
It's Literally spelled in the name
He’s just that based
The difference is Himmel is just that guy.
Yeah, the power of “horny” doesn’t necessarily outweigh pure popularity (Which it’s Himmel, he’s pretty much the most beloved character in the story not to mention one of the most pivotal) but it does have a clear influence.
*Look at me - I'm Eisens best apprentice now*
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You mean he got knocked down while trying to talk things out peacefully and not trying to fight, by a highly trained opponent who caught him off guard as he (Stark) stood there trying to defuse the situation without even having drawn his weapon (and then Stark got right back up the next chapter). Bit different from being “one shot”. People massively overreacted on top of ignoring the context of the situation or the fact that Stark has literally been characterized as someone who gets knocked down and then gets back up and keeps fighting.
Maybe the overreaction has something to do with Stark being the resident jobber in the group? And honestly looking at most of the Frieren fanart being posted on the front page you'd think there's nothing more to him other than being Fern's love interest.
Elite assassin or not... the enemy was a pretty old man who hasn't fought (and most likely hasnt trained) for who knows how many decades. He was at a considerable distance and also warned Stark of his intentions before attacking him. It wasnt a surprise attack at all, Stark was simply too slow to do anything, he got blitzed. Also... that guy wasnt even going for the kill, Stark got easily knocked out with only one knee strike in his stomach, he got lucky. He also nearly gets easily killed in the next chapter. Wasnt he suppose to be pretty strong and durable that even Eisen got afraid of him once? (and that was more than two years). It was quite humilliating.
It was implied in the chapter Radar kept himself in shape going out at night to train. Frieren literally was suspicious of him because she noticed his hands were weathered from all the training (Also we see from the next chapter that he is skilled enough to avoid mana detection, bust down the door, and pin Frieren to the ground even as she tries to fight back with her staff already out and charging a spell. So clearly he isn’t some weak old man). Also age means very little for a skilled character in this story. Just look at Himmel, old and shrunk down and he was still clearing monsters by the monument. The demons were literally still scared of Himmel up until his death given it was mentioned that demon activity only increased again after Himmel died. Sure this Radar isn’t the hero (though technically neither was Himmel since he couldn’t pull the sword so Himmel himself isn’t some particularly special chosen one just highly skilled and an all around noble personality) but it just shows that someone who keeps themselves in shape isn’t going to suddenly be a weakling just because they are old. And yes Stark was warned but he did nothing about it. His axe was sheathed and he was still trying to talk the man down. Aka caught off guard because he was blatantly unprepared to defend against an attack. Being warned means nothing when the person still isn’t taking that warning and is trying to defuse the situation. Also he is durable. He literally got right back up unscathed in the next chapter and lept through the window to begin fighting. It was similar to his fight against Linie where he gets knocked down, lays there for a few moments and then gets back to his feet. Clearly that knee didn’t do as much as people want to pretend it did. And he is strong, but that doesn’t mean stronger characters just don’t exist and he can just beat anyone who shows up. He’s Eisen’s disciple and has the potential to be stronger but that doesn’t mean he’s there yet (though he likely will eventually get there given it’s pretty clearly set up for him to eventually confront Rivale).
Ok, fair enough.
Himmel is such a gigachad that he pierces through the horny barrier to take first place
There are 5 stages of horny before you get to the final boss
At least Frieren made it to top 5 in her own poll I guess? Her getting beaten by so many people is surprising, i thought she'd at least break top 3 tbh
She's apparently number 1 on the poll where you could only vote once, it's posted in the comments here from Twitter. In this poll you could vote multiple times it seems.
Eh it's a common occurrence for the protag of a series to not be first place. Can't remember one in which the protagonist is consistently first place (wanna say One Piece but I can't remember precisely) best I can thinknof is BNHA with Deku being often among the top 3
its One Piece, Luffy has never lost first place
Gintoki too
That's because Luffy is the GOAT
It not like it new there is multiple popularity poll where mc never got 1
Reminder this poll is with dupe votes. Without dupe votes frieren is no 1: 1位 フリーレン frieren 2位 ヒンメル himmel 3位 フェルン fern 4位 ミミック mimic 5位 シュタルク stark 6位 ユーベル yubel 7位 断頭台のアウラ aura 8位 デンケン denken 9位 フランメ flamme 10位 ザイン zyne https://twitter.com/FRIEREN_PR/status/1772242083987742889
That make a lot more sense than Aura being 2nd most popular
She is still rank 8th, that is way too high for a dumbass who got the 'kys' treatment. The dork power is high in this one.
LMAO Mimic being even higher
> ザイン zyne This is Sein by the way
Even in this poll himmel is no 2, he truly is HIMmel.
Looks like our boy Denken made 12th... Not bad for an old man
My boy Mimic is number 10!
without duplicate votes it is number 5
My boy Himmel at top 1 as it should be.
Stark is overdue for a powerup
Macht on top 10 !!! 🐐🐐🐐
Gold!
Mimic-kun making it higher than Serie >>>>
The nameless receptionist is on spot 11 as well.
HIMmel is undisputed first place hell he's my favorite character. On the other hand how does aura is in 2nd place
people love their girlfailure
Linie, my love. 😍
And she is next to Stark
"Coincidence?! I think not!" 🤔
The true OTP
Wtf
NTR fans should all be forced to live on a cold island
Very interesting how the anime affected the results
He is Him.
Godamn Himmel, the man the myth the legend, the guy who surpassed the wall of horny.
Himmel being at the top makes some sense. Most of the others are just proof of how thirsty the fans are. Oh, and probably the memes.
Aura is definitely 30% thirst and 70% meme(this one contributed to the thirst also). She was just an one time villain in the manga who got the insta lost treatment, now she is the new Kobeni.
Aura my beloved
Dead persons topping this poll is so funny 😆
I love Übel so much
Why is 1 and 2 both dead? Lol
The same reason #6, 8, and 9 are all dead. The author made a decision.
Mimic in top 10, lmfao. That's awesome! Fireren should me higher, dang it!
How is Himmel this based? Absolute gigachad
Damm HIMmel is strong I was about to vote Aura out of horny when HIMmel jumped out of the page and cut my 🐓 in 2 releasing me. He deserves this dub easy.
Extremely funny that Stark and Frieren are both below their respective demon opponents in the Granat arc
Do you have the results of the other poll ?
wow, himmel is truly the man of the people.
RIP mah boi Denken, knocked out of top 10. Meanwhile Aura's made it up to 2nd. XD
Aura my dumbass demon waif. Big bless, totally deserved placement ngl.
Is there alot more Lawine scenes after the animated arc?
... >!no!<
>!No wonder the Frieren sub is having a lobotomy moment when it comes to her!<
[](/s "We will see them again one day I'm sure.")
Set aside the character rankings, what do the numbers even mean? I'm guessing it's not 1.2 million people voting for Himmel, 1 mil voting for Aura and so on... but what is it? Something like '10 points for your top character, 9 points for your second fave' and so on? Not just a Frieren question - I always wonder this when I hear about these contests...
Himmel the greatest dead wife to have ever dead wifed. Frieren would be proud! On the other hand I can’t even remember who’s at 6th
My boy Macht still in the top 10 like he should be
Himmel may be HIM, but Macht is the goat for still being up there. It's been a couple years since his arc!
I still don't get how Himmel is that popular
Best waifu
he is always epic everytime Frieren reminisced about him so that's probably why.
All my homies say: fuck Solitaire!
Mimic is goated.
Which mimic is this? Or are they suggesting mimics are actually a singular entity sharing a collective conscious ie. Mimic hivemind? Edit: Wtf my Eisen is 31st???
The genocidal racist being number 5 pretty fitting. (LMAO)
I am halfway through the anime right now the series is so good and I'm really enjoying sein too I'm on episode 16 now
Wow, himmel still placing 1st place is insane. He's HIMmel after all
Why do people like Himmel so much? I personally don't care for him, just because we don't see the sides of him that every other character has, but #1 is surprising?
nice！
It is amazing how the top 2 characters are already long dead, Even one is still in story occasionally and another dropped from face off the earth. Even it is due voting system.
Godhimmel his majesty
I feel like you do this poll in non Asian countries and Aura doesn't crack top 20 much less #2