This Anime Has Too Many Characters! Top 10 [Japan Poll]

2:37 AM June 4, 2016

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What You Need to Know:

How many times have you watched an anime, only for more and more characters to be introduced, a seemingly endless stream of faces you know you'll forget before the next episode. Why are there so many?!, you think.
In tribute to this feeling, Akiba Souken held a poll from May 27 to June 3, receiving a total of 447 votes from Japanese anime fans.
So which series have too many characters to cope with? Would you add any to the list? Let's get to the results and find out!

Top 10 - Top 6

10. Saki / 11 votes

8. Prince of Tennis / 12 votes

8. Dog Days / 12 votes

7. Mahou Sensei Negima! / 13 votes

6. Kantai Collection: KanColle / 18 votes

Top 5 - Top 1

5. Girls und Panzer

22 votes

Episodes: 12
Aired: October 2012 - March 2013

Synopsis

Imagine a world where humanity lives on enormous carrier ships. In Girls und Panzer, not only do these community ships support entire towns, they also host military-themed sports events that use tanks. Popular among high school girls, tankery, as the sport is known, claims to make young women strong, graceful, and popular with boys.

Despite this, not every girl likes tankery. Miho Nishizumi comes from a long line of famous tankery practitioners, but a traumatic event drove her to abandon the sport. She even goes as far as to transfer to Oarai High School because it has no tankery team. Unfortunately, Miho joins the student body just as they're about to resurrect the sport. Because she's the only girl in the entire high school with prior tankery experience, the student council forces her to join the team. Can Miho's new friends and teammates help her overcome her traumatic past experiences and go on to win the national tankery championships?

(Source: MAL)

4. Nintama Rantarou

26 votes

Episodes: TBA
Aired: April 1993 - Present

Synopsis

Rantarou, Shinbei and Kirimaru are ninja apprentices in the Ninja Gakuen, where first grade ones are called "Nintamas" (contraction of the words ninja+tama (egg)). They must learn everything a ninja must know, but as for our heroes, money, food or playing are more interesting. The series show the everyday adventures of our heroes, segmentated in a cartoon fashion, like 2 small episodes in a 30-min show. The cast also includes the teachers (Doi-sensei and crossdressing Yamada-sensei), nintama kunoichis, evil guys (Dokutake ninjas) and even family members of all the cast...

(Source: ANN)

3. The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

54 votes

Episodes: 13
Aired: January 2015 - April 2015

Synopsis

There are many idols with long-established talent agency 346 Production. And now the company is starting a new program, the Cinderella Project!

Girls leading normal lives...

They are chosen to be aspiring idols and see another world for the first time in this Cinderella story. Can they all climb the stairs that lead to the palace?

The magic begins now...

(Source: Daisuki)

2. High School Fleet (Haifuri)

114 votes

Episodes: TBA
Aired: April 2016 - Present

Synopsis

Live in the ocean, protect the ocean, transcend the ocean - that’s what it means to be a Blue Mermaid!
Due to a shift in the tectonic plates around 100 years ago, much of Japan’s land was lost to flooding. In order to protect the remaining soil, cities were built one after the other across the water’s surface. Following the increase of water routes connecting these seaborne cities, much manpower became necessary in order to keep the waters safe.

Following this, women too began to advance into the ocean as professional protectors of the water. These “Blue Mermaids” soon became idolised by girls the nation over.

It is in this age that childhood friends Akeno Misaki and Moeka China, and their other friends who are aiming to become Blue Mermaids, enter Yokosuka Ocean Academy and start their bright and fun-filled (?) high school life!

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1. Mayoiga

140 votes

Episodes: 12
Aired: April 2016 - Present

Synopsis

30 men and women come together to go on a bus tour. However, this isn’t any ordinary bus tour. This bus tour is headed to a mysterious, unconfirmed village named Nanakimura. Purportedly, Nanakimura, if found, is a utopia and a place that is unlike anywhere else in the world. Well… at least that is what the rumors say.
Of these 30, some have lost faith in the current world, some want to erase themselves from their tedious existences, and finally, some just want to start their lives over again. So, they take their expectations in one hand and their distressed hearts in the other with them deep into the mountains in search of Nanakimura. However, when they arrive, they are greeted with a village, but at the same time, it’s not a village. It’s an area that stinks of abandonment and barely any traces of human life.

What is this reality that has appeared in Nanakimura that the 30 people have stumbled upon??

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