Naruto It is one of the most popular manga and anime, so to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the franchise at the end of last year, a worldwide vote was launched to define the most popular characters and determine the winner, who would have a manga focused on him. The results are already available and Latin America strongly supported the waifus of the series.
Voting for Naruto 99 began on December 17, 2022 and closed on January 31, 2023; However, the final results were not announced until this weekend, and they did not only reveal the winner, but also several interesting details about the popularity of the characters according to the regions.
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Who won the vote for Naruto 99? Which character is the most popular?
Through the official accounts of Naruto The full list of the anime’s 99 most popular characters, who received the most out of 4.6 million votes, has been revealed. Third place went to Sakura Haruno with 489,619 votes. Second place went to Itachi Uchiha with 505,014 votes. Finally and as expected, the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze took first place by sharply distancing himself from the competition with 792,257 votes.
This means that the short manga that the creator of the series, Masashi Kishimoto, will launch will focus on the Yellow Lightning of Konoha.
[Breaking News]#NARUTOP99 End Results!
Hot on the heels of the 2nd place winner, in 3rd is…Sakura Haruno!!! pic.twitter.com/jmTaSYlhzT
— NARUTO OFFICIAL (@NARUTO_info_en) April 13, 2023
[Breaking News]#NARUTOP99 End Results!
Coming in 2nd, just one place behind the top character with over 500,000 votes, is…Itachi Uchiha!!! pic.twitter.com/RjnUN9ZL9S
— NARUTO OFFICIAL (@NARUTO_info_en) April 13, 2023
[Breaking News]#NARUTOP99 End Results!
And taking home the crown from NARUTO’s first-ever worldwide character popularity vote is…Minato Namikaze (Fourth Hokage)!!! pic.twitter.com/fT1i1WJFvD
— NARUTO OFFICIAL (@NARUTO_info_en) April 13, 2023
The protagonist of the original anime, Naruto Uzumaki, got a total of 182,911 votes, which helped him reach the 6th position. This is not surprising, since although it was a popularity poll, the prize for the winner was a short manga focused on his story and fans already know a lot about Naruto as a character.
Below we leave you with an image of the list of the 99 most voted characters. You can check the video below to see how many votes each received.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaGvJeB1gd8
Some curious details of the vote is that Minato Namikaze was the most popular with fans of all ages, except for those from 40 to 49 years old, whose favorite character was Kakashi Hatake. Another striking detail is that there were fans who voted daily for his favorite character from December 17 to the last day of January 2023.
Although Itachi Uchiha started out leading the vote, which began on December 17, it took Minato Namikaze just a few hours to reach the top and hasn’t lost it since.
We created a graph video showing the votes being tallied in real time over the course of the #NARUTOP99 Worldwide Character Popularity Vote! pic.twitter.com/tuO1UzZou0
— NARUTO OFFICIAL (@NARUTO_info_en) April 14, 2023
Latin America voted for the best waifus in Naruto
The most voted characters according to the region were revealed and the one that drew attention is Latin America, since, while other regions voted for characters Kakashi, Itachi and Madara, this one dedicated their votes to the most popular waifus of the series: Sakura Haruno and Hinata Hyuga, in that order. It was the only region that had 3 female characters as prominent characters, the third kunoichi was Mito Uzumaki, first Jinchūriki of the Nine-Tailed Fox, wife of Hashirama Senju and grandmother of Tsunade.
Unfortunately, neither Sakura nor Hinata managed to win, but that does not mean that they are not the favorites of Latin America.
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It was not mentioned how many pages the short manga starring the winner would have, but it was confirmed that thanks to the great expectations of fans around the world, the final product “will have more pages than originally planned and will be the size of one -shot” and best of all, Masashi Kishimoto, creator of the franchise, is already working on it, who shared a commemorative art with the 22 most voted characters.
“I was surprised to learn of Minato’s enormous popularity in each of the regions, and I also didn’t know that Sakura was so loved all over the world. (…) Now I’m working on Minato’s manga, which came in first place Seeing the great reception this project had, I began to draw more pages than I originally planned,” said Kishimoto, who took the opportunity to anticipate a “story about the secret of the jutsu that Minato developed.”
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