Character of the Year

Top Male Anime Characters of 2022 2z2n66

The Best Anime Boy of 2022 poll closed a few days ago and the results are here. Although the male character poll tends to trail behind the female one, this year the gap was not so big: 62,529 people voted (compared to 66,658 in the Best Girl one). 2h2m1j

Now, on to the results. He might not be the “best boy” in the true sense of the term, but Eren’s character development definitely earned him the title of one of the best-written anime characters of recent years. Although he ranked second in the Winter of 2022, he managed to win the title of the Best Boy of 2022 by a large margin, suring everyone’s favorite spy-dad, Loid Forger. Denji came in third (but at least he fulfilled some of his dreams), followed by Kiyotaka Ayanokouji and Ichigo, who made his grand return after ten years.

Full results are available below. Each of these characters ranked in the top five in our seasonal polls and in case some of them appeared more than once in two separate polls we expanded the nominee pool to sixth place.

Rank Title Votes
1st Eren Yeager 11.01%
2nd Loid Forger 7.96%
3rd Denji 6.71%
4th Kiyotaka Ayanokouji 6.45%
5th Ichigo Kurosaki 6.09%
6th Aki Hayakawa 5.82%
7th Tanjiro Kamado 5.78%
8th Miyuki Shirogane 5.59%
9th Gojo Wakana 5.12%
10th Cid Kagenou 4.83%
11th Tengen Uzui 4.79%
12th Yu Ishigami 4.76%
13th Shigeo Kageyama 4.37%
14th Hitohito Tadano 4%
15th David Martinez 3.92%
16th Ainz Ooal Gown 2.76%
17th Shinpei Ajiro 2.67%
18th Vanitas 2.6%
19th Shido Itsuka 2.48%
20th Kou Yamori 2.29%
“Best Boy” of 2022 – Eren

Featured image:
Spy x Family © Tatsuya Endo, Shueisha / Spy x Family Project; Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2 © Hajime Isayama, Kodansha/”ATTACK ON TITAN” The Final Season Production Committee; Chainsaw Man, ©Tatsuki Fujimoto / Shueisha, MAPPA; © Shogo Kinugasa, KADOKAWA / Classroom of Elite 2 Production Committee

Tamara Lazic

Writer at Anime Corner News (former Managing Editor). Loves anime, books and spends way too much time on Genshin Impact.

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