The Angel Beats! 1st Beat Preorder Bonus Character Poll Has Concluded

Since the 13th of this month, Key has been running a poll on the Angel Beats! Visual Novel's website to allow fans to vote for what character they'd like drawn by Na-Ga to be packaged with 1st Beat preorders.

As of today, the 25th of February, the poll has concluded and the results presented on the Official Key Twitter in a fun dialogue between Angel Beats! characters Miyuki Irie and Shiori Sekine.


The results (top 10) are as follows:

Are you ready? I wasn't.

Coming in at 10th place with 2,238 votes is Shiori Sekine!
Next up in 9th place with 2,535 votes is Shiina!
8th place with 2,841 votes goes to Yuzuru Otonashi!
7th place with 4,980 votes goes to Miyuki Irie!
6th place with 5,586 votes goes to Yusa!
5th place with 5,667 votes goes to Yui!
4th place with 7,476 votes goes to Masami Iwasawa!
3rd place with 8,172 votes goes to Yuri Nakamura! ... Wow, really..?
And 2nd place, with 10,767 votes is Kanade Tachibana!..?
So... Those are some big names! Tenshi got second?!
And 1st place has 19,116 votes?!
"Whoever could it be???" you ask? Well, allow me to inform you!

None other than the almighty Matsushita, of course!

... Okay, so it's important to note the vast majority of votes for Matushita were illegitimate, making him more or less disqualified. Sorry, Matsu. The true winner of the poll is Kanade, and all other characters are in fact one spot higher on the list- With the added bonus of Hisako making it into top 10 at 10th place!

Congrats, Kanade fans! You'll be getting a special illustration in your preordered copies of 1st Beat!

Further dialogue from Irie hints towards another character poll in the future, but it's not confirmed.

Source: https://twitter.com/key_official


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://kazamatsuri.org/the-angel-beats-1st-beat-preorder-bonus-character-poll-has-concluded/

Kinda sad, but was to be expected. I expected Yui to be higher than that, but I am glad Yuri is up there. Will be looking forward to see the thing, although I wont get it, not interested in Kanade. I’ll probably get the VN a bit later.

I should have voted more than once… T_T
Still, 6th place is good! It’s a shame Yui caught up again though…

I’m wondering if somebody actually did make illegitimate votes for Matsushita or it was just a joke they were playing on twitter. They did have Sekine and Irie introduce the winners so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was all a joke to make it look like Matsushita won XD

I wouldn’t be surprised if Na-Ga tinkered with the votes so he could get his wish on drawing Matsushita.

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The fuck?

How is Irie so popular. She’s only losing to people with actual Anime development.(+1 Yusa)

Fuckin’ Japan and their obsession with cute girls.

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I’m surprised about that too. She rarely had any speaking lines in the anime. But I’ve grown to like her after reading the track zero and 4 koma thing. Maybe that’s the same with Japan?

I think Heaven’s Door / other sources play a lot into these choices as well- 4Koma Irie is most likely the source of her following. Masami being there otherwise is a stretch imo. You didn’t get her ‘character’ in the anime like with Yui, which a lot of interesting people enjoy, but Heaven’s Door solidified a character for Masami which a lot of people- Like me- Enjoy. Anime is all ‘cool beauty’, Heaven’s Door is dat moe.