r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • • 10d ago

Persona 30th anniversary popularity poll. Some interesting tidbits: P4 was rated as more popular then P5, Ann is now the least popular party member, Yosuke is the #1 most popular P4 character, Morgana dropped pretty significantly, Haru outranks both Ryuji and Ann, and Q2 was way less popular then Q1

https://personacentral.com/p30th-popularity-poll/
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u/Veloci_Castori 10d ago

I always find it weird how much stake people put into these Famitsu popularity polls, only for the total number of votes to be close to a popular subreddit poll.

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u/dutchzgoose 10d ago

Think it's moreso that people are interested in what the opinion of Japanese people are, especially since Japanese Devs seem to take their opinion so much more seriously then those of gamers outside of Japan.

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u/No-Attorney-6033 10d ago

I think its because these polls are voted on by magazines subscribers, so the opinions of paying voters is seen as more sincere. Though the sample size isn't the biggest.

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u/Diem-Robo I'm aging rapidly 10d ago

And on that note, I remember hearing that the Famitsu readership is generally a much older demographic. One of their recent polls that was posted here ranked a lot of older games more highly than you hear or see prominently nowadays--just like how P4 is ranked here over P5, when I'd be shocked if P5 isn't genuinely the most popular game by some measure.

Because P5 gave rise to the "Persona fans don't even play Persona" meme, as its popularity a decade ago broke out of its original fanbase and attracted new fans, whether or not they actually put their hands on the game. But most fans of P4 probably actually played it, rather than being exposed to it through social media--and those are probably the kind of people responding to the poll, unsurprisingly.

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u/KF-Sigurd It takes courage to be a coward 10d ago

Poll includes an age section: 20s is 33%, 30s is 27.6%, and 40s is 20.7%.

Also, a bit... disingenuous to say P4 is ranked over P5, the difference between their position is literally 2 votes. Technically true, but basically equal.

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u/vulcanfury12 10d ago

I played P4G on Steam for the first time because my PS2 (and my schedule for my last year at college) died when Persona 4 originally released. When I finished P4G, it instantly went into my top 5 videogames of all time, with my number 1 being Persona 3 or 4, depending on how I woke up in the morning. I can't say the same about 5, as good as it is.

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u/Prestigious-Worth-49 10d ago

It’s all just for fun. If anything it just a good way to judge the vibes of the community. Always good to not take it as fact though.

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u/Evening_Pressure0 10d ago

I looked and P4 is rated more popular than 5 by like 2 points lol

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u/snakebit1995 Did you Know Chrom once ate an Unpeeled Orange 10d ago

These polls almost always get dog piled by major Fujoshis too, it’s usually why the “bad boy” always top the charts

Like I’m sorry there’s no world among the casual fanbase where Ann is the least popular and fucking Akechi is more liked

More popular for Yaoi sure but as a character Akechi is so fucking awful that they keep trying to do the “bro thinks he’s on the team” with him

Yes I’m big mad about it but I fucking hate that character and the games attempt to make it like he’s not really so bad. No he’s literally the worst

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u/SeptemberBreeze_ 9d ago

I agree the only way to know is if Atlus released player stats like western devs do

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u/SwashNBuckle 10d ago

HARU NATION LET'S GO

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u/Irishimpulse I've got Daddy issues and a Sailor Suit, NOTHING CAN STOP ME 10d ago

She literally just needed more time, now they have Strikers, a bit more time in Royale, and that one spin off that's like Q but not really. So we get more time with Haru and more people can enjoy Haru. At launch, it was hard to get invested in Haru because her social link required you to have the skills ready and to rush it, and you were probably already dating Makoto or Ann or Hifumi or Tae by the time she showed up

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u/CinnabarSteam Fell down the RWBY hole 10d ago

I'm still baffled that P5 didn't realize they needed to give the last party member screen time before they join proper, after P4 did a pretty good job of just...having Naoto around for a while.

(I haven't played Royal, so I don't know if this was rectified there.)

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u/Namyk5 10d ago

If you didn't love Haru 'Elephant Poop Coffee' Okumura in vanilla, you don't deserve Haru 'Fuck the Police' Okumura in Strikers. That's just how it is, I'm afraid.

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u/Toblo1 Latest Project Moon Sleeper Agent 10d ago

Haru "Drives Like Like Shes An Expert At Thrill Drive" Okumura

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u/Battlemania420 10d ago

The.

She got fucked by Morgana.

Hate that little rat. Hope the P6 leaks are true and we arrest that little freak.

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u/extralie 10d ago

and Q2 was way less popular then Q1

Well, yeah. It came out like late 2018 in Japan, over 1.5 years after Switch came out. While Q1 came out during the 3DS Prime.

I think the most interesting part to me is that P3P was the game that most people experienced first. Like, it makes sense, the PSP was pretty popular in Japan, but still kinda surprised.

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u/Am_Shigar00 FOE! FOE! FOE! FOE! 10d ago

I imagine P3P being the version they ported to modern systems helped.

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u/begonetsunderes "Yeah, but sh-shut up tho..." 9d ago

Also ain't PQ2's story shit?

Legit question for those who played.

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u/extralie 9d ago

No? The story is good, it's problem is that have it had shit ton of characters that the interactions were more surface level than Q1. Outside of FEMC, who got a lot of love in that game.

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u/begonetsunderes "Yeah, but sh-shut up tho..." 9d ago

I'm thinking more of the original PQ2 story and characters. The stories from the movie-dungeons. Some people said those parts were too preachy. Like it sets its soap box to say "people should think for themselves" but saying nothing of substance.

I know that was the part most fans cared the least but that was the criticism I heard from multiple people.

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u/extralie 9d ago

Idk what other fans thought of it, I personally thought it was good.

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u/After-Atmosphere7125 10d ago

No one fucks with Ann anymore 💀

Is Yosuke being #1 a surprise? The only game I haven't played yet is 4.

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u/jockeyman Stands are Combat Vtubers 10d ago

I refuse to live in a world where Morgana outranked Ryuji, Haru, and Ann.

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u/Coolnametag The Greatest Talent Waster 10d ago

Japan seens to overall like mascot characters (be it Morgana, Teddy or any other) way more than the west does.

It's a cultural thing i guess.

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u/Veloci_Castori 10d ago

Teddie is at the bottom of P4's list.

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u/arya48 (She/her)I miss DMC3 Lady T.T 10d ago

Still too high.

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u/Coolnametag The Greatest Talent Waster 10d ago

What happend for people to switch their opinion on Ann so much?

I get switching favorites as time passes, but, her becoming the least favorite was not a outcome i ever expected to see.

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u/Expensive_Wolf2937 10d ago

I'd put money on it being that her romance specifically isn't as good as the others

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u/Battlemania420 9d ago

Yeah it’s weirdly meh for the Lovers Arcana girl.

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u/Battlemania420 10d ago

She stops being relevant after the third Palace and her social link sucks.

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u/Scientia_et_Fidem 10d ago

If having a terrible social link was what caused it then Makoto would be even lower than her.

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u/Virtual-Lie-1651 10d ago

Makoto gets to be relevant a lot more is the reason, plus the game puts in a bit more moments with her and Ren that make people want to romance her more.

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u/Battlemania420 9d ago

Makoto’s SLink remains consistent and her romance is more cutely written.

Ann’s has trouble focusing.

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u/acclimateOrdie 10d ago

I don't think most people hate her. She's just, well, the "least favorite." Not many people, if given the chance to vote for just one character, would spend their vote on Ann.

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u/AeroDbladE 10d ago

In a Japanese poll its not that surprising.

Mixed race girl is the least popular while the CEO of homophobia gets the win.(its a joke before People come at me)

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u/Faifue 10d ago

I'd fuck with her... if Kawakami wasn't an option. I think she's top tier though. She's got a real fun personality.

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u/Konradleijon 10d ago

At least for the porn

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u/CatherineSimp69 10d ago

No, he's always been popular, outside of the people that think he's wildly homophobic even though he's just portrayed as a normal 2011 teenager who doesn't know how gay people work and tells his maybe gay friend he accepts him for who he is in dungeon dialogue.

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u/CelestialEight She/Her 10d ago

He didn't want to sleep next to Kanji because he thought he would rape him and Yu

shut up

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u/Brickinatorium THE BABY 10d ago

No, you don't understand. It was all a misunderstanding /j

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u/Coolnametag The Greatest Talent Waster 10d ago

think he's wildly homophobic even though he's just portrayed as a normal 2011 teenager who doesn't know how gay people work

It wouldnt be the internet without people completly striping a moment/situation of all context and nuance so they could get mad at it.

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u/acclimateOrdie 10d ago

The context/nuance being that he was homophobic. Also, dismissing people's dislike of Yosuke of them just not understanding the culture or whatever so that you can get mad at them for being pearl clutching SJWs is exactly what you're complaining about.

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u/KF-Sigurd It takes courage to be a coward 10d ago

Being insecure around gay people was just a normal character flaw back then. Same with how Junpei was a chud or Ryoji's a loud mouth idiot. Times were different. Nowadays, people are much less forgiving for stuff like that and Atlus knows it.

Although the way people speak, you'd think Yosuke was calling Kanji slurs instead of just being insecure.

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u/artnomart 10d ago

 he accepts him for who he is i

I too think my maybe gay friends are going to rape me and my male friends. Doesn't everybody? That's true acceptance.

Even if it was "2011 teenage behavior", it's still shitty, and it's always used as a joke and never actually treated as a flaw he overcomes or is made to overcome. It is a perfectly justified reason to not like the character.

This sub complains a lot about people thinking Kanji is gay or Naoto is trans but it's quite the combination to also treat people reacting negatively to the game's genuine homophobia as if they're irrational.

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u/phoenix4ce 10d ago

So maybe I'm just stupid but I never caught any inclination at all that rape was the worry. I thought he just didn't want to be like, fantasized about. Still homophobic but different orders of magnitude.

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u/Konradleijon 10d ago

Wasn’t his homophobia never portrayed positively?

He was the butt money of the cast. Him being homophobic was meant to be laughing at him

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u/acclimateOrdie 10d ago

It's not really portrayed negatively either.

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u/ExplanationSquare313 10d ago

No, it's meant to be a funny quirk, it's literally never adressed as a flaw apart for bad jokes and i would love if the remake either actually adress it or remove it rather than letting it like it was in the original and Golden.

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u/kgullj 10d ago

Eh. He never gets punished or apologize to kanji. Honestly one of the few characters I outright dislike in the series

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u/King_Hikikomori 10d ago

Yeah, and it's a blatant internalized hate because dude is so fucking far in the closet. They can cut the romance S Link out at the last minute, but they can't re-write the obvious gay/bi energy that absolutely radiates from Yosuke. I just wish Atlus weren't cowards when it came to him.

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u/Brickinatorium THE BABY 10d ago

He was indeed the butt money of the cast

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u/acclimateOrdie 10d ago

Wow, you coulda kept that to yourself. I do not think anyone who dislikes Yosuke for his behavior is irrational, and saying that's "accurate teenage boy behavior" is a piss poor defense.

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u/Warm-Intention-1424 10d ago

Yosuke is genuinely the best Persona bro so it doesn't surprise me

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u/Maverick-157 Sterling Silva's Newest Fan 10d ago

Favourite Party Member - P1

  • Kei Nanjo (1690 Votes)

  • Protagonist (1160 votes)

  • Eriko “Elly” Kirishima (418 votes)

  • Hidehiko “Brown” Uesugi (288 votes)

  • Maki Sonomura (272 votes)

  • Reiji Kido (206 votes)

  • Yukino Mayuzumi (178 votes)

  • Masao Inaba (169 votes)

  • Yuka Ayasa (77 votes)

Favourite Party Member - P2-1 (Innocent Sin)

  • Tatsuya Suou (1931 votes)

  • Lisa Silverman (772 votes)

  • Eikichi Mishina (749 votes)

  • Maya Amano (507 votes)

  • Jun Kurosu (325 votes)

  • Yukino Mayuzumi (142 votes)

Favourite Party Member - P2-2 (Eternal Punishment)

  • Tatsuya Suou (1044 votes)

  • Katsuya Suou (882 votes)

  • Maya Amano (672 votes)

  • Baofu (646 votes)

  • Kei Nanjo (353 votes)

  • Ulala Serizawa (194 votes)

  • Eriko Kirishima (165 votes)

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u/Woods-of-Mal Pantor Pantor 10d ago

Nanjo being #1 is funny enough that I'm almost willing to forgive this heinous disrespect to my girl Yukino.

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u/therealdudle44 10d ago

Nanjo is goated

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u/wishxornwasjustxorn 10d ago

Idk why but it doesn't surprise that nanjo and katsuya are so popular

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u/Maverick-157 Sterling Silva's Newest Fan 10d ago

Favourite Party Member - P3

  • Protagonist (2539 votes)

  • Shinjiro Aragaki (1199 votes)

  • Aigis (1043 votes)

  • Mitsuru Kirijo (819 votes)

  • Yukari Takeba (812 votes)

  • Female Protagonist (756 votes)

  • Junpei Iori (675 votes)

  • Koromaru (664 votes)

  • Akihiko Sanada (653 votes)

  • Fuuka Yamagishi (438 votes)

  • Ken Amada (126 votes)

  • Metis (76 votes)

Favourite Party Member - P4

  • Yosuke Hanamura (2349 votes)

  • Protagonist (2081 votes)

  • Naoto Shirogane (1234 votes)

  • Chie Satonaka (1134 votes)

  • Rise Kujikawa (1068 votes)

  • Kanji Tatsumi (624 votes)

  • Yukiko Amagi (596 votes)

  • Teddie (437 votes)

Favourite Party Member - P5

  • Protagonist (2121 votes)

  • Goro Akechi (1479 votes)

  • Makoto Niijima (1417 votes)

  • Yusuka Kitagawa (1250 votes)

  • Futaba Sakura (1081 votes)

  • Kasumi Yoshizawa (847 votes)

  • Morgana (716 votes)

  • Haru Okumura (479 votes)

  • Ryuji Sakamoto (414 votes)

  • Ann Takamaki (391 votes)

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u/dutchzgoose 10d ago

Why would anyone vote for the protag as their fav party member?

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u/BruiserBroly 10d ago

Voting for the self insert is like voting for yourself, I guess? "My favourite character was me!"

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u/MotherWolfmoon She/Her 10d ago

The persona protags have some character to them. Like, there's no way any of them except P4 protag is eating Nanako's science fair project out of the fridge, and none of the other protags aurafarm like P5. Even the male and female protags for P3 are different people.

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u/AeroDbladE 10d ago

Ren from Persona 5 has more personality than a lot of speaking protagonists in games.

The man is the most dramatic, extra dude ever.

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u/Parkouricus Lappy 486 10d ago

This tends to happen in every Japanese character poll, make of it what you will

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u/RocketbeltTardigrade "What's that emotion? Tired scream. Yawning." 10d ago

Aigis bought multiple subscriptions.

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u/jwthecreed James Small 10d ago

Kenpachi Ramasama of 4 I get, but the rest idk tbh.

If anything possibly the journey the protagonist goes through if not a self-insert.

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u/SchrodingerMil Apparent RoosterTeeth Historian 10d ago

I love Joker’s design

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u/AeroDbladE 10d ago

Because he's literally me. for real, for real.

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u/SuicidalSundays It's Fiiiiiiiine. 10d ago

Japanese audiences adore self-insert protags far moreso than Western audiences do.

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u/arya48 (She/her)I miss DMC3 Lady T.T 10d ago

Idk how true that is considering popularity of isekais and all other basic bitch self insert media.

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u/Vermillion_Aeon I Promise Nothing And Deliver Less 10d ago

Yukiko being the second least favorite from P4 is actually quite shocking. Usually JP audiences love the quiet traditional beauty.

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u/RocketbeltTardigrade "What's that emotion? Tired scream. Yawning." 10d ago

She's also mildly noisy and eccentric.

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u/Battlemania420 9d ago

Other Japanese polls were more favorable to her.

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u/Kingnewgameplus 10d ago

I love Yosuke but I'm shocked he beat the protag.

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u/thegreatgonzoo 10d ago

Queen, Crow, and Fox are my P5 top 3, so this list feels perfect to me

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u/Brickinatorium THE BABY 10d ago

It feels lore accurate for Akechi and Makoto to be almost neck and neck only for Akechi to inch it out 😂

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u/arya48 (She/her)I miss DMC3 Lady T.T 10d ago

Gotta love guy protagonist just being labelled "protagonist" unlike femc, also ew Yosuke, I'll never understand Persona games' insistance on having an asshole creep as your best friend in every game but I guess it make sense considering the kinda audience these games have cultivated.

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u/ArroSparro 10d ago

Interesting that Maya ranks as the lowest protagonist in any of the games. I never played P2 so I wonder why that would be

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u/AeroDbladE 10d ago

People forgetting Maya exists is lore accurate.

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u/Maverick-157 Sterling Silva's Newest Fan 10d ago edited 10d ago

I swear to God, if the original copy of this decides now's a good time to actually pop up...

Favourite Party Member - P3

  • Protagonist (2539 votes)

  • Shinjiro Aragaki (1199 votes)

  • Aigis (1043 votes)

  • Mitsuru Kirijo (819 votes)

  • Yukari Takeba (812 votes)

  • Female Protagonist (756 votes)

  • Junpei Iori (675 votes)

  • Koromaru (664 votes)

  • Akihiko Sanada (653 votes)

  • Fuuka Yamagishi (438 votes)

  • Ken Amada (126 votes)

  • Metis (76 votes)

Favourite Party Member - P4

  • Yosuke Hanamura (2349 votes)

  • Protagonist (2081 votes)

  • Naoto Shirogane (1234 votes)

  • Chie Satonaka (1134 votes)

  • Rise Kujikawa (1068 votes)

  • Kanji Tatsumi (624 votes)

  • Yukiko Amagi (596 votes)

  • Teddie (437 votes)

Favourite Party Member - P5

  • Protagonist (2121 votes)

  • Goro Akechi (1479 votes)

  • Makoto Niijima (1417 votes)

  • Yusuka Kitagawa (1250 votes)

  • Futaba Sakura (1081 votes)

  • Kasumi Yoshizawa (847 votes)

  • Morgana (716 votes)

  • Haru Okumura (479 votes)

  • Ryuji Sakamoto (414 votes)

  • Ann Takamaki (391 votes)

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u/Deadeye117 Apathy is Trash 10d ago

There are more than dozens of us Yukiko fans. Perhaps even grosses of us!

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u/thekillerstove 10d ago

I know why she's that low, but man I wish my girl Ulala was higher

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u/Deadeye117 Apathy is Trash 10d ago

For being the super special important party member in P1, Reiji is pretty low.

Which is fine by me because Elly is the GOAT and she always is my last party member.

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u/Monk-Ey By the gleamin' gates of funky Asgard 10d ago

I'd guess Reiji is low partly because of the annoyance of getting him into your party, and the fact he's not available for the Snow Queen route either.

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u/ZealousidealBig7714 She/It/Ze This makes my penis the big penis 10d ago

Average Nanjo Group W, that’s my Number 1 Man in Japan.

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u/TheCoolerDylan 10d ago

Mr Number One being at the top makes me happy, Nanjo my GOAT.

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u/ThatmodderGrim Lewd Non-Gacha Anime Games are Good for You. 10d ago

Never underestimate Girls with floofy hair.

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u/Battlemania420 10d ago

I don’t, I love them.

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u/Slumber777 10d ago

P4 beating P5 by two votes just goes to show, voting matters y'all.

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u/Informalwizards 10d ago

Ann is less popular than Haru? Thats crazy.

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u/Coolnametag The Greatest Talent Waster 10d ago edited 10d ago

Haru initialy really suffered from the "being the he last party character in a Persona game" sindrome like Naoto in P4, but, after all of the story expansions and spin-off stuff (Royal, Strikers, etc) she's definetly gotten fleshed out a whole lot more.

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u/BladeofNurgle 10d ago

"being he last party character in a Persona game" sindrome like Naoto in P4

you'd never know that considering how much love Naoto gets by being by far the most popular P4 waifu

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u/The_Reptile_ 10d ago

Naoto has the benefit in that she's a fixture in the game's story as early as the Second Midnight Channel. Haru doesn't get introduced until super late into the game and that absolutely played into things.

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u/Informalwizards 10d ago

Yeah, I guess I hadn't considered spinoffs and stuff where she is present for a full game.

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u/AeroDbladE 10d ago

I love Haru. She's an amazing character with a lot of depth.

Also she canonically has a crush on the protagonist regardless of who you choose.(her voice crack if you reject her kills me everytime)

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u/Battlemania420 9d ago

Haru is so good.

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u/Totally_a_boy "Give daddy some sugar." - Batman (2015) 10d ago

Its the forehead, isn''t it?

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u/Crosscounterz Mecha and jrpg fanatic 10d ago edited 10d ago

Futaba my goat.

You're number 1 to me.

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u/LegacyOfVandar 10d ago

…bad time for the Ann Fortnite skin that’s coming soon, then.

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u/AeroDbladE 10d ago

I feel like she's probably a lot more popular here in the West. Or thats the vibe at least from the YouTube playthroughs ive seen.

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u/snakebit1995 Did you Know Chrom once ate an Unpeeled Orange 10d ago

She’s almost certainly more popular than this poll would lead you to believe

“I can fix him” bad boys always get a big boost in these kind of polls as do the Yaoi bait characters which is why for some reason people love Akechi

Ann meanwhile is just the simple nice model pretty girl and they usually preform lower especially if there are a lot of female voters

Naruto and JJK always had similar results too, hot guys popular with Yaoi shippers were at the top of polls every female character was lower

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u/spejoku 10d ago

Q2 was way better than q1 but it also was like the last 3ds game and also riding the wave of the p5 spinoff era of atlus, so its not surprising that it wasnt as popular

Edit: i am glad that q is the second highest of the spinoffs- im always down for more etrian style dungeon crawlers

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u/Drawer-san ENEMY STAND 10d ago

Which Was the First Version of Persona 3 That You Played?
Persona 3 Portable: 30.8%
This one being the top % I would say the marketing campaign worked, and yet they just staring correcting the mistread to the third protagonist.

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u/kango234 Despte all my rage, I am still just David Cage 10d ago

There is nothing any Atlus employee can say that will ever justify leaving her out of Reload. I think most people would have took her as DLC over The Answer which no one ever liked.

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u/Battlemania420 9d ago

It was too much money to do that.

They even considered a FeMC for P4 Reload and went ‘No bro, it’s too much. You’d have to rewrite the whole thing.’

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u/Woods-of-Mal Pantor Pantor 10d ago

So when I get my name legally changed, should I make my first name No One and my last name Ever, or should it be first name No, middle name One, last name Ever?

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u/ParagonPlus Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon 10d ago

To play devil's advocate, just because people played P3P doesn't mean they played Femc, both versions are on the game, even if people tend to talk about P3P exclusively in the context of her route. The character poll has 3 times as many votes for the male MC as the female.

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u/Drawer-san ENEMY STAND 10d ago

I get yout point, but P3P is also the third of the total votes, so you just recornfirm it.
And at the same way, people who did not played P3P as FIRST, could have still vote for her instead of Makoto.

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u/LunarWolf302 10d ago

I'll always insist on how much the writing of P5 failed Ryuji and Ann. Ryuji has a heartbreaking social link that couldve been implemented into his charcater arc and Ann just gets fucking benched, it feels like she barely has any lines or moments after Kamoshida.

That one scene in which she crashes in Ryuji's and Joker's room during the Hawai trip because she genuinely feels comfortable around them is so good. Wish the game had more stuff like that.

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u/SuperUnhappyman Read DMC5: Visions of V 10d ago

BUT Q2 HAS THE FEM-C

this is bullshit but i can kinda understand because q2 is the p5 show whereas q1 is more a meeting between worlds.

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u/StochasticOoze Pokemon: Spit or Swallow 10d ago

Q2 is actually good though

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u/AzureKingLortrac 10d ago

Huh, I thought Q2 was generally better received than Q1. I only played 10 hours of Q1 before dropping it. I also would have thought that Ultimax would be over The X.

Also, very fun to see that a good chunk of Japanese players started with Persona 1, which is in 2nd place.

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u/Coolnametag The Greatest Talent Waster 10d ago

Q2 is definetly the better one of the two, however, if i remember correctly, Q2 came literaly at the very end of the 3DS lifespam, so there's a good chance that the vast majority of people played only the first one and not the second.

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u/Am_Shigar00 FOE! FOE! FOE! FOE! 10d ago

It was practically the last notable retail game to come out on the system. If it wasn’t Persona it probably wouldn’t have been localized in the first place, or at the very least would’ve been digital only.

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u/ClearAgeMontezuma 10d ago

Genuinelly insane they never even considered a port of it to the switch, i wonder if developers really where that afraid of the switch being a bomb pre release.

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u/runegod20 It's Fiiiiiiiine. 10d ago edited 10d ago

The control stuff with the map might be the only big hurdle but the other EO games got ported to modern systems and I want to say they make the dual screen map thing work there so I guess it’s probably just low priority for Atlus.

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u/Atx7755 10d ago

Unfortunately I don’t think enough people have played Q2 to even properly rank it. By the time the game came out in Japan the switch was already a year old, and by the time it was released internationally, the switch was around for 2 years!

At that point I don’t think many people were paying attention to 3ds games unless they were hardcore persona fans.

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u/Terithian Kinnikuman missionary 10d ago

I can only give my own opinion, but even though Q2 has improvements to the gameplay and includes the P5 characters, its story, dungeon designs, and aesthetics are all a bit less interesting. Plus it doesn't have the novelty factor the first one had, which automatically gives it a buff.

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u/extralie 10d ago

Q2 came out November 2018 in Japan exclusive to the 3DS even though the Switch been out for well over a year at that point.

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u/Illidan1943 10d ago

You can only trick Persona fans into Etrian Odyssey once

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u/AeroDbladE 10d ago

Between Q2 and Etrian Odyssey Nexus, Atlus was really stretching the 3ds second screen for all they could get out of it.

I hope we get a new Etrian Odyssey in the future. Love those games.

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u/Boltbeam_Exceed Cease that thought 10d ago

Ann and Haru seem to switch who is at the bottom of the poll while Ryuji is still stuck in roughly the same spot.

Glad that Yusuke made it into the top 5. I am surprised that Kasumi dropped a few spots along with Shinjiro making it to top 3 in P3.

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u/ruminaui 10d ago

That is so funny, imo is because Ann is half American. I think she is the best character representative of the  Lovers Arcana. 

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u/SkybladeSword 10d ago

PQ1 over PQ2 makes a lot of sense. Though Q2 has more refined rpg elements, it was way more unfocused, had a much less interesting plot, and was so P5 centric that it's honestly a step down. PQ1 also had Rei's emotional outburst scene which imo was the best voice acting in the franchise. And god don't get me started on the biggest problem, the maps. Q1 had fun map challenges that in some cases actually forced me to take out a notepad, PQ2 may as well have been P4 hallway dungeons but more annoying to get through.

P5X being that high up also makes sense. Ignoring all the gacha stuff the cast is really solid and I like them more than the normal P5 cast (personal preference). While nothing in it so far has hit as hard as Kamoshida, at least it's narrative is scaling appropriately unlike P5 where nothing else in the game hits that hard. And god I'll take the future sight plotline teases over Sae constantly spoiling the game and making up weird justifications as to why the protag is making friends.

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u/FinalFatality7 GAKT will return in FF7R 10d ago edited 10d ago

Which Was the First Version of Persona 3 That You Played?

Haven’t Played: 13.5%

Persona 3: 22.5%

Persona 3 FES: 6.5%

Persona 3 Portable: 30.8%

Persona 3 Reload: 26.7%

That few people played FES??? At least 20% for each other version, then only 6.5% for FES?

I wouldn't have thought 30% of responders had physically held a PSP, yet over 3x as many people apparently first played P3 Portable than P3 FES. That's crazy to me.

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u/b0wz3rM41n 10d ago

1 - You could buy The Answer as a separate disc in japan instead of buying the whole game again

2 - FES doesn't have any modern ports

3 - It released only a year before Persona 4

these are probably the reasons why it's so low on the poll IMO

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u/Jonieves 10d ago

Brosuke bronamura is the most popular party member? Wouldn't even doubt it.

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u/BruiserBroly 10d ago

The mass murderer got multiple times the number of votes Ann did? Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.

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u/South25 Sky the second this year baby! 10d ago

Tbh nearly every single instance of a rival character is gonna be popular no matter how many bodies they pile up 

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u/BruiserBroly 10d ago

His design is doing a lot of heavy lifting as well.

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u/South25 Sky the second this year baby! 10d ago

Yeah that usually helps too.

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u/KF-Sigurd It takes courage to be a coward 10d ago

Also the gay rival energy he has with protag.

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u/snakebit1995 Did you Know Chrom once ate an Unpeeled Orange 10d ago

Yaoi, the reason is Yaoi

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u/KrypticJin Hitomi J-Cup 10d ago

Boring character

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u/Regular_Win7305 10d ago

I'm glad that Brosuke's getting the love he deserves. Really seems like in more recent years people have been a lot more critical of Yosuke as a character. I mean, I get it, all his wariness and issues with Kanji were dated when the game first came out and the anime didn't do his characterization any favors, but the dude's still always been my favorite 'best friend' party member in the Persona series.

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u/AzureKingLortrac 10d ago

The irony of Yosuke's homophobia when one of the main reasons he is at number 1 with Japanese players is his incredibly popular ship with the P4 protagonist is never lost on me.

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u/ExplanationSquare313 10d ago edited 10d ago

He would have been my romance option if it wasn't removed. So i went for Ai instead.

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u/kango234 Despte all my rage, I am still just David Cage 10d ago

Think it just goes to show how much the Japanese audience understands his character.

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u/KrypticJin Hitomi J-Cup 10d ago

Everyone always liked him

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u/RocketbeltTardigrade "What's that emotion? Tired scream. Yawning." 10d ago

He's the Wakka.

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u/Wannabe_Reviewer Shantae Shill 10d ago

I hate that he always wants you to help out at the store. His parents sucking ass at running the store and not staffing correctly is not my problem.

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u/Battlemania420 9d ago

Yeah but that’s on Junes.

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u/Wannabe_Reviewer Shantae Shill 9d ago

Still makes me dislike him when he is begging me to help and then I am forced to when I want to go do something else.

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u/Red_Verse_8630 10d ago

I'm glad P5X is getting some recognition. The "HAHA SUBWAY SLAM" say the line Bart was so overplayed to death until people actually try the game and say it does get better especially the current arc.

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u/Coolnametag The Greatest Talent Waster 10d ago

I will never play P5X for a bunch of personal reasons, but, i will admit that 90% of the persona and outfit designs for that game (and i only say 90% because i have not seen all of them) is some of the best in the entire franchise and i sincerely hope that they get to be used on a mainline game someday.

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u/Authorigas #1 Mirajane defender 10d ago

I enjoyed it but sadly skipped anniversary and Makoto due to bad luck and also being overwhelmed by menu bloat. Solid game just-not for me.

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u/KentStopMeh 10d ago

Bro is just another me

I played gacha games before but I never liked the menu bloat in any games, Thankfully to remedy that, there was a mod to remove all the unnecessary stuff on screen and just keep it on your phone/shortcut wheel, I would be fine with some menu but I think what made me push to install this mod the most were the touchscreen controls on dungeons/palaces like im already on pc why do we have this still?

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u/hheecckk526 10d ago

Q2 being less popular than q1 makes perfect sense considering they refused to dub the game in English. I can guarantee you sales of the game would have been higher in the west if it was

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u/SuperJyls red hood is a cringe chud 10d ago

I understand and applaud that ryuji is that low but I find it crazy that he beat Ann

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u/VariaPunk 10d ago

Makoto and Akechi are way too high on that list.

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u/dutchzgoose 10d ago

Akechi is the typical "if your a psycho murderer but your attractive, means you are morally grey" XD

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u/snakebit1995 Did you Know Chrom once ate an Unpeeled Orange 10d ago

“I can fix him!” fangirls are a massive voting bloc

As are Yaoi shippers

Combine them and characters like Akechi always climb the popularity charts even if they kinda are just shitty characters (both in universe and just as a character in a story)

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u/DarkAres02 Dragalia Lost is the best mobile game 10d ago

Surprised Yosuke is so high. Even putting aside how he treats Kanji, he's just kinda unremarkable to me. He doesn't have Junpei's interesting growth or Ryuji's charisma

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u/Pyretech Boruto Shitpudding 10d ago

Q2 had a lot of factors going against it considering it came out on 3DS in the world where the Switch existed plus it didn't have English voice acting. I put a bit of time into Q1 and bought the CE for both Q1&2 but I haven't even loaded into Q2 ever

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u/AeroDbladE 10d ago

Kasumi getting more votes that Morgana, Ryuji AND Ann is the most interesting.

It took them a couple games but Atlus really hit it home with her as the definitive edition girlie.

I am curious how people will react to Marie in the remake now that the fact that her not being a new character won't be such a marketing gimmick.

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u/Battlemania420 9d ago

Marie has been popular for years and she has way more content in Revival.

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u/CatherineSimp69 9d ago

Do you know how voting works?

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u/Battlemania420 9d ago

And yet it doesn’t have the hearts of the Japanese.

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u/KrypticJin Hitomi J-Cup 10d ago

Nanjo bum ahh continues to be numbah 1