Rankings Character of the Year

Top Male Anime Characters of 2022

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).

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, surpassing 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.

RankTitleVotes
1stEren Yeager11.01%
2ndLoid Forger7.96%
3rdDenji6.71%
4thKiyotaka Ayanokouji6.45%
5thIchigo Kurosaki6.09%
6thAki Hayakawa5.82%
7thTanjiro Kamado5.78%
8thMiyuki Shirogane5.59%
9thGojo Wakana5.12%
10thCid Kagenou4.83%
11thTengen Uzui4.79%
12thYu Ishigami4.76%
13thShigeo Kageyama4.37%
14thHitohito Tadano4%
15thDavid Martinez3.92%
16thAinz Ooal Gown2.76%
17thShinpei Ajiro2.67%
18thVanitas2.6%
19thShido Itsuka2.48%
20thKou Yamori2.29%
“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

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

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