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Some old Weekly Shonen Jump character popularity polls I dug up; popularity polls
Topic Started: Feb 1 2016, 12:39 PM (2,890 Views)
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Looked around and I might be the first person to post these on an English site. :)

Weekly Shonen Jump 1993 #12: This one was released when SS2 Gohan was beating the crap out of Perfect Cell in full color (chapter 411, to be precise):
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1. Son Gohan (51,921 votes)
2. Son Goku (48,256 votes)
3. Trunks (29,627 votes)
4. Vegeta (17,383 votes)
5. Piccolo (9,454 votes)
6. Klilin (7,438 votes)
7. Mr. Satan (1,892 votes)
8. Cell (1,769 votes)
9. Bulma (1,135 votes)
10. Dende (756 votes)

Weekly Shonen Jump 1995 #05/06: This one was released when Bootenks was beating the crap out of Ultimate Gohan in full color (chapter 501, to be precise). It appears much fewer people voted in total:
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1. Son Goku (10,492 votes)
2. Vegeta (7,019 votes)
3. Trunks (6,537 votes)
4. Gotenks (6,102 votes)
5. Piccolo (5,515 votes)
6. Son Gohan*
7. Son Goten*
8. Yamcha*
9. Freeza*
10. Klilin*
*=votes not shown.
Edited by Scotty_Rogers, Feb 1 2016, 12:42 PM.
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Pretty cool. Where can I find more?
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Feb 1 2016, 01:10 PM
Pretty cool. Where can I find more?
dunno, these were all i could find. will post more if i find them tho
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Mr Satan made it into the top 10 in the Cell arc but not the Boo arc? Dafuq
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Dafuq? Frieza is in Buu Arc poll?

Somethin's fundamentally flawed. Even if he go with anime, TOEI needlessly dragged Buu Arc with fillers & yeah. Frieza was shown in Kid Buu Saga (glimpses of him in abt 4 episodes).

But doez that warrant him to make it to the list?

Another thing. Gohan was "active" player in Buu Arc, esp when you said Buutenks smashin Ultimate Gohan part. Previously, Gohan smashed Super Buu

Goku was a background character for almost 20+ chapters & yet received so many votes. His last "active" moment was when he transformes into SSJ3 & fought Buu. Thats all. And yet...

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Feb 1 2016, 02:02 PM
Dafuq? Frieza is in Buu Arc poll?

Somethin's fundamentally flawed. Even if he go with anime, TOEI needlessly dragged Buu Arc with fillers & yeah. Frieza was shown in Kid Buu Saga (glimpses of him in abt 4 episodes).

But doez that warrant him to make it to the list?

Another thing. Gohan was "active" player in Buu Arc, esp when you said Buutenks smashin Ultimate Gohan part. Previously, Gohan smashed Super Buu

Goku was a background character for almost 20+ chapters & yet received so many votes. His last "active" moment was when he transformes into SSJ3 & fought Buu. Thats all. And yet...

Only Toriyama knowz
It terms of Freeza, it probably can't be helped. He's left such a significant impact on the series that he simply isn't forgotten. Sometimes it has less to do with relevance and more to do with impact. And nobody can deny he's had nearly the most impact of all characters.

It does help that he was shown though.

@scottybaker that's too bad. Guess I'll look on my own.
Edited by Dankness Lava, Feb 1 2016, 02:19 PM.
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It seems Tenshinhan and Yamcha were really unpopular during the Cell Games. Even Dende beat them to the top 10 with just 756 votes. It's also a bit surprising Mr. Satan ranked so high in the 1993 poll (even higher than Cell, the main villain), seeing as he debuted only a few chapters earlier. Odd that he didn't make the top 10 in the 1995 poll.
Edited by Scotty_Rogers, Feb 1 2016, 02:59 PM.
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What happen to Gohan's popularity? Did his Saiyajin arc ruin his popularity?
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Gohan's high school days, Great Saiyaman and fan backlash over Goku dying for what seemed to be for good probably hurt his popularity. These discussion groups/rooms from when the anime/manga was being produced I dug up a while ago show some people complaining over those things, as well as the handling of Gohan in the Boo arc in general:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/oF4TU_7jibg/AB01L6218nkJ
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5/3/93
I read somewhere that Goku got killed by Cell and couldn't be brought back to life ?
Why is this ??
Did he get killed by Cell ??
Really a Dragonball Z without Goku seems pretty pointless to me at the moment....


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/oF4TU_7jibg/wIRJQwz_naAJ
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5/3/93
I really don't think DBZ without Goku as lead character will be worth watching. Besides, what's next? Dragonball ZZ? End it the way it is ...
Personal opinion: DBZ's popularity will fade without Goku, Trunks and Piccolo. Guess we'll see.


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/FyF7TonucrE/RqofZAOqYEEJ
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5/7/93
Oh my god.... A super-saiya-jin Gohan fighting bank robbers? ... I guess it is still too early to put down the new series .... But Gohan fighting bank robbers?????Ahhhhhhhhh .... This is starting to look like Gundam ZZ .


https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.anime/Zct2PbI_JM8
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6/21/93
This is really getting grotesque. Analogy time: I've started to consider Dragonball ZZ being to DBZ what BGCrash! was to BGCrisis -- a bad idea. A REAL bad idea. Sorry to be so negative, but everything from Goku's death onwards just sounds like drek. Sigh.


(Note: "Dragonball ZZ" is what some people at the time referred the series as when Gohan became the main character)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/kAUNNmKWLko/_q6TUK8Go7UJ
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11/28/93
It's interesting: these three seem to stay in the same positions, poll after poll, most of the time. Although Gohan seems to have taken a beating recently. "Super Saiya Man" my a***, the boy needs a wardrobe.


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/ualD3o2s-Ik/MlBaMnKyZ7oJ
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11/29/93
I think the best point to end it would have been at the end of the Cell saga. Gohan was just, plain AWESOME! Now, he's turning into Super Saiyan to defeat bank robbers. Blech!


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/tWN6d8_9GUY/MerB9WLuPmkJ
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12/16/93
In the MOST RECENT episodes, Goku is DEAD and the attention has shifted over to Gohan, who is now entering High School. I refuse to watch this.
Goku is and always will be :) the protagonist, although lately ...


(Note: Yes, that is how this person's message ends ...)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/mG-U9ePK7zo/PdxvEQsPDykJ
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1/30/94
Amazing ... Gohan out of top 20!! Maybe his new image is not that good as the old one ...


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/xyASSW0UyXs/57TBSxmJW8YJ
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2/13/94
Yeah, I preferred him when he was fighting Cell. It seems to me that he's gotten weaker. One thing I noticed that really bugged me was when he stopped the bank robbers, he turned Super Saiyan. Now, if little Goku can knock down a 500 lb. wrestler with a tap with his finger, what's a Super Saiyan's punch and kick supposed to do to a bank robber?!!!!


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/HXq_S2tj-RM/gCjXyR2v8G0J
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1/21/96
Gohan has become a grade A loser.
Edited by Scotty_Rogers, Feb 2 2016, 11:22 PM.
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Feb 2 2016, 11:21 PM
Gohan's high school days, Great Saiyaman and fan backlash over Goku dying for what seemed to be for good probably hurt his popularity. These discussion groups/rooms from when the anime/manga was being produced I dug up a while ago show some people complaining over those things, as well as the handling of Gohan in the Boo arc in general:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/oF4TU_7jibg/AB01L6218nkJ
Quote:
 
5/3/93
I read somewhere that Goku got killed by Cell and couldn't be brought back to life ?
Why is this ??
Did he get killed by Cell ??
Really a Dragonball Z without Goku seems pretty pointless to me at the moment....


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/oF4TU_7jibg/wIRJQwz_naAJ
Quote:
 
5/3/93
I really don't think DBZ without Goku as lead character will be worth watching. Besides, what's next? Dragonball ZZ? End it the way it is ...
Personal opinion: DBZ's popularity will fade without Goku, Trunks and Piccolo. Guess we'll see.


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/FyF7TonucrE/RqofZAOqYEEJ
Quote:
 
5/7/93
Oh my god.... A super-saiya-jin Gohan fighting bank robbers? ... I guess it is still too early to put down the new series .... But Gohan fighting bank robbers?????Ahhhhhhhhh .... This is starting to look like Gundam ZZ .


https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.anime/Zct2PbI_JM8
Quote:
 
6/21/93
This is really getting grotesque. Analogy time: I've started to consider Dragonball ZZ being to DBZ what BGCrash! was to BGCrisis -- a bad idea. A REAL bad idea. Sorry to be so negative, but everything from Goku's death onwards just sounds like drek. Sigh.


(Note: "Dragonball ZZ" is what some people at the time referred the series as when Gohan became the main character)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/kAUNNmKWLko/_q6TUK8Go7UJ
Quote:
 
11/28/93
It's interesting: these three seem to stay in the same positions, poll after poll, most of the time. Although Gohan seems to have taken a beating recently. "Super Saiya Man" my a***, the boy needs a wardrobe.


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/ualD3o2s-Ik/MlBaMnKyZ7oJ
Quote:
 
11/29/93
I think the best point to end it would have been at the end of the Cell saga. Gohan was just, plain AWESOME! Now, he's turning into Super Saiyan to defeat bank robbers. Blech!


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/tWN6d8_9GUY/MerB9WLuPmkJ
Quote:
 
12/16/93
In the MOST RECENT episodes, Goku is DEAD and the attention has shifted over to Gohan, who is now entering High School. I refuse to watch this.
Goku is and always will be :) the protagonist, although lately ...


(Note: Yes, that is how this person's message ends ...)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/mG-U9ePK7zo/PdxvEQsPDykJ
Quote:
 
1/30/94
Amazing ... Gohan out of top 20!! Maybe his new image is not that good as the old one ...


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/xyASSW0UyXs/57TBSxmJW8YJ
Quote:
 
2/13/94
Yeah, I preferred him when he was fighting Cell. It seems to me that he's gotten weaker. One thing I noticed that really bugged me was when he stopped the bank robbers, he turned Super Saiyan. Now, if little Goku can knock down a 500 lb. wrestler with a tap with his finger, what's a Super Saiyan's punch and kick supposed to do to a bank robber?!!!!


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime/HXq_S2tj-RM/gCjXyR2v8G0J
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1/21/96
Gohan has become a grade A loser.
I don't think I've ever seen fans reactions to the series at the time it was running. Where do these come from?
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Wow, look at that, Mr Satan defeated Cell TWICE.

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Piccolo: Just how many people have you sacrificed?!

Cell: Sacrifice? Hmph, rubbish! On the contrary, it is an honor to become a fraction of my power.
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I don't think I've ever seen fans reactions to the series at the time it was running. Where do these come from?
Discussion groups/chatrooms from the 1990s. Back then, people would post on stuff like BBses and Usenet.

Google Groups has a lot of old discussions archived.
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