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fullscoreshenanigans · 5 months ago

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Reading these popularity polls and feeling like I'm going lowkey insane

(WSJ Chapter 102 Popularity Poll, released September 7, 2018)

(Official Anime Site's 4th Anniversary Popularity Poll, conducted in August 2020)

(VIZ February 2021 Popularity Poll)

Anna being more popular in fanon that Don illustrates the phenomon of a fandom being willing to do one of their least favorite things (appreciate a female character) in order to avoid doing another one of their least favorite things (appreciate a character of color)

#Eurocentric beauty standards and cishet ship brainrot is a hellavu drug combo #Ch102 poll is especially crazy because her big moment in the spotlight in Ch116-117 #where she goes to help get the medicine for Chris didn't happen yet where you can maybe justify it as something else #but like. You're delusional if you don't think a significant portion of that popularity comes from her being #a conventionally cute‚ blonde-haired‚ blue-eyed white girl with how much more consistently involved Don (and Gilda) are in the story #Phil outranking so many characters in relation to his role is also a thing #but he did have that major defining character moment where he took on the burden of the secret at the tender age of 4 #during one of the greatest emotional climaxes of the series that even people who say the series fell off remember fondly #and that poll coming out two chapters after he showed up again in the story during Ch100 #on top of being a cute bby #so while he isn't ranked as my 4th favorite character it's way more understandable to me than Anna's placement #also something something using this as a way to neutralize Ray as a “threat” to NE #by pairing him off with the conventionally cute blonde girl when he's had more consistent interactions with Don and Gilda #my personal red flag for a ship line-up if only because it's frequently done in the most bland comphet way possible #with RA and GD being used primarily to prop up NE as opposed to more genuine interest in the ships on their own #TPN References #TPN Polls #Fandom Salt #TPN Salt #Fandom Wank #TPN Cast #Grace Field Kids #Anna #Don #TPN S1 #Cuvitidala Arc #TPN 102 #Seven Walls Arc #TPN 131

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