My Melody Wins the Final Stage of the 29th Sanrio Character Ranking!

My Melody Wins the Final Stage of the 29th Sanrio Character Ranking!

On Aug. 2, the results of the final stage of the Sanrio Character Ranking were announced at Sanrio Puroland. The first place winner of this stage that ran from July 8-21 is My Melody.

Being a World Cup year, voting for this year’s ranking was divided into two stages, the first stage and the final stage. For the first stage, 100 characters were divided into five groups with the top four characters from each group moving on to the final round to be voted on once again. In total across both stages, 3,175,238 votes were cast in this year’s ranking.

Shining as the winner of this year’s final stage is My Melody! Out of the five groups in the first stage, My Melody was the overall winner with 210,902 votes, and this momentum continued in the final round where the character received 79,235 votes. My Melody bested HELLO KITTY, who won the ranking for the past two consecutive years, to be crowned the most popular Sanrio character. HELLO KITTY came in second with 72,951 votes. At No. 3 is Little Twin Stars. Talk about a magnificent top three.

Results for each of the characters can be seen here!

At the end of the results announcement, five people from the audience where chosen via raffle to win signed illustrations from each of the designers of the top three characters.

Once again this year, the characters of Sanrio put on a grand battle. Which character will be crowned No. 1 next year? Make sure to cast your vote in next year’s Sanrio Character Ranking!

Sanrio Character Ranking
Sanrio Official Site
Sanrio Character Ranking Official Twitter

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My Melody, winner of the final stage. My Melody had the most votes across both stages. © 1976, 2014 Sanrio Co. Ltd.
My Melody, winner of the final stage. My Melody had the most votes across both stages. © 1976, 2014 Sanrio Co. Ltd.
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