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If You Could Become An Anime Character: Top 11

April 19th, 2008 by James

Oricon Inc. recently asked 900 Japanese men and women the question, “If you could turn into a main character of an anime series, who would it be?” Here are the top 10 results:

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1. Son Goku (Dragon Ball)

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2. Doraemon (Doraemon)

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3. Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

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4. Nobita (Doraemon)

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5 [tie]. Conan (Detective Conan)

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5 [tie]. Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon)

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7. Heidi (Heidi, Girl of the Alps)

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8. Arsène Lupin III (Lupin III)

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9 [tie]. Minami Asakura (Touch)

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9 [tie]. Satoshi (Pokemon)

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9 [tie]. Kyon (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)

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Comment by feitclub
2008-04-19 10:18:27

Goku might be the strongest guy ever, but Vegita isn’t quite so dumb, plus he has a hotter wife (who’s also a genius).

What’s up with Heidi?

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Comment by William G
2008-04-19 11:55:29

I’d like to be Capitan Harlock. He was pimp.

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Comment by Dakk
2008-04-19 12:20:26

お前はもう死んでいる。

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Comment by marinaliteyears
2008-04-19 14:26:37

sailor moon(:

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Comment by Oops
2008-04-19 17:00:25

I guess Goku is a bit of an obvious choice for power-obsessed people o_o, seeing as how he has enough power to blow up several planets and has the ability to teleport. I mean, apparently no one really cares that he’s a bit intellectually-challenged (Note – Goku is one of my favorite characters).

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Comment by Da Kappa
2008-04-19 18:52:34

Can’t seem to enter my choice, strange.

I’d say my pick is Kuran Kaname from Vampire Knight.

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Comment by ダビ
2008-04-19 21:26:18

I would be Maeno from Inachuutakkyuubu!!

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Comment by blackrosemage
2008-04-19 23:37:37

I would like to be a visor from Bleach!

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Comment by trent
2008-04-20 00:13:02

Where’s the Naruto love? Uchiha Itachi!

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Comment by Karisu
2008-04-22 02:21:45

It deserves no love.

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Comment by Ryry
2008-04-20 00:34:27

C’mon, Astroboy is the best. You can wear your underwear all day, without a shirt; get away with wearing black booties; fire machine guns from your ass…

It’s the obvious choice. And robots are teh cool.

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Comment by Aekutopia
2008-04-20 03:17:59

“You’re a murderer” Kindaichi Hajime said

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Comment by mortonsalt
2008-04-20 04:49:29

i would be Gutz from berserk

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Comment by fatgirl
2008-04-20 05:49:13

I would be Rin from the Inuyasha. No need to worry about the world, and always having a handsome powerful man and a naggy little monster to protect me. Life is good as Rin.

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Comment by Chris Rodriguez
2008-04-20 07:24:01

I would be either Kakashi Hatake from Naruto or Togusa from Ghost In The Shell.

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Comment by isa
2008-04-20 20:36:49

Sakata Gintoki is the Best!

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Comment by gordon
2008-04-20 23:25:20

no love for Kamina? :-(

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Comment by Jessica
2008-07-23 18:16:08

Yeah…why isn’t there love for Kamina? Gurren Lagann rules!

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Comment by Steve
2008-04-21 07:46:30

Only winners choose Spike Spiegel. And I’m a winner!

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Comment by Alex
2008-04-21 16:03:33

I’m afraid we’re all losers, actually.

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Comment by Reiko
2008-04-22 07:56:45

There’s only a few women characters to choose from, none of which I’d want to be. Anyway, I’d be Hitomi from Escaflowne (if that had been a choice), but I wouldn’t have been stupid and left Gaea, especially since she could’ve married a king.

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Comment by chipp
2008-04-22 15:22:26

This is hard. I think there really isn’t anyone I’ll like to be, but maybe Osaka from Azumanga Dagio is the only exception.

Guess I’ll have to watch more anime! ^ 0^

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Comment by chipp
2008-04-22 15:24:10

I mean “Daiho”, typing error.

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Comment by RedHotFunk
2008-04-23 01:41:02

I would definitely say Guts from Berserk. Who wouldn’t want to be a mercenary gone berserk?

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Comment by 666XZ
2008-04-24 11:56:44

Broly so I can finally take revenge on this universe

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Comment by Romanticide
2008-05-17 08:50:58

I want to be a character of Hellsing :(

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Comment by lolipedofin
2009-02-08 19:55:59

Where’s Archer???

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Comment by anime freak
2009-09-04 12:46:41

one piece FTW

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Comment by Joel
2009-09-05 07:18:14

Kabuto Koji,he is Mazinga Z pilot….it would have been nice to be an orphan hero saving the world…

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Comment by Otonashi
2010-01-03 04:10:20

Aw, come on. You know you wanna be Ranma.

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Comment by Otonashi
2010-01-03 04:11:25

Oh, and by the way, it’s nice to see Minami in that list!

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