My Hero Academia's Izuku Midoriya has officially been beaten by another character

My Hero Academia has become one of the most loved anime and manga series worldwide. Its popularity speaks for itself, and right now it's quite easily one of the biggest anime series in the entire world.

While manga for My Hero Academia ended last year, the anime is still releasing the last bit of content in MHA final season. Regardless, My Hero Academia is officially over soon. With the end of the series, a large project in the form of a popularity poll come along. This voting was held worldwideand fans could vote for their favorite MHA characters over a certain period of time. The results of the survey revealed a significant fact about the popularity of MHA characters. Bakugo is by far the most beloved MHA characterand he has officially defeated Deku in almost every popularity poll, except for the very first one, when fans were just getting to know the characters. Bakugo has really become the face of the series.

Bakugo has beaten Izuku Midoriya in MHA's popularity poll

• Bakugo won first place in the international popularity poll

• Izuku Midoriya finished second

Izuku Midoriya, also known as Deku, is My Hero Academia's protagonist. The entire story revolves around Deku and his quest to become a great hero. Usually the protagonist of a series is the most popular character, but this is not the case for MHA. In the latest popularity survey for MHAwhich saw fans vote online from all over the world to celebrate the end of the manga, Deku was not the most popular character. Instead, the title of MHA's most popular character went to Katsuki BakugoDeku's biggest rival.

The gap between the two is not small either. Bakugo garnered a total of 1,647,611 votes globallywhile Deku managed to get 1,217,357. That's a difference of over 400,000 votes. Still, Izuku Midoriya was still second overall, which is quite impressive, especially when compared to the number that the third character, Shoto Todoroki, who was half his, collected with 630,398 votes. Izuku and Bakugo both stand as the faces of MHA and prove to be the most popular characters the series has to offer, by far.

Bakugo has won all but the first vote

Bakugo has proven to be the most popular character

While some fans might be surprised to see Bakugo takes the crown as MHA's most popular character about the main character it was expected. Deku has never really been MHA's top character in popularity, and this can be seen in past popularity polls. In almost all MHA popularity polls, Bakugo was the winner. The only vote where Deku beat Bakugo was the very first one. After all, back then fans weren't familiar with the characters properly and Bakugo hadn't yet received the development he later received. Bakugo is the true king of My Hero Academia, by the looks of it.

The My Hero Academia manga ended with 431 chapters for fans to read. All these chapters are available on Manga Plus. As for the anime, this series is still waiting for its final season, which will be released later this year. The series can be seen on Crunchyroll.

Release date

April 2, 2016

Network

TBS, MBS, Nippon TV

Directors

Shouji Ikeno, Tsuyoshi Tobita, Ikuro Sato, Takudai Kakuchi, Masashi Abe, Tetsuya Miyanishi, Kazuma Komatsu, Yoshifumi Sasahara, Masayuki Otsuki, Daisuke Tsukushi, Takayuki Yamamoto, Yohei Fukui, Takuro Nayokada, Takuro Nayokada, Morikawa, Takanori Yano

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  Daiki Yamashita

  Izuku Midoriya (voice)

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  Kaito Ishikawa

  Manga Fukidashi (voice)