In honour of Echizen Ryoma winning this round's popularity ranking, I have put up the cover of his latest mini album, Progress. This is the normal press version released recently which doesn't include the special content from the limited first press version released on Echizen's birthday aka Christmas Eve last year. What's missing would be the talk section between Echizen's seiyuu, Minagawa Junko and Konomi Takeshi-sensei but I assume that the darts tray and picture disc are also left out since it was listed on Interchannel that they would not be available after 25 Jan. To distinguish between the two versions, the background and alignment of the words are different but essentially, we are seeing the same Echizen with identical clothes and pose. Note that only the top 50 are listed in Vol 32 of the manga released earlier this month and a total of 93,211 votes were received. The numbers in brackets indicate the amount of votes received for each character. For your information, my personal top 10 not in order of preference is highlighted in bold. ^__^1) Echizen Ryoma (13578)
2) Fuji Shuusuke (12459)
3) Atobe Keigo (9782)
4) Tezuka Kunimitsu (9578)
5) Oshitari Yuushi (7413)
6) Inui Sadaharu (5989)
7) Kirihara Akaya (5023)
8) Kikumaru Eiji (4484)
9) Niou Masaharu (4431)
10) Sengoku Kiyosumi (4149)
11) Marui Bunta (3525)
12) Shishido Ryou (3215)
13) Akutagawa Jirou (3210)
14) Yanagi Renji (3165)
15) Yukimura Seiichi (3075)
16) Mizuki Hajime (2865)
17) Ooishi Shuuichirou (2757)
18) Kaidou Kaoru (2718)
19) Saeki Kojirou (2436)
20) Ootori Choutarou (2154)
21) Akutsu Jin (2028)
22) Sanada Genichirou (1974)
23) Yagyuu Hiroshi (1743)
24) Ryuuzaki Sakuno (1584)
25) Momoshiro Takeshi (1536)
26) Kamio Akira (1527)
27) Mukahi Gakuto (1455)
28) Tezuka Ayana (1419)
29) Akazawa Yoshirou (1398)
30) Minami Kentarou (1386)
31) Hiyoshi Wakashi (1359)
32) Karupin (1356)
33) Fuji Yuuta (1284)
34) Shiraishi Kuranosuke (1140)
35) Echizen Ryooga (1113)
36) Ibu Shinji (1062)
37) Kurobane Harukaze (987)
38) Kawamura Takashi (960)
39) Sakaki Tarou (921)
40) Amane Hikaru (858)
41) Chitose (831) / Kabaji (831)
43) Tachibana Kippei (816)
44) Kisarazu Atsushi (768)
45) Oshitari Kenya (711)
46) Konomi Takeshi (609)
47) Jackal Kuwahara (591)
48) Dan Taiichi (579)
49) Tooyama Kintarou (567)
50) Kisarazu Ryou (522)
