Asuna And Kirito From ‘Sword Art Online' And Haruka Nanase From ‘Free!' Voted Top 3 Most Attractive Anime Characters Of 2014

It would appear that having an attractive cast is not limited as a strategy to just live action films and TV shows.

Despite how absurd it might appear, being attracted to drawings is possible and often propels anime series' into increased popularity.

The latest evidence of this is in the form of a Japanese fan poll that revealed the top 30 most attractive anime characters of 2014. While the full list is available on Charapedia, it is notable that Kirito and Asuna from "Sword Art Online" and Haruka Nanase from "Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club" were the top three most attractive anime characters of 2014.

Fan reactions to the poll mostly resulted in disappointment that certain favorite characters did not make the list or weren't ranked higher.

"No Saber though?" asked SoleChris.

"I'm also sad Tohsaka Rin isn't near the top!" exclaimed Dreamgreed.

"Most attractive of 2014? For me it would probably be Honey from ‘Space Dandy', and Touka Kirishima from ‘Tokyo Ghoul'," said Endallchaos

Crunchyroll reported the top 30 most attractive anime characters along with photos of each character. Asuna Yuuki, the beautiful rapier-wielding VRMMORPG player from "Sword Art Online" was ranked number one. Second behind Asuna was the free-style swimming protagonist Haruka Nanase from "Free!." Rounding off the top three was Asuna's beau and main character from "Sword Art Online," Kirito.

Other characters from popular series that made the top 30 of the pole was Kaneki Ken from "Tokyo Ghoul" at number seven, Yasutomo Arakita from "Yowamushi Pedal" at number five, and Rin Tohsaka from "Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works" who was ranked number 27.

Since "Sword Art Online" and "Free!" were arguably two of the most popular anime series in 2014, these results seem to highly an connection between attractive characters and series popularity.

But one certainly doesn't cause the other. Otherwise that would mean that any anime with an attractive lead character would ultimately become popular.

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