Top 10 Light Novel Characters of the Year

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With 2009 almost over, it's time to start taking a look back at the past year. One annual survey conducted in Japan asks light novel readers who their favorite character was for the year, & the results for 2009 characters are quite surprising. That is to say, the top 5 characters are all male. In fact, males dominate most of the top 10, which is quite different results from what you'd see in anime & manga surveys of the same sort. For instance, popular & well known novel series like Bakemonogatari, Magical Index, Seitokai no Ichizon, & ToraDora all make the list. Each one of these titles are well known for their attractive female characters, & yet on this survey either the male characters rank higher than the girls, or the girls don't even rank at all.

Mikoto "BiriBiri" Misaka was the highest ranked female at #6. If you were wondering why Haruhi didn't make the list, you gotta tell Tanigawa to get off his lazy butt & start the next novel already. & just to make things even weirder, the top character- Hideyoshi Kinoshita from "Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu" (pictured above)- is a trap. I guess the only thing better than a male light novel character is one that looks like a girl. The top 10 results:

1. Hideyoshi Kinoshita / Baka to Test to Shōkanjū
2. Araragi Koyomi / Bakemonogatari
3. Touma Kamijou / Index
4. Mii-kun / Usotsuki Mii-kun to Kowareta Maa-chan
5. Ken Sugisaki / Seitokai no Ichizon
6. Mikoto Misaka / Index
7. Ryuji / Toradora
8. Tooko Amano / Bungaku Shoujo
9. Nanase Kotobuki / Bungaku Shoujo
10. Konoha Inoue / Bungaku Shoujo

Source: http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/11/20/top-10-light-novel-characters-2010-biribiri-trap-top-rank