Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Anime Heroes Find Their Mr. Miyagi As Japanese Fans Pick Their Favorite Mentors

You've got to wax-on-wax off before learn how to do a crane kick. You've got to peek into some hot springs before you learn how to rasengan. You have to... what exactly did Umaru have Kirie do? In their latest 10,000 Reader Poll, Charapedia asked fans to think about a tie that runs deeper than blood, and name which pair master/student - mentor-mentee do their admire most.

 

With 58 pairs suggested, 53.5% were from female readers, with 64.4% in their teens and 20s.

 

20. Hunter x Hunter's Biscuit Krueger and Gon Freecss -91 votes 

 

19. Naruto's Might Guy and Rock Lee - 92 votes

 

18. Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju's Eighth Generation Yakumo Yurakutei and Yotaro - 94

 

17. Boruto's Sasuke Uchiha and Boruto Uzumaki - 98

 

16. Legend of the Galactic Heroes' Yang Wenli and Julian Mintz - 103

 

15. Naruto's Minato Namikaze and Kakashi Hatake - 107

 

14. Masamune-kun’s Revenge's Yoshino Koiwai and Masamune Makabe -125

 

13. Mob Psycho 100's Arataka Reigen and Shigeo Kageyama - 137

 

12. Yu Yu Hakusho's Genkai and Yusuke Urameshi - 180

 

11. One Piece's Silvers Rayleigh and Monkey D. Luffy - 193

 

10. Yuri!! on Ice's Viktor Nikiforov and Yuri Katsuki - 197

 

9. My Hero Academia's All Might and Izuku Midoriya - 211

 

8. Dragon Ball's Master Roshi and Son Goku - 278

 

7. Fullmetal Alchemist's Izumi Curtis and Edward Elric - 279

 

6. Rurouni Kenshin's Seijuro Hiko and Kenshin Himura - 288

 

5. One-Punch Man's Saitama and Genos - 358

 

4. G Gundam's Master Asia and Domon Kasshu - 470 

 

3. Dragon Ball's Piccolo and Son Gohan - 509 

 

2. Gintama's Shouyou Yoshida and Gintoki Sakata - 532 votes

 

1. Naruto's Jiraiya and Naruto Uzumaki - 840

 

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

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