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I forgot, hitomi in 8th place in the top 9.

Hitomi is also asian.

half asian

Yeah, so she's asian.

Oh right. poor tina, lisa, rachel, helena and christie... she's at very bottom of the votes XD

Even if not technically, Marie Rose can be considered an Asian character xD

Marie Rose being at the top is more obnoxious than only Asian women being on the list.

Wait Helena's out? (Not surprised). Sins of DOAX3: 1) No Hayabusa. 2) No other male cast either. 3) No Helena. For those who are purchasing this game: Why? What's the point now -- Rachel - RACHEL - is not even in it and her face is the most pulchritudinous.

So what did we learn?
1. People like little girls.
2. Blonde women are off limits (little girls aren't women).
3. People like asian girls. But, you know, with big eyes instead of the small ones the- actually, I'm done.

The pool is not definitive, there is still a week for the Japan to vote. The last places are not so certain for any character currently in them.

Did you guys expect this to go any differently? At all?

@Brute It's not so clear the last places (Leifang, Momiji and Helena seem to not be so sure, even if istinctively you would say that the French lady has to be the less popular one), but for the rest not at all honestly.

TBH, the only slightly surprising one to me is Kokoro (and it really shouldn't be; I just continually underestimate how much fans seem to like the most boring character in the game). Everyone else makes perfect sense where they are, even the three you mentioned.

Kokoro is a blatant Yamato Nadeshiko archetype.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YamatoNadeshiko

One of the most popular archetypes for JPN otaku since they dig 'pure' and 'traditional'. In Senran Kakura Yumi is #1 and she is a Yamato too.

Right. As I said, that shouldn't have surprised me. I just keep forgetting she's in the game and then she pops up in stuff like this and I go: "Oh wow, people are still paying attention to you."

What surpises is me is that Marie Rose has the most popularity and fanbase in japan surpassing Kasumi and her debut was almost 2 years ago when the arcade was released (correct me if I'm wrong) could of sworn it would be Honoka since she is definitely the "Moe" type and to Otakus: clumsy is sexy. >.>

Pervs who jerk their meat to big breasted women have a lot of options to disseminate them. Pervs who jerk their meat to little girls all unite and converge on Marie. There was not the smallest chance in hell that she would not be 1st place.

Except this wasn't 'vote only one' system. People could vote for multiple characters as long as they can pay for it.

It also doesn't explain why Honoka still placed so high when she is another big breasted [ironically the biggest] character.