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Captain Obvious: Mario is Japan's most popular videogame character photo

In news that is likely to shock and amaze, Nintendo's world famous plumber Mario has topped an Oricon Monitor Research survey conducted among 1000 Japanese people asking for their favorite videogame character.

The survey participants covered a most demographics, with each gender and a variety of ages represented.

Mario topped the league, with Final Fantasy VII's Cloud Strife taking the second position. Looks like it's only the Weeaboos who have a Sephiroth hard-on. Coming in at third place is another Mario character, Yoshi. Sadly, I can't read moonspeak to find out the full top ten, but according to Finalfantasyseries.net, Solid Snake and Slime seem to be there, while the second highest rated FF character was again not Sephiroth but ... a chocobo, which came in at number seven. 

Looks like Colette was involved with this survey somehow. Kweh!








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007's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 04:04
007
I thought everyone in Japan was a weeaboo...
error2k2's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 04:13
error2k2
Japanese can't be weeaboos.

Only westerners can, and only emo weeaboos have Sephiroth hard-ons.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 04:19
Jim Sterling
Wemoboos?
Drop of Flame's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 06:28
Drop of Flame
Did someone say weeaboo?
Rifter01's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 07:00
Rifter01
Yoshi FTW! In fact.. I know there's Super Paper Mario and all.. But, why not a Super Mario World 2!
Rifter01's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 07:18
Rifter01
Oh, and yes I know Yoshi's Island.. But, well, I meant more like ol'skool 8-bit mario style, less 16-bit crayon-stylings.
Gen Eric Gui's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 07:53
Gen Eric Gui
Cloud at number 2?

*facepalm*
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:48
Brian Szabelski
@Gen Eric: That's the same thing I said, lol.

Oh, and I don't think Colette had something to do with this, or the Chocobo would have beaten Mario badly.
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