Any great manga series wouldn’t be complete without a great supporting character. So oricon went out and polled 900 Japanese folks, asking them to rate “which was their favorite manga support character”. Krillin, who is the good friend of Dragonball’s protagonist Sun Goku was voted top supporting character.
Here are the top 10 manga support character:
- Krillin クリリン (Dragonball)
- Roronoa Zoro ロロノア・ゾロ (One Piece)
- Takeshi Goda 剛田武 (Doraemon)
- Kiminobu Kogure 木暮公延 (Slam Dunk)
- Tony Tony Chopper トニートニー・チョッパー (One Piece)
- Kouichi Senigata 銭形幸一 (Lupin the Third)
- Kaede Rukawa 流川楓 (Slam Dunk)
- Vegeta ベジータ (Dragonball)
- Tomozou Sakura さくら友蔵 (Chibi Maruko-chan)
- Kogoro Mouri 毛利小五郎 (Detective Conan)
Source: Oricon
My answer for this poll would be Tony Yony Chopper and Usopp together. Their crazy antics with Luffy just cracks me up.
Cant argue with that!
Krillin for the win!
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how can inspector senigata be classed as a support character, he is so main, if it werent for him it would be like “hey lupin what we stealing?” “…..nuffin….i dont have the drive since noone tries to stop me”
LOL you made quite a lot of sense. If it wasn’t for Zenigata who persevere in chasing him all the while, there wouldn’t be any fun to watch Lupin.
Is it bad that I dont recognize most of the names up there?
You and me both.^^ I don’t read too many mangas, but I still watch quite a bit of anime.
We choose the same image for the news, i love this pic with those colors…
And finally, Krillin wins something, he is the perfect sidekick, the real Sancho Panza of Don Quijote!