Popularity
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Nanoha is one of the most popular Japanese anime characters in recent years. She has entered 2channel's Anime Saimoe Tournament for five times, becoming champion in 2005, entering the top 16 in 2006 (lost to Fate Testarossa), and top 8 in (lost to Rena Ryugu) to become the second character to enter top 8 twice (after Sora Naegino), as well as the first character to enter the top 16 thrice. Her performance degraded significantly since 2008, as the anime TV series has concluded in sep.2007 and only one movie has been released ever since, and she lost twice to Shana in both 2008 and 2010, ending up in the No.17~32 and the No.9~24 group respectively. Still, her career statistic of 18 wins against 4 losses remains a "lifetime achievement" record in the history of saimoe.
Ironically, Nanoha was also included in the SaiGAR2007 voting tournament, which was intended to elect the manliest anime character, although she only won one match before being defeated.
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