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  • Date A Live: Rinne Utopia has the title character Rinne Sonogami, an Original Generation character made for the game. Mostly thanks to her being the Harem Nanny, the fact that she wants Shido to be happy to whichever girl he chooses, and the fact that she's a Nice Girl made fans want more of her. Which makes it all the more heartbreaking to see her disappear and Shido pulling off a Skyward Scream and that she won't get remembered by Shido. This is because the events of the game happen just after the anime/fourth volume and before volume 5 in which she wasn't present..
  • Fate/stay night:
    • Lancer, aka Cú Chulainn, is an overall minor character in terms of his role in the story, usually suffering from The Worf Effect and never making it to the end of any of the novel's routes alive. Despite this, fans absolutely love the guy, thanks to his likable personality, his status as an Anti-Villain, and for having the goal of just wanting to enjoy fighting in the Holy Grail War, a much simpler goal compared to the more complex goals of the other characters. It helps that his death in the Unlimited Blade Works route is considered to be one of the coolest moments in the novel.
    • Rider spends the novel's first two routes as the first to die, only seeing any significant development in the Heaven's Feel route. She's still very well liked by fans, however, thanks to being a beautiful Ms. Fanservice, being a rare, non-evil take on Medusa, and for being an overall compelling character.
    • Fake Assassin, aka Sasaki Kojiro, is a fairly minor character in the grand scheme of the story, yet his Noble Demon status and his ability to stand up to Saber despite being a Badass Normal at best resulted in him getting a lot of fans.
    • Bedivere only shows up in the final scene of the Fate route, but still managed to amass a following among fans. This popularity would continue for years until he finally made a return in Fate/Grand Order as a major character, which only cemented his fan-favorite status.
    • Saber Alter only appears for a limited amount of time during the Heaven's Feel route, but the sheer coolness of her concept and character, as well as being a central part of the extremely popular Sparks Liner High ending, resulted in her gaining quite a following.
    • Issei Ryuudou, Shirou's Muggle Best Friend, is a minor character, but became popular among fans for his likable personality, his role as a foil for Shinji, the absolutely hilarious scene in which Shirou strips him to make sure he's not Caster's Master, and for having a surprising amount of shipping fuel between him and Shirou.
  • Happiness: Jun.
  • Ikemen Sengoku:
    • It's clear that the creators didn't expect Kenshin Uesugi to become one of the game's most popular characters — his route wasn't slated to be released until after six other guys' (out of eleven) and he rarely ever gets focus in early events. From the start, however, a lot of fans immediately became interested in the battle-happy Pretty Boy with a hinted-at tragic past and possessive streak and started clamoring for his route. When his route was finally released, the game's next popularity poll in Japan had him be ranked in first place ahead of Nobunaga and Masamune who used to be virtual locks for first and second place in popularity polls. Even in the English fandom where his yandereness is somewhat more divisive, he still easily ranks in the top 3 of popularity polls.
    • Mitsuhide Akechi, especially in the English fandom. You'd be hard-pressed to find a player who doesn't love the silver-haired trickster who gets many of the game's funniest lines in his constant teasing and trolling of others but has a true heart of gold underneath all of his snark, especially after Hideyoshi's route depicted him as secretly falling in love with the player character but staying quiet about it so that she could be happy with Hideyoshi. And all of this love is for a character who took an extremely long time to get an actual route!
  • Katawa Shoujo: The Paranoid, Misogynistic, Conspiracy Theorist, Kenji Setou.
    • Hanako Ikezawa is this due to the sheer amount of fan art featuring her.
  • In Melody, Becca became almost more popular than the title character with the game’s players.
  • Princess Lover!: Sylvie.
  • School Days:
    • Yuuki Ashikaga for numerous reasons. The main reason is that he's the nice guy to Makoto's jerkass personality and probably the only sane man who is genre savvy enough to realize what's going on. He can call Sekai out on everything she's done to Kotohana and punch Makoto for being a dick. Finally, he's the cross dresser that many guys have deemed more attractive than the girls of this series AND he can end up being Makoto's Gay Option.
  • SHUFFLE!!: Asa's mom Ama can be viewed as one.
  • Sola seems pretty popular with the Sunrider fanbase, despite not having appeared in the game proper.
  • For the fans of Tsukihime, Nrvnqsr "Nero" Chaos and Satsuki "Sacchin" Yumizuka seem to be well liked, with the former due to his badassness and the later for her cuteness and unfortunate fate both in-game and metawise.
  • Utawarerumono:
    • Touka, her cuteness and fighting style have her beat everyone else in polls. Karura might count, though she actually gets her own arc in the story.
  • When They Cry series:


Alternative Title(s): Visual Novel

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