2016 Anime Annual OP&ED Popularity Poll" results announced!　aki finishes in first place, followed by GLAY and DEAN FUJIOKA!

The official voting project "Let's decide the BEST Anime Song! 2016 Anime Annual OP & ED Popularity Poll" was held from January 10 to January 25 on the anime portal "Anipota" operated by Akiba Research Institute, Inc. Which anime song won the poll with a total of 24843 votes cast?　Let's take a look at the results right away.

Let's decide the BEST anime song! 2016 Anime Annual OP & ED Popularity Poll
No.1 aki "Kesshutteki HARUTEN AOZORA" (Bishoujo Yuugi Unit Crane Gale Galaxy) 9871 votes
No.2 GLAY "Destopia" (Chrome Clo) 5895 votes
No.3 DEAN FUJIOKA "History Maker" (Yuri!!! on ICE) 2137 votes on ICE) 2137 votes
No.4 Asaka "Open your eyes" (Occultic;Nine) 1480 votes
No.5 Happy Clover (Yumiri Hanamori, Haruka Shiraishi, Kiyono Anno, Hibiki Yamamura, Mausu Yoshioka) "Tomorrow is fine" (Anhappi♪) 953 votes
No. 6 Aqours "Yume uta o uta yori yume" (Love Live. Sunshine!) Sunshine!) 738 votes
No.7 Yushu Fujisaki "Dimension sky" (Nazotokine) 477 votes
No.8 Sayuri "It's like a little light" (Bokutoku dake ga inai machi) 409 votes
No.9 Machico "fantastic dreamer" (Bless this wonderful world!) 344 votes
No. 10 Valkyrie "一度だけの恋なら" (Macross Delta) 343 votes

The top 3 anime songs released in 2016 were selected from each season of spring, summer, fall, and winter. The winner of this year's poll to determine the BEST anime song of 2016 out of a total of 24 songs was aki's "Absolute Sunny Blue Sky" (Bishoujo Yuugi Unit Crane Gale Galaxy ED), which won first place in the "2016 Fall Anime ED Theme Popularity Poll" ( #/ ). aki (aki a.k .a Deguchi Yo) is a former member of SKE48 and currently an artist working as a singer. This time, as in the previous contest, she maintained her dantotsu top position with a large number of votes from the beginning of the contest, probably thanks to the spread of Twitter by her fans. In the end, he finished with a 4,000-vote margin over the second-place finisher.
GLAY's "Destopia" (OP of "Chrome Chrome"), which came in at No. 2, had a furious surge from the midway point and was close to the No. 1 spot at one point, not only winning support from a wide range of generations, as they have a career spanning more than 20 years, but also winning the top spot thanks to the anime knowledge of the band member, HISASHI, who was able to capture the heart of the anime song. The high quality of their music, which hits all the right spots for anime songs, is probably the reason why they gained so much support. The song was ranked No. 1 in the "2016 Spring Anime OP Theme Popularity Poll," and was also ranked a respectable No. 2 in the annual poll.
Coming in at No. 3 was DEAN FUJIOKA's "History Maker" (Yuri!!! on ICE, OP ), which showed overwhelming strength in the "2016 Autumn Anime OP Theme Popularity Poll. on ICE, OP), which showed overwhelming strength in the "2016 Fall Anime OP Theme Popularity Poll. The popularity of the anime song exploded as well, as the anime was extremely popular and dominated the second half of 2016. It continued to hold the top position from the beginning of the year, making the Top 3 again.

In fourth place was "Open your eyes" (Occultic;Nine - ED) by Asaki Hana. The 17-year-old high school girl singer, making her debut with this song, received many votes in the annual popularity poll following the "2016 Fall Anime ED Theme Popularity Poll. Also, both No. 7 Yushu Fujisaki's "Dimension sky" (Nazotokine, OP) and No. 8 Sayuri 's "It's like a small light" (Boku dake ga inai machi, ED) are songs by promising new artists. The result suggests that anime songs are attracting attention as a gateway to success for rookies.
Other songs ranked in the top five were songs sung by the cast and songs by anime song singers, which can be said to be the royal road of anime songs. All of them received a large number of votes in proportion to the popularity of the works, so the results were in line with the popularity of the works.

The variety of songs that ranked high in this year's poll only reminds us once again of the depth of the anime song culture.

For more details on the other rankings, please refer to the links below.

Let's decide the BEST anime song! 2016 Anime Annual OP & ED Popularity Poll.
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