What anime would you like to see first in 2022?" The results of the "2022 Winter Anime Expectations Poll" are in! No.1 is the final chapter of that work with stable popularity!

Two weeks have already passed since the start of the year 2022, and the first episode of the winter 2022 anime, which will start in January, has already aired, but what about your expectations? Akiba Research Institute conducted a poll from December 16 to 30, 2021, to gauge the level of anticipation for the 2022 winter anime, "Which anime would you like to watch first in 2022? The results of the "2022 Winter Anime Popularity Poll" were announced. Here are the results.

The following are the top 10 works selected.

No.1: Shinkage no Kyojin The Final Season Part 2 (124 votes)
No. 2: Mr. Takagi the teasing friend 3 (89 votes)
No. 3: Slow Loop (35 votes)
No. 4: Tomorrow-chan's Sailor Suit (25 votes)
No.5 : World's Strongest in a Commonplace Occupation (2nd season) (20 votes)
No. 6: Demon Slayer, Yuukaku-hen (17 votes)
No. 7: Sasaki and Miyano (16 votes)
No. 8: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean (15 votes)
No. 9: Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2 (13 votes)
No. 10: Kuroizu-san of the Monster Development Department (11 votes)

The winner was "Shinkage no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2," which began airing on NHK on January 9, and was the only one to receive triple-digit votes in this year's poll. Eren's final journey is about to begin. It is definitely one to watch this season.

The second place went to the long-awaited sequel , "Karakajite no Takagi-san 3" (which started airing on January 7), which basically depicts the same scenes from daily life as the first and second seasons, but with a hint of a romantic interest between Takagi-san and Nishikata, which must make fans cringe every time. I think that fans are always in a state of excitement. What kind of developments await us in the third season of this popular work? We can't take our eyes off it.

In this year's poll, the first- and second-ranked works above received quite a large number of votes, and the third-ranked works and below were in a close race with a fairly low number of votes. Among them, the third-placed work was "Slow Loop " (started on January 7), a loosely based "Manga Time Kirara" work that has been in the works for a long time. This is a fishing anime based on the comic of the same title (created by Uchi no Maiko) serialized in "Manga Time Kirara Forward. Outdoor-oriented works such as "Yuru△Can" and "Yamanosume" have been popular recently, and will this work be able to follow this trend and become popular as well?

No. 4 "Asuka-chan no Sailor Fuku" (which began airing on January 8) is a junior high school coming-of-age anime based on the comic of the same title (written by Hiroshi) serialized in "My Neighbor Young Jump". It is produced by CloverWorks, which has an established reputation for this type of coming-of-age anime, and is also notable for the appearance of a number of popular female voice actors.

No. 5 "Mundane Occupation de Sekai Saikyou (2nd season)" ( airing January 6) is a sequel to its first season, which aired as a 2019 summer anime. Although it is a typical Naroukei and otherworldly metastasis work, the original work is very popular and ranked 5th in terms of expectations.

The latest in the "Demon Slayer " series, " Demon Slayer Yuukaku-hen, " which began airing in December 2021 on Fuji TV and other networks, was broadcast one step ahead of the winter anime that started in January, so its ranking was a little lower than the others in terms of expectations. ( which began airing on January 7) and "Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2" (which began airing on January 10) are also sequels to popular anime works. However, the number of votes for these works was surprisingly low.

As for new works, "Sasaki to Miyano" (written by Sho Haruen, to start airing on January 9), based on a BL-style coming-of-age comic serialized in the "pixiv" comic content "gene pixiv," ranked seventh, and "Kuroizu-san of Kaijin Kaihatsubu " ( written by Hiroaki Mizusaki), based on a comic of the same title serialized in "COMIC Meteor" ranked fifth. ( written by Hiroaki Mizusaki, started airing on January 8) ranked in 10th place.

In addition, many other high-profile winter anime will be broadcast this year, including "Heike Monogatari" (to begin January 5), "Hakozume: Koban Joshi no Gyakushuu" ( to begin January 5), and "Dolls Front Line" (to begin January 7), but they did not seem to garner many votes in the expectations poll this time.

As for the works below 11, please refer to the voting results page below.

The winter anime season has just begun. If you missed the first episode, you can still watch it on your favorite TV station! If you missed the first episode, you can still enjoy this winter's anime by following up with the missed episodes.