New works and sequels are in close competition! Just before the broadcast! The result of the "2022 Spring Anime Popularity Poll" has been announced! First place goes to Kirara's new fantasy!

With the start of April, spring anime broadcasts are starting one after another, but what about your expectations? Akiba Research Institute conducted a poll from March 18 to April 1, 2022, to gauge the level of anticipation for the spring anime of 2022, "Just before it airs! Spring 2022 Anime Popularity Poll" to find out the level of expectation for the spring 2022 anime. Here are the results.

The following are the top 10 works selected.

No.1: RPG Real Estate (96 votes)
No.2: Kaguya-sama ga Kesshirasai -Ultra Romantic- ( 85 votes)
No. 3: The Strongest Demon King in History, Reincarnated as Villager A (75 votes)
No. 4: Honkaku-jyoka no jokokkojo - I can't choose my means to become a librarian - (3rd season) (49 votes)
No. 5: A science student fell in love and tried to prove it. r=1-sinθ (48 votes)
No.6 : Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Club (2nd season) (39 votes)
No.7 : The Way of Life of the Executed Girl (Virgin Road) (31 votes)
No.8 : SPY x FAMILY (24 votes)
No.9 : Heroine Taru Mono! ～ The secret work with the hated heroine ( 19 votes)
No.9 : The Rise of a Shield Hero 2ndSeason (19 votes)
No.10 : Furumi-san is a commie. (2nd Season) (13 votes)

This time, the rankings were shifting until just before the voting deadline, with both sequel and new anime receiving a good balance of votes.

In such a close race, the winner was "RPG Real Estate," which is currently serialized in "Manga Time Kirara Carat" and is being animated for the first time. The first place was taken by "NEW GAME! and "Slow Loop," the "KIRARARA" genre has been producing a wide variety of loose-fitting works, including work-oriented and outdoor-oriented works. This work is a fantasy in which the main character helps people find rooms in a different world, so it will be interesting to see what kind of synergy the mix of "Kirara" and "other worlds" will produce.

The second-place finisher, "Kaguya-sama ga Tsurenasai -Ultra Romantic-, " which was ranked in second place just before the deadline, was "Kaguya-sama ga Tsurenasai -Ultra Romantic-. This is the third season of "Kaguya-sama" in which two proud girls engage in a romantic brain battle at an elite school. In the second season, we saw a boy, Ishigami, trying to move on from his traumatic past and an episode in which Kaguya cherishes everyone's pictures, which made us cry in terms of friendship.

The most anticipated of the "Naro" series, which has become a staple of the magazine every time, was the school heroic fantasy "The Strongest Demon King in History, Reincarnated as Villager A," which came in third place. While it is common for the protagonist to rise to power after reincarnation, the opposite is true in this work. Although he is an ordinary villager, he becomes a "warrioress" against his will. The fact that Hisanari Fukamachi, who played the main character in the winter 2022 anime "Mundane Occupation de Sekai Saikyou 2nd season," which received a lot of attention at Akiba Research Institute, is playing the main character again may be raising expectations for the series.

In the third season of "Honyaku no Gekkokujo - I Can't Choose the Means to Become a Librarian" (No. 4), the main character Mine, who is in a friendly competition to make books, aims to achieve his next goal: letterpress printing. Main, who aims to create a world where "everyone can read books" one step at a time while building bonds with those around him, has been gaining support, but will the third season take a serious turn, as the original author, Kouzuki Miya, has announced that "we cannot watch it without tears.

Fifth place went to the second season of " Rikekoi," in which Yuma Uchida and Ten Amemiya play a science couple who have to "prove" everything to each other. This time, Hiroki Kaji and Marina Yamada play the roles of Chris Florette and Suisame Fujiwara, respectively, so we are looking forward to seeing how they will show their "couple love" to each other.

The new anime series "Virgin Road" at No. 7 depicts the adventures of two girls, one on the side of execution and the other on the side of being executed, and is the first work to win the GA Bunko Grand Prize since "Is it Wrong to Seek an Encounter in a Dungeon? Next was "SPY x FAMILY," a comedy x action story about a "temporarily made-up family," which gained recognition early on by winning first place in the "Kono Manga ga WOW!

Among sequels, "Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Club" came in at No. 6. The most notable story is what happens to Yuu, who decides to transfer to the music department. The otherworldly popular series "The Rise of the Hero of the Shield 2nd Season" also made a strong showing on the last day of voting, and this time, the coming-of-age anime from HoneyWorks "Heroine Taru Mono! ～However, this time it tied with HoneyWorks' youth anime " Heroine Taru Mono !

The results of the poll can be viewed on the following page.

The first episode of the spring 2022 anime has already become a hot topic on SNS. With so many new works and sequels, we are busy watching them, but we hope that you will enjoy them while using distribution services as well.