FFVII's Cloud voted 2nd most popular character in Japan

Oricon Monitor Research have recently conducted a survey with 1000 individuals to decide who is the most popular gaming character in Japan.

1st - Mario
2nd - Cloud

[mohib-uddin7986532]

Sephiroth can KILL clouds Ass!!

[PopEmUp]

Sora kick them both ass in Kingdom Heart

[BigMassacre]

Even Zack kicked Sephiroth's ass.

[bbelly9320_]

a couple of times ^^

[mohib-uddin7986532]

Sephiroth is much cooler and stronger than cloud !

[PopEmUp]

like when he died couples of times

[NewSchoolGamer]

the japanese have seen more of Mario than Cloud.

[DavidMacDougall]

I thought the #1 character would have big tits

[Lord Shuhei Yoshida]

@David McDougal

Nice one.

[DavidMacDougall]

LOL at the dissagrees

[Dmitry Orlov]

As a character, I like more Zack than Cloud >_>

[deeznuts]

David McDougal, and a hairy bush as well?

I've taken it too far.

[Megatron08]

David this is in japan so they be small not big

[kittoo]

You didnt get it. Though in real life japanese have small boobs, in all fictional depictions like games, anime, comics etc, they show huge boobs.

[mohib-uddin7986532]

Its way mroe EPIC to play as Sephiroth that the entire FF7 party members

rember when u played as Sephiroth when your on that car with cloud

cloud was SOOOOOOOO weak. Sephiroth was like 50X better

[PirateThom]

I remember using an action replay to have Sephiroth in my team from the start. He was always in a state of Bezerk, so you had no control over him, but he was unleashing huge amounts of damage every single turn. It was kind of awesome.

['_']

{b-bu-but master chief}

[UltimateIdiot911]

lol, master chief will never touch mario or cloud status.

[Lord Shuhei Yoshida]

Mater Chief? Japan does not care for the Power Rangers anymore

[PopEmUp]

the green power ranger is gonna have a fight with cloud

[Lord Shuhei Yoshida]

@PopEmUp

It will be a battle of not-so EPIC proportions

[GlossGreen]

is a cool character. Much better than that boring Mario guy. I mean, look at him. He only has two or three phrases that he CONSTANTLY says. "It's a me. Mario." Get another line plumber.

[wazzim]

Cloud has his: "......"

[RemmM]

Mario is a goofy character, I'd never take Mario serious.

[iamtehpwn]

Very impressive, Cloud Strife.
If there's no re:FFVII or FFVII-2 it'd be a damn shame.

[Willio]

I agree, nintendo milked Mario litterally. Why not milk FF7 further?

[Overr8ed]

Really Cloud is better then Mario but hey Mario is the face of Gaming, Cloud is the face of drama in Video Games.

[socomnick]

Am I the only one that wonders Why the F@ck there is a picture of cloud and why the story mentions cloud when hes only #2. Shouldn't the proper story mention how Mario is the most popular character in Japan.

[Sangria]

Because the site that posted this article is finalfantasyseries.net, so they don't care much about Mario.

[poopsack]

wow socomnick, way to miss the obvious.

[gololo]

SquareEnix should re-make FFVII for PS3/XBOX360, I mean that is like free money...people will buy this game...they'd be dumb not to do it

[Shadow Man]

Take the 360 out and we'll talk.

[soul899er]

^^^ LOL Shadow, thats what im sayin.

[mfwahwah]

Eh, if they're gonna gimp it, then I'll pass.

[gololo]

well...fine take out the 360 for all i care...i'd just love for this game to go down as the best RPG in history...
as a side not, it's sad with all the disagrees to the original post as i don't think i was praising nor attacking any console just happened to put ps3/xbox360 in the same sentence...sigh....fanboys

[mephman]

This news was released mainstream over a month ago. Old story.

Check the date of the source, it says 11th of August.

[Eamon]

Not surprising

[TOO PAWNED]

Cloud is most GENERIC game character EVER! Of course by Japanese standards. Even Anime included. Spiky hair, Blond, blue eyed, loyal, brave,good hearted young preteen boy that is ready to do anything to help his friends in need, even sacrifice him self. In short GENERIC!

[Sangria]

Fake identity, over-exposed by radiations similar to nuclear effects, genetically modified with an alien DNA, lier, worked for a destructive company then as a terrorist, easily manipulated and self-manipulated, has no problem to cross-dress and seems to prefer men.

He looks like the perfect representation of a hero but is not that much. Very well shaped personality.

[Willio]

haha awesome comments but lets be honest, Cloud and Squall were better than the later FF main characters. Just look at their outfits!

[forevercloud3000]

Clouds spikey hair, blue eyes maybe but the list ends there. He was not a preteen, he was 21, a rare sight for Japanese anime characters. He also was not a nice guy, AT ALL. He was willing to take Marlene's "Skoolin" money from Barret to pay him. At the begining he was just in it fo the money.

And the main character being an imposter is a really rare sight in video games/anime.

[Marceles]

I'm kinda surprised it's not Pikachu, but Cloud is definitely up there on the list.

[Lionsguard]

Beaten by a fat Italian..

[TOO PAWNED]

with giant round nose....

[Tyrael]

and p*ssy whipped by a fuzzy fruit

[Allowen]

Ok that FF7 was a super cool RPG but that was the only game that Cloud was the protagonist.

I think Cloud would appear in a top 10 list as 10th.

Come on,characters like Sonic,Zelda,Link,Samus Aren,Cid(many FFs),Donkey Kong and quite a vew others that are on the market for more then 25 years should come before Cloud,those names should be more hell much more popular.

[forevercloud3000]

Just because they have more games then him don't make them anymore popular. Even if they are in 12 games to his 2-3, I will play FFVII over any of the ones you stated anyday. The game was a pop cultural phenomenon.

[Poirot9]

... by the fact that, as mentioned by earlier posters, Square Enix has yet to announce a re-make of FF7. While I am one of those who have adopted the school of thought that a re-make of FF7 is a very risky proposition (what with the chances of screwing it up and stuff), it is not FINANCIALLY risky. In fact, it's quite possibly the easiest gajillion dollars Square Enix could ever make. My only thought is that maybe they wanted to perfect a PS3/next gen toolset (Crystal for FF13) before starting on the remake. If this is indeed the case, look for an announcement shortly after FF13 goes gold, which, at this rate, should be some time in 2013. Sigh...

[NeoSprtacus]

I believe I have been reading this sort of article for the past 8 or 9 years, Mario and Cloud right up there.
Funny how no new characters seem to be 'revolutionary' enough to take the top spot.

On a side note, I am opposed to a remake of FFVII... I view Squaresoft as gods, and SquareEnix is like a priest of those gods, but brings nothing new to the people, and distorts the works of the old gods.

[Marceles]

If Square Enix was still Squaresoft, I would love it. But they don't have the same staff and people to work on the remake anymore and it seems like Square Enix might half-ass it if they did decide to remake it.

[mephman]

I couldn't agree more. Square Enix hasn't really done anything other than show people that they're solidly intent on making money.

[DevastationEve]

Just because they've decided to move on with their ambitions doesn't mean that they're not the same people. Of course, they literally aren't the "same" people. You'd have to go to mystwalker to get the old squaresoft back, and they've done some fine work with lost od and blue dragon. But wait, because you're all pro Sony you can't see past your own console, so you have no one else to blame but yourself.

And Cloud was cool, but by no means was he revolutionary. A guy with a giant sword, thin linguine arms and an 80's glam metal/Japanese Kabuki hybrid hair style?! Squall was way cooler! He had the Tom Cruise good guy looks, he had that awesome gunblade and he had a nicer girlfriend than Tifa (big boobies, that's so Tomb Raider circa 1996) and Aerith (she was nice, I'll admit). FF VIII's story was way better, and its groundwork and art style was continued in the FFs to follow. Parasyte Eve (I believe) used FF VIII's engine (Aya looked so much like Quistis). FF VII's art style was never seen again, though I believe it was the same person as it is today (Nomura, right?).

[mohib-uddin7986532]

Sephiroth is just way COOLER !!!

[KBDuB]

Was Sephiroth that pink bear looking thing?

[IAm1Bearcat]

This was actually surprising to learn, mainly because Mario has been around longer and in soooooooooo many games (i.e. Smash Bros., Mario Tennis, golf, kart, et cetera) and Cloud has been in only 1 game that i know of (im not a huge FF fan, and i dont know if he was in Japan only releases). but then again, after learning that this was in JAPAN, it made sense, because i wouldve thought Snake would be higher, but MGS isnt big there, so i understand now :) lol

but still kinda surprising.

[enjoi187]

im emo

[Miraak82]

hmm, I like squall from ff8 better , cloud whined too much and never made a move on tifa or aerith, at least squall macked it with rinoa at the end, he was also a whatever I don't give a Phuck kind of guy lol

[KBDuB]

Cloud is pretty badass, but I liked Squall better! Lol.

But, Sid takes the cake, he was one bad muhfcka!

[Neo Nugget]

Well of course. Cloud is awesome. Though Cloud learned everything from Zack....

[Overr8ed]

What Mario? SO is shushing things with your Arse makes you bad ass... Yea it does.

[Final_Rpg]

that's because cloud is bad ass. Just look at that face!! How can you turn that down?