Black Butler Character Poll 2023

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At last, it's time for the final awards to be doled out to those who deserve them more than anyone! It's our

As you may imagine, the Most Adored awards go to characters who received the most "Like" and "Love" votes combined. Let's start with our 10th, 9th, 8th, and 7th most adored characters first!

10th place - Tanaka (293 votes) 9th place - Ronald Knox (318 votes) 8th place - Sebastian Michaelis (321 votes) 7th place - Bitter Rabbit (337 votes)

And now...

6th place - Soma Asman Kadar (343 votes) 5th place - Finnian / Finny (355 votes) 4th place - Mey-Rin (374 votes)

And proving that Tumblr really treasures animal characters, our third place is the one Sebastian would have put in first if he could:

3rd place - "Her" (394 votes)

Next is the one who ended up not changing from Yana's Devil's Six, the sonboy of all time, the oister boyster, it's-

2nd place - "Ciel" Phantomhive / O!Ciel / Our Ciel (454 votes)

And finally... You know her... You love her... or at least the majority of you do... She needs no introduction but she'll always deserve one, just like she deserves her own cover... It's our first place winner-

-with 539 votes! For her, I'll bring out my shitty editing skills - I'm only sorry I couldn't do better, because she surely deserves to wear this ribbon. You're the lady of our hearts, Grelle! We can't wait until you come back in the manga and we can see you in all your glory again. Congratulations on being this poll's favorite Kuro character!

And thank you again to everyone who participated in the voting! This took more than two months to plan and execute and it's amazing to finish it up, but it never could've happened without you. Happy 200th chapter! Let's keep going strong, Kuro fandom!

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hello :) this may be an odd question, but about half way through your polls i began to wonder if there was a correlation between the most popular characters and their perceived attractiveness, so i thought "why dont i run a poll myself and see!", but before i did so i just wanted to check if that was ok with you first since it was inspired by your polls and blog to begin with. I will not be using any of your own edits or anything else, just mentioning this blog in the description of the blog i will be running the polls off of, @kuroshitsuji-attractiveness-poll. if you are not ok with it thats totally fine just lmk :) <3

Hi there! Hmm, curious idea... I'm not entirely sure what will be revealed to be honest, as almost all of Kuro's main adult characters are conventionally attractive or good-looking, and almost all the characters who are less attractive are not around very much or have less important/emotional roles. Also, one of the top three characters from this poll is a cat. But I'll be posting even more results info eventually for analyzing, which may also prove or disprove your theory.

In any case, sure, it's okay with me - though polls and info don't belong to me, so I don't think you'd need my permission, but it's thoughtful of you! Have fun!

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It's time for the final two votes to be revealed: the Most Despised awards and the Most Adored awards! Let's start with

The Most Despised awards go to characters who received the most "Dislike" and "Hate" votes combined. You know the drill!

10th place - Queen Victoria from season 1 (114 votes) 9th place - Arnold Trancy (127 votes) 8th place - Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel (128 votes) 7th place - Doctor (148 votes)

6th place - Claude Faustus (156 votes) 5th place - Angela Blanc (166 votes) 4th place - Former Head Trancy (195 votes)

Huh, something weird just happened to these medals... I wonder why that is...

3rd place - Baron Kelvin (203 votes)

Wow, that sure is a strange thing that is going on ! So strange. Golly

2nd place - the cultists (221 votes)

Oh I don't have any control over this, sorry guys ! I wonder if the next medal will be okay?? Because in first place for Most Despised is

1st place - Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt (242 votes)

Oh whoa, I think Druitt's medal actually turned directly into a portal to hell?? It must be the power of our hatred! Wow, when we set our minds to it, we can really do anything...

Boy, all that fire and brimstone made it pretty stinky in here. At least it's almost time for something not stinky: the Most Adored character polls a.k.a. our true overall Devil's Six! You might not be very surprised but I think you'll enjoy it...

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What about the most indifferent? 😂

You know, I have to admit that I initially just decided the results were so boring that it didn't deserve any pomp and circumstance, but heck it we'll do it live

10th place - Green House dorm master (86.3636%) 9th place - Charles Bennett Sato (86.8056%) 8th place - Chef Tarpin (86.8571%) 7th place - Lord Ridley (87.2881%) 6th place - Akashi (88.8112%) 5th place - Carter (88.8889%) 4th place - McDowell (89.0411%) 3rd place - Stella Rose (89.3491%) 2nd place - Chef Lach (89.5425%) 1st place - Lord Ackroyd's son (90.3030%)

RIP Lord Ackroyd's son, trapped in that sarcophagus and for what

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Now we're going to mix things up a bit and have a vote that can only be calculated using this horrible thing called math. Coming up is

"Most Controversial" character medals are decided by calculating the difference between Love/Like votes and Dislike/Hate votes. Another stipulation was that either the Love/Like vote total OR the Dislike/Hate vote total had to be higher than Indifferent/Who? vote total.

Did I explain that well enough? I hope so. First, let's show 10th-7th place:

10th place - Hilde Dickhaut (41 Love/Like to 70 Dislike/Hate) 9th place - Peter (76 Love/Like to 49 Dislike/Hate) 8th place - Al (52 Love/Like to 78 Dislike/Hate) 7th place - Blavat Sky (95 Love/Like to 72 Dislike/Hate)

6th place - Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel (147 Love/Like to 128 Dislike/Hate) 5th place - demon Ciel (96 Love/Like to 83 Dislike/Hate) 4th place - bizarre dolls (55 Love/Like to 66 Dislike/Hate)

3rd place - Pluto (76 Love/Like to 80 Dislike/Hate)

2nd place - Charles Grey (88 Love/Like to 91 Dislike/Hate)

And the characters that are apparently more controversial than Charles Grey are...

1st place - the "werewolves" (63 Love/Like to 65 Dislike/Hate)

(But I would still say there may be more contention for Grey and Pluto, even with the numbers as they are 😜)

All right, it's time for the final part of the award ceremony, the moment you've all been waiting for with breath so bated and toes so tapping: the Most Despised and Most Adored vote results! I'll have them in separate posts but will release them fifteen minutes apart instead of an hour. That way you won't have to sit around with a bad taste in your mouth too long after the Most Despised are revealed. Just one more hour to go!

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Nice to focus on something more pleasant after all that beloathing. Now just remember, this isn't the final standing for best characters. These are, instead, the characters who are

The Most Beloved awards go to characters who received the most "Love" votes total. 10th-7th place can start us off!

10th place - Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy (210 votes) 9th place - Sebastian Michaelis (241 votes) 8th place - Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer (245 votes) 7th place - Soma Asman Kadar (252 votes)

6th place - Mey-Rin (273 votes) 5th place - Finnian / Finny (278 votes) 4th place - Bitter Rabbit (280 votes)

3rd place - "Her" (352 votes)

2nd place - "Ciel" Phantomhive / O!Ciel (376 votes)

And this may just come as no surprise but...

1st place - Grelle Sutcliff (436 votes)

Grelle has always presented as quite the Tumblr icon, and this just proves it, as her love votes blew everyone else out of the water. Congrats, Grelle, you have a place in our hearts 😌

There is more than one way to measure votes, however, and that's the percentage of votes that were love votes. If I were calculating medals that way, the first prize would actually go to...

... the cats Sebastian rescued from the rain, with 85.04% votes in the love category!

The main reason that I mention that is because the next ceremony will be for Most Controversial character, which is measured by the ratio of Love/Like votes to Dislike/Hate. See you in an hour for more!

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It's time to get despicable. Here's the awards for

The Most Beloathed awards go to characters who received the most "Hate" votes total. Let's start the negativity with 10th-7th place!

10th place - Professor Sullivan / village crone (80 votes) 9th place - Ash Landers (82 votes) 8th place - Arnold Trancy (92 votes) 7th place - Claude Faustus (102 votes)

6th place - Doctor (105 votes) 5th place - Angela Blanc (115 votes) 4th place - Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt (176 votes)

3rd place - Former Head Trancy (188 votes)

2nd place - Baron Kelvin (202 votes)

And the characters who most deserve to choke to death on their ribbons are...

1st place - the cultists (211 votes)

Boy, lotta jerks here! They really don't deserve awards at all, do they? Well, forget them. Let's move on to some characters who do deserve awards.

Up next, the Most Beloved nominees!

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Continuing on a lighter note, now it's time to share who was:

The Most Decent awards go to characters who received the most "Like" votes total. As before, we'll start with 10th-7th place!

10th place - Vincent Phantomhive (105 votes [78 love]) 9th place - Diedrich (105 votes [97 love]) 8th place - Ran-Mao (108 votes) 7th place - Tanaka (111 votes [182 love])

6th place - Ronald Knox (111 votes [207 love]) 5th place - Beast (114 votes) 4th place - Alexis Leon Midford (117 votes)

3rd place - Joanne Harcourt (118 votes)

2nd place - Fred Abberline (131 votes)

And the Most Decent award goes to...

1st place - Baldroy / Bard / Baldo (142 votes)

Congratulations, Bardroy! You're the thing everybody wants to be more than anything in the world: decent and likeable. You must be so proud.

Up next, we're getting serious with the Most Beloathed awards!

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It's time for a slightly less positive angle on award-giving! But it must be done. Let's find out who's the:

The Most Unsavory awards go to characters who received the most "Dislike" votes total. First we'll start with 10th-7th place!

10th place - Layla (54 votes [33 hate votes]) 9th place - Claude Faustus (54 votes [102 hate votes]) 8th place - Queen Victoria (56 votes) 7th place - Maurice Cole (57 votes)

6th place - Karl Woodley (60 votes) 5th place - Rian Stoker (65 votes [11 hate]) 4th place - Charles Grey (65 votes [26 hate])

3rd place - Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt (66 votes)

2nd place - Mina (73 votes)

And finally...

1st place - Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel (75 votes)

Er, congratulations to Real Ciel Phantomhive! You are the most disliked. Not even the most hated! Just the most disliked. Can't feel good.

Wellll... next up is: Most Liked! See you soon!

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It's time at last for the Award Ceremony!

Thanks again to everyone for taking the time to vote. You may find the following results truly reflect the Tumblr community's opinions — or you may not! There are many different categories on the horizon, so stay tuned to see if how your favorites stack up!

Without further ado, let's start our awarding with the category ---

The most popular characters are the ones who received the highest number of votes overall. No matter if they were a love vote, a hate vote, or indifferent, it doesn't matter: it all goes towards the total.

To start our top ten, we have:

10th place - Finnian / Finny (365 votes) 9th place - Soma Asman Kadar (371 votes) 8th place - Joanne Harcourt (380 votes) 7th place - Bitter Rabbit (388 votes)

And now for our Devil's Six for Popularity:

6th place - Alois Trancy (397 votes) 5th place - Sebastian Michaelis (409 votes) 4th place - Mey-Rin (412 votes)

3rd place - "Her" (435 votes) (yeah for real)

2nd place - "Ciel" Phantomhive / O!Ciel (509 votes)

And last but not least...

1st place - Grelle Sutcliff with a whopping 624 votes!

Congratulations! Unsurprisingly, Grelle is Tumblr's most well-known Kuroshitsuji character. The first top prize goes to her!

Next up: Most Unsavory!

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Thanks for your patience, everyone! Poll results will begin being posted hourly tomorrow! 😊

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These character polls are ending tomorrow! Go and get your last votes in before they close! Characters are listed in order of perceived importance and alphabetically.

Sebastian Michaelis

Francis Midford

Cheslock

Phantomhive family ring

Edward Abberline

Vincent Phantomhive's staff

Lord Ridley

James and dog

Paul Jones

Sebastian's owl

After this, the polls are over and I will finish my tallies! Thanks to everyone for participating! 😊

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These character polls are ending tomorrow! Go and get your last votes in before they close! Characters are listed in order of perceived importance and alphabetically.

Angelina Dalles / Madam Red / Aunt An

Hannah Annafellows

Pitt

Joanna

Azzurro Vanel

Countess Trancy and her baby

Dove

Lorraine McDowell

demon "pet"

German countryman

Haku's henchman

Reaper managers

Scotland Yard officers

William's pigeons

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These character polls are ending tomorrow! Go and get your last votes in before they close! Characters are listed in order of perceived importance and alphabetically.

Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy

Alois Trancy / Jim Macken

Alan Humphries

Herman Greenhill

Ash Landers

Snake's unnamed snakes

Thompson

Hanae Wakatsuki

Milly

Munemitsu Aoki

Aurora Society purified water seller

Drossel's dolls

the iceberg

the timetable guy

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These character polls are ending tomorrow! Go and get your last votes in before they close! Characters are listed in order of perceived importance and alphabetically.

Undertaker

Alexis Leon Midford

Maurice Cole

Sebastian the dog

Pluto

Baldroy's cow

bizarre doll horses

bizarre dolls

O!Ciel's land renters

priest

Red House prefect from Vincent's year

the Sebastian Roomba

the turnspit dog

the "werewolves"

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These character polls are ending tomorrow! Go and get your last votes in before they close! Characters are listed in order of perceived importance and alphabetically.

Ciel Phantomhive child / R!Ciel child

Jane

Paula

Anne Drewanz

Lau's ladies

Professor Sullivan / village crone

Queen Victoria (season 1)

Wordsworth

Harold West Jeb

Nicholas

Chef Tarpin

CGI horses / driver

Fennian

Margaret Connor's father

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These character polls are ending tomorrow! Go and get your last votes in before they close! Characters are listed in order of perceived importance and alphabetically.

Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel

Ada

demon Ciel

McMillan

Daniel

Ginny

"Her"

Undertaker's death scythe

Arnold Trancy

Thomas Wallis

Arihito Genpou

Charles Bennett Sato

King's Bear prostitutes

Sieglinde Sullivan's father