Gundam Series Ranking

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Daily Oricon rankings
The overall DVD daily rankings for Aug 24 are up at Oricon with Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam III coming in at #1. Animation did well as they took the top 3 spot and 7 of the top 10 spots. Keroro the Movie came in at #11 overall. The Top 5 are:

1) Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam III
2) The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi (Limited Edition)
3) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY Special Edition II
4) Underworld 2 Evolution Collector's Editon
5) Moblile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO Apolacypse 0079 3

Frm Gunota

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Gundam Ace Rankings
For a while, we used to post fan rankings for male/female characters and MS listed in Gundam Ace. Starting with the October issue, they now carry rankings for songs. Figured it would be note-worthy listing what the Japanese fans think of various Gundam songs. For old time sakes, we'll mention the top 5 for characters and MS as well.

Top 30 OP Gundam Songs
1) Tobe! Gundam (MSG)
2) Mizu no Hoshi e Ai wo Komete (Zeta 2nd OP)
3) Arashi no Naka de Kagayaite (08th MS Team OP)
4) ignited (SEED DESTINY 1st OP)
5) Z Toki wo Koete (Zeta 1st OP)
6) Invoke (SEED 1st OP)
7) Wings of Words (SEED DESTINY 4th OP)
Cool Anime Janai (ZZ 1st OP)
9) Bokutachi no Yukue (SEED DESTINY 3rd OP)
10) Silent Voice (ZZ 2nd OP)
11) Pride (SEED DESTINY 2nd OP)
12) Believe (SEED 3rd OP)
13) Stand Up to the Victory (V 1st OP)
14) DREAMS (Gundam X 1st OP)
15) Realize (SEED 4th OP)
16) Eternal Wind (F91)
17) Vestige (SEED DESTINY)
1 Cool Rhythm Emotion (Wing 2nd OP)
19) Just Communication (Wing 1st OP)
20) Resolution (Gundam X 2nd OP)
21) Turn A Turn (Turn A Gundam 1st OP)
22) moment (SEED 2nd OP)
23) Men of Destiny (0083 2nd OP)
24) Flying in the Sky (G Gundam 1st OP)
25) Trust You Forever (G Gundam 2nd OP)
26) Metamorphoze (Zeta Gundam: Heirs to the Stars)
27) Itsuka Sora ni Todoite (0080)
2 Cool Century Color (Turn A Gundam 2nd OP)
29) Beyond the Time (Char's Counterattack)
30) The Winner (0083 1st OP)

Male Characters
1) Kira Yamato
2) Char Aznable
3) Amuro Ray
4) Athrun Zala
5) Quattro Bageena

Female Characters
1) Lacus Clyne
2) Sayla Mass
3) Haman Karn
4) Cagalli Yula Atha
5) Lunamaria Hawke

MS
1) Strike Freedom Gundam
2) Zeta Gundam
3) Gundam
4) Akatsuki
5) Sazabi
¶ 12:56 AM

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Final Oricon weekly rankings
The weekly overall DVD rankings had Zeta III at #1, SEED Destiny Special Edition II at #4, and the final episode of MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079 at #9. The weekly anime DVD rankings were Zeta III at #1, SEED Destiny at #3, MS IGLOO at #4, the deluxe pack of the Keroro Gunsou movie at #10, and the standard edition of the Keroro Gunsou movie at #19.

Also available were the weekly singles rankings, with lisa's "tears" at #21 and Satori Negishi's "Stargazer ~Hoshi No Tobira~" at #23.

frm gunota

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Its nice to see that the Strike Freedom is at the first placing, although its appearance is not that much, erm, in the whole series…

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i prefer the original freedom than strike freedom.....