A recent character poll of Japanese website Charapedia asked 10,000 fans to vote for who they thought were the strongest child characters in anime and manga. The results reflected not only characters with physical power, but also with other positive qualities like strength of spirit, dedication, and mental acuity.

The results of the "Top 20 Strongest Child Characters in Anime & Manga" poll were as follows:

20.) Aladdin from Magi. (104 votes)

19.) Trunks from Dragon Ball Z. (109 votes)

18.) Baby Beel from Beelzebub. (112 votes)

17.) Child Emperor from One-Punch Man. (125 votes)

16.) Reborn from Reborn! (127 votes)

15.) Wendy Marvell from Fairy Tail. (129 votes)

14.) Kagura from Gintama. (137 votes)

13.) Son Goten from Dragon Ball Z. (153 votes)

12.) Illyasviel von Einzbern from Fate/stay night. (167 votes)

11.) Son Goku from Dragon Ball. (195 votes)

10.) Killua Zoldyck from Hunter x Hunter. (200 votes)

09.) Shinnosuke Nohara from Crayon Shin-chan. (206 votes)

08.) Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura. (207 votes)

07.) Takeshi Goda from Doraemon. (211 votes)

06.) Gon Freecss from Hunter x Hunter. (223 votes)

05.) Satoshi / Ash from Pokémon. (232 votes)

04.) Conan Edogawa from Case Closed / Detective Conan. (269 votes)

03.) Arale Norimaki from Dr. Slump. (282 votes)

02.) Nanoha Takamachi from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. (294 votes)

01.) Son Gohan from Dragon Ball Z. (322 votes)

One again, the demographics of the poll skewed toward the young and male members of the audience: 60.5% of the voters were male, while 39.5% of the voters were female. Otaku in their teens and 20's made up 62.4% of the voters compared to the 37.6% of the voters who were age 30 or older.

Source: Charapedia via My Game News Flash

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