Japan ranks their favorite female characters from the Final Fantasy series

By Erren Van Duine on January 17, 2013 at 6:22 AM

The results for Japan’s female character vote is now in.

Much like the earlier male character poll which saw Zack (FFVII) as the over all winner, the fight for the top appears to have been fierce. Lightning came in at #1, just narrowly beating out Aerith after taking what was seemingly an early runaway lead. Aerith and Yuna, however, were fighting for the top spot from the very beginning and lost out to Lightning by only two votes.

46 character names in total were posted by fans and the results – although not as detailed as the previous poll – reflect a general opinion of Japan’s Final Fantasy Forum using fans.

Those with duplicate rankings held the same amount of votes, and are thus counted as a tied ranking. Check out the full compiled list below. Note that not all 46 names are represented here, as characters with too few votes are not represented.

1. Lightning (FFXIII)

2. Aerith (FFVII)

3. Yuna (FFX)

4. Tifa (FFVII)

5. Celes (FFVI)

6. Tina (FFVI)

7. Serah (FFXIII)

8. Garnet (FFIX)

8. Faris (FFV)

10. Rinoa (FFVIII)

10. Rydia (FFIV)

12. Selphie (FFVIII)

13. Rikku (FFX)

14. Beatrix (FFIX)

14. Yuffie (FFVII)

16. Ashe (FFXII)

17. Rosa (FFIV)

17. Eiko (FFIX)

17. Agrias (FFT)