Talk:Rance VI:Popularity Poll/@comment-82.139.152.241-20170202165631/@comment-27031093-20170202225053

To be fair, the protagonist tends to always have a huge advantage in Jap popularity polls by virtue of being the protagonist. It's pretty rare to see someone besides them come in first ever.

With that said, I do think Rance's constant victories are earned, since he's consistently an engaging and entertaining character. The Rance games wouldn't be the Rance games if he weren't at the center of them. There are so many ways that Alicesoft could have written him that would've made him completely insufferable, but they've successfully managed to make him entertaining, likable and surprisingly complex, even if you sometimes (read: most of the time) don't agree with his actions. He really is an excellent example of how to do an anti hero right.