Alear Tops Fire Emblem Engage 'Popularity Poll' In Japan

That's honestly quite surprising. As for my personal pick, I choose Rosado.

Imagine the blue and red colored hairstyle suddenly become fashion trends. 😆

Alcryst is my guy, he's relatable.

Ivy. I'm shocked she's so low.

"PEPSI-MA'AM!"
"PEPSI PEPSI"
"PEPSI MA'AM!"

jokes aside, I'm shocked my girl Chloe is so low.

"24. Fogado"

yo wtf

The guy exudes cool. He's one of the few people in this game who isn't wildly over-designed.

And creepy Alfred (seriously, watch his supports with Boucheron) being #3 is practically a war crime.

I hope these designs are a one off and not a future trend. I greatly preferred Three houses. I gave up on engage about half way through. If I didn't like previous FE games, I probably wouldn't have gotten that far.

Kinda unfortunate seeing Ivy, Chloé, and Panette not being in the top five, along with the absence of Zelkov and Rosado. Especially considering that those five were the only folks that I liked, could remember, and could take seriously (even with their goofy antics).

I'll forgive it since Yunaka is high, though. As she is also one of my favorites.

Rosado not cracking top 25 is absolutely criminal

Dang, no Merrin in the top 25? She's one of my favorites in the game personally.

But yeah, I really like Alear(female version specifically). Alcryst, Yunaka, Louis and the aforementioned Merrin would round out my personal top five.

@KryptoniteKrunch Merrin was one of my strongest units in the game. Took her all the way to the end!

Goldmary and Ivy were my top 2 favourite characters, Goldmary's hero class was pretty decent and Ivy paired with celica was pretty OP

@Ralizah

Yup, same here. Not only did I like her as a character and the whole Wolf Knight class, but she was one of my best units too.

Ivy best girl and my Switch icon.

Honestly, I hope we get that Genealogy of the Holy War Remake because Engage felt so lackluster in story and was too cheesy.

Slightly off subject but have they fixed the relay trials yet? I went the whole game and never could joined someone else's relay and no one ever finished the ones I posted, I tried every few days for atleast two months.

@ottoecamn Me, too! I love Chloe! Girl's so pretty, and sentimental... and she'll eat virtually any food!

Chloe: the grace of a swan, the lethality of a falcon, the sweetness of a rabbit, and the stomach of a billygoat

@OwenOtter Chloe is so good she overtook Eunie as my Switch Icon (at least until future Redeemed comes out).

Already not looking forward to when Alear gets announced for the next Smash game. At the rate they've been going at since Smash 4, I half-expect to see Sigurd and even Shez

@ottoecamn She's my Switch icon, too

I'm surprised Ivy is so low on the list, I loved her character. Her design seems to be the stereotypical femme fatale but her true personality was completely different than what I was expecting.

If I were to rank my favs I would go: Ivy, Yunaka, Alear, Diamont and Lapis.

Knowing nothing about the character's personalities in FE Engage, I have to admit Alear (Female) is my favorite character based solely on design. I love her colorful outfit and hairstyle, it's such a clean break from the duller main protagonist designs of earlier FE games. I know it got a ton of flak here in the West for being too v-tuber and anime but I've always been a defender of the design.

I like Alear. Alear is like the straight man in this world of cartoony stereotypes. Also Kagetsu so comparatively low?? He's such a great unit! Hits the ground running with no investment required and contributes all the way to endgame.

Yunaka, Alcryst, and Timerra were the only characters in Engage I even mildly cared about.

Ivy was my favorite. Diamant and Goldmary are up there too.

@Anti-Matter

Dual tone contrasting pastel colors has been a extremely popular hair style in SEA for ... like 15 years?

For the school year most girls have to keep their hair dark brown as part of the school dress code. When on break, going all out with an extreme style is pretty normal.

Not surprising, would pick the same oddly enough.

Ah, it makes me sad that Kagetsu ranked so low, definitely my favourite.

In what world is Alfred more popular than Yunaka? Some of my favorite characters are Zelkov, Pandreo, Fogado, Celine, Goldmary, Framme, Yunaka, Merrin, and Anna

Timerra is my favorite. She is a fricken tank! I just wish they weren’t all so one note. Jade is my next favorite but I don’t think I have unlocked everyone yet.

Remember when people hated alear for their weird hair color?
Cause I do. (Unless it’s a case of Americans hate tingle)

The characters overall were a bit too one dimensional for me to love them like in Three Houses, but my personal favs were Yunaka, Chloe, Alcryst and Zelkov. Unless add the Fell Xenologue, then Zelestia, Gregory and Madeline are up there as well.

Yunaka is my favorite obviously. She's become my favorite video game character of all time. I love the happy go lucky facade she puts on, but has that edge underneath it all that comes out on the battlefield, cos of her troubled past as an assassin. The tragic backstory, the trying to change her plight, (or stars if you will 🤩) her exceptional skills as an assassin and fighter rather that be in story/lore or in actual combat/gameplay, her compendium of knowledge when it comes to weapons, penchant for acting, ESPECIALLY voice acting, or the fact she takes over as the strategist temporarily on the chapter you get her, just so much to like. I love her from a combat and gameplay perspective, as well as design, personality, and her brilliant voice actress Laura Post.

I've already written an essay on her, but I could go more~

Vander making the list is a rare W for him.

Also keep in mind that the poll was done in February sometime in Japan. This means that the game hadn't been out but a week or 2, so most people probably hadn't beat the game yet, which explains the early unit bias to some degree...

...also Japanese love self inserts. A few of the early game characters are actually that popular, but the late game characters have a solid fan base now. Would like to see this poll done again after most people have played it. Would like the see other region's versions to see the differences in tastes as well.

Honestly surprised we haven’t had a surprise smash character drop of one of these new fire emblem characters yes they said there done but he loved adding in these into smash so much

Gameplay was great, but having to "engage" with this cotton candy anime fluff (coming from an anime fan… up to the early 2000s) between missions just dragged the entire experience down for me. They should have continued three houses direction with a new cast of characters and that smooth engage gameplay.

I love Panette, best design in the game for me.

Engage is an underrated game in Europe. Story and design are a bit down but the gameplay is awesome.

They were all pretty boring, honestly. I thought I would like Fire Emblem Engage's emphasis on combat over story, but the story was too lacking even for me. The U. S. debut Fire Emblem game for the GBA is probably still my favorite in the series.

I'm guessing Alear is the ugly looking bland as hell red and blue girl?

Japan got some weird taste in character design if that tops any list besides "worst".

Goldmary. She felt like a real narcissistic person. I ended up marrying her (the hell's wrong with me)

Oh, and Yunaka. Loved her act.

My least favorite? Rosado. The visual design is just way too off putting.

choosing the main character is such a cheap cop out pick

@JohnnyMind You've always been a very pleasant person to chat with, so pardon the curiosity, but who's your favorite character so far?

@JohnnyMind Awesome tastes my friend! She expands more in support conversations, even so much as to reveal her true name and what her final mission as an assassin was. Glad you like her!

Another one I quite liked was Veyle. Cute af and another tragic backstory. Well, I hope you enjoy the rest of the game bud and that there are plenty of characters for you to enjoy.

Yunaka, Goldmary and Rosado. Kagetsu is pretty cool, too. I actually really like most of the characters in this game.