2022 Sanrio Character Ranking

The **2022 Sanrio Character Ranking**, also known as the 37th official Sanrio Character Ranking, was a character election held by Sanrio allowing fans to vote for their favorite Sanrio characters. The voting period spanned from April 8 through May 23, 2022, and the final results were announced on June 12, 2022.

The theme for 2022 is "Colorful!" and 80 characters were available to vote from.

## Voting

### Official Website

Voting is held on Sanrio's official website, where fans can vote once per day for each character.

#### How to Vote

After a small initial survey asking for basic information about your demographic, you can vote by clicking the "Vote" button next to the character you wish to vote for. It's that easy!

##### Favorites

After you've voted at least once, you can register up to 15 favorite characters by clicking the heart next to their picture. By doing this, a shortcut to vote for these characters will be placed on the home page of the voting portal. You can also vote for all of your Favorites at once by clicking "Multi-Vote," so long as you have not voted for any of the Favorites yet that day. This makes placing your votes super quick and even easier!

Cookies must be enabled for your browser to remember your Favorites, as they are not linked to a site account of any sort.

### Hello Sweet Days

In addition to the official voting portal, Hello Sweet Days players have the opportunity to place votes from within the game for a chance to receive exclusive in-game items.

#### How to Vote

##### Voting Tickets

Placing a vote within the Hello Sweet Days voting portal costs one voting ticket. Each player receives one voting ticket upon logging in every day through the voting period, and an additional 2 voting tickets can be received with every 7x purchase of a Happy Bag or Sweet Collection.

##### Placing a Vote

Tapping the Event icon (visible on the left side of the screen when you are in your own, or another user's, room) will bring you to a page showcasing all 80 characters entered in the election. After finding the character you wish to vote for, press "Vote" underneath their picture. A pop-up window will confirm that you want to place your vote, and ask how many of your voting tickets you would like to use. Using multiple voting tickets allows you to place multiple votes for the character at once. Pressing "Select" will place your vote! An animation of your avatar placing its vote will then play, and a final window will show your avatar standing next to the character you voted for, thanking you for voting. This final window also includes buttons to save the picture of your avatar with the character, or share it to outside social media with an invite link.

###### Stamps

Each vote placed will earn a stamp for your Ultimate Bias Stamp Card. More information can be found on the 2022 Character Ranking's event campaign page.

## Characters Nominated

Below is a list of the characters available to vote for in this year's ranking.

Entry numbers 1-70 all correspond with the associated character's final ranking in the 2021 global results.

Though they placed at #71, 73, 74, and 78 respectively; characters Tiny Poem, WE ARE DINOSAURS!, Corochan, and Chobot did not return for the 2022 election. New entries for the 2022 election are Bosanimal, Maimaimaigoen, Sugarcreampuff, and Puwawa.

## Results

The schedule for the election results is as follows:

* Initial results: April 13 at 1PM JST
* Interim results: May 12 at 1PM JST
* Final results: June 12, 2022 at 2PM JST

### Initial Results

Initial results tallied online votes only from April 8 through 10, the first two days of the election.

1. Cinnamoroll
2. Pompompurin
3. Pochacco
4. Kuromi (+1)
5. Hello Kitty (+1)
6. My Melody (-2)
7. Hangyodon (+6)
8. Tuxedosam (+1)
9. Little Twin Stars (-2)
10. Bad Badtz-Maru (+4)

Compared to the final 2021 rankings, Cinnamoroll, Pompompurin, and Pochacco continue to hold their respective top three spots. Hangyodon has made the highest jump, with both him and Badtz-Maru entering the top ten. Likewise, SHOW BY ROCK!! and Cogimyun have fallen out of the top ten.

### Interim Results

Interim results tallied votes cast from April 8 through May 8, the first month of the election.

1. Cinnamoroll
2. Pompompurin
3. Pochacco
4. Kuromi
5. My Melody (+1)
6. Hello Kitty (-1)
7. Hangyodon
8. Tuxedosam
9. Little Twin Stars
10. Kerokerokeroppi (+?)

Notable differences from the initial results include My Melody overtaking Hello Kitty in fifth place, and Keroppi rising into the top ten. Badtz-Maru dropped to twelfth place, behind Cogimyun in eleventh. The full top 20 from the interim results can be found on the official voting site.

### Final Results

The 2022 Sanrio Character Ranking closed with a total of 26,467,259 votes counted, which is 5,120,509 more votes tallied than the previous year. Below is the final top 10, along with the total number of votes cast for each character.

The full list of all 80 characters' final rankings, as well as the top 3 per region, can be found on the official voting site.

## Gallery

Hello Sweet Days' voting portalCharacter profile for KeroppiHello Sweet Days' vote confirmation windowVote casted animationHello Sweet Days' voting complete window
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.sanrio.co.jp/special/characterranking/2021/en/
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220414231445/https://ranking.sanrio.co.jp/en/report\_firstday/
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220611231653/https://ranking.sanrio.co.jp/en/report\_middleday/
4. ↑ https://www.sanrio.co.jp/special/characterranking/2022/en/