31 October is Halloween, a holiday known for children dressing up as witches, ghosts, and other spooky things and going Trick or Treating. The western custom has recently made its way to Japan, and in the last few years, has seen an increase in people wearing cosplay and walking around town. There is a good chance you will meet an anime character if you go out in Japan during Halloween.

That’s why our friends at Anime! Anime! decided to hold a survey. They asked their readers, ‘What anime character do you want to cosplay for Halloween?’ After receiving a lot of responses over Twitter, Anime!Anime! put together a special poll with the most popular choices, including a space for people to write whomever character they want.

The poll took place between 19-22 October and got 123 responces. 44 respondents were male and 56 female. About half of the respondents were under 19 and about 30 percent were in their 20s, making the average respondent age quite young.

Let’s look at the results for male characters.

SAO’s Kirito Swoops in at No 1

With 13% of overall vote (including female characters), Kirito tops the poll for male characters. A player with an amazing amount of power in the game world, his special moves attracted a lot of fans. The SAO series got its first movie, Ordinal Scale, earlier this year, and it earned 3.5 billion yen at the box office. Two new TV anime were announced this month.
Kirito’s popularity can even be seen in the year’s earlier poll, ‘male anime characters you want to give valentine’s chocolates to’, which he also topped.

The outfits in the SAO series differ depending on the game, so we wonder which Kirito outfits make an appearance.

With 10%, Second Place Goes to Gintoki Sakata.

The owner of Odd Jobs Gin-chan, Gintoki Sakata from Gintama usually lives a lazy life, but in reality has a history as the powerful warrior known as the ‘Shiroyasha’. Gintama received its first live-action movie adapatation earlier this year, which made over 3 billion yen at the Japanese box office. The movie version of Gin-san was played by Shun Oguri, but we wonder who will be playing him this Halloween.

3rd place was shared by Katsugeki Touken Ranbu’s Izuminokami Kanesada and Hozuki’s Coolheadedness’ Hozuki with 5% of the vote. With 5th place taken by Katsugeki Touken Ranbu’s Tsurumaru Kuninaga, places 2-5 are all characters that are wearing kimono.

In the free option box in the survey, Marvel’s Spiderman managed to rank in. With costume items easily available, he is a character who is often cosplayed around the world.

What male character do you want to cosplay this Halloween?

1: Kirito (Sword Art Online)
2: Gintoki Sakata (Gintama)
=3 Izuminokami Kanesada (Katsugeki Touken Ranbu)
=3 Hozuki (Hozuki’s Coolheadedness)
5: Tsurumaru Kuninaga (Katsugeki Touken Ranbu)
= 6 Conan Edogawa (Detective Conan)
= 6 Eren Jaeger (Attack On Titan)
=8 Ritsuka Fujimaru (Fate/Grand Order -First Order-)
=8 Osomatsu Matsuno (Osomatsu-san)
=8 Eugeo (Sword Art Online: Alicization Arc)
=8 Lupin III (Lupin III)

source : https://animeanime.jp/article/2017/10/26/35779.html