Best Anime Girl: Pick Your Waifu, Two at a Time

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Two rules built this field, and nobody's taste was one of them. Every TV anime with more than 100,000 members on AniList sends the female character its fans have favorited most. Then every female character with more than 3,000 favorites joins on her own, whatever show she comes from. The counts were taken in October 2026.

The first rule is the reason the bracket gets strange. A show cannot send its second-best girl, so whoever holds the top spot comes in, even if the show barely has women in it. That is how Mikasa Ackerman ends up sharing a draw with Celty Sturluson, a headless dullahan; Haru, a dwarf rabbit; Red Blood Cell AE3803; and Musashi, the Team Rocket member English dubs call Jessie.

The second rule is the reason some shows bring a crowd. Kaguya-sama, The Quintessential Quintuplets and Bakemonogatari each send several girls, because each of them cleared 3,000 by herself.

Characters written as men were left out, even when a database had them listed otherwise. Grown women are in, so are queens and demons. Pick the one you would actually defend in an argument.