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I'm no Gray fan. But I think some of that argument might be right....

And the one who said that people didn't know about the poll was Imshiroi on Tumblr.Read his page,he's a trustworthy source.

The thing is.....Weekly Shonen Magazine didn't conduct this poll. It was Magazine Special(Which belongs to Kodansha but has a lot less readers).. And Mashima mentioned it on his twitter after the poll was already done and after he got the results.

So the people who read WSM but don't read MS didn't have a method of learning about the results. And WSM has 20 times more the reader of Magazine Special.

Just like Imshiroi(and Estella-may) said,the poll results could be very different if the poll was conducted by WSM simply because the number of votes would change drastically.

You have Ultear/Cobra/Gajeel/Levy not even in the Top 20. You have Lisanna above Mavis in a good spot while the names above are absent. You have Wendy's cat above the likes of Jellal/Gildarts. You have Mavis at the 18th spot even though she is widely popular to the level Mashima brought her back as soon as he could even though she was not supposed to come back. She's also popular enough to get her own spin-off.

Butthurt fans might have liked this since their characters are low,but I think there is some merit to this.