To continue commemorating one hundred years of Japanese anime history, NHK has released a ranking for people's favorite anime characters as a part of Anime 100 celebration on Sunday at NHK BS Premium. The ranking was based from votes conducted from October 20 to November 19 last year. The 5-hour program also featured live dubbing (from works that people wish to hear again live and not yet animated), telephone call conversation, new year's greetings from the seiyuus, ranking, commentaries, as well as quizzes and talks about the characters in-between segments.

NHK has released the Best 100 Anime ranking last May as a part of their commemoration.

*1. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi (CV: Hiroaki Hirata) from the Tiger & Bunny series
*2. Orga Itsuka (CV: Yoshimasa Hosoya) from the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans series
*3. Serval (CV: Yuka Ozaki) from Kemono Friends
*4. Araiguma (CV: Saki Ono) from Kemono Friends
*5. Barnaby Brooks Jr. (CV: Masakazu Morita) from the Tiger & Bunny series
*6. Lelouch Lamperouge (CV: Jun Fukuyama) from the Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch series
*7. Yuuri Katsuki (CV: Toshiyuki Toyonaga) from Yuri!! On Ice
*8. Kaban (CV: Aya Uchida) from Kemono Friends
*9. Victor Nikiforov (CV: Junichi Suwabe) from Yuri!! On Ice
10. Gintoki Sakata (CV: Tomokazu Sugita) from the Gintama series

11. Northern White-faced Owl (CV: Shiori Mikami) from Kemono Friends
12. Fennec (CV: Kana Motomiya) from Kemono Friends
13. Koyuki "Snow White" Himekawa (CV: Nao Touyama) from Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
14. Sakura Kinomoto (CV: Sakura Tange) from the Cardcaptor Sakura series
15. Chino Kafuu (CV: Inori Minase) from the Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka? series
16. Levi (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya) from the Shingeki no Kyojin series
17. Eurasian Eagle-owl (CV: Akari Uehara) from Kemono Friends
18. Keigo Atobe (CV: Junichi Suwabe) from the Prince of Tennis series
19. Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya (CV: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) from the Sword Art Online series
20. Kurama (CV: Megumi Ogata) from the Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho series

21. Rem (CV: Inori Misase) from Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
22. Gilgamesh (CV: Tomokazu Seki) from the Fate series
23. Niko Yazawa (CV: Sora Tokui) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series
24. Iris (CV: Aoi Yuuki) from the Pokemon Best Wishes! series
25. Funassyi (CV: Funassyi) from Funassyi no Funafunafuna Biyori
26. Toushirou Hijikata (CV: Kazuya Nakai) from the Gintama series
27. Edward Elric (CV: Romi Park) from the Fullmetal Alchemist series
28. Homura Akemi (CV: Chiwa Saito) from Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
29. Eri Ayase (CV: Yoshino Nanjo) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series
30. Kyouya Hibari (CV: Takashi Kondou) from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

31. Eren Yaeger (CV: Yuki Kaji) from the Shingeki no Kyojin series
32. Honoka Kousaka (CV: Emi Nitta) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series
33. Suzu Urano (CV: Non (Rena Nounen)) from Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni
34. Haruka Nanase (CV: Nobunaga Shimazaki) from the Free! series
35. Chuuya Nakahara (CV: Kishou Taniyama) from the Bungou Stray Dogs series
36. Karamatsu Matsuno (CV: Yuuichi Nakamura) from the Osomatsu-san series
37. Kagura (CV: Rie Kugimiya) from the Gintama series
37. Osamu Dazai (CV: Mamoru Miyano) from the Bungou Stray Dogs series
39. Sebastian Michaelis (CV: Daisuke Ono) from the Kuroshitsuji series
40. Makoto Tachibana (CV: Tatsuhisa Suzuki) from the Free! series

41. Sougo Okita (CV: Kenichi Suzumura) from the Gintama series
42. Archer (CV: Junichi Suwabe) from the Fate series
43. You Watanabe (CV: Shuka Saitou) from the Love Live! Sunshine!! series
44. Kotori Minami (CV: Aya Uchida) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series
45. Izaya Orihara (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya) from the Durarara!! series
46. Kira Yamato (CV: Soichiro Hoshi) from the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed series
47. Madoka Kaname (CV: Aoi Yuuki) from Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
48. Oriental Small-clawed Otter (CV: Reina Kondou) from Kemono Friends
49. Yuuta Hoshitani (CV: Natsuki Hanae) from the Starmyu series
49. Maki Nishikino (CV: Pile) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series

51. Char Aznable (CV: Shuuichi Ikeda) from the Mobile Suit Gundam series
51. Umi Sonoda (CV: Suzuko Mimori) from the Love Live! School Idol Project series

Source: Official site