One of the other ML's I'm logged on to just released the results 
of a 1996 yearend poll. I hope you will all find the results somewhat 
humorous.... I edited this for a little easier reading....

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Some acronymns to help you find out who's who from where:

Arcadia = My Youth in Arcadia
Arislaan = Arislaan War Record
BGC = Bubble Gum Crisis/Crash
CCD = Clamp Campus Detectives
CotU:Y = Curse of the Undead: Yoma
DB = Dragon Ball
DBZ = Dragon Ball Z
DH Yohko = Devil Hunter Yohko
FY = Fushigi Yuugi
GW = Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
GZ = Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta
JoJo's = JoJo's Bizarre Adventures
KOR = Kimagure Orange Road
Lodoss = Record of Lodoss Wars
MB = Marmalade Boy
MI = Maison Ikkoku
MiW = Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
MKR = Magic Knights Rayearth
MKR II = Magic Knights Rayearth II
NGE = Neon Genesis Evangelion
Nuku Nuku = All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
OMG = Oh My Goddess!
Ranma = Ranma 1/2 t.v. series
Ranma Movie = Ranma 1/2 Movie series
Ranma OAV = Ranma 1/2 OAV series
PSME = Please Save My Earth
RGV = RG Veda
SF II = Street Fighter II
SM = Sailor Moon
SM R = Sailor Moon R
SM R Movie = Sailor Moon R Movie
SM S = Sailor Moon S
SM SS = Sailor Moon Super S
SM * = Sailor Moon Stars
TB = Tokyo Babylon
TM = Tenchi Muyo
UY = Uruusei Yatsura
VG Ai = Video Girl Ai
VHD = Vampire Hunter D
VoE = Visions of Escaflowne
VP Miyu = Vampire Princess Miyu
X = The X Movie
YYH = Yuu Yuu Hashuko

*If a charcter has two or more shows that they appear in, it is delineated
by a / in between the initials or names of the shows.

QUESTION 1:  Who are the top five MOST attractive males?

TOP 1ST CHOICE:
1. Ryoga Hibiki (Ranma 1/2) -- OVERWHELMINGLY CHOSEN
2. Ranma Saotome (Ranma 1/2)  *tie*  Yasha Ou (RGV)
3. Dark Schneider (Bastard!)  *tie*  Leon McNichol (BGC)
4. Kurama (YYH)  *tie*  Subaru Sumeragi (TB/X)
5. Ashura Ou (RGV)


QUESTION 2: Who are the top five MOST attractive females?

TOP 1st CHOICE:
1. Belldandy (OMG)  *tie*  Ukyou Kunouji (Ranma 1/2)
2. Pirotessa (Lodoss)  *tie*  Urd (OMG)
3. Ishtar (Macross II)  *tie*  Lina Inverse (Slayers)
4. Nene Romanova (BGC)
5. Rei Ayanami (NGE)


QUESTION 3: With whom would you MOST want to go out with on a date?

For the girls:
1. Ryoga Hibiki (Ranma 1/2) -- OVERWHELMINGLY CHOSEN
2. Larva (VP Miyu)  *tie*  Sorata Arisugawa (X)
3. Tsuzuku Ryuudo (Sohryuden)
4. Akira Ijyuin (CCD/X)
5. Yasha-Ou (RGV)

For the boys:
1. Ukyou Kuonji (Ranma 1/2)
2. Nene Romanova (BGC)
3. Rally Vincent (Gunsmith Cats)
4. A-Ko (Project A-Ko)  *tie*  Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury (SM)
5. Belldandy (OMG)


QUESTION 4:  Who is the coolest villian?

1. Kagato (TM)
2. Zegato (MKR)
3. Largo (BGC)  *tie*  Seishirou Sakurazuka (TB/X)
4. Taishakuten (RGV)
5. Fuuma (X)  *tie*  Kain (TM)  *tie*  Katsuhito Jinnai (El Hazard)


QUESTION 5:  Who is the coolest villianess?

1. Karla the Grey Witch (Lodoss)  *tie*  Kodachi Kuno (Ranma)
2. Pirotessa (Lodoss)  *tie*  B-Ko (Project A-Ko)
3. Black Lady (SM R)
4. Arshes Nei (Bastard!)
5. Ifurita (El Hazard)


QUESTION 6:  Who is the coolest hero?

1. Dark Schneider (Bastard!)
2. Ranma Saotome (Ranma)
3. Heero Yui (GW)  *tie*  Tamahome (FY)  *tie*  Yuusuke Urameshi (YYH)
4. Himura Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)  *tie*  Isamu Dyson (Macross Plus)
5. Mamoru Kushinagi (Blue Seed)  *tie*  Parn (Lodoss)


Question 7:  Who is the coolest heroine?

1. Lina Inverse (Slayers) -- OVERWHELMINGLY CHOSEN
2. Priss Asagiri (BGC)
3. Hikaru Shidou (MKR)  *tie*  Iria (Iria)  *tie*  Usagi Tsukino/Sailor
Moon (SM)
4. Nausicaa (Nausicaa)
5. Nuku Nuku (Nuku Nuku)  *tie*  Ryoko (TM)


QUESTION 8:  Who is the coolest male side-character?

1. Ryoga Hibiki (Ranma) -- OVERWHELMINGLY CHOSEN
2. Hiei (YYH)  *tie*  Chichiri (FY)
3. Fujisawa-Sensei (El Hazard)
4. Duo Maxwell (GW)
5. Ashura-Ou (RGV)


QUESTION 9:  Who is the coolest female side-character?

1. Minnie-May Hopkins (Gunsmith Cats)  *tie*  Rei Ayanami (NGE)
2. Rei Hino/Sailor Mars (SM)
3. Shayla Shayla (El Hazard)  *tie*  Ukyou Kyonji (Ranma)
4. Urd (OMG)
5. Vision (BGC)  *tie*  Washu (TM)


QUESTION 10:  What is your favorite anime?

1. Ranma 1/2 - OVERWHELMINGLY CHOSEN
2. Fushigi Yuugi  *tie*  Gundam Wing
3. Kimagure Orange Road
4. Marmalade Boy  *tie*  Neon Genesis Evangelion  *tie*  Tenchi Muyo!
5. Urusei Yatsura *tie*   Yuu Yuu Hakusho


QUESTION 11:  Who is the MOST annoying character? (mixed genders)

1. C-Ko Kotobuki (Project A-Ko)  *tie*  Chibiusa (SM R)
2. Hikaru (KOR)  *tie*  Nagisa (Iczelion)
3. Kodachi Kuno (Ranma)
4. Akumako (KO Century Beast)