2025 Sanrio Character Ranking Poll Starts in April

Sanrio announced the dates for the 2025 Sanrio Character Ranking poll, an annual popularity survey that allows people worldwide to vote for their favorite mascots. This year, things all kick off in Japan on April 10, 2025. (That means it appears worldwide, depending on your time zone, on April 9, 2025.) As usual, we’re able to visit the official site starting on that date to support our favorite animal friends. Here’s the full schedule for the 2025 Sanrio Character Ranking poll, which tracks popularity for just over a month. April 10, 2025 at 11am JST (April 9, 2025 at 9pm ET): Voting opens. April 15, 2025 at 1pm JST (April 15, 2025 at 12am ET): Sanrio will announce the vote counts from just April 10, 2025. May 13, 2025 at 1pm JST (May 13, 2025 at 12am ET): The Interim Results for characters will be released. May 25, 2025: Voting closes. June 29, 2025: Full Sanrio character rankings for the year revealed. A few details were revealed about the poll for 2025. First, there will be 90 new, present, and past characters made by the company in it. The official art for the year appeared too. It mentions this is the 40th anniversary. It also tends to primarily feature some of the most popular characters, such as ones that appeared in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, like Hello Kitty, Keroppi, Little Twin Stars, Pompompurin, Cinnamoroll, My Melody, Kuromi, Pochacco, Pekkle, Badtz Maru, Tuxedosam, and Hangyodon. Here’s how the key art looks: Image via Sanrio As a reminder, Cinnamoroll has been stealing the show in these polls as of late. He won in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. The 2025 Sanrio Character Ranking popularity poll starts on April 9, 2025, then ends on May 25, 2025. Results will appear on June 29, 2025. The post 2025 Sanrio Character Ranking Poll Starts in April appeared first on Siliconera.

Mar 12, 2025 - 16:29

2025 Sanrio Character Ranking Poll Starts in April

Sanrio announced the dates for the 2025 Sanrio Character Ranking poll, an annual popularity survey that allows people worldwide to vote for their favorite mascots. This year, things all kick off in Japan on April 10, 2025. (That means it appears worldwide, depending on your time zone, on April 9, 2025.) As usual, we’re able to visit the official site starting on that date to support our favorite animal friends.

Here’s the full schedule for the 2025 Sanrio Character Ranking poll, which tracks popularity for just over a month.

April 10, 2025 at 11am JST (April 9, 2025 at 9pm ET): Voting opens.
April 15, 2025 at 1pm JST (April 15, 2025 at 12am ET): Sanrio will announce the vote counts from just April 10, 2025.
May 13, 2025 at 1pm JST (May 13, 2025 at 12am ET): The Interim Results for characters will be released.
May 25, 2025: Voting closes.
June 29, 2025: Full Sanrio character rankings for the year revealed.

A few details were revealed about the poll for 2025. First, there will be 90 new, present, and past characters made by the company in it. The official art for the year appeared too. It mentions this is the 40th anniversary. It also tends to primarily feature some of the most popular characters, such as ones that appeared in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, like Hello Kitty, Keroppi, Little Twin Stars, Pompompurin, Cinnamoroll, My Melody, Kuromi, Pochacco, Pekkle, Badtz Maru, Tuxedosam, and Hangyodon.

Here’s how the key art looks: