Hello dear readers and welcome to another special edition of Shoot the Rookie. Last week me and fellow blogger Winst0lf revealed the results of The Great JRPG Character Face-Off. Although those posts marked the end of the event I wanted to do one more post in order to reveal every single character who was voted for in the event. So why not join me as I reveal the identity of all 86 characters!
I will be honest with you here. I wasn’t originally planning on making this post, however after we revealed the community’s top 3 JRPG characters, one of the event’s participants (fellow blogger Bar Harukiya aka CrispyWonTon on Twitter) asked if they could see a complete list of the characters that were voted for. After giving it a bit of thought I decided that this was an excellent idea!
The one thing that The Great JRPG Character Face-Off taught me was that there are a HUGE number of characters from JRPGs that players love, and there are even more reasons why they love them. Whilst I’ve not compiled the reasons here (that would be a very long article indeed), I thought giving a list of each character was a nice idea as it would show the breadth of characters voted for and perhaps give people some ideas of which JRPG to pick up next.
So without further ado, here is every character voted for by the community in The Great JRPG Character Face-Off (listed alphabetically by game):
| Character Name | Game |
| Grumpos Matavastros | Anachronox |
| Lynar Barnett | Ar Tonelico |
| Esty Erhard | Atelier Arland |
| Ed | Brave Fencer Musashi |
| Ringabel | Bravely Default |
| Frog | Chrono Trigger |
| Lucca Ashtear | Chrono Trigger |
| Magus | Chrono Trigger |
| Robo | Chrono Trigger |
| Lord Gwyn | Dark Souls |
| Etna | Disgaea series |
| Eight | Dragon Quest VIII |
| Sylvando | Dragon Quest XI S |
| Polka | Eternal Sonata |
| Cecil Harvey | Final Fantasy IV |
| Kain Highwind | Final Fantasy IV |
| Palom | Final Fantasy IV |
| Edgar Figaro | Final Fantasy VI |
| Aerith Gainsborough | Final Fantasy VII |
| Barret Wallace | Final Fantasy VII |
| Cloud Strife | Final Fantasy VII |
| Tifa Lockhart | Final Fantasy VII |
| Squall Leonhart | Final Fantasy VIII |
| Freya Crescent | Final Fantasy IX |
| Vivi Ornitier | Final Fantasy IX |
| Zidane Tribal | Final Fantasy IX |
| Auron | Final Fantasy X |
| Kimahri Ronso | Final Fantasy X |
| Lulu | Final Fantasy X |
| Balthier | Final Fantasy XII |
| Basch fon Ronsenburg | Final Fantasy XII |
| Oerba Yun Fang | Final Fantasy XIII Series |
| Lightning Farron | Final Fantasy XIII Series |
| Serah Farron | Final Fantasy XIII Series |
| Cor Leonis | Final Fantasy XV |
| Ignis Scientia | Final Fantasy XV |
| Noctis Lucis Caelum | Final Fantasy XV |
| Ryudo | Grandia 2 |
| Uzume Tennouboshi | Hyperdimension Neptunia |
| Sora | Kingdom Hearts |
| Roxas | Kingdom Hearts 2 |
| The Player Character/You | N/A |
| Aya Brea | Parasite Eve |
| Aigis | Persona 3 |
| Mitsuru Kirijo | Persona 3 |
| Chie Satonaka | Persona 4 |
| Kanji Tatsumi | Persona 4 |
| Rise Kujikawa | Persona 4 |
| Yukiko Amagi | Persona 4 |
| Ann Takamaki | Persona 5 |
| Futaba Sakura | Persona 5 |
| Makoto Niijima | Persona 5 |
| Morgana | Persona 5 |
| Ryuji Sakamoto | Persona 5 |
| Sae Niijima | Persona 5 |
| Lance | Pokémon series |
| Rosch | Radiant Historia |
| Popoi | Secret of Mana |
| Joachim Valentine | Shadow Hearts: Covenant |
| Reimi Saionji | Star Ocean |
| Georg Prime | Suikoden |
| Corlal | Summon Night 4 |
| Mallow | Super Mario RPG |
| Eizen | Tales of Berseria |
| Magilou Mayvin | Tales of Berseria |
| Velvet Crowe | Tales of Berseria |
| Sophie | Tales of Graces f |
| Arche Klein | Tales of Phantasia |
| Dhaos | Tales of Phantasia |
| Presea Combatir | Tales of Symphonia |
| Sheena Fujibayashi | Tales of Symphonia |
| Estelle Sidos Heurassein | Tales of Vesperia |
| Yuri Lowell | Tales of Vesperia |
| Eleonora Yumizuru | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE |
| Yashiro Tsurugi | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE |
| Fie Claussell | Trails of Cold Steel Series |
| Rean Schwarzer | Trails of Cold Steel Series |
| Shirley Orlando | Trails of Cold Steel Series |
| Towa Herschel | Trails of Cold Steel Series |
| Elliot Craig | Trails of Cold Steel Series |
| Fiora | Xenoblade Chronicles |
| Reyn | Xenoblade Chronicles |
| Riki | Xenoblade Chronicles |
| Shulk | Xenoblade Chronicles |
| Lora | Xenoblade Chronicles 2/Torna |
| Mythra | Xenoblade Chronicles 2/Torna |
So there they are! The 86 characters that received votes in The Great JRPG Character Face-Off. If by some weird twist of fate you managed to miss the results post proper where I revealed who the winners were, then make sure you check it out now, and if you want any more stats on the event then just let me know below in comments and I’ll get my spreadsheet out!
Thanks for reading,
Pix1001 x
Shoot the Rookie 
Sylvando from Dragon Quest XI, is perhaps my favourite JRPG character to come out of the last few years. He’s such a delight!
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I’ve never played Dragon Quest XI (or any other Dragon Quest games for that matter!), but I got the impression that Sylvando is lovely – I think Lodestar Valor who voted for him would be absolutely delighted to hear that someone else likes him too!
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