“I was bored,” the Genshin Impact fan opens his post on Reddit. He must have been pretty bored, because the result of his boredom is a large ranking of Genshin Impact characters based on fan artwork and NSFW artwork.
The calculation is simple: the more artwork dedicated to a character, the more popular he is of course. And the more NSFW artwork a character gets, well, the more… popular they are.
The basis for his research was Pixiv, an online community for artists who can upload illustrations, manga and artwork there. Ganyu has by far the most artwork. It also tops the NSFW category by a wide margin.
By the way, the most popular male character is Zhongli in 8th place. Although, you can’t say with certainty whether the most drawn characters are actually the most popular. Many are also likely to be chosen for artwork simply based on their appearance. But it is certainly a yardstick. You can find the ranking here on Reddit.
A few days ago miHoYo opened the official Genshin Wiki. There is probably only official artwork there. The wiki is one of miHoYo’s efforts to compensate Genshin Impact fans a little for the delay of version 2.7. Various in-game rewards are also a part of it.
Just a few days ago, the news caused a stir that the Nintendo Switch version was still in development. Most fans have probably already written them off.
But even without a Switch version, Genshin Impact is still very popular. In Japan, content from the PS4 version was among the most shared content in the PlayStation universe in 2021.
via Automaton, images: Genshin Impact, miHoYo
