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In One Piece’s latest popularity poll, the Empress Boa Hancock (31) dropped from 7th place last time to 12th, falling out of the top 10 entirely. Even more striking than the ranking drop is that her vote count fell to less than half of what it was last time — sparking a wide range of theories on 5ch about why her popularity has cratered.
What people said
No way, how do you not know Sabo?
Honestly, why was she even popular in the first place?
It's like Coil and Tashiro Masashi (a Japanese celebrity infamous for his drug-scandal downfall) — a real fall from grace.
Honestly this is the more shocking part.
Her popularity's in freefall.
He dislikes him enough to make a dressing-room noren (curtain) nobody asked for and just send it to him.
She's the type of woman who'll kick a cat and casually smash a statue some kid made.
Terrifying that someone like this was 7th place in popularity.
She's got an edge to her, I like it.
What an unpleasant character.
What was the author even going for with her characterization?
Isn't One Piece itself only read by middle-aged men and women at this point?
Last time was before Hancock's re-appearance in the story.
Once she actually came back, her popularity tanked.
She's lost a ton of popularity, wonder why.
Probably because she lost so pathetically to Blackbeard.
Ace and Law lost too, but at least they put up a good fight.
I love how Blackbeard just puts her in her place.
Guess in the end she's just another "woman" character, same as Nami and Tashigi.
I hate Blackbeard, but that scene was oddly satisfying.
Crocodile and Mihawk haven't had any screen time either, but they still beat Hancock, huh?
Hancock's last appearance was the Blackbeard attack in chapter 1059 of the manga.
Since then, over the past 1-2 years, Mihawk, Crocodile, and Buggy have all shown up here and there.
The fact that Usopp is in the top 20.
The "fish" (Jinbe) that loses to Brook and Franky… lol
Shouldn't Katakuri be ranked higher instead?
Well, it's a ranking where Nami's in 4th place, so…
【Straw Hat Crew】
1st: Luffy
2nd: Zoro
3rd: Sanji
4th: Nami
6th: Robin
13th: Chopper
19th: Usopp
27th: Brook
28th: Vivi
29th: Franky
30th: Jinbe
45th: Merry (the ship)
90th: Sunny (the ship)
91st: Karoo
【Four Emperors】
1st: Luffy
8th: Shanks
25th: Buggy
36th: Whitebeard (Newgate)
60th: Teach (Blackbeard)
63rd: Big Mom (Linlin)
66th: Kaido
【Seven Warlords of the Sea】
5th: Law
9th: Mihawk
10th: Crocodile
12th: Hancock
22nd: Doflamingo
25th: Buggy
30th: Jinbe
32nd: Kuma
60th: Teach (Blackbeard)
67th: Moria
Unranked: Weevil
LOL Weevil
Let's just cut the unpopular ones, this works better, right?
【Four Emperors】
1st: Luffy
8th: Shanks
25th: Buggy
36th: Whitebeard
【Seven Warlords of the Sea】
5th: Law
9th: Mihawk
10th: Crocodile
12th: Hancock
22nd: Doflamingo
30th: Jinbe
32nd: Kuma
Aren't these results pretty much as expected?
Just looking at the rankings, it's actually a lot better than last time.
Would be even better if Hancock dropped to around 20th.
Did people finally wake up to what a terrible woman Hancock is and turn on her?
Looking at rank alone she only dropped 5 spots, but in reality her popularity's been cut in half, lol.
This probably did more to tank her popularity than the whole Uta thing.
Background and Key Points
Boa Hancock is the “Pirate Empress” of Amazon Lily and, until the story dissolved the system entirely, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea (Shichibukai) — pirates the World Government deputized to hunt other pirates. The numbers in the thread come from one of Weekly Shonen Jump’s periodic official One Piece character popularity polls, tallied in the hundreds of thousands of votes and printed in the manga itself; Hancock going from roughly 390,000 votes and 7th place to under 200,000 and 12th is an unusually steep single-poll collapse, not just a rank slip. Her last real appearance was the Blackbeard raid on Amazon Lily in chapter 1059 (around 2022) — since then Wano and Egghead have kept the story’s focus elsewhere, while rivals like Mihawk, Crocodile, and Buggy have kept popping up in smaller cameos.
The thread doesn’t converge on one cause. Posters trade between three explanations: her prolonged absence from the plot, her abrasive personality finally souring readers who’d tolerated it, and the specific optics of her losing decisively to Blackbeard on-panel, which one poster frames as more damaging than the earlier “Uta” backlash.
One correction worth flagging: a poster calls her “a woman like a Celestial Dragon,” the story’s slaveholding elite — but Hancock’s backstory is the opposite, she and her sisters were literally enslaved and branded by the Celestial Dragons as children, which is core to why she despises them. Readers unfamiliar with the manga could easily take that line at face value and get her position in the story’s hierarchy backwards.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyō G board) thread “[Sad News] Empress Boa Hancock (31) Falls Out of the Top 10 in Popularity Poll lol.”
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