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Is SanNami the most popular pairing?
Topic Started: Jan 2 2017, 07:55 AM (160 Views)
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I'm sure it's not LOL. Especially because Sanji is not the main character and most people in the world obviously have the tendency to pair the lead male with the lead female i.e Ichigo and Rukia from BLEACH. Even in Japanese, ichiruki is the most popular one. But popularity among fans can't be a simple base to prove the pairing would be canon EoS. We get Ichigo married to Orihima and Rukia married to Renji. Different to Naruto fandom, Sasuke x Sakura (Sasusaku) is the most popular and it’s canon at the end.

Back to One Piece. We know LuNami is the most popular pairing one. How do we know it's popular? We can see it from merchandise, filler scene (maybe), forum talk then amount of fanart, doujinshi, and cosplay. By forum talk (in Oro Jackson), I can quess that one of the reasons why SanNami is the less popular in western is due to sexism view related to Sanji.

This is from One Piece Shipping Forum (January 2nd 2017), the forum use Italy as language but there are also few members from overseas (that I've been there since 2010). Although ZoNami shippers is more than SanNami shippers, we could see that SanNami shippers is more active. That's probably due to the story progression that SanNami gets more canon moments.
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LuNami
group members = 50
topics = 113
replies = 6269

SanNami
group members = 23
topics = 63
replies = 6055

ZoNami
group members = 28
topics = 65
replies = 4783

ZoRobin
group members = 24
topics = 60
replies = 4367

FraRobin
group members = 16
topics = 46
replies = 3738

Now how about Japanese?

Back in 2011, I did a little observation about pairing popularity in Japan. At that time there are several search engines for fansite, one artist created one website to share their fanwork. So, it can be a reliable source more than Pixiv since Pixiv is based on fanart count (not the artist number).

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OP Search Engine 1, result:
LuNa –> 52
ZoNa –> 38
SanNa –> 59
ZoRob –> 19

OP Search Engine 2, result:
LuNa: –> 147
ZoNa –> 100
SanNa: –> 165
ZoRob: –> 46

OP Route Search, result:
LuNa: 11
ZoNa: 5
SanNa: 20
ZoRob: 4

Logue Town, result:
LuNa: 31
ZoNa: 17
SanNa: 32
ZoRob: 11

From the result above, we can see that SanNami is the most popular. How about now? OPSE didn't exist anymore and other search engines aren't updated (because some fansite is deleted and Frobin even isn't included as an option yet). They seem to move to Twitter. But we still can check Pixiv (January 2nd 2017):

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サンナミ = 1796 arts
ルナミ = 1657 arts
ゾロナミ = 1170 arts
ゾロビン = 649 arts
フラロビ = 519 arts

Though, there's a premium member feature in Pixiv and I don't pay to register. The premium member could see popularity status based on how many bookmarks, ratings, and comments that one fanart gets. And since now Pixiv turn global that western fans also can have account to bookmark and give ratings, the popularity doesn't represent Japanese anymore.

Btw, if LuNami now is the most popular pairing in Japan, I think the amount might've increased after Strong World and Movie Gold because these two movies have Odacchi himself heavily involved. So, we can say both SaNami and LuNami is pretty equal now^^. Funny thing is, the amount of Sanami shippers in worldwide seem to have increased since the event of Zou up to chapter 844 when Nami slapped him.

If you could show more valid resource, just share with us there!
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I don't think so. I see a lot of SaNami hate in the top ten OP pairings list. I also tried to revive the SaNami thread in another forum and it didn't work out. : (
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