Regarding the popularity results, here's some infos:
It was held in the RGS Scanlation Discord. Instead of a single poll asking for everyone's favorite character I made a 6-round Swiss bracket.
Every round there'd be 20x 1v1's with the 40 characters (e.g.: Who do you like more? Arthur or Takeru. Beowulf or Lynn. Siegfried or Dietrich,...). Those polls lasted 7 days, then the next round would start with 20x new 1v1 matchups.
I seeded the 40 characters based on my assumption of their popularity and the first 5 rounds went according to how a Swiss bracket works (winners face off against winners, losers against losers). For the 6th round matchups were chosen to get as much data for the rankings as possible.
I created the full rankings assuming it being transitive (e.g. Lynn beat Siegfried in a poll. Siegfried beat Attila in a poll. Thus Lynn also ranks above Attila) and indirect percentages when that wasn't possible (e.g. Witege and Hildebrand had similar results and no 1v1 against each other, however both had a 1v1 vs Dietrich: Witege got 41,46% of the votes vs Dietrich, while Hildebrand only got 26,47% of the votes vs Dietrich. Thus Witege ranks above Hildebrand).
Obviously there are many issues with this format as well (more than I initially expected ^^") but no format is flawless. Next time I'll do a simpler format and graphic tho...
If anyone's curious about further info please feel free to ask ^^
These are the results of all the 1v1's: