Luffy Won the ONE PIECE World Poll. He Finished First in Three of Eight Regions.

Monkey D. Luffy won the second ONE PIECE character world popularity poll with 2,378,519 points, announced at ONE PIECE DAY '26 on 23 August. That is the headline, and it is accurate.

Shueisha also published something quieter on the campaign site: alongside the global top 100, a separate final ranking for each of eight regions — Japan, Asia, Oceania, North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Those tables are the same final count, cut eight ways. And they do not look much like the global one.

Luffy finished first in three of the eight.

Three winners, not one

The eight regions were split between three characters. Luffy took Japan, Asia and North America. Nami took Oceania, Europe and the Middle East. Zoro took Latin America and Africa.

That is not a story about Luffy losing anything — he won the poll, by 230,000 points over Zoro, and the global ranking is the result. It is a story about what a single global number leaves out.

Outside his three regions, Luffy placed third in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and fourth in Oceania. Consistently high, nowhere near the collapse a "he only won three regions" framing might suggest — and also not first.

Japan is the strangest table of the nine

Every region reorders the same cast slightly. Japan reorders it a lot.

Mihawk is ninth globally and third in Japan. He outranks Nami and Sanji at home while sitting two places outside the global top five. Japan is also the only region whose top five contains two non-crew characters — Mihawk third and Shanks fourth.

Shanks is fourth in Japan and eighth globally.

Charlotte Cracker is seventh in Japan and does not appear in the global top ten at all — a Big Mom Pirates commander, ahead of Uta, Sabo and Corazon domestically, and absent from every other region's top ten in this dataset.

Meanwhile Sanji, third in the world, is sixth in Japan. Four of Japan's top ten — Mihawk, Cracker, Uta, Corazon — sit outside the global ten entirely.

We are not going to tell you why. Voting behaviour has a lot of possible causes and the poll publishes rankings, not reasons. What the data supports is the shape: Japan's ten is the least like the global ten of any region here.

Nami's three regions

Nami is fourth globally and first in Oceania, Europe and the Middle East — the only character other than Luffy to lead three regions, and she does it in three that Luffy does not.

Her floor is also high everywhere else: second in Africa, fourth in Asia, North America and Latin America, fifth in Japan. Only three characters are top five in every one of the eight regions — Luffy, Zoro and Nami — and she is the one of the three who never won the global count.

Zoro's two

Zoro's regional record is the most consistent of the three leaders. First in Latin America and Africa, second in the other six, and second globally. He is never below second anywhere.

That is a different kind of result from Luffy's, which pairs three first places with a fourth. Zoro accumulated the second-largest point total in the poll — 2,148,793 — without leading most of the boards he appeared on.

Why global and regional can disagree

Nothing here is anomalous. A global ranking sums points across every region, so it is driven by where the votes are, not by how many regions a character leads. A character can win the world without winning most of its parts, and a character can place fourth globally while leading three regions outright.

The regional tables and the global table are the same votes, counted at the same time, grouped differently. They are both correct. They just answer different questions, and only one of them usually gets reported.

The weekly rankings were even more volatile

These are the final numbers. While voting was still open, Shueisha published a regional top five every Monday — and those boards moved far more than the final tables suggest, including one week when the eight regions produced five different leaders and Luffy led exactly one. We covered that separately in what the WT100 weekly results showed.

Methodology

The rankings here are from the official campaign site's final-rankings page, which carries a global tab and one tab per region. Voting ran 4 March to 11 June 2026 (JST). The final count combines web voting from the campaign site and the ONE PIECE BASE app, WT100 spot voting, and postcard votes.

Postcard votes are included in the final result only; the weekly interim boards did not contain them. We have not attributed any specific placing to any specific voting channel, because the published data does not break results down that way.

Character names are given in their common English forms. Ranks are as published; point totals are published for the global top ten only, so regional figures here are placings rather than scores.