Nintama fandom's presence in Super Comic City 32

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This is a continuation to my previous post about Super Comic City 32! Held back in May, Super Comic City 32 spanned 3 days across two cities: Tokyo on May 3-4 (Golden Week) and Osaka on May 18. On Day 1 and Day 3 of the event, Nintama fans held 超忍FES 2025 in both Tokyo and Osaka! The turnaround was huge. SCC32 Tokyo had 10k participating circles and 2k of those were Nintama-centric. That's a whooping 20% of all circles. SCC32 Osaka had a lower participation rate, at 4k circles, but almost 15% of them were Nintama circles! Which is also nuts.

Behind the cut, you can see the breakdown of popular ships. The source of all this information is the あのアレどこ blog, that compiles event information like this! 

CHARACTERS/SHIPS	DAY 1 (Tokyo)	DAY 3 (Osaka)	TOTAL
Total Nintama Circles Participating	2092	590	2682
Yamada Rikichi x Doi Hansuke	297	74	371
Nintama Rantarou All Characters	217	62	279
Zatto Konnamon x Zenpouji Isaku	127	43	170
Yamada Rikichi x Komatsuda Shuusaku	111	16	127
Doi Hansuke x Settsu no Kirimaru*	103	28	131
Shioe Monjirou x Tachibana Senzou	96	19	115
Kema Tomesaburou x Zenpouji Isaku	64	15	79
Doi Hansuke x Yamada Rikichi	53	20	73
6th years main	43	6	49
Hachiya Saburou x Fuwa Raizou	41	21	62
Zatto Konnamon x Kousaka Jinnaizaemon	39	11	50
Doi Hansuke x Moroizumi Sonnamon	36	3	39
Kema Tomesaburou x Shioe Monjirou	36	4	40
Doi Hansuke main	34	4	38
Ayabe Kihachirou x Tachibana Senzou	27	4	31
Zenpouji Isaku x Kema Tomesaburou	25	5	30
Nanamatsu Koheita x Nakazaike Chouji	23	8	31
Nakazaike Chouji x Nanamatsu Koheita	23	8	31
Shioe Monjirou x Kema Tomesaburou	22	7	29
Zatto Konnamon main	22	10	32
Nanamatsu Koheita x Taira no Takiyashamaru	18	9	27
x Yume Protagonist (Woman)	17	5	22
5th years main	17	19	36
Zatto Konnamon x Fushikizou Tsurumachi	17	4	21
Doi Hansuke x Yume Protagonist (Woman)	16	4	20
Tachibana Senzou x Shioe Monjirou	15	3	18
Takeya Hachizaemon x Kukuchi Heisuke	15	16	31
Zenpouji Isaku main	13	1	14
Ayabe Kihachirou x Taira no Takiyashamaru	13	0	13
Zatto Konnamon x Moroizumi Sonnamon	13	0	13
Nakouji Kanbei x Sakuragi Seiemon	12	1	13
Tasogaredoki All Characters	10	2	12
Upperclassmen main	10	0	10
Yamada Rikichi x Yume Protagonist (Woman)	10	3	13
Zatto Konnamon x Doi Hansuke	10	7	17
Doi Hansuke & Settsu no Kirimaru main	9	2	11
Ohama Kanemon x Kukuchi Heisuke	9	11	20
Moroizumi Sonnamon main	9	1	10
Hachiya Saburou x Ohama Kanemon	9	3	12
Zatto Konnamon x Yume Protagonist (Woman)	9	3	12
x Kema Tomesaburou (bottom)	7	0	7
3rd years main	7	2	9
Fuwa Raizou x Hachiya Saburou	7	5	12
Kukuchi Heisuke x Takeya Hachizaemon	7	1	8
5th years & 6th years main	7	3	10
Yamada Denzou x Doi Hansuke	7	1	8
Yamada Rikichi main	7	0	7
Settsu no Kirimaru x Doi Hansuke	7	0	7
Shioe Monjirou x Zenpouji Isaku	7	0	7
Kema Tomesaburou x Hama Shuichirou	7	0	7
Kukuchi Heisuke x Saitou Takamaru	6	3	9
Settsu no Kirimaru main	6	3	9
x Zenpouji Isaku (bottom)	5	1	6
1st years main	5	1	6
Nanamatsu Koheita x Yume Protagonist (Woman)	5	1	6
Katou Danzou x Sasayama Heidayuu	5	0	5
Zenpouji Isaku x Inadera Rantarou	5	3	8
Zenpouji Isaku x Zatto Konnamon	5	1	6
Sakuragi Seiemon x Nakouji Kanbei	5	4	9
Hama Shuichirou x Tamura Mikiemon	5	1	6
x Doi Hansuke (bottom)	4	2	6
4th years main	4	1	5
Yamada Rikichi & Doi Hansuke main	4	0	4
Saitou Takamaru x Kukuchi Heisuke	4	1	5
Shioe Monjirou x Yume Protagonist (Woman)	4	1	5
Minamoto Kingo x Nanamatsu Koheita	4	0	4
Tachibana Senzou x Yume Protagonist (Woman)	4	3	7
Sasayama Heidayuu x Kurokado Denshichi	4	0	4
Kema Tomesaburou x Yume Protagonist (Woman)	4	3	7

*4 Tenki/Kirimaru circles from Day 1 were added to Doi/Kirimaru. There were no circles for that version of the ship on Day 3.

Parting thoughts: Day 1 had a total of 231 different characters and ships but I cut down a lot that only had a couple just because it was getting too long. Same with Day 3, it had 123 different entries listed. If you want to see the full list, please look at the blog listed above!

In comparison, Nintama's 2024 超忍FES had 269 circles participating.

Ships that exploded in popularity between SCC 2024 and 2025:
Ridoi 5 →  371
Zatsui 5 → 170
Doikiri 3 →  131
Rikoma 8 → 127
Monsen 9 → 115
Tomei 9 →  79

On the other hand, some smaller ships like Hama/Miki remained static with the same warriors showing up both time, maybe gaining a couple of new ones. I salute them. 🫡 People continue to follow their heart which is the kind of energy you love to see.

It's hard to gauge character popularity sometimes so this was interesting to see. The last official poll took place in 2011 and you can see the results here! Otherwise, you can sort of get an idea of a character's popularity by the amount of art you see and the resale value they have lol.

Isaku and Doi are as popular as you'd expect. Kanemon's small presence at the event surprised me a little, since he's also incredibly popular. In the discord server, I translated this tweet (translated chart available here) talking about how many Howanui plushies had been won in 2 days and Kanemon was second. Anyway! I recommend looking at the full thing if you know kanji. The post was getting long but it's really interesting to see how many passionate fans were drafting works even if they were the only ones showing up for their faves. I love the fannish subculture.

Would love to hear your thoughts!