November 7, 2025
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Japan: Most popular game series amongst elementary school children


Japanese firm GameTrainer has polled 324 Japanese elementary school children to find out what the most popular video game series is for that age bracket in The Land of the Rising Sun. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft and Mojang’s incredibly popular Minecraft series has topped the charts. Minecraft has secured a significant 28.4% portion of the votes and it’s followed by Nintendo’s very own Splatoon series with 16.9% of the votes.

  1. Minecraft 28.4%
  2. Splatoon 16.9%
  3. Animal Crossing 12%
  4. Mario Kart 9.3%
  5. Pokémon 8%
  6. Fortnite 6.8%
  7. Smash Bros 5.6%
  8. Roblox 1.5%
  9. Suika Game 1.2%
  10. The Legend of Zelda series 1.2% –
  11. Donkey Kong 1.2%
  12. Kirby series 0.9% –
  13. Momotaro Dentetsu 0.9%
  14. 19 other titles 5.9% –

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