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Ayu: The stranger the better, and Ayu's a very strange girl who won me over more than even Misuzu from Air. Her constant ambushes of Yuuichi, taiyaki thefts, dinner utensil war dance, and obliviousness to social conventions (boku), along with her catchphrase (naturally), all made her memorable to me.
Jun: I know he was minor, but I can't ignore him at all because this guy brought every scene he was in to such life, whether having weird clothes bragging contests with Yuuichi, playing servant to Kaori yet again, dancing it up with his crazy disco outfit, or being the chosen one to find Ayu's angel.
Mishio: Even more minor, yet she has easily one of my favorite scenes at the end of the Makoto arc. Here's a girl who's witnessed tragedy once and then again--but when asked what she'd wish for, she talks about candy falling from the sky and I think that says volumes about her.
Shiori: She's more normal than the others, but she's the only character in Kanon who can thwart Yuuichi's wit and wisecracks on cue. I love her views on thinking of the world in the context of a drama and wanting to build an enormous snowman, and her thinking that tabasco was the enemy of humanity. And another striking thing is her ability to subtly draw out Ayu's importance to Yuuichi (from a viewer's perspective) from both sides--she plays Ayu by sneak-bumping Yuuichi before school one day, but she also pulls him into playing Ayu and gets him saying "uguu~" after a putdown. Another thing I love about her is that to me she doesn't particularly seem interested in Yuuichi in a romantic sense, which gives her major points with me since I love platonic relationships in anime. He's something of a stand-in brother figure because her sister is ignoring her.
Makoto: The prankster who makes herself loved by making herself hated. Always one of my favorite character types.
Those are just my favorites who I voted for. Other than Yuuichi and Mai (too sarcastic and too quiet for me respectively), I liked pretty much everybody else too. Nayuki probably "deserved" Yuuichi a lot more than Ayu and I do love her character's strength both emotionally and physically; she'd be my runner-up. Akiko was a dependable and understanding figure always secretly figuring out how to resolve situations with the least amount of conflict for all sides. Kaori had one of the most poignant emotional relationships and I thought she was handled expertly in that she was treating her sister wrong for such a long time but never became unsympathetic because of it.
Lastly, Sayuri and ahaha~ are great, but I felt a little spoiled watching Kanon 2006 since one of the few things the 2002 version holds over it with me is that the class president there presented a more vicious threat to her friendship with Mai and forced more compromise out of Sayuri instead of having Jun resolve it with a couple lines of quick thinking.
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