You may have noticed that anime is kind of popular. Seriously! Tumblr Fandometrics, which measures popularity on the microblogging/social networking site, noticed and responded by putting together a new anime ranking in its weekly lists. Its getting a lot of notice internationally, with Japanese blogs chiming in with their thoughts.

As Tumblr Fandometrics puts it

" (Anime & Manga) Wow! People love anime! So we made the new Anime & Manga list! Yuri!!! On Ice debuts at No. 1 list after the Yuri!!! On Stage premiere! Haikyuu!! debuts at No. 4! Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters makes an earnest effort, coming in at No. 18!"

Anime & Manga

Week Ending May 1st, 2017

Other lists this week included...

K-Pop

Week Ending May 1st, 2017

Fandometrics did previously put together a yearly list. For 2016, it included

2016’s Top Anime and Manga

We made a dubbed version of this list, but it was way worse than the original.

1. Haikyuu!!

2. Fairy Tail +12

3. Attack on Titan −1

4. Yuri!!! On Ice

Originally posted by dazaiosamu-s

5. Osomatsu-san

6. One Punch Man

7. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure −1

8. Tokyo Ghoul −5

9. Naruto −4

10. Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School

11. Free! −7

12. Sailor Moon −4

13. One Piece +6

14. Boku No Hero Academia

Originally posted by myakihito

15. Hetalia −6

16. Owari No Seraph

17. Black Butler −2

18. Love Live!

19. Mob Psycho 100

20. Hunter x Hunter −8

As they explain their methods...

Fandometrics is the result of our efforts to compile a database of Tumblr’s favorite entertainers and entertainments, and track the shifts in our users’ collective affection. Every week, our Content team puts together a list of the most frequently used tags on the platform, accounting for the following criteria:



How many posts were created that contain the tag How many times that tag was searched for

How many times a post using that tag was reblogged How many times a post using that tag was liked





Our system sorts each tag into one of the nine Fandometrics categories. If the tag is unknown, we assign a category to it. Related tags are grouped—for example, the show Supernatural is referenced by both the “supernatural” and “spn” tags. This allows as much of the conversation as possible to be captured.



Within those categories, each fandom (that is, each group of related tags) is ranked based on the weighted mean of the four actions listed. The factors by which we weight them are a secret, but basically we’re accounting for the fact that, for example:



Some of these actions are performed more frequently than others. For example, searches are performed more often than original posts are created. Some of these actions are more visible than others, and more likely to produce additional actions. Posts and reblogs, for example, will be seen by many people across the blog network. Searches, conversely, are between you and your computer.





To make a long story short: We weight and normalize the number of actions to create a more accurate picture of each fandom’s influence across Tumblr.

Fresh rankings are posted every Monday between 2:30 and 4 PM EST. via Gigazine

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.