Quick FF.N Stats Update

[kohikari]

I have to share this computer with my mother, so I don't have the time or resources to update the D.Gray-man or Naruto stats yet.

(I have bad luck with computers.  I was raised with my father's webless Apple laptops and desktops, then was donated a little Apple desktop by my cousin (a native of Tennessee who currently lives in Texas with a succession of cats named after dead French royalty), and when that fried I was introduced to the internet via PCs.  For a period of time I was using an old PC desktop (I believe this dates back to 2004, about as long as I've been on the net, always as Kohikari), then a friend of mine got herself a new laptop and gave me her Vaio (Angelina).  We existed in happy n00bness for a while before my mother decided in 2006 that since she needed Windows XP for work, instead of getting a new or used computer, she could just use mine ("temporarily," of course).  As a consolation prize I was given her ancient Windows 95 laptop, which liked to produce new problems with data corruption for me to deal with every other week.  That thing finally fried of old age in February; luckily, we had already gotten me a new laptop (with Windows XP *love*) for college.  Unfortunately, the new laptop decided to die right in front of me sometime in May (why must all my hard drives do impressions of delicious greasy breakfast foods?), its last message a cryptic blue-screen "KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR."  Alas, after all the trouble I went to to research good names, finally settling upon Hermione despite the HP connections...  So now I'm time-sharing Angelina again with my mother.  Yaaay.)  [/tl;dr]

I reviewed the heavy hitters in all the categories (comics is still utterly bereft of anything significant):

Top Ten (30K+ stories)(total series actually 11):
1)  B Harry Potter (reigning champion) - 363K
2)  A Naruto (reigning challenger) - 149K
3)  A Inuyasha (reigning block of wood) - 81K
4)  G combined Final Fantasy - 49K
5)  A Yu-Gi-Oh! - 45K
6)  B Lord of the Rings - 41K
7)  A Gundam Wing/AC - 39K
8)  G Kingdom Hearts - 35K
9)  T Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (yay Joss Whedon) - 33K
10)  A A Digimon [ties with] Dragon Ball Z - 30K

Lower Five (20K-30K stories)(total series actually 10):
1)  B A Twilight (back back foul creature!!) [ties with] Sailor Moon - 27K
2)  A Fullmetal Alchemist - 24K
3)  G Ca A Final Fantasy VII [ties with] Teen Titans [ties with] Card Captor Sakura - 22K
4)  A T Yu Yu Hakusho [ties with] CSI - 21K
5)  G Mo Pokemon [ties with] Star Wars - 20K

Last Nine (10K-20K stories)(total series actually 20):
1)  T A Stargate: SG-1 [ties with] Beyblade - 18K
2)  A Bleach - 17K
3)  Mo T Pirates of the Caribbean [ties with] Supernatural - 16K
4)  A A Rurouni Kenshin [ties with] Avatar: The Last Airbender - 15K
5)  Mi A T Wrestling (trufax: 14,255 stories in the section) [ties with] Fruits Basket [ties with] Gilmore Girls - 14K
6)  Mo T High School Musical [ties with] combined Star Trek - 13K
7)  A G Ca T Prince of Tennis [ties with] Zelda [ties with] X-Men: Evolution [ties with] Stargate: Atlantis - 12K
8)  G G Sonic the Hedgehog [ties with] Final Fantasy VIII - 11K
9)  T T House, M.D. [ties with] Charmed - 10K

It's been about four months since my last survey; the Harry Potter section has grown 18K, the Naruto section by 22K, and the Inuyasha section by 5K.  Remember way back when when Naruto was tiny and Inuyasha was the #2 section, but then it reversed?  Yeah, this is why.  Naruto keeps exploding, especially since the timeskip manga was released in the States and I'm pretty sure Shippuuden is already dubbed or will be soon.  Harry Potter is over.  Inuyasha kept going and going and going until everyone lost interest (including myself; I was flabbergasted the other day when a friend of mine informed me that the manga has actually come to a conclusion.  I was like, Closure?  In my old fandom?).  Naruto, though it has jumped the shark and broken my heart, is still ongoing and apparently relevant *twitch* *twitch*, thus popular.

D.Gray-man has mushroom-clouded by 1072 stories--that's almost double what it was four months ago!  I attribute this to the dub licensing of the anime, the issue of the Crown Clown and Ark arc tankoubon in America, the awesome crack of the recent manga chapters, and the fact that the anime is actually good now (I'm thinking of skipping the awful filler entirely, should I ever get back to YouTube...).  *huggles adorable 2536 stories--it's badly written yaoi in eight different languages!  Have you ever read Indonesian fanpr0n?*

Apart from the top three, nothing has really budged much except Kingdom Hearts (up 4K) and Twilight, which has actually doubled.  If it weren't for Jasper Fforde and Sarah Rees Brennan, I'd give up all hope for the future of modern literature.  (If anyone compares Stephanie Meyer to J.K. Rowling, they're lying.)

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