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kohikari...The graphs are just so pretty. Also, I have this crippling need-to-know complex. And ADD. And...yeah, you know the deal.
Heavy Hitters (10K+ stories)
Top Eleven (30K+)
01) B Harry Potter - 383,928
02) A Naruto - 174,684
03) A Inuyasha - 84,230
04) B Twilight (*shudder*) - 53.3K
05) G total Final Fantasy titles - 52.6K
06) A Yu-Gi-Oh! - 46.5K
07) B Lord of the Rings - 41.6K
08) A G Gundam Wing/AC [ties with] Kingdom Hearts - 39.4K
09) T Buffy: The Vampire Slayer - 33.6K
10) A Digimon - 30.9K
11) A Dragon Ball Z - 30.0K
Middle Ten (20K-30K)
12) A Sailor Moon - 28.2K
13) A Fullmetal Alchemist - 25.1K
14) G Final Fantasy VII - 24.9K
15) G Pokemon - 22.9K
16) Ca Teen Titans - 22.7K
17) T CSI - 22.3K
18) A Card Captor Sakura - 22.2K
19) A Bleach - 22.0K
20) A Yu Yu Hakusho - 21.9K
21) Mo Star Wars - 20.75K
Lower Twenty (10K-20K)
22) T Supernatural - 19.8K
23) T Stargate: SG-1- 19.7K
24) Ca Avatar: The Last Airbender - 18.4K
25) A Beyblade - 18.1K
26) Mo Pirates of the Caribbean - 17.1K
27) Mi Wrestling - 15.9K
28) A Rurouni Kenshin - 15.5K
29) Mo High School Musical - 15.2K
30) A Fruits Basket - 14.5K
31) T Gilmore Girls - 14.2K
32) T Doctor Who - 13.9K
33) T total Star Trek titles - 13.8K
34) A Prince of Tennis - 13.7K
35) G T Sonic the Hedgehog [ties with] Stargate: Atlantis - 13.1K
36) G Legend of Zelda - 12.9K
37) A Death Note - 12.8K
38) T House, M.D. - 12.4K
39) Ca X-Men: Evolution - 12.0K
40) G Final Fantasy VIII - 11.4K
41) T Charmed - 10.5K
It's been...uh...six months since the last check. This time, can't remember why, used decimals on the grand...oh well, it'll just complicate the comparison algorithm a little...although I just remembered that I've always hated subtracting. Damn sneaky numbers, always borrowing without asking first!...But yes! to the numbers: HP went up 21K, Naruto 25.5K, IY 3K. Roughly the same trends as always: Inuyasha fandom is in long-term cooling, Potterdom is still rolling along at the pace its sheer size requires, and the Narutards are still trying their darndest to cream Harry's British clock with a teeny-tiny (but very enthusiastic) Rasengan. Meanwhile, KH, FF7, Pokemon, Bleach, Supernatural, Stargate: SG-1, Avatar, Wrestling (god part of me still can't believe that section exists, and so prolific at that~ XDDD), High School Musical, Prince of Tennis, Sonic, and House have all bumped up; that can probably be attributed to new material in the respective franchises. Happy news!: we have new members of the Cool Kids clique--Doctor Who and Death Note (w00t ♥). Also, Twilight doubled.
In other news: the Comics category rates so low on the fanfic scale--it barely competes with Miscellaneous when it comes to number of sections, not a single one of the sections makes it to the Heavy Hitter list, and only five sections even make it past a thousand (X-Men, Batman, Spider-Man, Jhonen Vasquez, and DC Superheroes)--that even when I added up all the story counts from all the title sections in the entire category, the total was only 23,974--not even as much as Final Fantasy VII alone. I have several theories about this, including but not limited to the following: (a) Comic geeks have more lives than gamers/otaku, bookworms and screen geeks; (b) comic geekery tends to be more casual than game, anime/manga, book and screen geekery; (c) comic geeks and the like are less literary in their habits than otaku, bookworms and screeners, tending more towards collecting and other, more local methods of fandom than online slashing and networking; (d) FanFiction.Net is not representative of all fandom and comickers just don't like ff.n and the giggly slashers who live there; (e) I have no fucking clue, comic books are not my purview, I'm not qualified to analyze this *headdesk*
Also, on the D.Gray-front: pre-February I think the archive had between 500 and 1000 stories; by the 23rd it was 1464; 2536 by the fourth of July; 2637 on the 14th; and the current story count is 4396. If it keeps doubling every six months or so, and I do suspect that this trend will continue, then D.Gray-man will hit the Heavy Hitters in less than a year and work its way up. The second the dub hits major broadcast channels, all the odds are on the side of there-goes-the-neighborhood, here-come-the-numbers.
(this is just part one, I'm coming up soon with something specifics on Naruto and D.Gray-man and characters and all those shiny new toys that have been updated...though I'm kind of embarrassed I don't recognise half the names on the D.Gray-list, it's really annoying they don't put full names)
Heavy Hitters (10K+ stories)
Top Eleven (30K+)
01) B Harry Potter - 383,928
02) A Naruto - 174,684
03) A Inuyasha - 84,230
04) B Twilight (*shudder*) - 53.3K
05) G total Final Fantasy titles - 52.6K
06) A Yu-Gi-Oh! - 46.5K
07) B Lord of the Rings - 41.6K
08) A G Gundam Wing/AC [ties with] Kingdom Hearts - 39.4K
09) T Buffy: The Vampire Slayer - 33.6K
10) A Digimon - 30.9K
11) A Dragon Ball Z - 30.0K
Middle Ten (20K-30K)
12) A Sailor Moon - 28.2K
13) A Fullmetal Alchemist - 25.1K
14) G Final Fantasy VII - 24.9K
15) G Pokemon - 22.9K
16) Ca Teen Titans - 22.7K
17) T CSI - 22.3K
18) A Card Captor Sakura - 22.2K
19) A Bleach - 22.0K
20) A Yu Yu Hakusho - 21.9K
21) Mo Star Wars - 20.75K
Lower Twenty (10K-20K)
22) T Supernatural - 19.8K
23) T Stargate: SG-1- 19.7K
24) Ca Avatar: The Last Airbender - 18.4K
25) A Beyblade - 18.1K
26) Mo Pirates of the Caribbean - 17.1K
27) Mi Wrestling - 15.9K
28) A Rurouni Kenshin - 15.5K
29) Mo High School Musical - 15.2K
30) A Fruits Basket - 14.5K
31) T Gilmore Girls - 14.2K
32) T Doctor Who - 13.9K
33) T total Star Trek titles - 13.8K
34) A Prince of Tennis - 13.7K
35) G T Sonic the Hedgehog [ties with] Stargate: Atlantis - 13.1K
36) G Legend of Zelda - 12.9K
37) A Death Note - 12.8K
38) T House, M.D. - 12.4K
39) Ca X-Men: Evolution - 12.0K
40) G Final Fantasy VIII - 11.4K
41) T Charmed - 10.5K
It's been...uh...six months since the last check. This time, can't remember why, used decimals on the grand...oh well, it'll just complicate the comparison algorithm a little...
In other news: the Comics category rates so low on the fanfic scale--it barely competes with Miscellaneous when it comes to number of sections, not a single one of the sections makes it to the Heavy Hitter list, and only five sections even make it past a thousand (X-Men, Batman, Spider-Man, Jhonen Vasquez, and DC Superheroes)--that even when I added up all the story counts from all the title sections in the entire category, the total was only 23,974--not even as much as Final Fantasy VII alone. I have several theories about this, including but not limited to the following: (a) Comic geeks have more lives than gamers/otaku, bookworms and screen geeks; (b) comic geekery tends to be more casual than game, anime/manga, book and screen geekery; (c) comic geeks and the like are less literary in their habits than otaku, bookworms and screeners, tending more towards collecting and other, more local methods of fandom than online slashing and networking; (d) FanFiction.Net is not representative of all fandom and comickers just don't like ff.n and the giggly slashers who live there; (e) I have no fucking clue, comic books are not my purview, I'm not qualified to analyze this *headdesk*
Also, on the D.Gray-front: pre-February I think the archive had between 500 and 1000 stories; by the 23rd it was 1464; 2536 by the fourth of July; 2637 on the 14th; and the current story count is 4396. If it keeps doubling every six months or so, and I do suspect that this trend will continue, then D.Gray-man will hit the Heavy Hitters in less than a year and work its way up. The second the dub hits major broadcast channels, all the odds are on the side of there-goes-the-neighborhood, here-come-the-numbers.
(this is just part one, I'm coming up soon with something specifics on Naruto and D.Gray-man and characters and all those shiny new toys that have been updated...though I'm kind of embarrassed I don't recognise half the names on the D.Gray-list, it's really annoying they don't put full names)