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Fun With Numbers: A Numbers-Based Way of Picking Out the Best Anime of the...
You know the old saying; “Stats don’t lie, except when they do.” Using stats to argue point son anime is kind of tough, as any individual figure, be it Japanese sales, TV Ratings, merchandising fees...
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Fun With Numbers: Adaptations of Award-Winning Manga and the Myth of Madhouse
It’s fairly frequent among people who have started to get interested in anime enough to start knowing things about the people who make it find themselves encountering the names of certain directors and...
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Fun With Numbers: Explaining Why Popular Anime Don’t Get Sequels
There are few things more frustrating than loving an anime that has room to grow as a story, but never gets beyond one season of material. It’s arguably even more of an irritance when you know the...
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noitminA Has Nothing on the Nihon TV Tuesday 24:50 Slot
One of the fruits of digging into the adaptations of manga produced in 2011 has been a treasure trove of TV anime ratings data. Which, in turn, holds heaping helpings of unrelated but utterly...
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Fun With Numbers: Dragonball, Naruto, Love Live, and the Importance of...
Weekly Shonen Jump is Japan’s most successful manga magazine, something that’s been true, excluding a brief early-aughts blip, for upwards of 20 years. But the brand didn’t get there by some fluke – it...
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