Amidst all the stuff going on with Mappa studios, I want to shout out all the animators on staff. They work far too hard, often long and impossible hours, with very little appreciation. Not just for Jujutsu Kaisen, all of Mappa's productions -Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga, Chainsaw Man, Hell's Paradise, etc. I hope that the animation staff gets the appreciation they deserve, all roughly 360 people on staff- along with more reasonable treatment. I'm completely fine with waiting a bit longer for episodes if the staff making them are treated like actual human beings.
TOP 10 ANIMANGA ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS (2009-2022)
To make this bar chart race, all series titles in the Anime & Manga Category on December 4 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race. November 2022 is basedon November 11, 2022 data.
Miraculous Ladybug was actually in the top 10 Anime & Manga from 2016-2021, before it was finally removed from the Animanga category in 2022. I'm excluding it in the rankings since it shouldn't have been in the animanga category in the first place.
CLAMP - Works was actually in 9th place in December 2013, but too many series were moving up and down the rankings at the time so it was impossible to catch a glimpse of it.
Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didnβt mess up anywhere! π
ETA: Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine canβt view those, only Ao3 users can.
Dick, Wally, Jason and Roy were looking for ways to have fun and get distracted from the hero/anti-hero life, so they end up participating in eating contests around the country. What they didn't expect is that they couldn't beat a single person from Illinois.
If it was a spicy food contest, a blue eyed boy would appear who would eat as if he did not feel anything on his tongue; if it were a contest for quantity of food, what they were sure would appear was a hacker with nothing in his stomach, because they didn't know how it was possible for him to eat more than a member of the Flash Family.
Damn, they couldn't even beat the goth girl in the pumpkin growing contest! This had gotten personal and they weren't going to ignore it, they would bring the Outlaws and Titans into this for sure.
Sam, Tucker and Danny for their part were extremely amused with these outsiders, at some point they tried to test if they were metas and it was all a trap (immediately dismissed by Sam and Tucker), they wondered if they would come back next year, well Illinois was their territory so they wished them luck.
Vampire Knight: *insert Twilight joke here*
Ouran High School Host Club: *small child voice* There's debauchery here!
Sailor Moon: Everyone's bi. No, I mean it. EVERYONE.
Clannad: I'm not crying yOU'RE CRYING
Your Lie in April: Mommy Issues & Lots of Tissues
Fruits Basket: MOMMY ISSUES ON STEROIDS
Yuri on Ice: Sexy gay figure skating
Sk8 the Infinity: Sexy gay skate-boarding
Blue Exorcist: "[Satan] may have been your father, but he wasn't your daddy."
FullMetal Alchemist: Family is your best ally
Trigun: Family is your worst enemy
Kaguya-sama Love is War: Idiots to Lovers the anime
The Ancient Magus Bride: What if a monsterfucker romance was also Ace?
Violet Evergarden: Gorgeously animated β¨TRAUMAβ¨
Made in Abyss: Adorably animated β¨TRAUMAβ¨
Madoka Magica: *Admiral Ackbar voice* IT'S A TRAP!
My Hero Academia: X-Men alternative universe where mutants are the majority of the population
Yu Yu Hakusho: Yusuke came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And he's all out of bubble gum.
Inuyasha: Time travel, youkai, and jewel shards, oh my!
Ranma 1/2: The original bisexual harem
Urusei Yatsura: Crack. Just pure, unadulterated alien crack.
MAO: Feral Catgirl x Tired Catboy
Tokyo Mew Mew: Cute girl fursonas are named after food
Shugo Chara!: His Dark Materials magical girl!AU
Kamisama Kiss: The How to Train Your Dragon of shoujo
Noragami: Girl adopts homeless god
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle: Eat your heart out, Doctor Who
Skip-Beat!: Eat your heart out, slow burn fanfiction
Kiss Him Not Me: Losing weight = gaining a harem
Baccano!: Murders on the Immortal Mafia Express
Cowboy Bebop: Bounty hunters need therapy
Attack on Titan: EVERYONE NEEDS THERAPY
Alice in the Country of Hearts: The sexiest and unhealthiest escapism
Cardcaptor Sakura: Beautiful gay representation, terrible Elephant in the Room
Fushigi Yuugi: Look, when I said falling in love with a fictional character, I didn't mean that LITERALLY--
Angel Sanctuary: Mutual incest destroys the world as we know it
Guilty Crown: Unrequited incest destroys the world as we know it
Zombie Land Saga: The undead as cutesy idols. That's it. That's the show.
Yurikuma Arashi: Lesbian bears
Princess Tutu: Duck becomes ballerina
Just saw that MAPPA canceled the Yuri On Ice movie that people have been waiting to watch for years but there's something that caught my attention. Yuri On Ice fans are suddenly asking for people to boycott MAPPA and a lot of people are agreeing but it got me thinking. Where was all of this when MAPPA was exposed for overworking their employees to the point of not allowing them to go home to their families?
I'm not even shocked that MAPPA canceled the Yuri On Ice movie. Yes, Yuri On Ice is the anime that put MAPPA's name on the map but since then they've taken on several successful projects and there are still projects that they've taken on that have not even been released yet. They're piling all of this on the backs of their employees and all everyone else has done is make a joke out of the mistreatment of their employees and turned that into a meme.
Now I'm not saying that people who watch anime have to do anything that they don't want to do but I just find it interesting that all of sudden when people don't get what they want they decide they want to boycott a company that's always been problematic.