Why is Attack on Titan SO popular? | data analysis of manga and anime industries

In which I use manga sales and anime viewership data to analyze Attack on Titan's insane popularity.

Link to code/write-up: coming soon

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Check out Super Eyepatch Wolf's analysis (which inspired this video)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaPSzvMO8Fo

0:00 Intro
1:37 Manga is extremely popular in Japan
2:05 Manga that are adapted into anime are usually best-sellers
2:31 Attack on Titan yearly manga sales
3:01 AoT yearly sales rank among manga
3:30 Why did AoT experience a drop in sales?
4:01 The anime’s success was a huge surprise to those working on it
5:03 Fans outside of Japan typically discover a series as an anime before manga
5:55 English copies started to sell after the anime premiered
6:21 shameless pluggg + chart explanation
7:18 Looking at AoT’s manga sales by issue
7:42 The Toonami effect
9:14 The Walking Dead, zombies and kaiju
10:15 Publishing rights are different in Japan
10:45 Celebrity culture and manga authors
11:14 Publishers rely on anime to generate revenue
11:52 Anime was pretty mainstream by the 2010s
12:27 Shonen vs. Shojo manga
12:52 Weekly Shonen Jump, ToC rankings and cancellations
14:08 Shonen Jump stories are among the most successful manga/anime
14:49 Attack on Titan and Bessatsu Shonen
15:56 Why did such a small studio end up animating AoT?
16:26 AoT overcome many hurdles and is still successful
17:09 AoT’s cultural impact is undeniable
17:51 Outro

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