CATDOLL: What are the least popular new series in April? Japanese anime stores reveal the answers

As of now, nearly half of the new episodes in April this year have been aired. So among the complex types of animation, which animations are the "least popular and least popular"? Recently, the Japanese anime store Tiger's Den has brought us the answer.

According to the so-called "three-episode rule", if a new anime series fails to attract viewers to continue watching by the third episode, a wave of "abandonment" will occur. In order to cooperate with the broadcast of new anime series each season, Japanese anime specialty stores will also hold popularity votes to stir up the atmosphere. The following are the current voting results of Tiger Cave Store.

Statistics of votes for the Japanese anime store Tiger's Cave

In the spring voting of Tiger Cave Store, red stickers represent female votes and blue stickers represent male votes. Although there are highs and lows, there are super popular animations like "Sakamoto" and "Bungo Stray Dogs", and there are relatively mediocre and low-popular works, but animations like "ENDRIDE" and "Dragon Heart Wars" actually have as low as 5 votes, which is too bleak...

《ENDRIDE》

The animated work adapted from the mobile game tells the story of a boy living on Earth who accidentally enters the inner world of the Earth called "ENDRA" and meets Prince Emilio, and together they fight against the current king. Judging from the general plot, this is an adventure fantasy masterpiece with a strong voice actor lineup, but unfortunately the animation has not received much response.

Dragon Heart

It is an online game developed by Japan's GREE company. At the same time as entering its fifth anniversary, it cooperated with iQiyi to launch an animated version. Similarly, "Dragon Heart War" did not stir up much heat. The official Twitter account has only a few thousand fans, which seems a bit deserted. The story is that ten years ago, the parents of the male protagonist Xiluo died in the ceremony of sealing the evil dragon. In order to avenge his parents, Xiluo spent ten years practicing swordsmanship and embarked on a journey to repel the evil dragon.

"Demon Slayer"

Like the above two works, Demon Slayer is also an animation adapted from a game. This work combines Japanese history, mythology, folk tales and fairy tales, and is set in an alien Japan, telling the story of the descendants of demons and their companions fighting against demons from another world. What is puzzling is that there are many scenes of "selling meat and welfare" in this work, but its popularity is not high. Could it be that Japanese comic fans are tired of "eating meat"?

According to current statistics, more votes are mainly concentrated on the following popular new shows:

Tanaka-kun is always so lazy

The story describes the school life of the lazy boy "Tanaka-san" and his classmates. It is an everyday comedy that can be watched to relax.

My name is Sakamoto and I am the coolest

The only one who can surpass Sakamoto is Sakamoto! There is no Sakamoto who is the best, only more awesome! This is a work that brings together the faith in Sakamoto. Every week, you can look forward to how Sakamoto will use his wisdom and physical strength that surpasses ordinary humans to complete various impossible tasks. In addition, the voice actor lineup of this work is too strong, so it has also attracted many voice actor fans.

Bungo Stray Dogs

This is a supernatural battle work named after a famous Japanese writer in history. Even if you have no literary background, you don't have to worry about not understanding it. At the same time, since there are mostly male characters in the play, it has attracted the attention of many female fans.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

The JOJO series has always been a huge hit. After the journey of Jotaro and his crew in the third part, the stage is set in Morioh Town, Japan. This seemingly ordinary town hides many dangerous Stand users, and all of this is closely related to DIO. In the fourth part, the protagonist Josuke Higashikata and his cheerful companions will embark on a new adventure...

My Hero Academia

The story background of "My Hero Academia" is very similar to other passionate works - in an era when 80% of the world's population has superpowers (Quirks), the protagonist Midoriya Izuku still does not give up his dream of becoming a hero. Watching Midoriya's hard work and his simple desire to help others is very moving. This is also a very inspiring and passionate work.

Explosion Girl

In addition, Bakuon also has many supporters, but its voting highlight is that the gender ratio is quite disparate, with only one vote coming from a woman. After all, the element of "high school girl x motorcycle" is more attractive to male audiences.

Of course, the low popularity of the game adaptations mentioned above is also because the voting was conducted in a tiger's den. Many of the customers here are women, so it is understandable that they are not interested in this type of work. I wonder if mobile game adaptations will improve in other stores such as Gamers and Animate?