CATDOLL: Twitter statistics: Ranking of new animations in January 2016 is the strongest at the beginning of the year

In half a month, the January new anime will be finished. Among the many anime, which one has the highest ratings? Which one has been abandoned the most? Let's follow the data from Twitter statistics to find out.

Twitter is currently one of the most popular social software in Japan. Many viewers will update their Twitter accounts to express their thoughts while watching anime. So can this feature of Twitter be used to collect more information? In response to this, the Japanese website "CUPO" conducted an interesting study, judging the status of anime viewers' continued pursuit of anime from the number of Twitter live broadcasts, and roughly inferring how viewers decide which new anime to follow.

First, here are the Twitter live views of the first episode of this season (only works with more than 10,000 Twitter views are listed in the table):

In the first episode of "Millennium Colors of Spirit World", Mai Kawagami showed off her dancing skills and presented many benefits to the audience, which ranked first with more than 25,000 Twitter views. Following closely behind, "Dagashi Wars" had more than 26,000 discussions, but the number of live participation was slightly lower than "Millennium Colors" and ranked second. "The Weakest Unbeatable Divine Drag-Ride", "Girls Go Wild" and "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World" ranked behind it.

By the second episode, the situation had become like this—

Regardless of which work it is, the number of viewers participating in the live broadcast has decreased by 100 to 200 people, and most of the viewers choose to abandon the show after the first episode is broadcast. The situation has suddenly become difficult?

By the end of the third episode, the hits of this season have been roughly decided:

After passing the legendary "three-episode theorem", there are only five works with more than 10,000 tweets, namely "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World", "Unlimited Colors of Spirits", "Dagashi Wars", "Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash" and "The Town Where Only I Am Missing".

So why does this happen?

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In less than a month, "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World" gradually jumped to the top of the list. In addition to its novel setting of the other world, the unique character images and welfare scenes also added a lot of points to it; "Music Colors" made the audience disgusted because it released welfare too frequently, but the brand of Kyoto Animation can still attract a large number of audiences; "Dagashi Wars" ranked third with the popularity of the comics and the welfare content; "Fantasy and Ash" also has the theme of the other world, which is unique among the many new shows in January; "The City Where Only I Am Missing" uses the wonderful plot as its selling point, and the mystery works are the most likely to keep the audience's attention.

In addition, after the third episode of "The City Where Only I Am Missing" was broadcast, the number of Twitter discussions and the number of viewers changed the least. It can be seen that mystery themes can capture a fixed audience group very tightly, which is also the most advantageous aspect of mystery works.

It is different from the so-called "three-episode theorem". Most viewers will decide whether to continue following the series after the first episode. The "three-episode theorem" is more universal, and the major plot twist is the key to success or failure.

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