Having said that, the comfort-food appeal of its older stalwarts endures, nonetheless.Dragon Ball Z games are usually fighting or adventure games in which you can play as one of the many heroes of cult anime. After all, the genre has so much more to offer fans than it once did. While some might find it bewildering that shonen has completely dominated this summer, it shouldn't be seen as a bad thing. Additionally, while it failed to make the list, Haikyuu, a volleyball-based series, is another popular shonen title focused on playing sports rather than fighting, though the action plays out in a similar, exaggerated manner. Fire Force and Food Wars, in particular, are vastly different from Dragon Ball Super. As time has gone on, the genre has developed and diversified. However, shonen's increased variety might play a hand in this. Popular shonen anime used to primarily consist of lots and lots of fights and not too much else. Fruits Basket, apparently, did not rank among the other titles. Oddly enough, the breakout anime of this season outside of the shonen genre is Fruits Basket, the re-interpretation of the best-selling shojo title of the same name. It also begs the question: where is this year's Yuri on Ice!!! or Zombieland Saga? Usually, there is one anime that takes the world by storm that isn't a shonen or isekai series, one that offers audiences something beyond pure action and fantasy. Again, this is unsurprisingly but still interesting to see. This list is clearly dominated by two types of series: shonen and isekai, with isekai only a distant second place in popularity, at that. RELATED: My Hero Academia Season 4 Starts a New Era (Without All Might) STATISTICAL LIMITATIONS
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The only exception is Is It Wrong to Try to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon?, an anime that contains crossover appeal with other isekai series due to its strong fantasy elements. The remainder of the list is comprised of isekai (portal fantasy) anime such as That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and The Rising of the Shield Hero. Stone, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Fire Force. Alongside it is the revival of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, as well as Hunter x Hunter, Fairy Tail, Food Wars, Black Clover and Attack on Titan, as well as 2019 newcomers: Dr. These statistics were also taken from before the premiere of Season 4, proving that even on its off-seasons, My Hero Academia is attracting crowds. Superhero series, My Hero Academia, which began airing in 2016, remains one of the most popular anime of recent years. More unsurprising, other more recent - but equally beloved - shonen anime ranks highly with them. One Piece and Bleach rank up alongside them, too, despite Bleach having ended its anime run in 2012. However, one thing that is clear is that shonen anime continues to dominate, particularly Shōnen Jump's major properties - the weekly manga anthology in Japan that publishes the aforementioned "Big Four."ĭragon Ball Super, the newest incarnation of the long-running Dragon Ball saga, ranks alongside all three of the Naruto series: Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, and Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. Because the global chart above is in alphabetical order rather than in order of view count, we're unfortunately none the wiser about each title's actual ranking.