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“#INFOGRAPHIC: A Census of Every 2020 Crunchyroll Simulcast<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Around this time last year, I asked myself, “how many main characters have pink hair this season?” I created a spreadsheet on a whim and began writing down the names of every simulcast airing on Crunchyroll that season. Then I wrote down the lead protagonist’s eye and hair colors. When I finished that, I then thought to myself, “it would be sort of interesting to break down which genres these series<\/a> were, too.” That started an avalanche of other questions, and soon my little spreadsheet had ballooned out to encompass a wealth of other series related data. By the end of 2020, it comprised 28 columns and 96 rows!! The results are pretty interesting, and I wanted to share them with everyone as a look back on all of the series we got to enjoy together in a year where we so desperately needed something to bring us smiles. With the help of my friend Jacqui (who handled the graphic design), we compiled all of this together into a single infographic! <\/p>\n

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A note on methodology: the information represented in this infographic reflects every series, film, OVA, and special that was simulcast on Crunchyroll in 2020 (this excludes all catalog additions). A great deal of this data is qualitative or otherwise dependent on my interpretation as a viewer–there are plenty of characters whose hair could either be considered dark blue or black, and a lot of this was subject to what I as viewer thought was going on. When available, I did double-check with readily available canon information (official Japanese websites, mostly), but I am but a simple anime<\/a> fan, and this data reflects my very human imperfection. Following the infographic, I will provide some further contextual information regarding specific categories. Without further ado, here’s the stats!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Notes on categories:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Genre<\/strong>: Every series on Crunchyroll has tags that determine which genre it shows up in. These tags provided the base data for this category.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Time periods<\/strong>: Take some of these with a grain of salt–if an isekai series took place in a fantasy world but the technology<\/a> was general<\/a>ly Medieval Europe adjacent, it counted as “Medieval Europe-ish.” This app<\/a>lies to most of the other eras as well.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Gender<\/strong>: “Other” indicates mostly non-human characters that don’t have gender analogs (if a main character was a banana, they would fall into this category).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Age<\/strong>: This is tied to a characters in universe age, not how they appear. For example, while Emilia in Re:Zero appears to be a young lady, she was counted as an ancient since she is multiple centuries old.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Job\/role word cloud<\/strong>: The larger the word, the more characters fell into this role. This was a subjective determination on my part based on plot relevance. For example, Hinata from Haikyu!! would be considered an athlete over a high school student. Each protagonist only received one tag, so Hinata would be considered an athlete and not a high school student, but in future infographics, I will attempt to involve multiple roles per character.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Species<\/strong>: “Supernatural” indicates any sort of spirit, monster, or any other type of mystical creature that is not half human.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Episode count:<\/strong> Determined by the number of episodes aired within 2020. Excludes ongoing series’ episodes that aired prior to 2020. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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And that's it! Thanks so much for reading, and here's to a better year.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cayla Coats is the Editor-in-Chief of Crunchyroll News<\/a>. She tweets at @ceicocat<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n