dataprogramming
Travel guides Little from Asia can compete with anime on the global entertainment stage, where fandom drives commitment and decades-old franchises based on print stories still top the list of Asian titles most in demand. ContentAsia asked data science company Parrot Analytics to look at the top 10 Asian shows around the world this year. Nine of the 10 spots go to anime. The sole non-anime title was Korea’s 2013 series, Good Doctor, which received a bump from remakes in the U.S. and Japan. Rank
Title
Average Demand Expressions ® per capita
1
Dragon Ball Super (ドラゴンボール超スーパー)
1.93
2
Good Doctor Korea (굿닥터)
1.36
3
My Hero Academia (僕のヒーローアカデミア)
1.33
4
Attack On Titan (進撃の巨人)
1.26
5
Naruto (ナルト)
1.23
6
One Piece (ワンピース)
1.20
7
Naruto: Shippuden (Naruto-ナルト-疾風伝)
1.18
8
Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールZ)
1.07
9
Tokyo Ghoul (東京喰種)
0.93
10
The Seven Deadly Sins (七つの大罪)
0.83
1 January-10 November 2018 Markets: Global Demand Expressions®: The global TV measurement standard developed by Parrot Analytics, which represents the total audience demand being expressed for a title, within a country, on any platform, per 100 capita. Designed to compare the demand for titles between countries. [Audience demand reflects the desire, engagement and viewership, weighted by importance; so a stream/download is a higher expression of demand than a ‘like’/comment.]
1. Dragon Ball Super Toei Animation’s Dragon Ball Super, which ran in Japan from 2015 until earlier this year, was the giant of manga giants in 2018, outranking its nearest competitor – Attack on Titan – with 1.93 demand expressions per capita. Part of a cult franchise that goes back to the 1980s, the series opens with peace on earth threatened by powerful evil forces. Goku rises to the rescue once again. The super-powered Dragon Ball franchise shows no sign of slowing down; The 7 November trailer for the Dragon Ball Super: Broly feature film had more than 4.2 million views in its first four days on YouTube.
2. Good Doctor Korea Five years after it premiered on KBS in Korea, single-season medical drama Good Doctor is riding high on two high-profile regional/international remakes – the first in the U.S. in 2017 and the second for Japan’s Fuji TV in 2018 – along with a window on Netflix. The original Korean series starred Joo Won as the autistic doctor whose medical skills outweigh his ability to relate to fellow hospital staffers or patients. The 20-episode original comDragon Ball Super
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contentasia issue seven, december 2018