This week Yahoo! Japan announced the winners of the Yahoo! Japan Search Awards and one of them attracted attention. It was nothing less than Tokyo Revengers, the anime of LIDEN FILMS, which beat Kimetsu no yaiba from ufotable.
It is not a negligible achievement, since the adventures of Tanjiro kamado They had been winning for two years in a row. In fact, it was going for the third but the public wanted to know more about the history of the gang members.
Tokyo Revengers shocked animation fans
How are these awards decided? To begin with, the number of searches for a term with respect to the previous year is taken as a basis. Yahoo! Japan It tracks the people, products and media that receive the most dramatic increases in searches.
So, you compare them to the winners of previous years. This is how he detected that Tokyo Revengers was more wanted than Kimetsu no yaiba. This is completely normal.
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The first season of the anime Kimetsu no yaiba it premiered in 2019 and ended that same year. However, the next came his first animated film, the most successful of all time from Japan.
But at some point the searches had to go down. Without neglecting that the premiere of the second season was too late. The adaptation of the film for TV, which did not contribute much, did not help it to maintain the first place.
Kimetsu no Yaiba stayed at the top for two years
Tokyo Revengers had a fantastic 2021. Not only was his anime among the most viewed, but his manga sales were boosted tremendously. Without neglecting either that his film with real actors or live-action It was the most talked about of the year.
Besides this anime and Kimetsu no yaiba, was contemplated Jujutsu Kaisen, which was in third place in terms of number of searches. That was also a very decent result.
It should be noted that the data collected corresponds from January 1 to November 1, 2021. Among the Yahoo! Japan Search Awards Film, television dramas and even mobile titles were also awarded.
In the first case the winning film was Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0: Thrice Upon A Time; In a second, Okaeri Mone; and in the third, Uma Musume Pretty Derby. We will see how things go next year with the new proposals.
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