Top 10 Anime, According to Anime Rags
A ranking of anime by their level of magazine exposure for the month of October yields some interesting, if at times puzzling, results…
1. Macross F
2. Hagane no Renkinjutsushi
3. Hetalia
4. Kobato
5. Gundam 00
6. K-ON!
7. Code Geass R2
8. Darker Than Black
9. Fairytail
10. Sora no Otoshimono
The upcoming Macross movie explains it seizing the top spot.
Magazine exposure seems not to have a terribly strong correlation with actual popularity (the unkind or realistic might say it has a better correlation with advertising expenditure), though perhaps that is hardly surprising…