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I'm going to have to call naughty word on the CBR clickbait article which can't even bother to spell popular ("polar") I'm afraid mate. It's a talking about a single week in February, and it can't explain the metrics it's using, which are not the conventional "how many people watched it" ones, it appears.It makes sense to me. The world is too sprawling to fit neatly into the trope sinkholes that define Ravenloft. The setting is VERY D&D like in its magic use. But it's too grim to fit into the Realms or Eberron. Thematically, it fits for me into a GoT/Witcher themed Greyhawk.
Attack on Titan Is Currently the Most Popular Show in the United States
According to a new data report, Attack on Titan is currently the most popular show in the United States.www.cbr.com
Yes, my number one choice for escapism is the world where my mom gets eaten by a 50 foot tall toddler. I think we're using different meanings for escapism. I don't see escapism and "emotional relevance" as opposite sides of a spectrum.
I'm basing this on having a 14 year old son with a group of friends who are all into anime, and all of them devoured (npi) the new seasons of AoT when they started watching it 2 years ago. Most of what I watch nowadays is based on my son's recommendations, rather than my own. I've seen too much isekai for my own good.
Purely anecdotal, but that's all any of us can offer. None of us are subject matter experts on this.
Going to Parrot's website, we can see that "Demand" is basically total naughty word they've made up in order to convince people to give them money: Global Demand Measurement
EDIT - OH MY GOD IT'S SO MUCH WORSE THAN I THOUGHT.
Not only are they not measuring actual viewing or anything of the sort, whatever ridiculous metric it is, is allowing shows that aren't even on TV to totally dominate on "Demand". For example, scroll to the bottom of that page and select "United Kingdom". See Superman and Lois is absolutely killing it on "Demand" (their made-up metric). It's at +2463% - wow, I guess it must be a big show in the UK.
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ITS NOT EVEN ON TV IN THE UK!!! Arggggghhhh! No network has even bought it yet. But according to our buddies at Parrot, it's totally the top show in the UK, because of their "Demand" metric.
I think I lost like 10 IQ just trying to even understand this naughty word. I will never regret walking away from that industry.
I'm just like INCREDIBLY skeptical that your 14-year-old son is going to be into grimdark low-magic Greyhawk which all about politics and so on, as has been suggested in this thread. This whole "WOO LOW MAGIC" thing is pretty hilarious in the context of Attack on Titan, too. I don't see Geralt flashing across cities via grappling hooks in order to chop up strangely pliable giants with unfathomably sharp swords.I'm basing this on having a 14 year old son with a group of friends who are all into anime, and all of them devoured (npi) the new seasons of AoT when they started watching it 2 years ago. Most of what I watch nowadays is based on my son's recommendations, rather than my own. I've seen too much isekai for my own good.
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