[ID: Screenshots from Digimon Adventure Zero Two episode 35 showing Ken's sleepover at Daisuke's. (1) Daisuke holds Chicomon and smiles at him as Ken holds Leafmon and uses a payphone to call his mom. (2) Daisuke and Ken hold their digimon behind their backs as Daisuke introduces him to his parents and sister. (3) Ken sleeps on the floor, with Minomon sleeping on his blanket at his feet. Daisuke is in his bed with Chibimon sleeping at his feet. Ken is just waking up, and is smiling at Daisuke. (4) Minomon tackles Chibimon in a play fight on Daisuke's blanket. (5) Daisuke pulls the covers over his head as the two digimon play-fight on him. (6) A back shot of Ken watching as the digimon continue to play. End ID]
Two days ago, at our last Unlisted Fandom Challenge update, we had a 3-way tie for first. Today? One of those fandoms has taken the lead AND a new fandom that hadn't had even a single signup before has jumped all the way into a 4-way tie for second. Your fandom could do the same, in the hours still left before signups close!
At present, our leaderboard looks like this:
7 Danny Phantom
5 Carmen Sandiego (2019)
5 For All Mankind
5 Tortall
5 Yu Yu Hakusho
4 Ace Attorney
4 Alan Wake/Remedyverse
4 Formula 1 RPF
4 Ted Lasso
4 The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
4 The Stanley Parable
3 Greek Mythology/Religion
3 Buffyverse
3 Bungo Stray Dogs
3 Call of Duty
3 Detective Conan
3 Dragon Ball
3 HBO War
3 Kingdom Hearts
3 Persona Series: 3-5
3 Professional Wrestling
3 Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
3 Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab
3 The Mummy films 1999-2008
3 Undertale
Given the way Carmen Sandiego came from *nowhere* to tie for 2nd place, a single signup really can shake things up! And for the next few hours, signups are STILL OPEN! Do the thing!
The rest of our unlisted write-in fandoms under the cut for length -
2 Ghosts (TV)
2 Black Sails
2 Cosmere
2 CSI
2 Cyberpunk 2077
2 Dead Friend Forever
2 Death Stranding
2 Dice Punks (podcast)
2 Dimension 20
2 Donten ni Warau / Laughing Under the Clouds
2 Dracula
2 Dune
2 Firefly
2 Glee
2 Guardian/Zhen Hun
2 Hermitcraft/The Life Series SMP
2 Imperial Radch Series
2 Inception
2 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
2 Mob Psycho 100
2 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury
2 Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint
2 Ordem Paranormal Quarentena
2 QSMP / Quackity SMP
2 Riverdale
2 Saw
2 Slow Horses (TV Show)
2 South Park
2 Stormlight Archive
2 The Bear (TV)
2 The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
2 The Folk of the Air (Holly Black)
2 The Radiant Emperor Series
2 Venture Bros
2 Voltron
2 Wolf Pack
1 1670
1 A Court of Fey & Flowers
1 a league of their own (TV series)
1 A Plague Tale (Videogame Series)
1 American Gods
1 Among Us
1 Bandom RPF (Bad Omens)
1 Bandom RPF (Lorna Shore)
1 Bandom RPF (Motionless In White)
1 Beastars
1 Bendy (and The Ink Machine/Dark Revival)
1 Horror
1 Bioshock 1&2
1 Blue Beetle
1 Blue Eye Samurai
1 Books of the Raksura
1 Boondock Saints
1 Breakfast With Scot
1 Bunny - Mona Awad
1 Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher Entertainment RPF
1 Cabin Pressure
1 Cats the musical
1 Charlie's Angels (2019)
1 Cherry Magic
1 Chronicles of Narnia
1 Cobra Kai
1 Coffee Talk (Video Game)
1 Criminal Minds
1 Death Note
1 Devil May Cry
1 Dexter
1 Digimon
1 Discworld - Terry Pratchett
1 Disney Theatrical Animated Universe
1 Divergent
1 DMBJ (Grave Robber's Chronicles) - Xu Lei
1 Dream SMP
1 Dungeons and Daddies (podcast)
1 Endeavour/Morseverse/Inspector Morse (ITV/Dexter)
1 Ensemble Stars!!
1 Fallout Video Game (Bethesda)
1 Falsettos
1 Fargo FX
1 Farscape
1 Fire Emblem (4-10, 13, 14, 16)
1 Five Nights at Freddy's
1 Friends at the Table
1 Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
1 Grantchester
1 Green Creek
1 Grey's Anatomy
1 Grimm
1 Gundam (see below for details)
1 Hatchetfield
1 Hawaii 5.0
1 Hello From The Hallowoods
1 High School Musical
1 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
1 Hollow Knight
1 Honkai Star Rail
1 Horizon Zero Dawn
1 Infinity Train
1 IT (Movies - Muschietti)
1 Jeff Satur - music videos
1 Julie and the Phantoms
1 Kushiel's Legacy
1 Law and Order
1 Legend of the Galactic Heroes
1 Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4)
1 London Spy
1 Lovecraft Mythos
1 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
1 Magnificent Seven
1 Mary Grant Bruce's Billabong series
1 Mrs. Davis
1 My Little Pony
1 Nancy Drew (CW Series)
1 Narcos (TV)
1 Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
1 NU: Carnival
1 Omori
1 One Direction
1 Orphan Black
1 Outlast
1 Paranatural
1 Phantomarine
1 Re-Animator
1 Resident Evil/Biohazard
1 Sex Education (TV)
1 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
1 Simon Snow Series
1 Skins (UK)
1 Slam Dunk
1 Starry Musical
1 Succession
1 Sunless Sea
1 Super Sentai
1 Sweeney Todd
1 Team Starkid
1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1 The Adventure Zone: Balance
1 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
1 The Adventures of Tintin
1 The Artful Dodger
1 The Good Place
1 The Greenhollow Series - Emily Tesh
1 The Hollows - Kim Harrison
1 The Last Kingdom
1 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London - Garth Nix
1 The Lunar Chronicles
1 The Mechanisms
1 The Pairing (Casey McQuiston)
1 The Saint of Steel
1 The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler
1 The Terror (TV 2018)
1 Three of Hearts
1 Tin Can Bros
1 Tower of God
1 True Detective
1 Twilight
1 Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
1 Wayfarers (Becky Chambers)
1 Weak Hero Class 1
1 Westworld (TV)
1 Yellowjackets
1 Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
These days just Mob Psycho 100, but I have written for Digimon Adventure and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle as well.
4. What are your top five fics by kudos?
A little surprised by number 5 here! its such a teeny fic compared to the others.
Issho
2. Break
3. A Mother Muses
4. Socha
5. Stars on My Ceiling
5. Do you respond to comments?
I try! There was a big gap in 2022 where i had a newborn and zero time and energy, but usually I try to get a thank you out to everyone.
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
I'm the "happy ending guaranteed" author so very few of my fics end sad, but I do have a Digimon fic called Hugs Are Like Vitamins that is an exception to the rule. Very sad ending.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
The end of Issho is probably the most satisfying ending, but I am unsure if its the happiest. Honestly, Stars on My Ceiling is cavity inducing. Effervescent is also painfully sweet. Chapter three of Into Bloom. all of these are pure fluff.
8. Do you get hate on fics?
Extremely rarely. It has happened, and I don't engage. Deleted! Goodbye!
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
You know, I don't consider Leaps and Bounds smut. Its a fic that has a lot of explicit sex in it, but the story is about learning to be comfortable in the bedroom. If the sex is sexy, that's a bonus hahaha
10. Do you write crossovers?
I haven't yet, but I think about them sometimes...
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not to my knowledge. Here's hoping it stays that way.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Two, I think! Break was translated into Russian by @teawithbread!!! Thanks so much!!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
No, I think I would be a nightmare to work with actually. I have had people ask and I politely decline.
14. What’s your all time favorite ship?
I am not very into romance in general, so I have to say TeruMob. They're basically the only ship I care about. I enjoy the idea of TaKari in Digimon but more as soulmates... could be platonic or romantic. They are inseparable no matter what.
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
My Never Hopeless sequel, A Dream In The Dark. UGHHHHHHHHH its only on ff.net bc i am so ashamed of dropping a project. I do still have the BINDER i wrote all my notes in though so perhaps when I am 80 I can dig it up and finish it.
16. What are your writing strengths?
Children! Hello! I write realistic children! And connecting readers to memories they forgot they had, apparently. Its a frequent comment topic.
I'm very good at describing hard to describe emotions and I think my pacing is good. I like writing endings that punch you with a final line to tie it all together. I'm a sucker for that shit.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
I slow down dialogue with a few too many movement descriptions, I think. I just really like body language aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
I am too tired to really think this through. For the most part, seeing as I am writing for shows that are originally in Japanese, I try to keep food names accurate. I try to translate words unless they have no english equivalent like genkan. Foyer or entryway doesn't feel the same? I also tend to keep specific titles in japanese, seeing as they can get awkward or clunky when changed to english equivalents.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
On Ao3 it was Digimon and that's all you're getting out of me.
20. Favorite fic you’ve written?
I love all my children equally (Issho). But no seriously Break is insanely good and when i have Nightjar finished I will feel like its my new favorite child. Usually its whatever the last thing i wrote was.
The bracket is here!! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about it ^^
Also, please let me know if I need to spoiler tag these characters! I already have somewhat of a list, but there are plenty I'm unsure of, so all the help I can get is appreciated ^^' If I'm not confident though, I'll tag as spoilers just in case!
I'm aiming to the queue all of the polls so that they'll all be ready to upload on tuesday the 17th (left side) or wednesday the 18th (right side), however if it ends up delayed I'll be sure to make an announcement
Final thing, a reminder that you can find more info about the tournament under #tournament info !
Since it's kind of hard to read, here's the written list beneath the cut!
Left Side
Yuuki Mishima (Persona 5) vs Yuelia (Fantasy Life)
Kei Tsukkishima (Haikyuu!!) vs Moon Knight (Marvel)
Chan (Midnight Museum) vs Linh Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles)
Lucretia / Madam Director (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs The Collector (The Owl Hourse)
Princess Luna (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) vs Princess Yue (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Luther Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy) vs Della Duck (Ducktales 2017)
Looks to the Moon (Rainworld) vs Moonwatcher (Wings of fire)
Moony (ENA) vs Majora's Mask Moon (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask)
Bayonetta (Bayonetta) vs Princess Rani (Elden Ring)
Lunamon (Digimon) vs Moon Hare (Japanese Folktale)
Emlyn white (Lord of the Mysteries) vs Hisoka Mikage (A3!)
Soul Eater Moon (Soul Eater) vs Crona Gorgon (Soul Eater)
Asterian (SynthV) vs Kaguya Houraisan (Touhou Project)
Twila (Mario Party 6) vs Diana (League of Legends)
Maya Amano (Persona 2 Duology) vs Vanitas of the Blue Moon (Vanitas no Carte)
Umbreon (Pokemon) vs Clefairy (Pokemon)
Right Side
Moondrop (Five Nights At Freddies) vs Yue / Yukito Tsukishiro (Card Captor Sakura)
Gunpowder Tim (The Mechanisms) vs Fandub Eggman (Snapcube SA2 Fandub)
Lunala (Pokemon Moon) vs Ruby (Animal Crossing)
Moonlight Cookie (Cookie Run) vs Saïx / Isa (Kingdom Hearts)
Are you familiar with demon slayer and the AC JPN dubbing , if you do. Then be prepared for this. The demon slayer voice casting has 6 VAs who does the voices of the AC protagonists
Altair & Uzui
Ezio & Sanemi
Connor & haganezuka
Arno & tanjiro’s dad
Jacob & enmu
Bayek & yahaba “arrow demon”
Aya & Daki
Imagine them meeting the voice counter parts
Oh, yeah, I’m a bit familiar with the Japanese dub of Assassin’s Creed and I watch Demon Slayer when it’s airing in Japan then I rewatch it in the English dub because I enjoy watching English dubs in general XD.
Before anything…
Imma list the names of their JP voices and a few other characters they voice. (And I will be focusing on the ones listed by @ullyaboo because… well… this would get too long if I start listing everybody...)
Altaïr is voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi
(Sombron/Hubert/Xander/Randal from Fire Emblem, @princesslikesfanfics might recognize him as Tory Innis from Ancient Magus’ Bride, Diavolo from Jojo, Lloyd Irving from Tales series, America/Canada from Hetalia, and mecha fans might recognize him as our bestest aniki Kamina)
No, seriously.
Can we just take a moment to think about how Altaïr’s JP voice also voiced these characters as well:
Also, shoutout to him being the voice of the dead big brother of my Trails blorbo XD
Ezio is voiced by Tomokazu Seki
(HE VOICED MIGUEL O’HARA IN THE JP DUB OF ATSV, oh and Toad in the Mario movie, Jojo fans will probably find it funny that he voices Father Pucci and his stand, Panda from JJK, Gilgamesh from Fates, mecha fans would remember his “SHINING FISTS” as Domon Kasshu, he’s also Toya in Cardcaptor Sakura, and Van Fanel of Vision of Escaflowne (one of the earliest isekai anime))
Ratonhnhaké:ton is voiced by Daisuke Namikawa
(Lindel from Ancient Magus’ Bride, Anasui AND Giogio from Jojo, Yamato from Digimon, Persona 4’s MC, the jp voice of Sekiro from… well… Sekiro, Richard from Tales series, Italy from Hetalia, and Lupin the 3rd’s Goemon)
This deserves to be seen: Ratonhnhaké:ton’s JP Voice also voices Oikawa (Haikyuu) and Italy (Hetalia - also Romano) (this means that Ratonhnhaké:ton sang the Hetalia ending song)
And he’s the JP voice of Jake Muller, Wesker’s kid in RE6.
Arno is voiced by Shinichiro Miki
(ROY MUSTANG from FMA, Randy Orlando from Trails, Sir Nighteye from BNHA/MHA, James from Pokemon, Alucard from Castlevania, Lockon Stratos (*haro voice* Lockon, Lockon, Lockon, incoherent sobbing) from Gundam, Hijikata from Hakuoki)
(side note: Elise’s JP voice is Toyoguchi Megumi who voices Rengoku’s mother and I don’t want to mess up Tanjiro’s family but… half-brothers Tanjiro and Rengoku AU???)
Jacob is voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa
(Kakyoin from Jojo, Cao Lee and Rufus Albarea from Trails, Rei from Free, Makoto Ito from School Days (lollol, at least Jacob doesn't have the worst love life in this list), and Orlando Bloom in Kingdom Hearts games XD)
Bayek is voiced by Jun Fukuyama (JP voices of Origin (and Valhalla) weren't in Behind the Voice Actor so I had to doublecheck with JP wiki XD)
(Persona 5’s MC, Lelouch Vi Brittania/Zero from Code Geass, Yukio from Blue Exorcist, Korosensei from Assassination Classroom, Maximilian from Valkyria Chronicles, Watanuki from xxxHolic)
Aya is voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro
(female Robin from Fire Emblem, Milla Maxwell from Tales, Katalina from GBF, Elizabeth from Persona, Jolyn Cujoh from Jojo, Shinku in Rozen Maiden, Franziska von Karma in Ace Attorney, Celty from Durarara!!, Touko from Danganronpa)
Now…
For the actual ask portion:
Altaïr would probably be annoyed at Uzui at first because he’s so flashy. They’d probably spar and Altaïr would start to respect him after understanding that, underneath all that ‘flashiness’, Uzui is strong and has conviction (side note: Uzui’s three wives makes me think Makio - Maria, Hinatsuru - Adha and Suma - Kadar XD)
Ezio would think of Sanemi as having skills and potential but he won’t like his attitude. AC2!Ezio would definitely butt heads with Sanemi a lot, especially after he sees how Sanemi acts around his younger brother (since he doesn’t know the whole story) and he’d definitely try to act like a nice big brother to Genya, Brotherhood!Ezio and Revelations!Ezio would not be provoked by Sanemi and act more like an older brother/mentor role that Sanemi doesn’t want at all and thinks is super annoying.
Haganezuka would totally like Ratonhnhaké:ton because Ratonhnhaké:ton would take care of any weapon he receives from Haganezuka. Ratonhnhaké:ton will also be willing to listen to Haganezuka talk about swords for houurrrss. Achilles would have to be the one to smack Haganezuka to get out of the homestead after giving Ratonhnhaké:ton his sword. (Why is Achilles there? Idk, crossover???)
All I can think of is Arno getting adopted by the Kamado family. Tanjuro is quite frail and he’s been sick for a while now so their meeting would probably remind Arno of his late father. But, man, just imagine Arno dancing Hinokami Kagura…
Oh god. Enmu would totally fuck with Jacob using his dreams/nightmares. Like, every pain and weakness Jacob has, Enmu would take advantage of it. Worst of all? Jack the Ripper's actions would definitely haunt Jacob till the day he dies so Enmu using Jack in the attack would really hurt. Enmu wasn’t even a good person as a human but considering Jacob’s luck and bad judge of character? Absolutely won’t be surprised if he invites human!Enmu to the Rooks as a ‘doctor’.
I think Bayek has a good chance of taking out Yahaba. Dude got an actual flaming sword in the main story and I’m sure Reda would have a weapon made of Scarlet Crimson Iron Sand and Scarlet Ore for some reason and, as long as Bayek understood how Yahaba’s blood demon art works, he’d be fine. Bayek took out giant gods (in the Animus), he can take out this demon.
Oh, Aya would not like Daki at all. She might even be reminded of Cleopatra a bit because of her arrogant and dismissive personality which wouldn’t help the situation. They’d definitely fight and… Aya would probably need help on this one. I’m not sure if she ever got into any Isu BS that ended in a boss fight so I can’t be sure how she would handle fighting Daki and her obi attacks. Human!Daki though? Aya would definitely recruit her and her brother to the Hidden Ones if she found them as kids. But if she saw her as her usual cruel self? Yeah, Aya’s not going to like her.
If anyone wants an actual Demon Slayer x AC crossover idea, let me know?
Hey! It's been a wild week, but don't think I'm just sitting on my hands!
So far, I've gotten most of the characters vetted and confirmed. I'm still trying to figure out what I should do about the many 1-vote submissions. I'm most likely going to sort through them and do some form of preliminaries. It's gonna be quite a bit though, as of the 300+ submissions for the 128 slots, only about 50 or so were characters with more than 1 vote. As such, I'm likely going to first be handling characters from franchises that have more than 3 representatives, and then go to like IPs. I need to check how many that will get us, and then move from there. It's gonna be getting about 78 characters from around 100~ submissions, so it's just removing a few.
...but I understand there's been a large wait. So I'll at least give you the characters that have gotten 2 or more votes, and will definitely be moving on!
Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid)
Ene (Kagerou Project)
Hera (Wolf 559)
GIFanny (Gravity Falls)
Little Hal (Homestuck)
Porygon (Pokemon)
Monika (DDLC)
Ritsu (Assassination Classroom)
Sophia (Persona 5 Strikers)
Alter Ego (Danganronpa)
The Doctor (Star Trek Voyager)
Aiba (AI: The Somnium Files)
J.A.R.V.I.S. (MCU)
Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa)
Dr. Coomer (Half Life VR but the AI is self aware)
MXES (FNAF Security Breach)
Nicole the Holo-Lynx (Archie Sonic)
Lea (CrossCode)
The Squip (Be More Chill)
Holly (Red Dwarf)
Sage (Sonic Frontiers)
Kasane Teto (UATU)
Benry (Half Life VR but the AI is self aware)
Agumon (Digimon)
Motherboard (Cyberchase)
Hakuno Kishinami (Fake/Extra)
Light Hope (She-Ra)
Yui (Sword Art Online)
Glitchtrap (FNAF Help Wanted)
Daia (Kiratto PriChan)
Sayu (No Straight Roads)
Buddy (Buddy Simulator 1984)
Zero III (Zero Escape)
AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)
The Machine (Person of Interest)
Popy Pipopapo (Kamen Rider Ex Aid)
Lyla (Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse)
Murder-Bot 2.0 (The Murderbot DIaries)
Lumina Ichihoshi (Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ)
ART (The Murderbot Diaries)
XANA (Code Lyoko)
Noah Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Guy (Free Guy)
Tama (AI: The Somnium Files)
Also, of the 1 vote characters, I'm moving 3 more forward to autoqualify due to significance and also for one of them, my own bias (I ditched one of my own autoqualified earlier with the whole riddle thing).
These characters are:
SHODAN (System Shock)
Mamechi (Tamagotchi)
Aya (Green Lantern the Animated Series)
I'll keep you all posted, but I'm hoping to have those preliminaries figured out and up this week. I'll let you know if there are sudden changes.
While on the Fandom Stats website, I got curious and did some research about the Digimon Fandom!
Disclaimer: These statistics will only be accurate to the Archive of Our Own website, and will not include statistics about the fandom on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Fanfiction.net
When searching for fanfiction about Digimon on AO3, there are a total of 6,616 underneath the general "Digimon- All Media Types" tag. This is not a fair representation of the total numbers of Digimon fanfiction, as there are FIFTEEN Digimon categories an author could label their story under.
Listing from highest number of fics to fewest fics, these other categories include (as of Nov. 5, 2022):
Digimon - All Media Types: 6,619 fics
Digimon Adventure Zero Two: 2,637 fics
Digimon Adventure: 2,037 fics
Digimon Adventure tri: 1,043 fics
Digimon Tamers: 602 fics
Digimon Frontier: 575 fics
Digimon Xros Wars/ Digimon Fusion: 172 fics
Digimon Savers/ Digimon Data Squad: 150 fics
Digimon Universe - Appli Monsters: 125 fics
Digimon Ghost Game (Anime): 89 fics
Digimon Adventure (Anime 2020): 73 fics
Digimon V Tamer 01: 50 fics
Digital Monsters X-Evolution: 16 fics
Digimon NEXT: 12 fics
Digimon D Cyber: 2 fics
After inputting all of this data (aside from the “Digimon - All Media Types” tag, as this tag can reference all Digimon media) into a graph, it is clear to see which characters the fandom tends to favor:
(Some of the numbers are really small - I’m so sorry!)
Digimon Adventure Zero Two takes the lead, while Digimon Adventure follows close behind. Between the two, there is only a difference of 600 fics. These numbers are unsurprising, as most Digimon official events revolve around the Adventure and 02 cast!
According to the Fandom Stats website, fanfiction (specifically AO3) in the Digimon Fandom heavily gravitates towards General Audiences, with a total number of 2,551 fics using this tag. Other tags include:
(Graph found on Fandom Stats)
While Teen and Up Audiences have 2,214, Mature and Explicitly tagged fics have a combined 1,307 fics.
Now, onto the pairings! Though 35% of the fics are general, the other 65% of fics include some kind of romance!
(Graph found on Fandom Stats)
In the lead, we have M/M relationships at 33%. Of these 2,155 fics, 29.7% are Daisuke/Ken! Taichi/Yamato are a close second at 22.5%. (Taichi/Koushiro comes in at 7.5%, and Daisuke/Takeru is last at 6.2%.)
With 1,889 fics, F/M relationships share 29% of the total non-general fics. Of these, 18.6 percent are Takeru/Hikari! Sora/Yamato cover 17.7%, while Taichi/Sora covers 8.6%. Lastly, we have Mimi/Koushiro at 7%.
I couldn’t find any statistics on F/F, Multi, or the Other categories, but I will try to search in the future.
On the Archive of Our Own website, the fandom shows clear favoritism in characters and pairings! Now, I wish there was a way to factor in data from Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and FanFiction.net. Let me know if you have any ideas!
[ID: Screenshots from Digimon Adventure Zero Two episode 28 showing: (1) Ken on Stingmon's shoulder as he kicks a Roachmon. (2) Ken with his head down as he perches on Stingmon's shoulder. (3) Ken on Stingmon's back as Stingmon flies. (4) Ken on Stingmon's shoulder as he lunges to punch. (5) Stingmon holding onto Ken as they both sink in water. (6) Ken clinging to Stingmon's back as Stingmon is pulled through the water by Submarimon offscreen. (7) Ken with Stingmon standing behind him. (8) Ken on Stingmon's shoulder as he runs. (9) A shot from between Stingmon's legs, showing Ken standing in front of him. End ID]
Since our numbers post earlier today, we've had more than 30 signups, including write-ins for 2 more fandoms, bringing the total of unlisted fandoms to 155 ... for now ...
At the top of the list we have a 3-way tie for 1st, a 5-way tie for 2nd, and a 6-way tie for third ...
5 Danny Phantom
5 For All Mankind
5 Yu Yu Hakusho
4 Ace Attorney
4 Ted Lasso
4 Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
4 Stanley Parable
4 Tortall
3 Greek Mythology/Religion
3 Bungo Stray Dogs
3 Call of Duty
3 Dragon Ball
3 Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
3 Mummy (1999 franchise)
A single sign up could change all that ...
The rest below a cut for length -
2 Alan Wake/Remedyverse
2 Ghosts (TV)
2 Buffyverse
2 Cosmere
2 CSI
2 Detective Conan
2 Dracula
2 Dune
2 Firefly
2 Formula 1 RPF
2 Glee
2 Guardian (2018)
2 HBO War
2 Hermitcraft/The Life Series SMP
2 Imperial Radch Series
2 Mob Psycho 100
2 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury
2 Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint
2 Persona Series: 3-5
2 Professional Wrestling
2 Riverdale
2 Saw
2 Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab
2 Slow Horses
2 Stormlight Archive
2 Bear (TV)
2 Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
2 Folk of the Air (Holly Black)
2 Radiant Emperor Series
2 Undertale
2 Venture Bros
2 Voltron
2 Wolf Pack
1 1670
1 a league of their own (TV series)
1 A Plague Tale (Videogame Series)
1 Adventure Zone: Balance
1 Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across 8th Dimension
What the heck
They did it, they made peak
THIS WAS ANNOUNCED A FUCKING MONTH AGO AND YET I SOMEHOW DIDN'T HEAR ABOUT IT UNTIL LAST NIGHT I HATE HOW NONEXISTENT THE MARKETING FOR THIS SERIES IS
I am like actually frothing at the mouth at this announcement, absolutely feral.
This series has by far one of my favorite soundtracks in any video game and the fact that they didn't make a rhythm game out of it 8 years ago is criminal and the creators deserve to be locked up in solitary confinement for the rest of their lives for not making it sooner. But they also deserve to be let out and also given 1 billion money coins and a free pass to be allowed to commit any crimes ever for finally making it now!
I refuse to look at the actual song list because I know that I'll be disappointed because there's no way they included even close to all like 80 vocal songs throughout the entire series, but like if they don't have A Zip to the Moon I'll cry, really. A Zip to the Moon is the only thing that could truly make me believe in a god.
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It'd also be cool if they added the Lola versions of every Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 song but they won't because the god of A Zip to the Moon hates me :(
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If there is a SINGLE Luminous Avenger iX song my face will go from :) to :( INSTANTLY, and then it'll go back to :) when I see A Zip to the Moon because it'll be there, surely! They took away her robot voice she sounds like shit bring back bootleg Hatsune Miku!
I'm sure it's gonna have like, all of the Gunvolt 3 songs because it's the newest one, so very excited to hear 90% of that game's soundtrack for the first time, not in the game that they originated from because I still have not played 3 beyond the demo despite it releasing over a year ago. But like the two songs from it that I have heard are really good so I'm sure the rest is too, Ergo Sum and Glass Paradise are both pretty cool.
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Whoever made the decision to release Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 on the same day as both Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Digimon Survive is a psychopath and my worst enemy.
For funsies they should also add like 1 Mega Man Zero song just as like a little reference to their past works, y'know some games do that they could do that there wouldn't be any rights issues or anything please I just want Innocence from Mega Man ZX to exist again it's like the A Zip to the Moon of Mega Man Zero it's so good please Mr. Inti Creates I'll stop calling you a psychopath I promise.
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I can't wait for this game to just be a shitty Persona 3/5 Dancing tier cash-grab rhythm game with only like 10 of the worst songs from the entire series that costs $50 and kills the series because it didn't sell well enough.
Removing the mechanic from the final boss of 2 where you had to sing into the 3DS microphone (or just blow into the mic) in the Steam version was the worst thing that happened since capitalism. Like yea they couldn't really realistically implemented it without like, requiring you to have a mic hooked up for literally one 30 second portion of the final boss but like, I'm still mad >:C
Comedy 2 (Disney, Gravity Falls, Total Drama, Hotel Transylvania, Road To Eldarado, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, Who Framed Rogger Rabbit, Addams Family)
VIDEO GAMES
Persona Part 1 (Persona 3, Persona 4, Persona Arena Ultimax, Persona Dancing)
Persona Part 2 (Persona 5, Persona 5 Strikers, Persona 5 OC)
Because I can and because I've really done nothing but comment about Ghost Game, it does give a slight misleading impression on where it stands. So in brief, I may go into more detail down the line, we'll see how I feel out the blue one day. Worst to Best of all 10 Digimon series.
(got to keep up that suspense XD)
And yes, Dubs are going to be a factor, I haven't watched both Sub/Dub of all shows.
10 - Xros Wars
This is solely by default because it is the only series I haven't watched, I don't have much inclination to either. Digivolution method really can make or break a show and Digimon lego sets with no actual way to gauge power besides from more sets you stick together the stronger you apparently seem to be, does not hold much appeal. Plus what I've seen of X7/X8, it just looks so messy. Although, I'd like to be able to weigh in on the Taiki debate, some say he's one of the franchises best Goggle boys, others say he's too perfect he's not interesting.
9 -Digimon 2020
For a modern day reboot it had all the action, zero the charm or personality. Those snazzy, action filled fight scenes mean nothing, when there's no story, no characters and just flat out laziness all-round. The Diaboramon movie got rehashed 3 times. The significance of the crests forgotten until a rag tag added on arc at the end and even then they weren't really earned. Izzy just ruined everything, unless you were Matt and Tai, you were basically useless and Tai… I could rant about this series all day, it ticks me off so much!
8 - Frontier
This is one of many examples of Digimon not being to do the long run story, a tolerable first half, an unbearable second half full of holes and flaws, it makes you wonder if multiple teams were writing eps apart from each other. This series wrote itself into a corner it could have wrote itself easily out of but chose not to and suffers greatly for it. There is so little to actually talk about in Frontier, none of the cast are actually likeable, not to the extent that you can really get behind them. The only one you feel for slightly is twin 2 but they don't do alot with him after. The only thing it has going for it is the Intro's both sub and dub are amazing!
7 -Tri
Such a strong first half, first 3 vols, amazing! Stakes, emotion, understandable dilemma's occurring from being so much older and once more they fail the landing. Tai never got is pay off over his fears. Matt's future plans literally come out of nowhere. Mei and Meicoomon out stayed their welcome so quickly they got in the way in the second half. However, the biggest crim is Daigo and Maki and what we could have had as the first Digidestined team… their partners being the four sovereigns actually makes so much sense! They won but failed, there was an amazing story set up to be told there and they just went, nah, bin it -.-''
Abridged Daigo though is the most relatable character ever and hilarious to boot
6 -02
Let's be honest, this series, I couldn't care less for and some one punch Davis! (He's not so special anymore mind you.) However, despite the not so exciting team, it had it's moments, the Wizardmon ep was very touching, the idea of passing to the next gen, with the originals to help guide them, nicely done with the right mix of original and new but what really gives it, it's place and you all saw it coming. The Digimon Emperor arc! Such a good villain, the contrast against the team, against Wormon, the ongoing subplot over Chimeramon and then our Digimon Emperor gets turned back to normal and show becomes so boring and with more holes in it than swiss cheese.
5 - Appli Monsters
I did put this off, I was one of those people… however, I was pleasantly surprised. This show is quite solid, all the characters get their own arcs, the story actually has progress from start to finish, the end boss narratively is good as an actual end boss, it couldn't have made a stupider play if it tried. With social commentary right on the nose, it was a show definitely released before it's time, if they tried it now, I think it would have done a lot better as it would be so much more relatable to people. Why only 5… well, there's nothing that overly stood out; like a moment or ep that is a must re-watch. I watched it the once and haven't gone back to it.
4 - Savers
Savers has so many of my faves, my fave digivice in the IC, digivolve style with Digisoul, fave rivals with Masaru/Tohma (love me some two halves of the same coin), some of the best looking Megas you'll ever see, even my fave mon is from this series! Looking at you, you double agent, traitorous, snarky scarf! This series even has the best villain, well human anyway out of all series and the best part, he remains a prick and gets no cheap redemption! Just a guy you love to hate. The downside, like so many others, the doesn't stick the second half. I mean it's alright, no where near as good as the first half and becomes too much of the Masaru show for my liking. (And no, I don't dislike the Digimon punching gimmick per se but it is overused and gets ott in parts that kind of takes you away from it.)
3 - Ghost Game
This actually took some serious debating and the bottom line, what do I just openly go and re-watch and despite it's many, many flaws; Ghost Game was just so much fun! It lived up to it's reputation, it gave you horror, surprise, creepiness, you did run through the emotions with it. The major selling point though, it has to be the cast. Tamer and Digimon alike, all 6 are just so likeable with great dynamics and you don't get to say that about many. I also like how Hiro, Ruli and Kiyo represent the three common reactions to the paranormal, the sceptic, the enthusiast and the fearful.
2 - 01
Surprise! Or not potentially and yes, this is heavily the dub, fight me, it's amazing! No bad will be said about dub Apocylamon. Nostalgia likely plays a part in it to but all our digidestined team a great, they all get little arcs and for the most part, all get to play a part, even at the end where only two get megas, however, narratively this works. The story has good progression, in character and difficulty, there's obstacles which don't seem to impossible for kids to tackle, stuff actually feels earned and the villains are just as memorable as the heroes. To top it all, it's such an easy series to just re-watch from any point.
1 - Tamers
Ha, yes, I am one of those to. I stand by it, this is peak storytelling for Digimon. What starts off quite light, becomes mature, gritty and a real good coming of age story despite still being kids. Our main trio all get good character arcs, they bounce of each other well and a bonus point for at least trying with the card game. why yes, I do consider Rika as the rival in Tamers, it just makes more sense due to conflicting beliefs about digimon with Takato On the other hand, it's End boss is by far the worse on so many levels but also contains one of Digimon's best character arcs with Impmon. With Tamers, I could only plan to watch one or two eps but before I know it, I'm half way into the series again and still not bored of it.
And this really didn't stay as short as I initially intended ^^;