#The Dragon and the Alchemist

[chibi-pix]

As the years go by, some things never change. However, many things do change, and thankfully for the better.

[leidensygdom]

character idea

[solasyr]

I made a dragonborn artificer Miku inspired by @m0nomercy’s designs!

[dragondawdles]

THE brothers

[irrel]

The Mana and Health Potion glitter pins are back in stock ✨ link

[nero-draco]

[gawki]

Late night doodles

[pansexualkiba]

(tried to go for wide readership, feel free to reblog to give me more manga)

[eraoftheeclipse]

I need to know how many people miss the 2000s and early 2010s amv culture. Remember how much content there was and how passionate everyone was about their favorite character or ship. They'd be making full length amvs every week I swear. Now I struggle to find new and active creators who make amvs longer than 30 seconds. I blame Instagram.

[bakanokiwami]

TOP 10 ANIMANGA ON FANFICTION.NET BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS (1999-2022)

To make this bar chart race, all series titles in the Anime/Manga Section on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.

In 1999-2001, FFN used Anime as a catch-all tag for all anime that didn’t have their own category yet before it was removed in 2002 onwards.

In 1999, fanfiction weren’t divided into sections like Anime/Manga, TV, Books, etc. yet. It was just a small list of mixed fandoms.

Originally, the fanfiction list was sorted alphabetically too, but was changed to number of fics at around early 2013.

By November 2013, FFN started abbreviating numbers above 1,000 to K, so exact numbers aren't available for series with more than 1,000 fanfiction.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

Edit: This bar chart is all made with the assumption that the numbers listed in section are correct. I can't seem to get the same numbers for some for these series when I go to the specific series' page and filter everything to All though... I don't know if I'm missing something or not...

For example, currently, the anime/manga section says Naruto has 439k fics, but going to the Naruto page and filters, ratings and language to All, it says there's only 413k fics. There's also 37.3k crossover fics, but adding would be equal to 450k fics... If anyone can clue me in on how FFN calculates these numbers, I'd be very grateful.🙏

[zephyrbug]

A healer of the remedial abyss 🪶

This was meant to be a lil rendering experiment but that didn’t work out. However I have been wanting a character based on a golden pheasant for a while so I thought I’d still use the sketch, plus my friend was considering running a wuxia game in the future so here’s my demon bird alchemist!! Haven’t picked out a name yet and i’m in no rush cause the game won’t run for a while but they’ll be a fun one to build eventually!

[frankencanon]

I'm curious to see how the results will change now that the top contenders from each poll are all being pitted against one another!

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※ Why were these specific characters chosen?

All of the characters above were taken from the top six results of the two preliminary polls.

※ What do you mean by "best protagonist"?

Which character would you most prefer to have in the role of protagonist?

What sort of personality, backstory, attitude, skills, motivations, morals, and various other traits would you prefer for the protagonist of a shounen series to have?

(It's also fine to just vote for your favorite character however since "likability" is, afterall, a very important, very vital part of being a protagonist...)

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The results are in...!!!

The Best Shounen Protagonists as Voted by Fans are... 🥁

Top 3:

1. Edward ‐ 1,886 votes

2. Luffy ‐ 1,653 votes

3. Mob ‐ 1,420 votes

Runners up:

4. Maka ‐ 534 votes

5. Gon ‐ 376 votes

※ The vote counts were estimated based on the total number of votes multiplied by each character's percentage.

[leidensygdom]

Okay, time for the Potluck surrogates! There's been a few this year! Starting with @absolutechaosss 's Lovelace and their adorable companion, Cog! I had eyed Lovelace in the past so it was very fun to be able to draw them >:3

as a sidenote, the references for this drawing were a mix of the Guy Fieri pose and the "woe, plague be upon ye" meme, which I should maybe be ashamed to bring up, but--

[whoishotteranimepolls]

"Who's Hotter? Battle of the Blondes

[akiarathewitch]

Hear me out-