Open Thread: Top Ten Lists for 2024!

Open Thread: Top Ten Lists for 2024!

Well, that was certainly a year, wasn’t it? Before we step into the dreaded new year, let’s take a look back at what you, my faithful readers, looked at the most in 2024

Top Ten Posts in 2024

1. Webtoon Review: Kid Cosmic Season Three
2. Anime Review: Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac
3. Magazine Review: The Continental Literary Magazine: Beast (2023)
4. Webtoon Review: Mari-Kari
5. Manga Review: Dr. Stone
6. Anime Review: Dragon Quest: The Adventures of Dai (2023)
7. Book Review: The Blue Fairy Book
8. Manga Review: Shonen Jump Weekly 2024
9. Manga Review: Doraemon, Vol. One
10. Anime Review: My Love Story

For the first time ever, books do not dominate the Top Ten! Instead, people really wanted to know all about the ending season of Kid Cosmic.

Top Ten Posts of All Time

1. Book Review: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
2. Book Review: The Financial Expert
3. Book Review: The Black Tulip
4. Book Review: The Sea-Wolf
5. TV Review: Mannix
6. Manga Review: Doraemon, Vol. 1
7. Manga Review: Vagabond Volume 1
8. Anime Review: Urusei Yatsura
9. Anime Review: Baki (2018)
10. Book Review: Octavia’s Brood

However the sheer weight of tradition keeps books on top of the all-timers list, and Arthur is still king.

Top Ten Anime and Webtoons

1. Kid Cosmic Season Three
2. Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac
3. Mari-Kari
4. Dragon Quest: The Adventures of Dai (2023)
5. My Love Story
6. Baki (2018)
7. Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa
8. Onmyoji (2023)
9. Beastars
10. Ghost Stories (Dub)

Saint Seiya, Baki and Beastars all had new seasons this year, but the big and sad surprise was a surge of interest in obscure web series Mari-Kari. RIP Shannon Doherty.

Top Ten Magazines

1. The Continental Literary Magazine: Beast (2023)
2. Gamma 3
3. Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2021
4. Oh Reader, Issue 001
5. American Short Fiction Summer 2022
6. Analog Science Fiction & Fact January/February 2024
7. Planet Stories Summer 1949
8. Analog Science Fiction Science Fact December 1984
9. Marvel Science Fiction November 1951
10. The Shadow #60: Prince of Evil | Messenger of Death | Room 1313

My magazine reviews usually pull very few views, more’s the pity, especially the literary magazines. But the Hungarians really came through for their hometown product this year.

Top Ten Manga

1. Dr. Stone
2. Shonen Jump Weekly 2024
3. Doraemon, Vol. 1
4. My Dress-Up Darling 1
5. Vagabond Volume 1
6. Sanctuary
7. Batman: Justice Buster Vol. 1
8. Vagabond Volume 2
9. Berserk Volumes 31 & 32
10. My Hero Academia

Dr. Stone is approaching its final anime season, so there’s new interest. And this year people seemed really interested in what the Shonen Jump creators were up to.

Top Ten Books

1. The Blue Fairy Book
2. The Crystal Stopper
3. The Sea-Wolf
4. Greek Myths: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
5. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
6. God’s Little Acre
7. Mary Poppins Comes Back
8. The Early Cases of Kogoro Akechi
9. Arsene Lupin
10. The Beast with Five Fingers

This one’s honestly a bit baffling. Is there some sort of Andrew Lang anniversary I missed? Were people trying to find more on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and stumbled across this book review? What’s clear is that new books are not what my readers are looking for.

Top Ten Movies and TV

1. Firecracker (1981)
2. Viking Saga: The Darkest Day
3. A Smoky Mountain Christmas
4. The Sweeney (2012)
5. DC Super Hero Girls (2019)
6. Iron Man Armored Adventures: Season 2 Vol. 1
7. Blade Runner
8. Fist of Fury (1972)
9. Airplane! (1980)
10. Legend of the Red Dragon

Some of you folks may have remembered the same movie trailer I did. Or maybe you came for the lady in underwear. Again, there was a surge of Dolly Parton fans in December that boosted her movie.

Top Ten Comic Books and Comic Strips

1. Our Army at War
2. Enemies
3. Supersonic Girl
4. Don’t Make Me Laugh, Beetle Bailey
5. Curse of the Were-Woman
6. Adventure Comics #494
7. No Hero
8. The Best of DC #22: Christmas with the Super Heroes
9. Modesty Blaise: The Scarlet Maiden
10. The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume Ten: The Junior Commandos

Kind of surprising that our two toppers are military adventure, and middle school drama.

Top Ten Visiting Countries

1. United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. India
5. Phillipines
6. China
7. Australia
8. France
9. Germany
10. Indonesia

Special mention to Hungary, which tried hard but couldn’t quite crack the top ten. Better luck next year! And one lonely visitor from Iceland, please come back and bring a friend!

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