Nikkei XTrend published an interview with MyAnimeList CEO Atsushi Mizoguchi, discussing the company’s ambitions and its integration with Japanese anime production companies for marketing purposes. Mizoguchi also released previously non-public data for the top Spring 2025 anime added to My List and specifically Plan to Watch (United States, India, Saudi Arabia). (Spoiler: Fire Force really has the streets, wow.)
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The anime most added to My List (anime, number of times):
- United States:
- Fire Force Season 3: 56,466
- Lazarus: 51,513
- Witch Watch: 36,359
- WIND BREAKER Season 2: 35,233
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: 33,799
- TO BE HERO X: 33,676
- From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: 32,667
- The Beginning After the End: 29,440
- Kowloon Generic Romance: 28,636
- The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows: 27,481
- India:
- Fire Force Season 3: 7,253
- Witch Watch: 6,636
- WIND BREAKER Season 2: 6,454
- I’ve Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years And Maxed Out My Level: 6,245
- Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?: 6,209
- From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: 4,737
- Takopi’s Original Sin: 4,716
- Lazarus: 4,711
- The Shiunji Family Children: 4,511
- The Beginning After the End: 4,443
- Saudi Arabia:
- Fire Force Season 3: 1,900
- Lazarus: 1,596
- Takopi’s Original Sin: 1,246
- WIND BREAKER Season 2: 1,212
- The Beginning After the End: 1,170
- Kowloon Generic Romance: 1,113
- Witch Watch: 1,071
- Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentoushou: 1,040
- From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: 1,039
- Lord of Mysteries: 1,034
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The anime most added to Plan to Watch (anime, number of times):
- United States:
- Fire Force Season 3: 28,968
- Lazarus: 26,832
- I’ve Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years And Maxed Out My Level: 15,369
- Witch Watch: 14,377
- Kowloon Generic Romance: 12,205
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: 12,045
- WIND BREAKER Season 2: 11,400
- TO BE HERO X: 11,378
- Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentoushou: 9,986
- From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: 9,942
- India:
- Fire Force Season 3: 3,827
- I’ve Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years And Maxed Out My Level: 3,657
- Witch Watch: 2,338
- Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?: 2,330
- WIND BREAKER Season 2: 2,096
- Please Put Them On, Takamine-san: 1,877
- Lazarus: 1,855
- Summer Pockets: 1,782
- Kowloon Generic Romance: 1,578
- The Shiunji Family Children: 1,560
- Saudi Arabia:
- Fire Force Season 3: 920
- Lazarus: 729
- Lord of Mysteries: 490
- Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentoushou: 451
- Kowloon Generic Romance: 430
- WIND BREAKER Season 2: 397
- Takopi’s Original Sin: 395
- Witch Watch: 383
- TO BE HERO X: 345
- My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: 337
Earlier in March, MyAnimeList was acquired by the web3 startup Gaudiy, resulting in a one-time gain of around 531 million yen (around $3.5 million at the time). Manga Mirai debuted in the same month, developed by NTT DOCOMO. in partnership with MyAnimeList, Akatsuki Group, and former parent company MEDIA DO. In May, Gaudiy announced a strategic capital and business partnership with Sony Group and Bandai Namco Holdings, which underwrote 10 billion yen in funding with plans to leverage MyAnimeList data for global expansion.
On the topic of plans to watch, Anime Corner’s Fall 2025 most anticipated shows poll is currently open. I’ll probably go with My Friend’s Little Sister Has It In for Me!. You can check out our Spring 2025 most anticipated anime ranking here to see how well it lines up with the above data. Fire Force Season 3 and WIND BREAKER Season 2 similarly took the top spots.
Source: Nikkei XTrend
© Atsushi Ohkubo, KODANSHA/ “FIRE FORCE Season 3” Production Committee © Satoru Nii, Kodansha / WIND BREAKER Project ©2024 The Cartoon Network, Inc.
