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Contains data from VNDB, available under the Open Database License. Statistics are based on daily data dumps and may not reflect real-time changes.
Contains data from VNDB, available under the Open Database License. Statistics are based on daily data dumps and may not reflect real-time changes.
Leaderboards drawn from the whole vote record. Build one over any slice you like, or take one of the standing boards below, which answer the questions a slice on its own cannot. For what is popular right now, see trends.
VNDB data from 26 Aug· updated daily· next update in 4h 9m
Pick an era, platform, length, tag, age rating or Japanese difficulty, then rank the titles in it or the readers who read them. Worked out when you ask, so there is no fixed list of slices, and the answer is a link you can send.
Questions a slice cannot ask on its own: how far apart the votes are, how a reputation moved, where a list stops, how a reader votes against the room.
What is moving now, and where a reading list stops. Rating and dropping are questions for the builder.
Titles collecting a large share of their lifetime votes right now. A recent release scores highly here by design; that is what rising means.
2,966 titles
The same measure over a longer run, which favours a sustained revival over a spike.
4,470 titles
Titles that turn up as the last thing someone logged more often than chance.
Titles that turn up far more often than chance as the final entry in a reading list before it goes quiet. They are mostly long-awaited finales, not disappointments.
100 titles
Measured against other titles released the same year, not against the calendar.
Titles the community reached years after everything else from their year. Usually a translation that arrived a decade after the original.
1,730 titles
Titles that found their whole audience at once, while their peers took years.
1,730 titles
Who reads what, and how much of it.
Readers who abandon the highest share of what they start, among readers who do finish things.
13,912 readers
Ranked only on a corner of the database, so depth beats volume.
Users whose votes are all on original-language-Japanese games, ranked by total number of votes. Anyone with a single vote on a non-Japanese-original title is excluded outright.
44,778 readers
A share of what someone has read, not a count of it, so a long list is no advantage.
Whose reading forks: routes, choices and endings rather than one way through.
501 readers
The other end of the same measurement, and the sharper one: readers who pick stories that go one way, in a medium whose default is to fork.
501 readers
Whose libraries are full of titles missing the conveniences readers now take for granted: no backlog, no skip, no quick save, a single save slot.
3,407 readers
How many different themes would show up in twenty-five titles pulled at random from a reader's library. At the top of this board, remarkably few.
9,159 readers
Whether a reader returns to the same studio, writer or series, or keeps moving.
How much of a reader's library comes from a single developer. At the top, almost all of it.
9,448 readers
The same question about people rather than companies: how much of a library is the work of one scenario writer.
8,270 readers
Of the series a reader has started at all, how often they went on to read another entry rather than stopping at one.
5,656 readers
Not whether they came back, but how far in they got: across every series they touched, the average share of its entries they actually read.
2,323 readers
Measured against the community on the same titles, not against ten out of ten.
Readers who rate consistently below everyone else on the very same titles. Measured against the community rather than against ten out of ten.
2,970 readers
Readers who rate consistently above everyone else on the very same titles.
2,970 readers
Readers who agree with the room on average and disagree with it constantly. Loving what everyone dislikes, and the reverse, in the same list.
2,970 readers
Readers who agree with everyone about which titles are better, and disagree about by how much. When consensus moves a point, their vote moves two or more.
1,585 readers
Ranked by number of games they are the only visible voter on. The deepest corners of the database, by definition.
2,469 readers
Readers whose Japanese-original reading is the least travelled. Not the most obscure single find, but the most obscure habit.
1,342 readers
The shape of a reading history rather than its size: when, how evenly, how far back.
Not who logged the most, but who logged at the most even pace. The top of this board has gone years without missing a month.
1,064 readers
Readers whose libraries sit almost entirely inside a handful of release years, against a typical reader whose reading spans more than a decade.
1,342 readers
Everyone drifts forward as new titles come out. These readers went the other way, some of them by two decades.
4,436 readers
What someone means to read set against what they get through.
Readers whose wishlist is made of long titles while the ones they actually finish are short. Most people lean this way a little; these lean hard.
8,718 readers
Franchises, inferred from how titles relate to each other.
Built on continuation relations only, so a shared setting cannot backdate a line.
VNDB has no concept of a series, so these are assembled from the relations between titles. The longest line has been shipping since 1989.
86 series
Franchises ranked by the votes their entries have collected between them.
3,799 series
Which franchises hold up across everything in them, rather than resting on one strong entry.
1,020 series
Franchises readers cannot agree on, whether across entries or within them.
1,020 series
Developers and publishers, by how their catalogue was received.
Studios whose games have collected the most votes between them.
13,878 studios
Studios with the best average reception across everything they have made.
685 studios
Publishers with the best average reception across their catalogue.
879 publishers
Judged on the weakest entry rather than the average.
Studios whose worst title is still good. The question an average cannot answer: can this back catalogue be read blind?
166 studios
Studios with the longest run still going, from their first release to a recent one.
309 studios
Writers, artists, composers and the voices behind the cast.
Judged only on the credits that shaped the work, not on translation or testing.
The scenario writers whose body of work is best received, across everything they have written.
1,192 creators
The artists whose body of work is best received, across everything they have drawn.
1,283 creators
The composers whose body of work is best received, across everything they have scored.
821 creators
Every credit counts here, in any role.
Writers, artists and composers whose credits have collected the most votes.
38,853 creators
The leading-role boards count only leads; the others count every appearance.
The voices carrying the most Japanese titles, counting leads rather than every appearance.
5,430 voice actors
Whose leading roles land in the best received titles, cameos excluded.
1,333 voice actors