The Anime Gaining the Most Fans Every Month

In April 2021 the anime the world was picking up fastest was Attack on Titan, added to 497,241 lists in six months. In August 2026 it is Jujutsu Kaisen with 125,700. MyAnimeList is where people keep track of what they are watching. Adding a show costs nothing and earns nobody anything, which makes it a plain count of how many people just started something. The number here is not the total. It is how many people added the show in the previous six months, so a title that stops picking up new viewers falls, no matter how famous it is. • The lead changes hands 6 times across 62 months. • Biggest six months in the race: Attack on Titan — 597,331 new lists (June 2021). • The finish: Jujutsu Kaisen 125,700, Attack on Titan 106,204, Death Note 104,075. • 24 titles take part — every one of them reached the top 14 at least once. Source: MyAnimeList top-anime-by-popularity tables, read from monthly snapshots in the Internet Archive between April 2021 and August 2026. Seasons of one show are counted as one title. Which one did you add first? #anime #myanimelist #attackontitan #demonslayer #jujutsukaisen #datavisualization #barchartrace