User blog:Morgane of the Mists/Fun KanColle Doujin Statistics.

As to be expected, we were discussing KanColle over on the World of Warships topic when one of us (specifically, me) decided to go look at some statistics. I thought this was pretty funny, so I cleaned this up and posted it here.

Methodology:

Taking aggregate data from C85, C86, and C87, I have ranked the popularity of KanColle characters based on the following parameters as listed in the table. This study is not peer reviewed, but has been independently collaborated by Japanese and Chinese sources, and can be assumed to be a sound and faithful attempt from the community (us) to recreate some statistics for us to laugh about.

In general, the statistics are pretty interesting. Even the least popular ship girls have at least one fanbook dedicated to her, though this is only a fraction of all KanColle doujins published.   As of 2015 Shimakaze has officially been de-throned. Taking her place is Kaga and Atago, respectively. Atago in particular holds a shockingly high R18 rate. My Japanese sources interpret this as either signs of great popularity or well, something else. You decide.

And just to prove that we Americans can do math, my cross-references can be found  here and  here. :) Note that while we refer to the same sources, due to how my webcrawler/text crawler worked, we may have slightly different numbers as a result of methodological differences. Nonetheless, I feel that this is a pretty good representation of the situation of the fandom.