Weekly data report
Japan web novel trends: what's rising on Narō and Kakuyomu
· archived snapshot
A numbers-first look at Japan's two largest web novel platforms — the source of many light novels, manga and anime. Genres, title words and tags are counted straight from the weekly rankings; Japanese terms are shown with a translation.
Shōsetsuka ni Narō
We couldn't fetch this site's ranking this time. We'll retry on the next morning run — we never fill in missing numbers by guessing.
Kakuyomu
This week at a glance (generated from the numbers)
On Kakuyomu, Isekai fantasy leads the weekly top 100 with 45% (-2 pts vs. last week).
Titles containing “スキル” (skill) went from 9 to 12.
Meanwhile “少女” dropped from 16 to 10.
81% of titles run 31 characters or more; the average is 49.3.
32 works entered the top 100 this week.
Most-used tags: “主人公最強” (overpowered protagonist), “成り上がり” (rags to riches), “ざまぁ” (comeuppance).
Genre share of the weekly top 100
Rising title words
- スキル (skill) 9 → 12 works
- ダンジョン (dungeon) 17 → 20 works
- バレ 1 → 3 works
- ング 1 → 3 works
- 国家 1 → 3 works
- 罰ゲーム 1 → 3 works
- 英雄 1 → 3 works
- 装備 1 → 3 works
Fading title words
- 少女 16 → 10 works
- 転生 (reincarnation) 17 → 13 works
- 追放 (banished) 6 → 2 works
- キャ 3 → 0 works
- ハズレ 4 → 1 works
Counts are the number of works in the weekly ranking whose title contains the word, this week versus last week (Narō: top 300; Kakuyomu: top 100).
Most-used tags
- 主人公最強 (overpowered protagonist)35
- 成り上がり (rags to riches)26
- ざまぁ (comeuppance)22
- ダンジョン (dungeon)22
- ハーレム (harem)17
- 男主人公 (male lead)17
- 勘違い15
- ヤンデレ14
- 異世界転生 (reincarnated in another world)14
- 現代ダンジョン12
- チート (cheat ability)11
- ラブコメ11
Title length and work length
- Long titles (31+ characters)
- 81.0% last week 83.0%
- Average title length
- 49.3 characters
- Average work length
- 200,339 characters
- Average number of episodes
- 55.2
- Updated in the last 3 days
- 92.0%
- New entries in the top 100
- 32
Lengths are counted in Japanese characters. Very long, sentence-like titles are a hallmark of Japanese web novels and light novels.
Weekly top 10 (titles in Japanese)
- それでも世界は回っている ~赦せずとも歩む男の旅路~
- 田舎の回復術師、王都に来たら天才だった~腕を失った剣聖、心が壊れた凄腕弓使い、魔力枯れの天才魔導士、『欠陥品』としてパーティーから追放された美少女たちを救ってたら凄い感謝されて、忠誠を誓われています~
- 悪女と断罪された妹を連れて、黙って領地に帰ったら、なぜか独立することになった
- 激カワモンスターを求めてダンジョンへ行く。~情報を集めるために始めた配信が規格外すぎてバズった~
- 【強奪】がゴミスキルってマジで言ってる?
- 原作で心を壊されて退場するモブに転生したけど、推しのメイドがクソ女だったし、作者の設定がガバガバなので好きに魔法いじって好きに生きる ~ショボい魔法しかないと笑った連中、全員ザマァ~
- 固有スキル《天輪》を授かった俺、大学に通いながら最強の冒険者を目指す〜育ててくれた叔母夫婦に恩返しするため、今日もダンジョンを攻略します〜
- ブラック待遇の勇者一行を勧誘したらあっさり寝返ってきた
- ハズレサーヴァントしかいない俺の冒険者生活
- 外れGift《異次元収納》の俺、収納した死体のSkillをコピーできることに気づく
Previous weeks
How we count
Every morning we read the public weekly and daily rankings of Shōsetsuka ni Narō (via its official API, top 300) and Kakuyomu (ranking pages, top 100), then count genres, frequent words in titles, tags, title length and work length. We never download the text of the novels.
One snapshot per week is kept permanently, so you can compare how isekai, villainess, slow-life or dungeon stories rise and fall over time.
Data: Shōsetsuka ni Narō API and Kakuyomu ranking pages (public information). "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" is a registered trademark of Hina Project Inc.; "Kakuyomu" is a registered trademark of KADOKAWA Corporation. BunCho is not affiliated with either site.